Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment: UVM changes the name of its ag program

Reflecting shifts in the field and the interests of today’s students
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University of Vermont boasts a unique land-grant legacy. Justin Morrill, a Vermonter, was the legislator who wrote and sponsored the Morrill Act of 1862, which gave federal lands to states to establish colleges for science and agricultural education. That bill, which Abraham Lincoln signed into law, paved the way for the majority of today’s agricultural education. Generations of farmers have...

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Vermont 4-H Program Receives Agrotechnology Grant

Burlington--University of Vermont (UVM) Extension 4-H is the recipient of a three-year Food and Agricultural Non-formal Education grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

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UVM Receives nearly $400K for “Serious Games” to Promote Healthy Food Policy

The University of Vermont has received nearly $400,000 in support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support an interdisciplinary team’s use of “serious game” technology to test how policies across the food system can better support access to healthy foods.

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