News and Events Recent headlines 07/08/2024 UVM Launches Nationwide Effort to Grow Local News Reporting at Colleges Across the U.S. The Center for Community News (CCN) at the University of Vermont (UVM) will dramatically expand efforts to grow partnerships between local news outlets and universities across the country, forging a path to sustainability... 07/01/2024 SWLC Faculty Members Win National Teaching Awards It’s a noteworthy thing when a member of a college’s faculty wins a national teaching award—and even more remarkable when two do so in a single year! During the 2023-24 academic year, this feat was achieved by professors John... 06/05/2024 A Degree in What? Every year, students and families have hard conversations as they attempt to balance important considerations such as cost of attendance, campus life, and academic supports when choosing which college to attend. I’m confident that, in many of these conversations, the student’s choice of a major... 05/19/2024 The Katherine Anne Kelly Award: Tiffany Mai The Katherine Anne Kelly Award is named after the Class of 2000 graduate who bravely battled serious medical challenges while engaging in UVM student life. The award recognizes a graduating senior who best exemplifies Kate’s passion, energy, and integrity. This year’s award is given to... 05/19/2024 The Class of 1967 Award: Samantha Bjorklun The Class of ’67 Award is presented to the senior student who has been active in student activities, has received university recognition in a varsity sport, and/or has been elected to an office in a recognized student activity. This year’s award goes to Samantha Bjorklun (she/her).... 05/19/2024 Keith M. Miser Leadership Award: Téa van Linde The Keith M. Miser Leadership Award, named in honor of the former UVM Dean of Students (1975-1988) is presented to a graduating senior in recognition of outstanding service to University of Vermont through campus leadership. The year’s award goes to Téa van Linde (she/her).... 05/18/2024 UVM Water Resource Institute Takes Aim at Global Crises The University of Vermont’s Board of Trustees approved during its annual May meeting Friday and Saturday the creation of a new research engine to leverage decades of research excellence in water science, environmental engineering, and socio-ecological systems. The... 05/14/2024 CAS Class of 2024 Senior Spotlights The Class of 2024 in UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is bursting at the seams with smart, creative, motivated almost-grads, including these 11 remarkable seniors. They have all experienced the uncertainty of starting college in the midst of a pandemic, the lifelong bonds formed with... 05/10/2024 Holding History in Her Hands: Inside the Fleming Museum with Zoe Alpert ’25 “Having a museum on campus gives us the opportunity for hands-on learning without having to travel the whole world,” says Zoe Alpert, ’25, “the world is all in one building!” While the collections at UVM’s Fleming Museum of Art are not exhaustive of world art, culture, and history, they provide... 05/09/2024 UVM Invests Matthias Brewer as Inaugural A. Paul and Arlene F. Krapcho Green and Gold Professor Professor Matthias Brewer, PhD, chair of the Department of Chemistry, has been invested as the inaugural A. Paul and Arlene F. Krapcho Green and Gold Professor in Chemistry at the University of Vermont (UVM). UVM leadership and special guests, including Mrs. Krapcho and other members of the... 05/08/2024 A Pronounced Passion for Words Before participants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee (a.k.a. the Bee) can spell a word, someone must pronounce it for them. For the past 21 years, that someone has been Jacques Bailly, Ph.D., associate professor in the Classics Program and graduate coordinator for the M.A. in Greek and Latin... 05/06/2024 Taking Off: the “Covid Class” of 2024 Reflects on Challenges and Changes Four years ago this month they were effectively grounded. Stuck at home, they prepared for a graduation ceremony like no other–or, for some of them, no ceremony at all. It was the start of the first “Covid Summer,” and for the high school classes of 2020, that meant graduating via Zoom, or while... 05/06/2024 2024 CELO Awards Honor Dedication to Service Learning On April 30, 2024, the Office of Community-Engaged Learning (CELO) held their annual awards ceremony recognizing the faculty members, students, and community partners who have gone above and beyond in their support of community-engaged... 04/29/2024 UVM College of Arts and Sciences Junior Wins Prestigious Fellowship April 4, 2024 began like any other sunny, snow-slushy spring day for Zane Zupan ‘25—until, that is, they got the message that would, literally, change their life. That’s when Zupan was called into UVM President Suresh Garimella’s office and told that they had been named a... 04/25/2024 Introducing the Planetary Health Initiative Consider your breath. In that inrush of air you bring oxygen to your lungs, keeping you alive. It’s the same air that covers the whole planet—oxygen produced by green life. The intricate interplay that we call the environment is not scenery; it’s the fundamental health care system. ... 04/23/2024 Student Spotlight on Health & Society major Kate Butcher! Through UVM there are a lot of study abroad programs—Kate is doing hers through the AIFS Abroad program which is a third-party program (not through UVM). Kate is being hosted in Granada in Southern Spain, and her program requires her to attend... 04/17/2024 Panel Highlights UVM Collaborations with Abenaki The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont hosted a panel discussion on April 16 in the Silver Maple Room of the Davis Center to highlight the collaborations between the university and the four Vermont Abenaki tribes and other indigenous people. The event, titled “Highlighting... 04/17/2024 UVM PhD Students Lead International Team in Carbon Flux Research Amelia (Mia) McReynolds is a third-year PhD student in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont (UVM). As an ecologist studying fish population dynamics in the Great Lakes, McReynolds didn’t imagine research abroad would be a part of her graduate... 04/16/2024 Coming Clean In the introduction to his new book, A History of Hygiene in Modern France: The Threshold of Disgust (Bloomsbury; April 2024), Steve Zdatny, Ph.D., professor of history, notes that if we were... 04/15/2024 Beyond the Books Have an inquisitive mind? Then chances are you would (or already do) feel right at home in UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). Here, everyone has the potential to be a student scholar, to contribute their own unique thread to the rich tapestry of research that is an essential element of... 04/11/2024 Americans More Willing to Pay for Climate Action After Extreme Weather People who personally experience extreme climate events, especially wildfires and hurricanes, are willing to pay significantly more for climate action, even if they report skepticism about human-caused climate change, finds new research from the University of Vermont. Trump voters who... 04/09/2024 Making Taxes Less Taxing The mere mention of tax season can induce anxiety in most taxpayers, but a few economics majors are stepping in to alleviate those worries and gain hands-on experience by volunteering as tax assistants. Through the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO), these students get to... 03/26/2024 Exploring How Creativity Can Heal and Change Human-Environment Systems The first floor of the George D. Aiken Center—home of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources on UVM’s campus—contains an always-active student lounge, multiple classrooms, a large lecture hall, a computer lab, secure indoor bike parking, and... 03/25/2024 A World of Experience In UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), more and more faculty members view their classrooms as being without walls—or borders. They see themselves as guides to an ever more globalized world for their students, making the most of their international connections to create unique and exciting... 03/21/2024 Refugee Camps Face New Threats, says UVM Expert Every day, people across the world flee their homes due to persecution, conflict, and climate-change-driven hazards. Where migrants go, and how they fare, are determined by a complex web of factors. UVM Professor Pablo Bose, an expert on refugee resettlement and migration, discusses...