News and Events Recent Events Recent Headlines 12/11/2024 School of the Arts Student Interns Apply Skills to the Libraries' McCrorey Gallery Nowhere is the adage about the student giving the teacher lessons more evident than in the UVM Libraries' H. Lawrence McCrorey Gallery of Multicultural Art where student interns act as curators to the collection donated by longtime UVM professor, H. Lawrence McCrorey. ... 12/05/2024 Historic Preservation Professor Thomas Visser Recognized with National Award Earlier this fall, Thomas Visser, UVM History Department professor and former long-time director of the Historic Preservation Program, was awarded the 2024 James Marston Fitch Award by the National Council for Preservation Education. Named after... 12/03/2024 Switching Gears Sometimes the path to the right college experience isn’t short or straight. If you’re a transfer student, chances are you’ve experienced at least one other stop—not to mention a few twists and turns—along the way before arriving at your final educational destination. Sometimes the first school... 11/27/2024 Student Interns Prepare for Impact “One of the most common challenges students face, now more than ever before, is the search for purpose,” says Alex Johnson, senior director of the Semester for Impact (SFI) at the College for Social Innovation; the program is part of UVM’s... 11/22/2024 Earliest Fish-Trapping Facility in Central America Discovered in Maya Lowlands A team of archaeologists from the University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire, and others have discovered a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Located in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary, the largest inland wetland in Belize, the team dated the construction of these... 11/19/2024 Working to Restore a Brighter Future For students interested in landing a plum environment-focused job after graduation, having some professional experience on their resumé can go a long way. But how can a full-time student manage to fit that in alongside a full schedule of classes? Enter the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)’s... 11/18/2024 CAS Welcomes New Henderson-Harris Fellows Marlaina Martin, Michael Baysa, and Elís Miller Larsen are adding a wealth of expertise and experience to the University of Vermont (UVM)’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) this fall as new Henderson-Harris fellows. The Henderson-Harris Fellowship, which honors the memory of George Washington... 11/15/2024 Data and Open Science Summit to Highlight Speakers from NASA In partnership with the Vermont Research Open Source Program Office (VERSO), the Graduate College and the Office of the Provost, the UVM Libraries are hosting a three-day data and open science summit in January 2025. This free event open to the UVM community will include instructional support... 11/14/2024 Second-Annual Study Abroad Photo Contest Winners Celebrated in Howe Library Winners of the School of World Languages and Cultures annual study abroad photo contest are now on display on the first floor of Howe Library. “Languages & Cultures Abroad: Catamounts around the World” exhibits six photos taken by UVM students during their time abroad. Entrants submitted to... 11/06/2024 First in the Family, Head of the Class Going off to college is always an adventure, but when you’re the first in your family to do so, it also presents a world of challenges. Everything is new and unfamiliar and there’s no built-in, been-there-done-that support system to guide you along the way. Making it through requires courage and... 11/05/2024 Why We Should Be Talking About Religion “Religion is what people do,” says Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Ph.D. This is one way she and coauthor Megan Goodwin, Ph.D., describe such a hard-to-define, complex subject in the introduction to their new book from Beacon Press, ... 11/01/2024 Arguing for Change The Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility is located on a quiet street in South Burlington, across from a cryogenic spa and a bakery with carefully decorated sugar cookies. The University of Vermont campus is just two miles away but may as well be in a different universe. That’s one reason... 10/31/2024 Talking With Yangguang Ou To be haunted, “One need not be a House,” wrote the great poet Emily Dickinson in 1862, “The Brain—has Corridors surpassing Material Place.” The most stubborn ghosts lurk in the mind, monsters bearing the past—traumas, fears, losses—that will not leave. We easily forget where our keys are,... 10/31/2024 Correcting Corrections On a blustery morning in November, Kathy Fox steers her car through snow squalls to the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, Vt. She and her co-pilot, Abigail Crocker, wear matching green t-shirts with the words “University of Vermont Justice Research Initiative” across the front... 10/24/2024 UVM Students Provide Critical Election Day Support With the 2024 presidential election nearly upon us, the stakes have never been higher. And while the national contest is getting the most airtime, elections on the state and local level can be just as consequential. After all, the way elected officials govern has a direct and often sizeable... 10/23/2024 CAS Faculty Combine Art and Activism to Win LEF Grants And the winners are…Angelo Madsen, Milton Guillén, and Myles Jewell for their outstanding efforts to create thought-provoking documentaries. This past summer, these three faculty members, all of whom teach within the University of Vermont’s (UVM’s) College of Arts and Sciences, each received one... 10/04/2024 What is Planetary Health? The planet is alive. This ecstatic skin of the Earth that stretches but a few miles up and down is teeming with critters, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria. We don’t just live on the planet, we live because of it. We’re creatures, very smart apes, whose blood and breath and food exist as a... 10/01/2024 UVM Receives $1 Million Gift for Theatre Renewal Project With the first production of the 2024-25 theatre/dance season— Spirits to Enforce—set to open this week, University of Vermont (UVM)’s School of the Arts, located within the College of Arts and Sciences, is announcing a $1 million gift to launch much-needed upgrades to the Royall Tyler Theatre... 09/19/2024 How Invasive Species Are Adapting to Climate Change Thanks to its famously cold weather, Vermont has so far escaped the effects of many invasive species that plague warmer parts of the globe. But that may be about to change as climate change leads to milder winters and some of those species begin to move farther north. Joaquin Nunez,... 09/17/2024 A Wave of Summer Humanities Research When planning fun things to do on summer break, surfing may come to mind, but research? It doesn’t usually make the cut, but this past summer some ambitious students studying the humanities in UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences learned a way to do both, so to speak. The... 09/11/2024 Library Interns Stretch Archival Knowledge Through Leahy Archive Work Earlier this summer, four interns joined the archivists responsible for cataloging Senator Patrick Leahy’s collection of documents, papers, posters, recordings and more from his 48 years in office. The acquisition of Leahy’... 08/12/2024 Spotlight on CAS Alums! The alumni of UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) are a hugely diverse group to be sure, but, as you’ll see below, there’s a common thread running through many of their stories: how a broad-based, liberal arts education provided a potent recipe for both professional success and personal... 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...
