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Food Systems Doctoral Student Leslie Spencer Wins the UVM Three-minute Thesis Contest

Racial Disparities, Total Traffic Stops in Vermont Dropped During COVID But Are Again Increasing Study Finds

Gund Institute Names 2025 Catalyst Award Winners

What if Mother Earth Could Sue for Mistreatment? Endangered Ecuadorian Frogs and the Junin Community Showcase a Groundbreaking Legal Framework

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05/05/2025

Food Systems Doctoral Student Leslie Spencer Wins the UVM Three-minute Thesis Contest

There are obvious challenges in reducing years of graduate research and field results into a...

05/01/2025

Racial Disparities, Total Traffic Stops in Vermont Dropped During COVID But Are Again Increasing Study Finds

Black and Hispanic drivers in Vermont continue to be stopped and searched at higher rates than...

04/28/2025

Gund Institute Names 2025 Catalyst Award Winners

UVM’s Matthew Scarborough (CEMS)and Heather Darby(Extension) will investigate how Vermont...

03/27/2025

Dead Trees Keep Surprisingly Large Amounts of Carbon Out of Atmosphere: Study

Living trees absorb carbon, aiding climate change mitigation. But what role do dead trees play in...

03/24/2025

Book review: Adrienne Buller's The Value of a Whale

Gund Graduate Fellow Vitoria Cardoso provides a review of the 2024 Eric Zencey Prize for Ecological...

03/11/2025

Casella Commits $1.5 Million to Launch UVM Center for Circular Economy

Building on three decades of collaboration, Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (Casella) (Nasdaq: CWST), a...

02/21/2025

Gund Institute Welcomes New Community Members

This year’s cohort of newly affiliated members includes nine UVM faculty members, seven...

02/19/2025

Hidden consequences: UVM researchers investigate the wider impacts of conservation efforts

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting productive landscapes to other...

01/16/2025

Gund Institute Names 2024 Catalyst Award Winners

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont has announced a $100,000 Joint...

01/03/2025

Apis Fund Grants To Benefit Pollinators Across Vermont

As farmers across Vermont plan for the season to come, a collaboration of pollinator researchers,...

12/13/2024

Ph.D. Student and Knauss Fellow, Rosie Chapina, Sets Sail on NOAA Expedition

Lake Champlain Sea Grant 2024 Knauss Fellow Rosaura “Rosie” Chapina has spent the past eleven...

12/03/2024

Deforestation Reduces Malaria Bed Nets’ Effectiveness

When a forest is lost to development, some effects are obvious. Stumps and mud puddles across the...

12/01/2024

The Barrett Foundation Provides Engineering Research Pathways in Environmental Stewardship

For more than 20 years, the Barrett Foundation has served as a research catalyst at the University...

11/07/2024

Unraveling the Complexity Behind Bird Population Declines

As bird populations dwindle across the globe, a new study from University of Vermont researchers...

11/06/2024

$8M Grant Supports UVM-McGill ‘Leadership for the Ecozoic’ Graduate Program

The Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) program, a partnership between the University of Vermont and...

11/04/2024

Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Awarded to Adrienne Buller’s ‘The Value of a Whale: On the illusions of green capitalism'

The 2024 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics, which celebrates outstanding writing on the...

10/24/2024

Planetary Health from the Ground Up: Co-creating a Wellbeing Economy in Vermont and Beyond

Rigo Melgar is a Ph.D. candidate in Ecological Economics in the Rubenstein School of Environment...

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...

09/23/2024

UVM Awarded $2.7M for National Climate Measurements Center of Excellence

Temperature, precipitation, wind speed—the U.S. government has plenty of ways to measure our...

08/26/2024

Gund Institute for Environment Welcomes New Community Members

The Gund Institute for Environment today announced that 42 new interdisciplinary researchers and...

07/25/2024

Burlington’s Riverside Avenue Faces Ongoing Landslide Risk: UVM Study

At least 20 times in the past 70 years, part of the hill by Burlington’s Riverside Avenue has...

06/12/2024

Modern Seeds Aren’t Ready For Climate Change

Humans have radically altered the evolution of agricultural plants since World War Two, remaking...

06/11/2024

UVM Experts on Vermont’s 2023 Historic Flood

When the catastrophic flooding hit Vermont on July 10, 2023, the University of Vermont community...

05/24/2024

UVM Researchers Help Shape First National Nature Assessment

Taylor Ricketts, Director of UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment, and Rachelle Gould, a...

05/20/2024

‘Know Your Five’ Reveals Vermont’s Top Pollinators

“Save the bees!” is a common bumper sticker tagline, and with pesticides, climate change, and...

04/11/2024

Scientists Use Wearable Technology to Detect Stress Levels During Sleep

What if changes in a person’s stress levels could be detected while they sleep using wearable...

02/26/2024

Deforestation Exacerbates Risk of Malaria for Most-vulnerable Children

Malaria kills more than 600,000 people each year worldwide, and two thirds are children under age...

02/08/2024

Question Everything

Sam Bliss’s forehead twitched in the bright April sun. Until a late afternoon interruption, he...

02/06/2024

Gund Institute Names 2024 Catalyst Award Winners

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont today announced a $200,000 Catalyst...

01/24/2024

Using AI, Other Tech to Monitor Companies’ Impacts on Biodiversity

As environmental challenges make daily headlines across the world, tools including AI, Earth...

01/11/2024

Remembering Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne

On January 6, 2024, the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the entire...

11/21/2023

Eat, Poop, Die: UVM Researcher’s Book Explores How Animals Make Our World

In his new book “Eat, Poop, Die,” UVM wildlife expert Joe Roman explores the fascinating lives...

11/20/2023

How Will Climate Change Impact Snow Sports?

With ski resorts set to open across the U.S., skiers and snowboarders—and the entire winter...

11/15/2023

UVM Climatologist Co-Authors Fifth National Climate Assessment

The Fifth National Climate Assessment is out and Prof. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, the University of...

11/14/2023

Now Seeking Environmental Writing For $5,000 Zencey Prize

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont and the U.S. Society of Ecological...

11/08/2023

UVM Climate Experts Seek Impact at COP28

After a year of unprecedented weather extremes, the upcoming COP28 climate change talks feel more...

10/10/2023

Finding Signals in the Noise:

Imagine a future where you can optimize your health and well-being by knowing roughly how many...

09/28/2023

Saving Tanzania’s Forests Benefits Everyone—But Locals Pay the Price

Protecting forests delivers enormous global economic and climate benefits, but new research shows...

09/26/2023

Global Leaders Convene in Vermont for New Agroecology Summit

The University of Vermont’s new Institute for Agroecology (IfA) held its flagship summit, Seeding...

09/22/2023

How Extreme Weather Impacts Fall Foliage

After a summer of extreme weather—historic rainfall, devastating floods, wildfire smoke—leaf...

09/11/2023

To Cut Global Emissions, Replace Meat and Milk with Plant-Based Alternatives

Replacing 50% of meat and milk products with plant-based alternatives by 2050 can reduce...

09/11/2023

Gund Institute Announces New 2023 Fellows

The Gund Institute for Environment today announced 28 new Gund fellows and affiliates, comprised of...

08/29/2023

UVM Launches Six Innovative Flood Research Projects

In a time of unprecedented rainfall and flooding throughout Vermont in July 2023, the University of...

08/23/2023

Gund Institute Announces 2023 Fellowship Recipients

The Gund Institute for Environment at UVM today announced fellowships and research awards for eight...

08/22/2023

Searching for (Mysid) Shrimp in Lake Champlain

The sun was setting behind the Adirondacks on a clear summer evening and Lake Champlain was flat as...

07/20/2023

Greenland Melted Recently, Shows Higher Risk of Sea Level Rise

A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape—perhaps covered by trees and...

07/14/2023

UVM Team Joins $8.5M National Effort to Bring Earth Data to Decision-Makers

University of Vermont (UVM) researchers have joined a new $8.5M effort by the World Wildlife Fund...

06/15/2023

Gund Institute Seeks Strategic Communications Manager

TheGund Institute for Environmentand the University of Vermont seek outstanding candidates for a...

06/15/2023

Announcing the FSRC PhD Fellows Class of 2023

We are very pleased to announce and feature the 2023 class of Food Systems Research Center (FSRC)...

06/05/2023

COVID-19 Food Support Programs Are Ending. Now What? Research May Hold Answers

As the world begins to emerge from the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, many emergency...

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