Trusting the Process: How Gus Lunde '24 Leaned into his Passions for Biking and Birding to Design an Honors College Thesis

Gus, an Environmental Sciences major, used his thesis as an opportunity to examine the intersection of human behavior and wildlife conservation
Gus performing a mountain bike jump in the forest.

On April 30, a group of students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered in the Aiken Center to watch Gus Lunde ’24 present his Honors College thesis seminar. Gus has been working toward this culminating event for nearly two years, and his thesis is the result of many early mornings of data collection, thousands of pages read, hundreds of emails sent and received, and countless hours...

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People gathered around former Senator Patrick Leahy

UVM Honors College Named for Senator Patrick Leahy

The University of Vermont Board of Trustees approved the naming of the Patrick Leahy Honors College at its May meeting Friday, aligning student and faculty excellence across a wide range of academic programs with the ongoing legacy of the retired senator’s 48 years of service to the nation and support for his home state of Vermont.

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A pink and purple sunset view on the snowy UVM campus

Parting Gift: Sen. Leahy helps secure millions in federal funding to support UVM

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, put an exclamation point on his longstanding support for the University of Vermont with the inclusion of $30 million in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) to support academic excellence at UVM and an additional $50 million in Vermont-focused programmatic funding in the annual Appropriations Bills that fund the

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