Employee News & Stories Turning Values into Action with Sharon Mone, 2025 Our Common Ground Staff Award Recipient When the director of UVM’s newly formed Office of Accessibility Services (OAS) Sharon Mone talks... Gail Shampnois: Bridging Campus and Community Speak to anyone who knows Gail Shampnois well, and the word “relationship” will always come up.... Lori Durieux: The Definition of Professionalism We all know those people who consistently make our days better. Lori Durieux is one of them.As... Barbara Stewart: A Quiet Force for Our Common Ground When Barbara Stewart retired on January 15, after more than five years at UVM, she left behind a... Our 2025 Employee Wellness Champion: Inspired to "Reclaim" Haydee Miranda's journey is a powerful example of how wellness can transform both personal and... Meet Tim Bilodeau, 2025 Our Common Ground Recipient Tim Bilodeau’s very first day on the job with campus police at the University of Vermont –... 2025 Presidential Our Common Ground Staff Award Recipients Announced On Thursday, September 19, President Marlene Tromp announced the recipients of the... Cultivating a Heart-centered Team At University of Vermont, V. Ernesto Méndez is doing more than leading important work in... Meet Lisa McCrae, 2024 Our Common Ground Winner If you think business operations is all about prioritizing process over people, then you haven’t... Building Common Ground with Dave Blatchly, 2024 Presidential Staff Award Recipient When Dave Blatchly took a temporary job at the University of Vermont after receiving a mechanical... Meet Caylin McCamp, 2024 President’s Our Common Ground Winner Looking out the windows of theOffice of Sustainability on the first floor of Marsh Hall is a... Meet Corinne Thompson, UVM’s Official Record Keeper Corinne Thompson arguably knows the University of Vermont better than anyone.She has spent the past... Meet Justin Sell, President’s Our Common Ground Winner Every day, across UVM’s campus, members of the university community gather for conferences,... Meet Cody Silfies, President's Our Common Ground Awardee Cody Silfies ‘09 does not want to be interviewed.“Is this going to be the most painful thing in... Got Sustainability? UVM Researchers Test Ways to Green-Up Dairy Farming Joshua Faulkner squats in a corn field, scooping out the insides of a hole. He holds a handful of... Dr. Marie C. Vea Receives Award for Inclusive Excellence Dr. Marie C. Vea was honored with the 2024 Dr. H. Lawrence McCrorey Award for Inclusive Excellence... Transformative Social Work Attracts New Faculty to UVM Inspired by a distinctive focus on transformative social work practice, a group of accomplished... 2023 Our Common Ground Staff Award recipient Ann Kroll Lerner broadens pathways to undergraduate research With a background in anthropology and archeology, Ann is interested in the way groups of humans... A new day with Francis Churchill, 2023 Our Common Ground Staff Award winner Francis Churchill has worked in the same office off Spear Street since 1993 and every spring, he... Meet Mary “Penni” French, Our Common Ground Staff Awardee and Committed Problem-Solver Mary “Penni” French has worked as an academic office coordinator for the computer science... Our Common Ground Staff Award winner Michael Hill, Jr.: Meeting students where they are at The reception room in the Center for Health and Wellbeing/Living Well space in the Davis Center has... Transformative Social Work Book Depicts the Power of Curiosity, Mindfulness and Change After packing her bags in whirwhind, Danielle Jatlow flew to Florida to visit her ailing... Meet Tammy Bender, President’s Our Common Ground Staff Award winner Sometimes, Tammy Bender is an academic advisor, helping students choose classes for an upcoming... Meet Jean Evans, President's Our Common Ground Staff Award winner For Jean Evans, the University of Vermont is not just a job – it’s a family tradition. Her... Meet Abbey Dattilio, President’s Our Common Ground Staff Award winner From lab to farm, Abbey Dattilio has come full circle within the thriving research enterprise at...