Features Covering research by current faculty, current activities of students and alumni, and the UVM community’s impact on Vermont and the wider world, UVM Magazine feature stories give a deep-dive look at the institution’s most important work today. Current Features Green and Gold, Silver and Bronze University of Vermont athletes are no strangers to the Olympic podium. Since Albert Gutterson won a... It's Not Easy Being Green Skin is certainly nature’s most subtle and beguiling invention. Before bending over to kiss a... Real Impact: These UVM students are taking action and leaving a mark on their community For two years in a row, the Princeton Review has named UVM the No. 1 “Best School for Making an... Recipes for Community On a frigid December morning in Burlington, Cynthia Herbert steers her SUV onto I-89 and settles in... A Bold Future with 'Green, Gold, and Bold' Read how UVM’s new strategic plan charts goals for a bold future. Learn more about the Strategic Plan Past Features 11/19/2025 The Brightest Promise As she begins her tenure as the leader of the University of Vermont, Marlene Tromp has big goals... 11/14/2025 Miles to Go March 9, 2025After 41 years, Paul Jarris has reached the border again. “I’m just going to touch... 11/14/2025 Where are the Men? Nearly every week a new opinion piece muses about the problems affecting young men, often followed... 05/16/2025 Thoughts Fly There are no fruit flies in Davi Bock’s kitchen. But head down into the basement of his 1850s... 05/16/2025 Tick... Tick... Boom Until 2004, a blacklegged tick had never been found in Vermont. By 2017, with winters warming, the... 05/16/2025 The Cornerstone It began, as do so many stories of destruction and redemption, with fire. First the kiln that... 11/30/2024 After the Floods Water will continue to shape—and reshape—Vermont communities. Sometimes it will come in a... 11/01/2024 A Trout Turnabout November 29, 2023In eighty feet of water, one mile off the Burlington shoreline, the research... 10/31/2024 Correcting Corrections On a blustery morning in November, Kathy Fox steers her car through snow squalls to the Southern... 05/31/2024 Changing the Conversation A few years ago, a promising student confided to David Jenemann, dean of the Patrick Leahy Honors... 05/31/2024 The Virtues of Dirty Work Mark Usher, the Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, stands in ankle-deep... 03/05/2024 The Class That Changed My Life There are moments in everyone’s life that have the potential to change everything. For the UVM...
