Bugs, Birds, and Benthic Invertebrates: Making the Most of Undergraduate Research Opportunities

How Rubenstein School senior Pierre Beaurang researched up and down the food chain
Pierre smiling and holding a small brown bird on a field of green grass with a hill in the background

Most students wouldn’t consider eleven straight hours of birding to be their comfort zone, but Pierre Beaurang isn’t most students. Pierre, a wildlife and fisheries biology major from Northern California, has loved birds for his entire life, and knew from a young age that he wanted to study them. “I mostly applied to universities that had a wildlife and fisheries biology program or something...

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Emma Conti is smiling and kneeling inside a large tree

From UVM Forestry Program to the US Forest Service

Emma Conti ’24 knew from a young age that she loved the outdoors. “My family has been going camping since I was one year old,” says Emma. “I always knew I wanted to work in the woods.”

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Mar Wiltz standing in a grassy, shrubby field applying a treatment to the shrubs.

Indiana Internship Inspires Environmental Education Capstone Project

Marleyla (Mar) Wiltz ’25 is a Forestry major in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. Her path to the Forestry program was somewhat circuitous; Mar was admitted to UVM to start in the fall of 2021 as a Political Science major.

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