Research News Research news and updates from across the university. OVPR News University of Vermont and BioLabs to Launch Startup Incubator UVM Innovations Selected as Member of ARPA-H Investor Catalyst Hub Spoke Network Susan Whitman is Raising the Bar for Health and Wellness Coaches New Theme and Speakers: What's in Store for RISE 2024? UVM Water Resource Institute Takes Aim at Global Crises Beyond the Books CEMS Research News 08/27/2024 New naturalistic garden takes root at Votey Building Twelve volunteers gathered on a cloudy afternoon last Thursday to install new plants in the grounds surrounding Votey Hall, an area covering about 3,000 square-feet on central campus. Tunes by Van Morrison, The Chicks and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band provided background music. Gavin Young, a... 07/23/2024 Engineering Connections Santhosh Balasubramanian is only a sophomore in college but over two decades he’s seen the climate change in his home city of Chennai, India. “The rains used to be more periodic and better,” he says, while he looks at a whiteboard full of equations in the office of... 06/20/2024 Enabling Better Bots As more industrial and autonomous robots come online for an increasingly diverse array of applications, ensuring adequate safety protections exist for the humans who share their workspaces is a growing concern. Luis... 05/19/2024 The Mary Jean Simpson Award: Anja Samsom The Mary Jean Simpson Award is presented to the senior student who best exemplifies the qualities of character, leadership, and scholarship. It is named in honor of Mary Jean Simpson who exemplified these qualities throughout her professional career, including as UVM’s third Dean of... 05/13/2024 2024 CEMS Faculty Award Winners Five outstanding faculty members in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences were recently honored with Faculty Awards during the college's annual spring faculty retreat. The winners were recognized in four categories including a new award introduced this year, The James and... CALS Research News 07/19/2024 Tim Rademacher is the New Scientific Director of UVM's Proctor Maple Research Center Meet Dr. Tim Rademacher, who will assume the position of Scientific Director at University of Vermont’s Proctor Maple Research Center (PMRC) this fall. Born in Germany, Rademacher recounts how influential trees were in the culture of his youth, “In Northern Europe, where I grew up, trees... 07/10/2024 It’s Agricultural Fair and Exhibition Season: Do You Know How to Protect Your Show Animals? Agricultural fairs and exhibitions are in full swing across the U.S., and with the recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dairy cows, it is important to know how to protect animals from diseases before,... 07/09/2024 One Year After the Flood: Working to Close Gaps for Vermont Farmers Christa Alexander inks the names of vegetables on popsicle sticks inside a toasty hoophouse at Jericho Settlers Farm. Behind her rests a bag of potting soil the size of a small vehicle and a tray of perky pea shoots. The sky is postcard blue, and yet, last summer’s flooding looms in the... 07/09/2024 One Year After the Flood: Building Resilience in Agriculture Every disaster reveals something about our state of preparedness. The COVID-19 pandemic uncovered deep fissures in the country’s public health system. Heavy rain events like last July tested Vermont’s infrastructure and agricultural sector. And ready or not, with climate change, more will come.... 06/17/2024 The 26th North American Nitrogen Fixation Conference The North American Nitrogen Fixation Conference began in 1968 and has been meeting regularly since then. This is the first time it was held in Vermont. The conference has a broad focus that includes research on symbiotic nitrogen-fixation, a... RSENR Research News 09/19/2024 A Man for All Seasons On Friday September 13, 2024, the Rubenstein School hosted an intimate gathering at the George D. Aiken Center to honor Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, who passed away on January 6, 2024. The gathering was a ceremonial unveiling of two stands of Paper birch trees that frame the first... 09/12/2024 Saving "Bills": A Summer Spent with Loons Rubenstein School students spend their summers in countless ways: some take courses, some conduct research, other travel, work, or simply relax and recharge between semesters. Not many students spend the summer living in almost complete solitude down a dirt road in a house with no service or... 09/05/2024 A Warm Welcome from Peter We’ve just completed the second week of classes here at UVM! We are so glad to have students, faculty, and staff back on campus, and I’m excited to get to know everyone as the semester continues. As you may know, I’m new in this position—I started my work as dean in July... 08/20/2024 When the Ice is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth’s Tumultuous History and Perilous Future In his new book, When the Ice is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth’s Tumultuous History and Perilous Future, Paul Bierman, geoscientist and Professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont (UVM), drills into the... 08/19/2024 The Captain and Crew of the R/V Marcelle Melosira If you were to walk along the path at Waterfront Park on an August morning in Burlington, VT, you would no doubt see a flurry of early-rising exercisers, visitors enjoying coffee and crepes, and bike/scooter/rollerblade commuters on their way to work. But you might overlook the quiet bustle of... CAS Research News 09/19/2024 How Invasive Species Are Adapting to Climate Change Thanks to its famously cold weather, Vermont has so far escaped the effects of many invasive species that plague warmer parts of the globe. But that may be about to change as climate change leads to milder winters and some of those species begin to move farther north. Joaquin Nunez,... 09/17/2024 A Wave of Summer Humanities Research When planning fun things to do on summer break, surfing may come to mind, but research? It doesn’t usually make the cut, but this past summer some ambitious students studying the humanities in UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences learned a way to do both, so to speak. The... 09/11/2024 Library Interns Stretch Archival Knowledge Through Leahy Archive Work Earlier this summer, four interns joined the archivists responsible for cataloging Senator Patrick Leahy’s collection of documents, papers, posters, recordings and more from his 48 years in office. The acquisition of Leahy’... 08/12/2024 Spotlight on CAS Alums! The alumni of UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) are a hugely diverse group to be sure, but, as you’ll see below, there’s a common thread running through many of their stories: how a broad-based, liberal arts education provided a potent recipe for both professional success and personal... 07/08/2024 UVM Launches Nationwide Effort to Grow Local News Reporting at Colleges Across the U.S. The Center for Community News (CCN) at the University of Vermont (UVM) will dramatically expand efforts to grow partnerships between local news outlets and universities across the country, forging a path to sustainability...
