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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Shira Berkelhammer holds a burbot fish in a lab and a boat docked on Lake Champlain

Shira Berkelhammer Finds Her Future in Fisheries

Senior Shira Berkelhammer ‘22 had her heart set on a smaller college but one with big research opportunities. She came all the way from Seattle to attend the University of Vermont where she found what she was looking for—accessibility to faculty and their research. Proximity to Lake Champlain and the university’s lakefront laboratory sealed the deal.

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Amanda Adams holding salmon and standing by river in Alaska

Amanda Adams Interns with US Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska

This summer I was able to work at a dream job in Alaska with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It is an experience that I will never forget.

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