News and Events

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Gund Institute Names 2024 Catalyst Award Winners
Rosie Chapina sitting on a boat, two people are in the background, all are wearing life jackets. Rosie is smiling and has sunglasses on.

Ph.D. Student and Knauss Fellow, Rosie Chapina, Sets Sail on NOAA Expedition
Cyanobateria in Shelbourne Pond

Climate Change and Cyanobacteria: UVM's Cutting-Edge Research on Lake and Stream Health
An Anopheles gambiae mosquito bites a person

Deforestation Reduces Malaria Bed Nets’ Effectiveness
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After the Floods
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Events

The Rubenstein School community hosts and participates in many in-person, virtual, and hybrid events throughout the year.

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11/19/2024

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 dark grey soil and squeezes it like a sponge. Beside him, a row of yellowed winter rye shakes in the wind.  “It’s a little dry,” Faulkner says. “… But not bad. Everyone is crossing...

Joshua Faulkner and Ben Tutko stand with shovels in a corn field

11/18/2024

Advanced Field Ecology in the Adirondacks

In mid-October on a warm, sunny fall weekend, a group of graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Vermont traveled across Lake Champlain toward the Adirondack Mountains. Their destination was High Peaks Wilderness Area in Adirondack State Park. They were on their way to a two-day...

Students in the Advanced Field Ecology course gathered for a group photo

11/15/2024

Data and Open Science Summit to Highlight Speakers from NASA

In partnership with the Vermont Research Open Source Program Office (VERSO), the Graduate College and the Office of the Provost, the UVM Libraries are hosting a three-day data and open science summit in January 2025. This free event open to the UVM community will include instructional support...

Six headshots of the speakers slated for the summit.

11/11/2024

Mapping Connectivity: How UVM Researchers are Studying Safe Passages for Wildlife

Jed Murdoch’s class huddles in a parking lot in Stowe one bone-chilling Friday afternoon in March. A skunky stench wafts from the back of a University of Vermont passenger van—lure for the wildlife cameras the students will install along snow-covered woods.   “It has some staying...

a fisher stands at the base of a tree in winter

11/01/2024

A Trout Turnabout

  November 29, 2023 In eighty feet of water, one mile off the Burlington shoreline, the research vessel Marcelle Melosira pulls in a...

a woman in an organge coat stands in front a pile of fish and holds one up to the camera

10/24/2024

Planetary Health from the Ground Up: Co-creating a Wellbeing Economy in Vermont and Beyond

Rigo Melgar is a Ph.D. candidate in Ecological Economics in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, a Gund Institute for Environment Graduate Fellow, and a fellow of the transnational...

Rigo Melgar standing at a mountainous lookout with the sunsetting behind him and a lake below

10/21/2024

UVM's Walter Poleman to Join U.N. Biodiversity Conference

University of Vermont environmental scholar Walter Poleman will attend the 16th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which starts today in Cali, Colombia. Poleman, a senior...

Walter Poleman giving a lecture at the front of a classroom with the COP16 logo on the screen behind his head

10/04/2024

What is Planetary Health?

The planet is alive. This ecstatic skin of the Earth that stretches but a few miles up and down is teeming with critters, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria. We don’t just live on the planet, we live because of it. We’re creatures, very smart apes, whose blood and breath and food exist as a...

distant green mountains seen from a height

10/03/2024

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 in recognition of her contributions to creating a legacy of equity, justice and inclusion at the University of Vermont (UVM). The honor is an acknowledgment of the awardee’s commitment to inclusive...

Marie Vea smiling during an event in the Davis Center. Vea is wearing glasses and a scarf.

10/03/2024

Introducing UVM's First Presidential Doctoral Fellows

What role does the microbiome of plants play in their ability to survive extreme environments? How can mathematics be used to democratize artificial intelligence? Which factors are driving the spread of a deadly fungal disease affecting the planet’s amphibian populations? What really happens in...

researchers stand in the alpine zone collecting samples

09/23/2024

UVM Awarded $2.7M for National Climate Measurements Center of Excellence

Temperature, precipitation, wind speed—the U.S. government has plenty of ways to measure our climate. But how do we measure the impacts of climate on our communities, economies, and ecosystems? The new Climate Measurements Center of...

An overview of a college campus from above. Photo credit: Vermont Spatial Analysis Lab

09/20/2024

How to Love a Forest

Ethan Tapper '12, an alumnus of the Rubenstein School's forestry program and a current graduate student, released his book How to Love a Forest, earlier this month. In his book, Ethan asks readers what it means to live in a time when...

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...

A plaque marking the memorial trees planted next to the Aiken Center in memory of Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne

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...

Lauren sitting on a wooden railing holding a camp chair and wearing a green backpack. Lake, mountain, and forest in the background.

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...

Peter standing in the front of a classroom addressing students. Some of the students are sitting, others are standing against the wall.

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...

Paul Bierman in his lab

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...

Captain Taylor Resnick at the helm of the R/V Marcelle Melosira showing the boat controls to two students

07/25/2024

Burlington’s Riverside Avenue Faces Ongoing Landslide Risk: UVM Study

At least 20 times in the past 70 years, part of the hill by Burlington’s Riverside Avenue has tumbled into the Winooski River, according to new UVM research. With structures atop the unstable slope, it’s just a matter of time before the next landslide, with the potential for property and...

Trees are broken on a dirt hillside, with rocks and/or chunks of concrete mixed into the dirt

06/06/2024

Taking Flight

Two weeks ago, we concluded the Spring semester by celebrating the nearly 200 seniors who graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. We were thrilled to welcome back two-time alumna...

Allan Strong wearing regalia at the RSENR Graduation Celebration 2024

06/05/2024

Setting the Table: Alumna Dr. Rebecca Stanfield McCown Encourages Graduates to Build Diverse Support Networks

Alumna Dr. Rebecca Stanfield McCown MS ’06 and PhD ’11, returned to the University of Vermont (UVM) campus on May 19 to share advice with the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources graduating class of 2024 at UVM Commencement Weekend. Rebecca is a two-time alumna,...

Rebecca Stanield McCown standing at the podium at the 2024 Graduation Celebration

06/05/2024

Gone Fishin’: Ellen Marsden Retires after 26 Years with the Rubenstein School

Dr. J. Ellen Marsden, Professor of Fisheries Biology, retired from the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont (UVM) in May 2024. She was celebrated for her countless contributions to UVM and the state of Vermont at a ceremony during the spring...

Ellen Marsden on the deck of a boat handling a fish

06/03/2024

Clare Ginger Retires After 30 Years of Leadership and Teaching in the Rubenstein School

Dr. Clare Ginger, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, received the distinction of Emerita from the University of Vermont (UVM) in May 2024. After 30 years of dedicated teaching and leadership in the Rubenstein...

A headshot of Clare Ginger

05/31/2024

Adrian Ivakhiv Retires, Leaving a Legacy of Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Dr. Adrian Ivakhiv, Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and Fellow in the Gund Institute for Environment, retired from the University of Vermont (UVM) in May 2024. During his 21 years at UVM Adrian had a great impact on his...

A closeup picture of Adrian Ivakhiv

05/24/2024

UVM Researchers Help Shape First National Nature Assessment

Taylor Ricketts, Director of UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment, and Rachelle Gould, a professor in UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, have been selected to serve as chapter author and chapter lead, respectively, for the first-ever U.S....

A flyer for the First National Nature Assessment, with the text "The Writing Begins"

05/20/2024

UVM Student Creates Roadmap For a Bee-Friendly Campus

Erin Camire ’24 picked up their diploma last week as a newly minted forestry graduate from the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. They will leave behind a legacy that positions UVM to have more pollinator-friendly landscaping, a specific goal laid out in the university’s...

Erin Camire in front of UVM gardens.