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...

04/02/2024

Navigating Transportation Issues Through Environmental and Resource Planning

Cities and towns of every size are grappling with challenges facing their transportation plans and infrastructure—fortunately, Rubenstein School students have the passion and expertise to face those challenges head-on. The...

05/03/2023

Eleanor Jaffe ’23 Finds a Career Path in Ecology and Community in Club Rugby

“I went to class, I worked, and I played rugby.”   This is how Eleanor Jaffe sums up her four years at the University of Vermont (UVM). It may seem like too simple a recap, but each of those areas of college life held countless memorable experiences for Eleanor. ...

05/01/2023

Undergraduate Class Projects Contribute to Rubenstein School Net Zero Energy Goals

Each spring, for 22 years, undergraduates have teamed up with faculty and staff in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont (UVM) to advance energy efficiency and greening of the School, its buildings, and its...

02/21/2023

Some Blooms Like it Hot, Others Like it Cold

In recent years it has become increasingly common that on some of the hottest days of the summer, the freshwater lakes and ponds that we rely on to cool down are closed due to dangerous cyanobacterial blooms. Beyond this effect on recreation, blooms also have a significant, negative impact on...

11/09/2022

UVM Ranks 13th in Princeton Review's Guide to Green Colleges

The University of Vermont ranked 13th in the 2023 edition of the Guide to Green Colleges published annually by The Princeton Review. Released late last month, the guide is a widely read resource for college applicants seeking schools with strong commitments to the environment in their...

08/17/2022

New Mapping Tool Identifies Vermont's Environmentally Vulnerable Populations

Until recently, Vermont was one of the few states without a state-adopted environmental justice policy. In May 2022, Governor Phil Scott signed Vermont’s first environmental justice policy into law. The new law states that no Vermonter, because of racial, cultural, or economic status,...

06/27/2022

Rubenstein Seniors and First Years Share Learning at Rock Point

For seniors in the Rubenstein School, NR 206 is a community-based learning course, which pairs groups of students with community partners to tackle a problem. The goals of each project differ based on the needs and visions from the partner and the students....

05/10/2022

Marjorie McWilliams Connects Natural Resources Major with a Community Career

Of all the colleges Marjorie McWilliams ’22 considered, the University of Vermont (UVM) most enticed her with its surrounding landscape—from the Green Mountains to Lake Champlain—in which to study the environment. She found her niche in the Rubenstein School...

10/21/2021

Migrant Workers Vital to Vermont Dairy Industry, Need More Social and Medical Support

The dairy industry is a staple of Vermont: herds of cows, rolling hills, and farming operations are still present in almost every part of the state. And yet, this idyllic picture does not reflect the full reality of dairy farming. In the highly competitive dairy industry, milk product...

03/01/2021

NR 2 Students Track Wildlife at Jericho Research Forest

“It’s tracking week in NR 2, and we’re really excited to take our first-year students out to Jericho Research Forest to take advantage of the great snow and wildlife habitat,” said Senior Lecturer Walter Poleman, who instructs the NR 2 course, Natural History and Human Ecology, which...

12/17/2020

New Nature Lover? It’s a COVID-19 Side Effect

What does it take to get some people to go outside and experience nature? For some urban dwellers, it took the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say.  The new study finds that 26% of people visiting parks during early months of the COVID-19 pandemic had rarely – or never – visited...

11/09/2020

Capturing Coyote Stories

Joshua Morse, PhD candidate in the University of Vermont (UVM) Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, has spent his life exploring and studying the outdoors and what lives in the woods. His most recent work, “Coyote Stories,” captures the...

05/20/2019

Bindu Panikkar Honored for Her Work to Advance Environmental Health

Bindu Panikkar, of the University of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Environmental Program, has been honored for her exceptional work with communities to advance...

05/13/2019

Lianne Parmalee Pursues Lifelong Passion for Water to a Post-Graduation Job

Although she grew up in Albany, New York, it was during the one month each summer spent in Maine when graduating senior Lianne Parmalee ’19 discovered her love for water resources and plants. At her family’s cabin on Panther Pond in the town of Raymond, she kayaked, dove for mussels, picked...

04/30/2019

Alum Kesha Ram, Former Vermont Legislator, to Speak at Rubenstein School Commencement

Kesha Ram graduated from the University of Vermont in 2008 with degrees in Natural Resource Planning and Political Science. She was the first Rubenstein School student and first woman of color to serve as Student Government Association President. The same year of her graduation, she ran for the...

10/02/2018

Beyond the Classroom, Atop the Mountain

Vermont’s Stowe Mountain Resort has provided students in the University of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources with educational opportunities on its slopes for nearly two decades. ...

09/14/2018

Making Our Own Change

How can the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont be consistently welcoming and supportive of students of all backgrounds and perspectives? How can education in the environment and natural resources open itself...

03/07/2018

UVM Says Sí to Its First-Ever Semester Abroad Program in Costa Rica

It’s 5 o’clock on a recent Tuesday at a palm-fringed beach in Costa Rica, where Lecturer Dave Kestenbaum ‘02 wears a grin that stretches nearly as wide as the mountains and sunset behind him. This sunset, or puesta del sol, over the Golfo Dulce sees 20 students from UVM’s...

12/10/2014

NR 1 Students Write About Experiences at Writers’ Conference

Seven Rubenstein School NR 1 students attended the Northern Woodlands Writers’ Conference at the Hulbert Outdoor Center on idyllic Lake Morey in Fairlee, Vermont on October 18, 2014. With support from Dean Nancy Mathews...