Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Leadership, academic excellence, career commitment add up to prestigious award.
Forestry student Mariah Choiniere '23 of Franklin, Vermont is among a select group of student leaders nationwide to become 2022 Truman Scholars.
Calling Lake Champlain Home.
Vermonter and Natural Resources major Jordan Rowell paddled the length of Lake Champlain to produce "No Other Lake," a film that draws on his conversations along the way and highlights challenges facing the basin.
Experiential Learning Grows into Job Before Graduation.
Senior Bryce Carleton '22 built a portfolio of ecological design experiences—hands-on courses, an internship, teaching, and research—that led to a job in his field.
Building Support for Women in Natural Resource Majors.
Rubenstein School students created Femmes in Forestry, an official UVM Club, to support femme-identifying students in STEM-focused majors.
Bridging Natural Resources and Community.
Senior Marjorie McWilliams '22 combined her passion for the outdoors with a drive to help improve people's lives.
Finding a future in fisheries.
Senior Shira Birkelhammer '22 found what she was looking for—a smaller school with big research opportunities. She dove into fisheries studies at the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Lab.
"Everything and everyone outdoors."
Parks, Recreation & Tourism major Andrew Romano '21 takes his outdoor leadership skills to another level—to increase BIPOC involvement in outdoor recreation.
Building a Legacy of Sustainability.
For two decades, student interns in the Greening of Rubenstein course contributed to energy efficiency and environmental efforts in the School and across campus.

Learn through experience - outdoors, in the community, in the classroom, around the world.

UVM The Rubenstein School claims a storied history of preparing environmentally and socially responsible leaders, scientists, practitioners and advocates who understand the interdependence of people and healthy ecological systems. A science-based curriculum, focused on experiential learning, inspires students to apply knowledge to real world projects. Students graduate with the skills needed to make change and resolve complex environmental challenges.

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How can the Rubenstein School unleash empathy, passion, innovation, and creativity to heal and radically change human-environment systems in a just, equitable, and ecological direction? Read more

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