Starting in 2016 the Office of Fellowships, Opportunities & Undergraduate Research (FOUR) and the Graduate College began managing the Innovative Research track. Each receiving funding from the Sustainable Campus Fund to award to innovative sustainability research projects using their existing institutional processes. Students seeking financial support for research projects should contact the appropriate office directly.
Project | Recipient | Amount | Year |
The Impact of Environmental Factors on Invasive Vinca major Management in the Sonoran Desert | Emma Roseneau | $1,000 | FY22 |
Malaria Parasite (genus Plasmodium) Spillover in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) Across an Urbanization Gradient | Matthew Heilbronn | $600 | FY22 |
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth?: A Study in Balancing the Value of Visitors, Horses, and Ecological Management on Assateague Island | Nora Ripley-Grant | $300 | FY22 |
Constraining Laurentide Ice Sheet Retreat in Under-Sampled Areas of New England | Jason Drebber | $1,000 | FY22 |
University of Vermont Office of Sustainability Internship | David Brantley | $1,000 | FY22 |
Vermont Cooperative for Practice Improvement and Innovation Internship | Kyle Doucette | $1,500 | FY22 |
University of Vermont Office of Sustainability Internship | Julia Lenz | $1,000 | FY22 |
Vermont State Parks Internship | Trisha Melton | $1,500 | FY22 |
National Telecommunications and Information Administration Internship | Sachi Sakaniwa | $750 | FY22 |
Effects of Integrated Pest Management for grazing dairy cattle on beneficial insect diversity | Lauren Giroux | $5,000 | FY22 |
Formulation of an Epigenetic Clock for Vermont Eastern Bobcat | Magda Kmiecik | $5,000 | FY22 |
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth?: A Study in Balancing the Value of Visitors, Horses, and Ecological Management on Assateague Island | Nora Ripley-Grant | $5,000 | FY22 |
The Impact of Environmental Factors on Invasive Vinca major Management in the Sonoran Desert | Emma Rosenau | $5,000 | FY22 |
Evaluating the Success of Fishing Advisories among Angling Groups in the Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont | Eli Stein | $5,000 | FY22 |
Hemp Processing for Use in Sustainable Bioproducts | Annika Zimmermann | $5,000 | FY22 |
Impacts of Urbanization on the Spillover of Avian Malaria Parasites | Matthew Heilbronn | $5,000 | FY22 |
| Project | Recipient | Amount | Year |
| Power Scavenging | Skylar Bagdon | $1,000 | FY18 |
| Critical Films on Graphene Substrates | Renee Beneski | $2,807 | FY18 |
| Gund Institute for Environment Internship | Amanda Cole | $4,000 | FY18 |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory Internship | Bin Du | $5,650 | FY18 |
| Energy Action Network Vermont Internship | Eva Hoskins | $3,100 | FY18 |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory Internship | Ben Isengard | $5,650 | FY18 |
| Low-Cost Portable Air Quality Sensor Quality Assurance and Validation | Annaliese Keimel | $3,000 | FY18 |
| Synthesis and Characterization of Green Tea - Zero Valent Iron (GT-ZVI) for Ground Water Remediation | Ben Page | $4,070 | FY18 |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory Internship | Olivia Sergiovanni | $5,650 | FY18 |
| Examining the Historical Drivers of Land-Use Change in Cuba | Hannah Turner | $4,299 | FY18 |
| Testing the Feasibility of Over-Summer Snow Storage at the Craftsbury Outdoors Center | Hannah Weiss | $5,000 | FY18 |
| Land Use and Transport Policy Intern | Gabrielle Altounian | $3,812 | FY20 |
| On-Campus Anaerobic Digestion Feasibility Study | Abby Bruzas | $4,000 | FY20 |
| Vtrans Gully Erosion Research Internship | Luc Burnier | $2,146 | FY20 |
| Automated Aeroponic Research Tool (AART), to rapidly test for ideal aeroponic crop coditions. | Matthew Crisp | $4,750 | FY20 |
| Cold Storage Facility in Rural Kenya | Joshua Dansie | $1,500 | FY20 |
| 350 Vermont Internship | Chris Gish | $2,666 | FY20 |
| Sustainable Transportation Vermont (journalism) Internship | Indigo Glaza | $3,140 | FY20 |
| 350 Vermont Internship | Charlotte Graf | $3,040 | FY20 |
| Sustainable Transportation Vermont (Community Development) Internship | Brianna Jasset | $3,210 | FY20 |
| Vermont Environmental Research and Podcast Series | Leah Kelleher | $4,839 | FY20 |
| Addressing Public Opinion and Feasibilty of Biomass Energy in Vermont | Olivia Lopez | $4,100 | FY20 |
| UVM Housing: Motivations Behind Institutional Sustainability Transitions | Noah Stommel | $4,750 | FY20 |
| Sustainable Transportation Vermont (Land use and Transportation) Internship | Jacob Weinstein | $3,800 | FY20 |
| How Much Carbon is in those Mussels? The Potential Impact of a Quagga Mussel Invasion on Energy Pathways in Lake Champlain | Dani Berger | $5,000 | FY21 |
| Randolph Herald Internship | Alex Binzen | $1,650 | FY21 |
| Revealing the Extent of Reproductive Isolation in Subspecies of Acartia tonsa | Hannah Buscher | $4,893 | FY21 |
| Sustainable trail design, erosion control, and stream health | Sarah Clauss | $4,700 | FY21 |
| Good News Garage Internship | Meaghan Contois | $3,100 | FY21 |
| Constraining Laurentide Ice Sheet Retreat in Under-Sampled Areas of New England | Jason Drebber | $5,100 | FY21 |
| Understanding Earthworm Invasion through Nematode Trophic Communities | Eleanor Duva | $5,100 | FY21 |
| Chittenden Area Transportation Management Association Internship | Katie Enns | $2,600 | FY21 |
| 1% for the Planet Internship | Quint Finney | $3,100 | FY21 |
| Spatial analysis of MtNPF5.5 expression in the roots/nodules of Medicago truncatula under salt stress | David Green | $5,093 | FY21 |
| Massachusetts Execuive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Internship | Rowan Hawthorne | $2,785 | FY21 |
| Tarping with Tradeoffs: Growers' Perspectives on Tarping in Agriculture | Carlin Molander | $5,000 | FY21 |
| Common Roots Internship | Gretel St. Lawrence | $3,100 | FY21 |
| Project | Recipient | Amount | Year |
| Consumer acceptance of insect-based foods among university students in New England | Patrick Shafer | $4,500 | FY22 |
| Functional Diversification of FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT)-like Genes in Pooideae Grasses | Hannah Shafer | $10,644 | FY22 |
| Metrics for hemp as a contributor to sustainable and resilient agricultural systems | Hannah Lacasse | $10,801 | FY22 |
| Climatic and genetic determinants of biomass production and yield in the temperate model grass Brachypodium distachyon | Masoumeh Khodaverdi | $10,366 | FY22 |
| Project | Recipient | Amount | Year |
| Mango and Potato Food Wastes as Sources for Sustainable Textile Fiber Development | Ceres Rafiq | $13,200 | FY21 |
| Bovine Muscle Cell Scaffold Design for Sustainable Cultured Meat Production | Irfan Tahir | $7,500 | FY21 |
| Strain - Enhanced Luminescence in Small Molecule Thin Films for Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) Applications | Libin Liang | $23,500 | FY20 |
| Synthesis & Characterization of [1]benzo[3,2-b]benzothiopene (BTBT) for Organic Photovoltaics | Robin Rice | $17,046 | FY19 |
| Monitoring Clean Energy and Sustainable Production Systems | Lindsay Barbieri | $24,590 | FY18 |
| Phytosanitation in the wood pellet supply chain | Alex Neidermeier | $2,667 | FY18 |
| Organic Charge Transfer Crystal Complex for Use in Solar Cells | Justin Paluba (MS ’19) & Dahal Ekraj (PhD) | $15,788 | FY17 |
| Development and Design of a Novel Non-Aqueous Flow Cell Battery Using Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons for Sustainable Energy Storage | Adam Dyer | $24,620 | FY17 |
| Project | Expended as of April 2019 | Year | Departments/Other | Project Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Off-Campus Student Energy Conservation Challenge | $20,876 | 2014 | Gund Institute | Dan Fredman |
| Hybrid Street Lamp System with Helix Bamboo Wind Turbines and Solar Panels | $33,510 | 2013 | Mechanical Engineering | Dr. Ting Tan, Dr, Tian Xia |
| Clean Energy Greenhouse | $67,425 | 2012 | Community Development & Applied Economics | Tad Cooke, Erick Crockenberg |
| Compst Power: Using Compost Power to Heat a Greenhouse | $27,496 | 2012 | Residential Life Services | Chloe Wieland, Laurel Valchuis |
| Organic Solar Cells Fabricated by UVM Students | $18,700 | 2011 | Physics Department | Dr. Randy Headrick |