UVM Faculty Profiles

Ellen Marsden aboard the Melosira research vessel on Lake Champlain

What makes our faculty members tick?

Get up close and personal with our professors. Learn about their passions, their paths to UVM and why they love what they study, from the mysteries of Lake Champlain's sculpin to the stories of homeless children in Pakistan.

Emily Beam

Researching the impact of anti-poverty programs on students in Bangladesh
Mads Almassalkhi

First appointee of a UVM-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory collaborative program
Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux

Author for the Water chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5).
Kelly Hamshaw

Leader in building sustainable communities; President’s Distinguished Senior Lecturer Award winner
Jamie Abaied and team of psychology researchers

Researchers ask: How do white parents talk about race?
Kirkpatrick, Rizzo, Vannest

Professors recognized for excellence in research, scholarship and creative arts
Pablo Bose

Professor of geography, winner of outstanding faculty award
Hines, Jeff Frolik and Mads Almassalkhi

Engineering faculty members, co-founders of Packetized Energy
Frederic Sansoz

UVM scientist, part of team inventing the world's strongest silver
Brendan Fisher

Co-author of global study on the economic benefits of protecting nature