Congratulations to three Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) students who are members of two teams that were chosen as semi-finalists for the Meyers Cup. Continue reading “CDAE Student Semi-Finalists Vying for Meyers Cup”
Lizzy Pope’s UVM Students are Sometimes Bile, Often Viral, and Almost Always Engaged!
Lizzy Pope asks her students to embody bile, triglycerides, or hydrochloric acid, and then they learn about fat digestion as part of a musical which utilizes multiple pop songs to help students remember the science of nutrition. This is just one tactic in her full arsenal of educational tools developed during her nine years as a UVM professor. She has developed this strategy to keep her large classes such as Fundamentals of Nutrition—which usually enrolls close to 300 students per term—learning the science of nutrition. Getting students engaged in a class this size is a challenge for any faculty member, but Pope has piloted multiple strategies that have led to high levels of student-reported satisfaction with her teaching. Continue reading “Lizzy Pope’s UVM Students are Sometimes Bile, Often Viral, and Almost Always Engaged!”
CALS in the News-December 2023
In a VTDigger article, Kris Stepanuck is credited with the education initiatives she has undertaken about salt brine and protecting water quality by applying less road salt to treat roads during the winter.
- Also in News & Citizen.
PBIO PhD Student Heaphy Receives National Science Foundation Fellowship
Nora Heaphy, Department of Plant Biology PhD student, was awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship from the UVM Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) in 2023, for her proposal on dispersal, migration, and climate change risk in the Mediterranean plant Lomelosia. She is interested in why plants live where they live, if and how they will adapt to climate change, and how genetic factors interact with environmental factors to shape evolutionary trajectories. Continue reading “PBIO PhD Student Heaphy Receives National Science Foundation Fellowship”
Graduate Student Toomey Receives Wilderness Society Scholarship
Lee Toomey (they/their), a master’s degree candidate in the Plant Biology Department Field Naturalist Program, was awarded a prestigious Gloria Barron Wilderness Society scholarship. This scholarship supports future conservation leaders and is highly competitive, usually funding only one student per year. Continue reading “Graduate Student Toomey Receives Wilderness Society Scholarship”