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Renowned Namesake of Pringle Herbarium Led a Storied Life

A page from an old journal with the name Cyrus Pringle written on it and the date of 1900.

The University of Vermont’s Pringle Herbarium is an on-campus natural history museum that is the second largest herbarium in New England. Established in 1902, it houses over 360,000 plant and fungi specimens, with a geographic focus on Vermont and tropical regions of Mexico, Central America, and South America. The herbarium serves as a regional and international hub for research on the classification, evolution, and distribution of plant species. Continue reading “Renowned Namesake of Pringle Herbarium Led a Storied Life”

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Keller Receives National Science Foundation Grant for Alpine Plant Research

Looking south along the Green Mountains from the Forehead of Mt Mansfield, VT
Looking south along the Green Mountains from the Forehead of Mount Mansfield, VT. Photo credit: Steve Keller.

UVM Department of Plant Biology Associate Professor Steve Keller was awarded a $497,476 grant, as part of a larger $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), for research into the effects of climate change on alpine plants in the northeastern United States. Continue reading “Keller Receives National Science Foundation Grant for Alpine Plant Research”