The latest happenings from the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Amy Miller is the new assistant director of 4-H. She spent the past 13-plus years working at Vermont State University’s Castleton campus serving in a victim advocacy role and teaching adjunct courses in trauma studies, health promotion and women and gender studies. Continue reading “CALS New Hires-February 2024”
New research on rural New Englanders shows that gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging, raising poultry and/or livestock, and other home and wild food production (HWFP) activities are important tools for maintaining food security through extreme events, such as pandemics or climate change events. Continue reading “In Rural States, Gardening Helped Prevent Hunger During COVID”
Acting Lake Champlain Sea Grant Extension Program Leader Jeffrey Schloss was interviewed by Vermont Public about the water quality and cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Champlain after the July 2023 flooding in the state. Continue reading “CALS in the News-August 2023”
The University of Vermont is excited to announce a cluster-hire of post-doctoral associates with a focus on measuring local and regional sustainable food systems. The two-year positions (with potential option for renewal) will work with UVM faculty in collaboration with US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and will be based at UVM, in conjunction with the ARS Food Systems Research Center. Continue reading “Food Systems Research Center Opportunities for Post-Docs”
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) recently participated in a cross-institutional study involving 16 researchers to determine what it would take for New England states to increase its regional self-reliance to 30 percent by 2030. Continue reading “Research Examines New England’s Ability for Food Production Self-Reliance”