{"id":2357,"date":"2022-12-21T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2022-12-21T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:13:54","slug":"students-compost-ecology-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/students-compost-ecology-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Create Compost Ecology Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2366\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2366 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/12\/compost-student-poster-winners.jpg?resize=525%2C275\" alt=\"Three UVM students, two women and one man, who won class awards for designing composting posters.\" width=\"525\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/12\/compost-student-poster-winners.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/12\/compost-student-poster-winners.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/12\/compost-student-poster-winners.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The student poster winners are from left to right: Maddie Mezitt, Joey Looney, and Ellie Churchill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Plant and Soil Science Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/cals\/pss\/profiles\/professor-deborah-neher\">Deborah Neher&#8217;s<\/a> PSS 154 Compost Ecology class created posters for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compostfoundation.org\/ICAW\/ICAW-Poster-Contest\">2023 Compost Awareness Week<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The top posters will be posted at the annual Vermont Organic Recycling Summit in April 2023, hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compostingvermont.org\/\">Compost Association of Vermont (CAV)<\/a>. Posters will also be displayed on the CAV webpage.<\/p>\n<p>The photos attached show the array of posters students from the compost class created. Three students in the class were awarded for their poster designs:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 20px\">\n<li>Most creative<\/li>\n<li>Most readable<\/li>\n<li>X-Factor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2367\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/12\/compost-posters.jpg?resize=525%2C275\" alt=\"Several posters about composting are displayed on a white board.\" width=\"525\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/12\/compost-posters.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/12\/compost-posters.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/12\/compost-posters.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant and Soil Science Professor Deborah Neher&#8217;s PSS 154 Compost Ecology class created posters for the 2023 Compost Awareness Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12,28],"tags":[109,21,51,83],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-cals","category-faculty","tag-composting","tag-pss","tag-soils","tag-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1969,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/students-quantify-recyclables-food\/","url_meta":{"origin":2357,"position":0},"title":"Students Quantify Recyclables and Food That Ends Up in the Trash","author":"CALS Communications","date":"September 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"During UVM's Fall 2022 semester, Plant and Soil Science Professor Deb Neher taught PSS 154, Compost Ecology and Management. 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