![\"Tessa](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2024\/04\/Tessa-Lawler.jpg?resize=525%2C295\")
<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
The UVM Food Systems Research Center is pleased to announce that Tessa Lawler has joined the team as the project coordinator for the Sustainability Metrics grants.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining UVM, Lawler studied psychology and classics at Northwestern University, where she was also the principal investigator on multiple grants examining aggression and psychopathic traits in children and adolescents. She moved to Vermont in 2022 and worked on an FDA-funded behavioral health study at UVM\u2019s Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science.<\/p>\n
She now aims to pursue her interest in environmental systems and will begin a master’s program at UVM in Fall 2024, in Complex Systems and Data Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tess Lawler, Sustainability Metrics Project Coordinator, Food Systems Research Center<\/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":[12,53,29],"tags":[136,72],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cals","category-programs","category-staff","tag-fsrc","tag-new-hires"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4134,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/cals-new-hires-february-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":4361,"position":0},"title":"CALS New Hires-February 2024","author":"CALS Communications","date":"February 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Amy Miller, 4-H Assistant Director, UVM Extension Amy Miller is the new assistant director of 4-H. She spent the past 13-plus years working at Vermont State University\u2019s Castleton campus serving in a victim advocacy role and teaching adjunct courses in trauma studies, health promotion and women and gender studies. Miller\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "CALS"","block_context":{"text":"CALS","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/category\/cals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Amy Miller","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2024\/02\/Amy-Miller.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":491,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/welcome-to-our-new-hires\/","url_meta":{"origin":4361,"position":1},"title":"Welcome to Our New Hires","author":"CALS Communications","date":"October 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Deb Heleba, Master Gardener Coordinator, UVM Extension Deb is the new Extension Master Gardener coordinator and officially starts in this role on January 4, 2022. She has worked in UVM Extension agriculture for over 30 years starting with the Apple Team in Plant and Soil Sciences, the Center for Sustainable\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "CALS"","block_context":{"text":"CALS","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/category\/cals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Debra Heleba","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2021\/10\/dmheleba1-e1635469123334.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1146,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/february-2022-new-hires\/","url_meta":{"origin":4361,"position":2},"title":"February 2022 New Hires","author":"CALS Communications","date":"February 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Vander Gac, Northeast SARE Communications Professional Vander Gac (they\/them) joined UVM in February as a communications professional for Northeast SARE. Gac's role includes writing and producing content to share the stories of Northeast SARE with potential applicants, grantees, supporters, partners, and the farming public. They live in Bethel, VT with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "CALS"","block_context":{"text":"CALS","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/category\/cals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Photo of Vander Gac","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/02\/vander-gac.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1437,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/april-2022-cals-new-hires\/","url_meta":{"origin":4361,"position":3},"title":"April 2022 CALS New Hires","author":"CALS Communications","date":"April 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Judy Minadeo, Extension Office\/Program Support Generalist Judy Minadeo is the new program support generalist in the UM Extension Morrill Hall office. She will be assisting Extension Director Roy Beckford as well as working with the Across the Fence team. Minadeo holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from St. Lawrence\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "CALS"","block_context":{"text":"CALS","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/category\/cals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A photo of Judy Minadeo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/04\/judy-minadeo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3173,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/food-systems-research-center-hiring-post-docs\/","url_meta":{"origin":4361,"position":4},"title":"Food Systems Research Center Opportunities for Post-Docs","author":"CALS Communications","date":"June 28, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "CALS"","block_context":{"text":"CALS","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/category\/cals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A large field of vegetables including onions and brussels sprouts, with greenhouses in the background.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/06\/vegetable-garden.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/06\/vegetable-garden.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/06\/vegetable-garden.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/06\/vegetable-garden.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/06\/vegetable-garden.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3655,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/cals-new-hires-october-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":4361,"position":5},"title":"CALS New Hires-October 2023","author":"CALS Communications","date":"October 25, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Ashley McLeod, Director of Major Gifts, CALS Ashley McLeod has joined the UVM Foundation as director of major gifts for CALS. She joins UVM from Middlebury College, where she was a leadership gifts officer working with major gift donors in the New York City metropolitan area and the Southeast. Prior\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "CALS"","block_context":{"text":"CALS","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/category\/cals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ashley McLeod","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/10\/Ashley-McLeod.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7974"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}