Since 1791, the University of Vermont has worked to move humankind forward. UVM’s strengths align with the most pressing needs of our time: the health of our societies and the health of our environment. Our size—large enough to offer a breadth of ideas, resources, and opportunities, yet intimate enough to enable close faculty-student mentorship across all levels of study—allows us to pursue these interconnected issues through cross-disciplinary research and collaboration. Providing an unparalleled educational experience for our students, and ensuring their success, are at the core of what we do. As one of the nation’s first land grant universities, UVM advances Vermont and the broader society through the discovery and application of new knowledge.
UVM is derived from the Latin Universitas Viridis Montis (in English, University of the Green Mountains).
(see more)Since 1791, the University of Vermont has worked to move humankind forward. UVM’s strengths align with the most pressing needs of our time: the health of our societies and the health of our environment. Our size—large enough to offer a breadth of ideas, resources, and opportunities, yet intimate enough to enable close faculty-student mentorship across all levels of study—allows us to pursue these interconnected issues through cross-disciplinary research and collaboration. Providing an unparalleled educational experience for our students, and ensuring their success, are at the core of what we do. As one of the nation’s first land grant universities, UVM advances Vermont and the broader society through the discovery and application of new knowledge.
UVM is derived from the Latin Universitas Viridis Montis (in English, University of the Green Mountains).
UVM Social Work Students Named to Phi Alpha Honor Society
The Department of Social Work is pleased to announce 11 new inductees to the UVM chapter of the national Phi Alpha Honor Society. Members have attained excellence in scholarship and achievement in social work, as they promote humanitarian goals and ideals.
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2016 May 4
Sophomore Wins Prestigious Boren Award
The David L. Boren Scholarship is a nationally competitive award that provides up to $20,000 for students to study a critical foreign language in a nontraditional country important to U.S. national security.
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2016 Apr 21
Sophomore Wins Scholarship for Competitive Engineering Research Internship in Germany
The German Academic Exchange Program Research Internships in Science and Engineering offers opportunities for science and engineering undergraduates from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. to spend a summer in Germany, working with research groups and gaining practical experience at top universities and institutions.
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2016 Apr 20
UVM Students Awarded Critical Language Scholarships
Critical Language Scholarships are competitive awards from the U.S. State Department that fully fund students' participation in intensive language instruction for seven to 10 weeks overseas.
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2016 Apr 20
Students Named to the University of Vermont Dean's List
To be named to the dean's list, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.
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2016 Jan 6
Phi Beta Kappa Bogorad Award
UVM's Phi Beta Kappa chapter selects a single student each year to receive the Bogorad Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in the liberal arts based on the academic record through the end of the sophomore year.
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2015 Dec 4
UVM Students Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the United States. Membership in Phi Beta Kappa is a rare honor, and academics and employers recognize it as a mark of intellectual breadth and exceptional academic performance. UVM's chapter was chartered in 1848, making it the eleventh chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. It has a rich history in its own right, being the first chapter in the nation to elect women and African Americans to membership.
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2015 Dec 4
College of Arts and Sciences Student Awards
The College of Arts and Sciences presented awards to undergraduates at its annual Honors Day ceremony.
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2015 Jun 24
UVM's LGBTQA Center Presents Rainbow Awards
The LGBTQA Center hosts an annual LGBTQAwards & Rainbow Graduation Ceremony in May after spring semester classes end, complete with music, food, and fun, to celebrate UVM's LGBTQA community, its many achievements, and the LGBTQA students who are graduating -- both undergraduate and graduate students.
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2015 Jun 24
Students Earn Degrees from the University of Vermont
Some 2,385 students were awarded a variety of bachelor's degrees during the University of Vermont's 214th commencement ceremonies on May 17. Approximately 474 advanced degrees and certificates were awarded by the UVM Graduate College, and 116 took the oath of Hippocrates following the awarding of their M.D. degrees at ceremonies of the UVM College of Medicine.
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2015 May 21
White House Names UVM Student a 'Champion of Change' for Climate Education
The White House is honoring eight Americans for their extraordinary work to enhance climate education and literacy across the country -- and UVM student Gina Fiorile is one of them.
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2015 Feb 6
Students Named to the University of Vermont Dean's List
To be named to the dean's list, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.
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2015 May 20
UVM Chapter of History Honor Society Inducts New Members
Phi Alpha Theta is a national honor society with a mission to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. To be inducted into the UVM chapter, undergraduate students must have 15 or more earned credit hours in history, with a minimum 3.6 grade point average in history (GPA) and a 3.4 or better GPA overall. Graduate students must have 15 or more earned credit hours with a minimum 3.75 GPA.
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2015 Apr 29
Students Named to the University of Vermont Dean's List
To be named to the dean's list, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.
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2015 Feb 4
UVM's Honors College Admits Top-Performing Sophomores
Ninety-one rising sophomores have been granted admission to the University of Vermont's Honors College.
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2014 Jul 8
UVM's Honors College Welcomes Class of 2018
One-hundred-ninety-six incoming first-year students have joined the University of Vermont's Honors College.
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2014 Jul 8
Keith M. Miser Leadership Award
This award, presented to graduating seniors at commencement, recognizes outstanding service to the university.
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2014 Jun 16
Elmer Nicholson Achievement Prize
This award, presented at commencement, recognizes the greatness of the student's UVM experiences and the expectation that they will make major contributions in their respective fields
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2014 Jun 16
F.T. Kidder Medal
This award, presented at commencement, honors the senior man ranking first in character, leadership and scholarship.
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2014 Jun 16
Mary Jean Simpson Award
Presented at commencement, this award honors the senior who exhibits the highest qualities of leadership, academic competence and character.
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2014 Jun 16
Class of '67 Award
This award, presented at commencement, honors seniors who best exhibit leadership, academic competence and character, and who have earned the respect of faculty and fellow students.
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2014 Jun 13
Seven UVM Students Awarded Fulbright Grants
Fulbright scholarships are yearlong fellowships which enable seniors, recent graduates, and graduate students to live abroad with help from a fully funded grant to conduct research, pursue internships or teach English in another country. Recipients of this prestigious award represent the United States as a part of the world's largest intellectual and cultural exchange fellowship.
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2014 Jun 6
UVM Chapter of History Honor Society Inducts New Members
Phi Alpha Theta is a national honor society with a mission to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians.
To be inducted into the UVM chapter, undergraduate students must have 15 or more earned credit hours in history, with a minimum 3.6 grade point average in history (GPA) and a 3.0 or better GPA overall. Graduate students must have 15 or more earned credit hours with a minimum 3.75 GPA.
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2014 Jun 5
Students Named to the University of Vermont Dean's List
To be named to the dean's list, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.
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2014 Jun 3
Students Earn Degrees from the University of Vermont
Some 2,904 students were awarded a variety of bachelor's degrees during the University of Vermont's 213th Commencement ceremonies on May 18. There were some 575 advanced degrees and certificates awarded by the UVM Graduate College and approximately 106 women and men took the oath of Hippocrates following the awarding of their M.D. degrees at ceremonies of the UVM College of Medicine. A list of local students and the degree earned by each follows:
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2014 May 30
English Department Names Allbee Award Winners
Four UVM students have won the English Department's 2013-14 Marion Berry Allbee Award. This annual prize for non-fiction writing is named in honor of Dr. Roger Allbee (UVM College of Medicine) in memory of his wife, UVM Class of 1931.
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2014 Apr 9
Senior Wins English Department's Wainwright Prize for Poetry
Dacota Pratt-Pariseau from Grand Isle has won the English Department's annual prize for best poem by a graduating senior, named in honor of Professor Benjamin B. Wainwright, who taught at the university from 1925 to 1963.
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2014 Apr 8
UVM Junior Receives Prestigious Beinecke Scholarship
English major and aspiring poet Alexandria Hall '15 has been awarded a 2014 Beinecke Scholarship. The Beinecke is a nationally competitive award that seeks to identify and support students who show great promise in the humanities, fine arts and social sciences. As a Beinecke Scholar, Hall will receive a $34,000 scholarship toward her graduate studies.
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2014 Apr 8
UVM Students Named Goldwater Scholars
University of Vermont Honors College students Kathleen Bashant '16 and Christopher Kenseth '15 have been named 2014 Goldwater Scholars. The Goldwater is a nationally competitive prestigious scholarship that recognizes sophomores and juniors who have done outstanding work in science, technology, math, or engineering (STEM) disciplines and who are on track to become leading researchers and innovators in their fields.
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2014 Apr 8
Students Join UVM AdvoCats
AdvoCats are a group of current students who assist the UVM Admissions Office in recruiting high-quality prospective students. AdvoCats lead campus tours and facilitate informational panels, attend open houses, and occasionally represent the university on student panels, off-site visit receptions, and college fairs.
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2014 Apr 8