Gund News See the full archive of Gund News stories Gund News Gund Institute Names 2024 Catalyst Award Winners Apis Fund Grants To Benefit Pollinators Across Vermont Ph.D. Student and Knauss Fellow, Rosie Chapina, Sets Sail on NOAA Expedition Deforestation Reduces Malaria Bed Nets’ Effectiveness The Barrett Foundation Provides Engineering Research Pathways in Environmental Stewardship More Gund News 01/16/2025 Gund Institute Names 2024 Catalyst Award Winners The Gund Institute for Environment at ̽̽ has announced a $100,000 Joint... 01/03/2025 Apis Fund Grants To Benefit Pollinators Across Vermont As farmers across Vermont plan for the season to come, a collaboration of pollinator researchers,... 12/13/2024 Ph.D. Student and Knauss Fellow, Rosie Chapina, Sets Sail on NOAA Expedition Lake Champlain Sea Grant 2024 Knauss Fellow Rosaura “Rosie” Chapina has spent the past eleven... 12/03/2024 Deforestation Reduces Malaria Bed Nets’ Effectiveness When a forest is lost to development, some effects are obvious. Stumps and mud puddles across the... 12/01/2024 The Barrett Foundation Provides Engineering Research Pathways in Environmental Stewardship For more than 20 years, the Barrett Foundation has served as a research catalyst at the University... 11/07/2024 Unraveling the Complexity Behind Bird Population Declines As bird populations dwindle across the globe, a new study from University of Vermont researchers... 11/06/2024 $8M Grant Supports ̽̽-McGill ‘Leadership for the Ecozoic’ Graduate Program The Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) program, a partnership between ̽̽ and... 11/04/2024 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Awarded to Adrienne Buller’s ‘The Value of a Whale: On the illusions of green capitalism' The 2024 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics, which celebrates outstanding writing on the... 10/24/2024 Planetary Health from the Ground Up: Co-creating a Wellbeing Economy in Vermont and Beyond Rigo Melgar is a Ph.D. candidate in Ecological Economics in the Rubenstein School of Environment... 10/04/2024 What is Planetary Health? The planet is alive. This ecstatic skin of the Earth that stretches but a few miles up and down is... 09/23/2024 ̽̽ Awarded $2.7M for National Climate Measurements Center of Excellence Temperature, precipitation, wind speed—the U.S. government has plenty of ways to measure our... 08/26/2024 Gund Institute for Environment Welcomes New Community Members The Gund Institute for Environment today announced that 42 new interdisciplinary researchers and... 07/25/2024 Burlington’s Riverside Avenue Faces Ongoing Landslide Risk: ̽̽ Study At least 20 times in the past 70 years, part of the hill by Burlington’s Riverside Avenue has... 06/12/2024 Modern Seeds Aren’t Ready For Climate Change Humans have radically altered the evolution of agricultural plants since World War Two, remaking... 06/11/2024 ̽̽ Experts on Vermont’s 2023 Historic Flood When the catastrophic flooding hit Vermont on July 10, 2023, ̽̽ community... 05/24/2024 ̽̽ Researchers Help Shape First National Nature Assessment Taylor Ricketts, Director of ̽̽’s Gund Institute for Environment, and Rachelle Gould, a... 05/20/2024 ‘Know Your Five’ Reveals Vermont’s Top Pollinators “Save the bees!” is a common bumper sticker tagline, and with pesticides, climate change, and... 04/11/2024 Scientists Use Wearable Technology to Detect Stress Levels During Sleep What if changes in a person’s stress levels could be detected while they sleep using wearable... 02/26/2024 Deforestation Exacerbates Risk of Malaria for Most-vulnerable Children Malaria kills more than 600,000 people each year worldwide, and two thirds are children under age... 02/08/2024 Question Everything Sam Bliss’s forehead twitched in the bright April sun. Until a late afternoon interruption, he... 02/06/2024 Gund Institute Names 2024 Catalyst Award Winners The Gund Institute for Environment at ̽̽ today announced a $200,000 Catalyst... 01/24/2024 Using AI, Other Tech to Monitor Companies’ Impacts on Biodiversity As environmental challenges make daily headlines across the world, tools including AI, Earth... 01/11/2024 Remembering Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne On January 6, 2024, the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the entire... 11/21/2023 Eat, Poop, Die: ̽̽ Researcher’s Book Explores How Animals Make Our World In his new book “Eat, Poop, Die,” ̽̽ wildlife expert Joe Roman explores the fascinating lives... 11/20/2023 How Will Climate Change Impact Snow Sports? With ski resorts set to open across the U.S., skiers and snowboarders—and the entire winter... More Gund News 11/15/2023 ̽̽ Climatologist Co-Authors Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment is out and Prof. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, the University of... 11/14/2023 Now Seeking Environmental Writing For $5,000 Zencey Prize The Gund Institute for Environment at ̽̽ and the U.S. Society of Ecological... 11/08/2023 ̽̽ Climate Experts Seek Impact at COP28 After a year of unprecedented weather extremes, the upcoming COP28 climate change talks feel more... 10/10/2023 Finding Signals in the Noise: Imagine a future where you can optimize your health and well-being by knowing roughly how many... 09/28/2023 Saving Tanzania’s Forests Benefits Everyone—But Locals Pay the Price Protecting forests delivers enormous global economic and climate benefits, but new research shows... 09/26/2023 Global Leaders Convene in Vermont for New Agroecology Summit ̽̽’s new Institute for Agroecology (IfA) held its flagship summit, Seeding... 09/22/2023 How Extreme Weather Impacts Fall Foliage After a summer of extreme weather—historic rainfall, devastating floods, wildfire smoke—leaf... 09/11/2023 To Cut Global Emissions, Replace Meat and Milk with Plant-Based Alternatives Replacing 50% of meat and milk products with plant-based alternatives by 2050 can reduce... 09/11/2023 Gund Institute Announces New 2023 Fellows The Gund Institute for Environment today announced 28 new Gund fellows and affiliates, comprised of... 08/29/2023 ̽̽ Launches Six Innovative Flood Research Projects In a time of unprecedented rainfall and flooding throughout Vermont in July 2023, the University of... 08/23/2023 Gund Institute Announces 2023 Fellowship Recipients The Gund Institute for Environment at ̽̽ today announced fellowships and research awards for eight... 08/22/2023 Searching for (Mysid) Shrimp in Lake Champlain The sun was setting behind the Adirondacks on a clear summer evening and Lake Champlain was flat as... 07/20/2023 Greenland Melted Recently, Shows Higher Risk of Sea Level Rise A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape—perhaps covered by trees and... 07/14/2023 ̽̽ Team Joins $8.5M National Effort to Bring Earth Data to Decision-Makers University of Vermont (̽̽) researchers have joined a new $8.5M effort by the World Wildlife Fund... 06/15/2023 Gund Institute Seeks Strategic Communications Manager TheGund Institute for Environmentand ̽̽ seek outstanding candidates for a... 06/15/2023 Announcing the FSRC PhD Fellows Class of 2023 We are very pleased to announce and feature the 2023 class of Food Systems Research Center (FSRC)... 06/05/2023 COVID-19 Food Support Programs Are Ending. Now What? Research May Hold Answers As the world begins to emerge from the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, many emergency... 05/31/2023 ̽̽ Students Champion Nature’s Rights at the U.N. As world leaders gathered at the United Nations last month, three University of Vermont students... 05/17/2023 Getting Outdoors Reduces Smartphone Use—But Only If You Go Wild While a visit to the great outdoors is a common prescription for reducing screen use, a pioneering... 05/05/2023 Commentary in Science: Europe’s Old Forests at Risk Walking along a steep ridge, under large hemlock trees, ten miles outside of Burlington,... 04/13/2023 Gund Institute Seeks Outreach and Operations Staff The Gund Institute for Environment at ̽̽ seeks outstanding candidates for... 03/28/2023 Gund Institute Announces New 2023 Affiliates The Gund Institute for Environment today announced 27 new faculty and student fellows and... 03/06/2023 Rethinking Economics ̽̽ Inaugural Event Brings Together Five Diverse ̽̽ Economists Rethinking Economics ̽̽, a new club promoting diverse and open-minded approaches to teaching... 02/06/2023 Vermont’s Food Waste Laws are Popular, But Vexing Issues Remain Vermonters largely support laws on food scraps and single-use plastics, but some are confused about... 02/02/2023 New Vermont ‘Bee Team’ to Tackle Pollinator Threats A new Vermont Pollinator Working Group will protect bees and other pollinators by targeting harmful... 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