Fall 2016 Seminar Explores Vermont’s Dairy Industry
The theme for the Fall 2016 senior seminar–led by Mez Baker-Medard– is A Holistic Exploration of Vermont’s Dairy Industry. Project work will focus on a range of issues including water […]
ENVS 401 Projects Highlighted in UVM-Extension Newsletter
What’s Your Watershed “This spring we also began engaging in a unique collaborative project with Middlebury College and the Department of Environmental Conservation that we will be continuing this fall/winter […]
Spring 2016 Seminar Students Host Community Dialog About Water
On May 12, 2016, students in Professor Gould’s senior seminar hosted a community dialog about water as part of their collaboration with Burlington City Arts. This event featured a discussion […]
Spring 2016 401 Students Present to a Range of Partners
Students in Professor Molly Anderson’s ENVS 0401 Senior Seminar presented their work to a range of partners off-campus. The team that developed a Food Rescue Toolkit presented to the Food […]
ENVS 0401 Student Research Featured in Farm to Plate “Network Highlight”
The Food Cycle Coalition works to divert food and organic materials that would otherwise be wasted and redirect them back into the food system through food rescue, animal feed utilization, […]
ENVS 0401 student research team featured in “Vermont Food Systems News”
Farm to Plate Network Highlight Energy Cross-Cutting Team The Farm to Plate Energy Cross-Cutting Team explores and promotes strategies related to the expansion of on-farm energy production (e.g., bioenergy, solar, […]
Spring 2016 Seminars Partnering with Burlington City Arts and Vermont Farm to Plate
The theme for one section of the senior seminar is Communicating Environmental Issues: Using the Arts for Education, Inspiration and Engagement and project work will center on a collaboration with […]
Video of Fall 2015 Seminar Students’ On-Campus Final Presentations, December 10, 2015
Students in this Fall’s ES Senior Seminar presented their work in long format to their partners off campus as well as in short form for our final ES Colloquium of […]
Fall 2015 Seminar Students present at the State House
Fall 2015 Seminar Students Present at Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network Conference
Students Nat Blackford, Archer Newell, and Katie Chamberlain presented their work on the innovation Community Energy Dashboard at the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network’s annual conference at the Lake […]
Fall 2015 Students Featured on Middlebury Community TV
Students Megan Cousino and Ethan Sivulich were featured on MCTV’s Middlebury 5-0 Program regarding their team’s work helping to develop a Community Energy Dashboard. The Dashboard will assist residents monitor […]
Fall 2015 Seminar to Focus on Vermont’s Energy and Carbon Future
Two of the projects for Fall 2015 seminar will deal with several facets of Vermont’s proposed Carbon Pollution Tax, which legislators introduced for the first time during the Spring 2015 […]
Students Present Radon Findings to Public Health Officials
A group of 20 Middlebury students shared findings from a semester-long inquiry into radon safety with a group of professionals from the Vermont Department of Health and other local agencies […]
Students Present Multilingual Videos and Soil Lead Data to Vermont’s Refugee and Immigrant Service Provider’s Network
Students in Professor Mez Baker-Medard’s Fall 2014 ENVS 401 senior seminar focused on lead poisoning prevention worked with the Vermont Department of Health, the Association of Africans Living In Vermont, […]
Irene impact researched three years later
Read the Times Argus Article about their work here.