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Canadian Wildfire Smoke Worsened Pediatric Asthma in U.S. Northeast: UVM Study

New research from the University of Vermont reveals exposure to smoke from Canadian wildfires in the summer of 2023 led to ...
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Pesticide Safety Education Program

The UVM Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP) works closely with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets (VAAFM) to provide education resources for current and prospective pesticide ...
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IceCore Advances a New Era of Discovery at UVM

Funded through a $2.1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, IceCore will replace UVM's six-year-old DeepGreen GPU ...
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Bright Light: How One UVM Undergrad is Perfecting the Data Behind Solar Energy

Since the early 1980s, NRG has been a global leader in creating and deploying measurement tools for wind and solar energy ...
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Just the Tip of the Iceberg

That figure may sound modest, but is huge from a relative perspective, says Liana Woskie, assistant professor in the Department of Community Health at Tufts and lead author of the study. “On an annual ...
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UVM-Tested Dengue Vaccine Gains First Major Approval

The world’s first single-dose vaccine to prevent dengue fever has been approved for licensure in one of the largest countries ...
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UVM’s Leahy Institute Awards $2.5M to Vermont Organizations Targeting Childhood Asthma, Clean Water Microbots, Biotech Innovators

The Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships at UVM has awarded $2.5 million in funding to launch or expand 16 ...
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Rural Health at Larner: A New Model for Kids with Complex Needs

In summer 2024, Katie and Bo McDougall and their daughter, Nora, went to the beach. It was a simple family getaway, but for the McDougalls, it was a watershed moment—Nora was born in 2020 with a rare ...
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New Partnerships Lead to New Possibilities

There were microbots in our backyard, and we didn’t know it. In Vermont, Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) conducts leading edge research in sensors, geotechnology, and robotics. ARA, an ...
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A New Name for a New Era in Pediatric Health Care: ‘Golisano Children’s Hospital at UVM Health’

On October 28, 2025, a new name for the UVM Children’s Hospital was unveiled in recognition of a $25 million gift from entrepreneur, philanthropist, and civic leader Tom Golisano of Rochester, New ...
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Department of Geography and Geosciences

Exploring and Interacting With Planet Earth. Together, geography and geosciences help us grasp the natural and social processes that shape the world’s physical and human environments and how they are ...
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Graduate Trainee, Maggie Trout, Receives ChadTough Defeat DIPG 2025 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

UVM Cancer Center pre-doctoral candidate, Maggie Trout, was recently awarded a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from ChadTough Defeat DIPG. The fellowship is awarded to outstanding pre-doctoral and ...