UVM Students Support Community through the Consumer Assistance Program

“The most beautiful thing about the Consumer Assistance Program (CAP) is there's not one specific takeaway that a student is going to get,” Margaret Tabb, a Public Communication graduate said. “A student is going to take away what skill they're looking for, what transferable skill they're looking to develop, and [that] is something that you can take with you anywhere that you go.”

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CDAE Student Launches Inclusive Sewing Business to Empower Communities

As a young girl, Lucy Powell would sit in front of her sewing machine breathing new life into her father’s old T-shirts with each stitch. Later, in high school, she was disappointed to find out that her school no longer offered Home Economics classes and that none of her friends knew how to fix their loose buttons.

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How CDAE Senior Lecturer Kelly Hamshaw Engages Students in Research to Build Resilient Communities

Senior Lecturer Kelly Hamshaw’s office is everything you’d expect a busy PhD candidate and professor’s office to embody. The big window lets in the late afternoon light between shelves filled with books and a desk with organized piles of papers.

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