Trusting the Process: How Gus Lunde '24 Leaned into his Passions for Biking and Birding to Design an Honors College Thesis

Gus, an Environmental Sciences major, used his thesis as an opportunity to examine the intersection of human behavior and wildlife conservation
Gus performing a mountain bike jump in the forest.

On April 30, a group of students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered in the Aiken Center to watch Gus Lunde ’24 present his Honors College thesis seminar. Gus has been working toward this culminating event for nearly two years, and his thesis is the result of many early mornings of data collection, thousands of pages read, hundreds of emails sent and received, and countless hours...

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aerial view of UVM campus, Lake Champlain, and the Adirondack Mountains beyond

Introducing the Planetary Health Initiative

Consider your breath. In that inrush of air you bring oxygen to your lungs, keeping you alive. It’s the same air that covers the whole planet—oxygen produced by green life. The intricate interplay that we call the environment is not scenery; it’s the fundamental health care system.

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Juliana posing on the roof of a building overlooking the city and mountains.

Community Building In and Out of the Classroom

Juliana Ward ’24, an Environmental Studies (ENVS) major and economics minor, is a member of the second to last cohort of students to earn their B.S. degrees in Environmental Studies from the Rubenstein School. The program migrated to the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) in the fall of 2022.

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