Students who start small businesses and break new ground; professors who inspire in the classroom and in their fields of research; alums who change the world at work. At UVM, inspiring stories are everywhere. Take a closer look...

  • Madsen Minax
    Associate professor of time-based media in the Department of Art and Art History; awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Kirsten Forrester
    Nutrition and food sciences major and quality assurance intern for Zero Gravity Brewery
  • Sage White Cloud
    Individually Designed Major and inaugural recipient of UVM’s First Nations Scholarship
  • Wren Pyle
    Exercise science major, Winter Olympic hopeful and U.S. Skimo National sprint champ
  • Luc Capaldi
    Received NASA funding through the Vermont Space Grant Consortium to study silicon carbide fibers that support NASA’s Hypersonics Project
  • Mariah Choiniere
    Forestry major and 2022 Truman Scholar with a passion for rural agriculture
  • Evan Beretta
    Participating in a one-year postbaccalaureate fellowship to research more efficient ways to use phosphorus in applications from medicine to consumer goods
  • Sierra Espeland
    Civil and environmental engineering master’s student working to address research gaps in rural transportation
  • Brian Kelly
    Early adopter and leader in the emerging digital currency ecosystem
  • Burton Putrah
    On the front line of high-tech mapping techniques using drones