The UVM Sustainability Plan working group is developing the Comprehensive Sustainability Plan, slated for release in August, said Elizabeth Palchak, director of the Office of Sustainability.
Palchak...
SGA swore in Treasurer Sam Wigon, a junior, and Speaker of the Senate Carter Purple, a first-year, for the 2022-23 academic year at their April 26 senate meeting.
Purple hopes to achieve personal...
UVM announced the termination of UVM Forward, the University’s COVID-19 information e-newsletter, according to an April 29 email.
The newsletter began in spring 2020 and served to provide pressing...
Hundreds gathered outside the Waterman building April 27 to participate in a nationwide walkout against campus sexual violence organized by Explain the Asterisk, an activism group originally founded at...
Sophomore Mason Paterson will work on NASA’s Project Dragonfly, which seeks to land a drone on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, to search for signs of life in 2026, he said.
Paterson, who studies mechanical...
April 25, 2022 was UVM Rescue Day in Vermont, according to an April 21 executive proclamation from Vermont Governor Phil Scott.
The day seeks to honor UVM’s volunteer student-run ambulance service,...
Lila Cumming, Cynic News Reporter
• April 26, 2022
UVM has no plans to provide COVID-19 isolation housing for the 2022-23 school year, according to an April 19 email from Gary Derr, vice president for operations and public safety.
Jeanne Mance Residence...
Over a thousand students gathered on the Redstone green at 4:20 p.m. April 20 in celebration of the longstanding tradition of smoking cannabis on 4/20, said UVM Police Chief Tim Bilodeau.
The turnout...
A $50,000 Cottrell Postbac Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement will fund a UVM student’s research fellowship, according to a press release from Strategic Communications.
Award...
Editor’s note: The name of one recovering student interviewed for this piece has been changed to a first-name pseudonym for privacy.
The Catamount Recovery Program helps students in recovery from...
Lila Cumming, Cynic News Reporter
• April 19, 2022
Most respondents to an April 11 Cynic survey don’t regularly smoke cannabis themselves, though they feel their peers regularly do.
In 2019, the Princeton Review ranked UVM as the No. 1 university for...
UVM’s newly-recognized Psychedelic Science Club offers students a space to learn about the different effects of substances in a judgment-free zone, said Zach Grinspoon, club co-founder and sophomore.
Grinspoon...
