Editor’s note: This story was updated Feb. 24 at 9:30 p.m. to remove the name of the Asian Student Union from those who attended the town hall meeting.
UVM’s staff union, UVM Staff United, held...
Editor’s note: This story was updated Feb. 22 at 9:00 p.m. to correct the spelling of a source's last name and to correct the year used in one of the timeline points.
Hundreds gathered on Feb. 18,...
Avery Delisle, Culture Staff Writer
• February 18, 2022
Since Ellen Hamilton and Lida Mason were the first women to graduate from UVM in 1875, there have been advancements in the gender ratios on campus but STEM fields are still unequal.
In the college of...
Editor's note: This story was updated Feb. 19 at 5:13 p.m. to correct attribution errors on information pulled from McCollum’s son’s obituary instead of McCollum’s own.
Nicodemus McCollum III...
Graduate forward and captain Kristina Shanahan is leading UVM women’s hockey to historic success in her fifth and final season with the Catamounts.
Shanahan, from Ste-Anne-De-Bellevue, Quebec, became...
Lucia McCallum, Culture Staff Writer
• February 15, 2022
The Black Student Union creates a space of community for Black students at UVM, said senior Miles McCallum, president of the BSU.
Although formally recognized by the SGA in 2004, McCallum said BSU took...
RJ Morrison, Cynic News Reporter
• February 15, 2022
Despite a record number of students who applied to UVM this year, the number of in-state applicants fell, said Jay Jacobs, vice provost for enrollment management.
The University received more than 30,000...
Audrie Caruso, Cynic News Reporter
• February 15, 2022
Edna Hall Brown is the first recorded Black woman to graduate from UVM, according to an April 2021 article by Ben Yousey-Hindes, assistant vice president for communications and stewardship at the UVM Foundation.
Brown...
Lila Cumming, Cynic News Reporter
• February 14, 2022
UVM President Suresh Garimella requested a $10 million increase in the University’s base appropriation from the state’s House Committee on Education Feb. 10.
The current base State Appropriation budget...
In an effort to communicate with the UVM community, Director of Athletics Jeffrey Schulman and Cathleen Rahill, associate director of athletics, addressed sexual violence prevention and training within...
Avery Delisle, Culture Staff Writer
• February 11, 2022
Growing up as a Muslim to immigrant parents, shaped Dr. Ahmer Ahmed's experience as vice provost of diversity, equity and inclusion, he said.
Ahmed is a nationally recognized DEI practitioner who became...
Lila Cumming, Cynic news Reporter
• February 11, 2022
Organize lost momentum after the University announced the club’s initial goal of divesting UVM funding from fossil fuels in July 2020, said Organize President David Sidelle, a senior. Organize now focuses...
