- Ira Allen
Ira Allen (April 21, 1751-January 7, 1814) was one of the founders of Vermont and leaders of the Green Mountain Boys; he was born in Cornwall, Connecticut and was the brother of Ethan Allen. He was a member of the Vermont Legislature in 1776-77. Allen designed the Great Seal of Vermont and the seal of the University of Vermont. In 1780 he presented to the Legislature a memorial for the establishment of the University of Vermont. - John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. - Michelle Gardner-Quinn
Michelle Gardner-Quinn (January 28 1985 - October ??, 2006) was an undergraduate at the University of Vermont who was kidnapped on October 7 2006. Her body was later found along a road in the neighboring town of Richmond on October 13. - Saleem Ali
Saleem H. Ali is a Pakistani American scholar who is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Natural Resources, and on the adjunct faculty of Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. His research has focused on the causes and consequences of environmental conflicts and on how ecological factors can promote peace. - Robert Costanza
Dr. Robert Costanza ([?]born Sept. 14, 1950 in Pittsburgh, PA) is the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Prior to moving to Vermont in August 2002, he was director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor in the Center for Environmental Science, at Solomons, and in the Biology Department at College Park. Dr. - Daniel Mark Fogel
Daniel Mark Fogel is current President of the University of Vermont, located in Burlington, Vermont, a post he has held since July 2002. A native of Columbus, Ohio, he was raised in Ithaca, New York, graduated from Ithaca High School in 1965 and received a Bachelors degree in English from Cornell University in 1969, as well as a MFA in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English. He is a poet, a scholar of English and American literature, … - Brian Rooney
Brian Rooney (c. 1970) is a construction worker who is a suspect (and currently the only suspect), in the abduction and murder of 21-year-old college student Michelle Gardner-Quinn, a senior from the University of Vermont, located in Burlington, Vermont. The victim's body was found October 13, 2006 in a ravine at the Huntington Gorge in Richmond. He is currently being jailed on $150,000 bail, which he has not posted, on unrelated charges. - Bernd Heinrich
Bernd Heinrich , biologist, author, illustrator, and ultramarathoner, has been studying birds, bees, and butterflies since his kindergarten years in the northern German and Maine woods. He is on permanent sabbatical from the University of Vermont. Recent works include "Why We Run," "Winter World," and "Mind of The Raven," for which he won the Burroughs Medal for outstanding natural history writing. His sketches of wood frogs illustrate his Whole Terrain essay in 'Resilience.' - Mike Lonergan
Mike Lonergan is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Vermont. He took over the position vacated by Tom Brennan in 2005. Prior to arriving at Vermont, he was an assistant under Gary Williams at the University of Maryland, College Park. - Tom Brennan
Tom Brennan is a radio and television sportscaster and former men's basketball head coach, most notably at the University of Vermont from 1986 to 2005. Raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Brennan graduated as the all-time leading scorer at Phillipsburg Catholic High School. Brennan graduated from the University of Georgia in 1971, where as a senior he received the men's basketball team leadership award. Brennan is often said to be Vermont's most famous personality, … - Taylor Coppenrath
Taylor Coppenrath (born November 8, 1981) is a professional basketball player currently playing for Pallacanestro Biella in italian Serie A. He was raised in West Barnet Vermont. Coppenrath went to high school at St. Johnsbury Academy where Coach Layne Higgs kept Coppenrath from playing on the varsity basketball team until his junior year. However, he went on to be the Vermont Gatorade Athlete of the Year. Coppenrath then went to play for the University of Vermont. - Josh Bongard
Josh Bongard received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada, his Masters degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University from 2003 to 2006. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Vermont. - Grace Coolidge
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge was wife of Calvin Coolidge and First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Grace Anna Goodhue grew up in the Green Mountain city of Burlington, Vermont, the only child of Andrew and Lemira B. Goodhue. While still a girl she heard of a school for deaf children in Northampton, Massachusetts, and eventually decided to share its challenging work. - Brian Dubie
Brian E. Dubie of Essex Junction, Chittenden County, was born in Burlington, Vermont on March 9, 1959. He is married to Penny Bolio Dubie , and they have four children. Brian was educated in Essex Junction public schools, graduating from Essex Community Educational Center in 1977. Brian is a 1982 graduate of the University of Vermont with a BS, Mechanical Engineering. While a student at UVM, Brian joined the Vermont Air National Guard. - Stephanie Kaza
Stephanie Kaza , Ph.D., is associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Vermont, where she teaches religion and ecology, ecofeminism, radical environmentalism, and unlearning consumerism. Stephanie holds a Ph.D. in Biology from University of California, Santa Cruz and a Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry. - Jon Fishman
Jon Fishman is a drummer, best known for his work with the American jam band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 18 Phish originals, 7 of them as a solo credit - James Loewen
James (Jim) W. Loewen (b. 6 February 1942) is an author, historian, and professor. He attended Carleton College and has a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. For 20 years, Loewen taught race relations at the University of Vermont. Prior to that, he taught at Mississippi's Tougaloo College, a historically black college. Since 1997, he has been a Visiting Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. - Eric Perrin
Eric Perrin (Born November 1, 1975 in Laval, Quebec) is a center for the Atlanta Thrashers. He played college hockey at the University of Vermont, and went undrafted by the NHL. After spending several years playing minor league hockey, including a stint in Finland, Perrin was playing for the Hershey Bears when he was called up by the Lightning with 4 games left in the 2003-04 NHL season. - George Allen
George Allen (December 17, 1808-May 28, 1876) was a noted college professor and clergyman. He was born in Milton, Vermont in 1808. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1827, and became a professor of languages at that school the following year. He left that position in 1830. The following year, he was admitted to the Vermont bar and married Mary Hancock Withington, with whom he would have four children. He was ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church in 1834. - Madeleine M. Kunin
Madeleine May Kunin (born September 28 1933) is a Swiss-American diplomat and politician. She was the Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999.She was Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor as well as the first Jewish governor of Vermont. She was born in Zurich to a Jewish family, and moved to the United States as a child. - Jeff Holdsworth
Jeff Holdsworth was a founding member of the rock band Phish. He was their first leader, singing lead vocals and playing guitar. He co-founded the band with Trey Anastasio, who would go on to assume the role of bandleader in years to come. His work can be heard in songs such as "Possum" and "Camel Walk." <P> Holdsworth graduated from the University of Vermont in May 1986, and quit the band shortly thereafter, … - Jody Williams
Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950 in Putney, Vermont) is an American teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she led, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Williams first trained as a teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL), receiving a BA from the University of Vermont in 1972 and a Master's degree in teaching Spanish and ESL from the School for International Training (also in Vermont) in 1974. - Linda MacDonald Glenn
Linda MacDonald Glenn is an American bioethicist, healthcare educator, lecturer, consultant, and attorney-at-law. Her academic research encompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of emerging technologies and "evolving notions of personhood". She holds faculty appointments at the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical Center, the University of Vermont College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the University of Sciences in Philadelphia, … - David Huddle
David Huddle (Born 11 July, 1942) is an American multi-genre writer. His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in "Esquire", "Harper's Magazine", "The New York Times Magazine", "Story", "The Autumn House Anthology of Poetry", and "The Best American Short Stories". His work has also been included in anthologies of writing about the Vietnam War. - Tony Magistrale
Anthony Samuel Magistrale is a Professor in English at the University of Vermont since 1983. He received a B.A. in 1974 from Allegheny College, and from the University of Pittsburgh an M.A. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1981. He has written several books about Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. - David Zuckerman
David Zuckerman is a farmer and a Progressive member of the Vermont House of Representatives, representing Chittenden-3-4 district. Zuckerman ran for the Vermont House in 1994 while enrolled at the University of Vermont. He lost by only 59 votes, but came back two years later to become the fourth Progressive Party member to serve in the State House. - Deb Markowitz
Deborah "Deb" Markowitz is the incumbent Secretary of State of Vermont. She was first elected in 1988 and was reelected to a fifth term in November 2006. She is a member of the Democratic Party. - Kerr Smith
Kerr Van Cleve Smith (born March 9, 1972) is an American actor best known for playing the gay high school student Jack McPhee on the television drama "Dawson's Creek. " He also starred in the 2006 FOX legal drama "Justice". - George Pinder
George Pinder is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a secondary appointment in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vermont. He also served as a professional witness in various notable environmental cases including Love Canal and Woburn, cases that achieved considerable media attention. He was featured as a character in the movie "A Civil Action", based on the Woburn toxic waste case and starring John Travolta. - Polly Young-Eisendrath
Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.,Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath is a psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst practicing in Burlington, Vermont where she is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont Medical College. She has published ten books and many chapters and articles on psychotherapy, women's development, couples therapy, spirituality, resilience and Carl Jung's psychology. - Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith was one of New England’s best-known and respected physicians. He was a skilled surgeon, teacher, writer, and practitioner. At a time when most American physicians were poorly educated, he single-handedly founded Dartmouth Medical School, and co-founded the University of Vermont College of Medicine, the medical school at Bowdoin College, and the Yale School of Medicine. Initially the only member of the Dartmouth Medical School faculty, Smith taught anatomy, … - Jeff Dinitz
Jeffrey H. Dinitz (born 1952) is an American mathematician, currently teaching combinatorics at the University of Vermont. He is best known for proposing the Dinitz conjecture, which became a major theorem. Jeff Dinitz has three children, Mike, Amy, and Tom. - Kathy Giusti
Kathy Giusti is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC). In 1998 following her diagnosis with multiple myeloma, she founded the MMRF to fund innovative myeloma research and drug discovery. Having raised more than $100 million to date, the MMRF is the world's number one funder of myeloma research. - Jacques Bailly
Dr. Jacques Bailly (born 1966) was the 1980 national champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and now serves as the official pronouncer of the Bee, a position he has held since 2003. Before that, he served twelve years as the associate pronouncer. He grew up in the Denver, Colorado area and earned his undergraduate degree in classics in 1988 from Brown University and Ph.D. in ancient philosophy from Cornell University. Dr. - Walter Denino
Walter F. DeNino is a medical student interested in the prevention and treatment of obesity. DeNino is also widely known as the student who brought the frauds of Eric Poehlman to light in 2004, when he (DeNino) filed allegations at the University of Vermont that led to a federal false-claims suit and Department of Justice investigation against Poehlman for misrepresentations made to the National Institutes of Health. - Marc Daubert
Marc Daubert was the percussionist for the rock band Phish for a brief time in their early history, joining the band in September 1984 and leaving the band in February of 1985. Daubert was a close friend of guitarist Trey Anastasio, who was suspended from the University of Vermont in the spring of 1984. During his suspension, Phish went on temporary hiatus as Anastasio, Daubert, and lyricist/keyboardist Tom Marshall recorded a project entitled "Bivouac Jaun". - Tim Bothwell
Tim Bothwell (born May 6, 1955 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played 502 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, and Hartford Whalers. He also played for some AHL teams. He retired from playing hockey in 1990. After his time as a player he became an assistant and coach in Women's Ice hockey. - George Dewey
George Dewey (December 26, 1837 - January 16, 1917) was an admiral of the United States Navy, best known for his victory (without the loss of a single life of his own forces due to combat; one man died of a heart attack) at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. He was also the only person in the history of the United States to have attained the rank of Admiral of the Navy, the most senior rank in the United States Navy. - Warren Austin
Warren Robinson Austin was an American politician and statesman; among other roles, he served as Senator from Vermont. Born in Highgate Center in Franklin County, Vermont, he attended public schools and then the University of Vermont, from which he graduated in 1899. He then studied law and entered practice in 1902. In 1904 he was appointed State's attorney of Franklin County, a position he held for two years. - Gail Sheehy
Gail Sheehy (b. November 27, 1937) is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to "Vanity Fair (magazine)". Her fifth book, "Passages", has been called "a road map of adult life". Several of her books continue the theme of passages through life's stages, including menopause and what she calls "Second Adulthood", including "Pathfinders", "Spirit of Survival", …
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