The University of Vermont has received nearly $400,000 in support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support an interdisciplinary team’s use of “serious game” technology to test how policies across the food system can better support access to healthy foods.

Researchers at UVM are looking at diseases in the animal world and trying to determine if bio-security policy changes are needed to prevent the spread.

The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Professor Asim Zia of University of Vermont has received a Fulbright Global Scholar award to Pakistan, Israel and Ecuador. Professor Zia will be hosted by Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan; Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Kibbutz Ketura, Israel; and ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers representing the University of Vermont, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Delaware, and Colorado State University has published a study that may help create environmental policies that more effectively address pollution in our nation's most critical waterways. The study considers human activity in watersheds such as Lake Champlain, Delaware ...

SEGS researchers Scott Merrill and Gabriela Bucini discuss how simulations help predict the impact of human behavior on disease modeling.

As Asia and Europe battle African swine fever outbreaks, UVM research shows how farmers’ risk attitudes affect the spread of infectious animal diseases and offers a first-of-its kind model for testing disease control and prevention strategies.

Researchers at the University of Vermont Social Ecological Gaming and Simulation lab created the pig game and others like it, called "compliance games," to test people's responses to risk. Among a team of researchers from across the country working to help prevent pigs from getting sick are Scott Merrill, managing director of the SEGS lab and a research assistant professor; and Gabriela Bucini, a ...

A recently announced $7.4 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will place the University of Vermont at the forefront of a national effort to reduce the impact of catastrophic disease outbreaks within the U.S. livestock industry.