CGRS Director’s Letter
March 2024
The Resilient Vermont Conference is next Tuesday, March 19 from 8:30am to 5:00pm at Norwich University! We encourage all members of the Norwich community, including students, faculty and staff to participate in a day of panel discussions and workshops. Registration is open until March 17. This year, we are excited to collaborate with our partner and sponsor, University of Vermont’s Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships.
This year’s Resilient Vermont Conference, “After the Flood,” will emphasize a human-centered perspective on developing resilience in the face of natural disasters. The featured panelists will explore how human health, communities and other social systems are affected by the changes in our physical systems and infrastructure. We hope that this alternative perspective will complement and enhance the engineering and ecological assessments of Vermont’s recovery efforts after the flooding in the summer of 2023. Another goal of this year’s conference is to help conference attendees prioritize and innovate ways to strengthen personal and community resilience in the face of future shocks.
CGRS News
Faculty Fellow Rachele Pojednic was recently interviewed on national news which featured her research on exercise and nutrition and maintaining muscle strength with age.
At the end of last Month, Assistant Professor and CGRS Faculty Fellow Jacki Strenio and I presented our paper, “Teaching the social and solidarity economy in introductory economics classes with Free Money Day.” at the Eastern Economics Association Conference in Boston, MA.
Our Student Fellows continue their research and internships in areas ranging from renewable energy, to air quality, to building resilient innovation and trade ecosystems. Their work will be featured in the Undergraduate Research Celebration of Excellence at the end of the semester next month.