Electrify Vermont Summit

1:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Alumni House Silver Pavilion

The 2025 First Annual Electrify Vermont Summit will be an opportunity to bring together for the first-time all the different people, organizations, and businesses working to electrify Vermont’s heating, transportation, lawn care, and other sectors of our economy. With transportation and thermal the two biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Vermont, electrification is a key climate strategy for the State to reach its emissions reduction goals. It also is the main strategy embodied in the federal Inflation Reduction Act which is providing funding, rebates, and incentives that complement state and utility incentives and programs to help Vermonters, including enhanced incentives and rebates for income-qualified Vermonters, to go electric. 

Join researchers, installers, policy-makers, businesses, non-profit organizations, utilities, students, and members of the public who want to support electrification! Check out the latest technologies on-site from electric lawn mowers, to heat pumps, battery storage, an electric bucket-truck, and EVs and e-bikes. Hear from experts about electrification strategies and policies, and how electrification can help you in your home, business, or organization to reduce emissions and stabilize energy costs. Network with leaders of the electrification effort in Vermont, and bring your questions and thoughts to the discussion!

UVM Planetary Health Initiative Celebrates Earth Day

11:00 a.m. – Noon | Silver Maple Ballroom

Come learn about the intriguing health patterns uncovered through UVM’s Lived Experiences Measured Using Rings Study (LEMURS), which used wearable biosensors to collect data from 600 UVM first-year students. We’ll break into small groups to discuss the study’s impactful findings, and how we can use them for the benefit of our community. The Planetary Health tradition continues: there will be donuts!

VACC Introduction to HPC for AI Workshop

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Innovation E100

The Vermont Advanced Computing Centers is excited to invite you to our upcoming workshop, "Introduction to High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Large Language Models (LLM)." This workshop is intended for new and experienced users and will demonstrate an example of LLM running on the VACC. They'll answer your questions regarding HPC resources, LLMs, and otherwise. They will review new equipment purchases and the system upgrade to Redhat 9. There will be lots of time to discuss projects and how the VACC team can assist you with your computation needs.

Research Celebration Luncheon

This event is by invitation only.

VACC Open House

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | VACC, 530 Community Dr, South Burlington, VT

Join the VACC for a tour and discussion of VACC equipment, like the DeepGreen, BlueMoon, and BlackDiamond clusters. 

Building Better UX for Science

9:00 - 11:00 am | Billings-Ira Allen Lecture Hall I101

This workshop is for domain scientists and research software engineers interested in user research and user experience (UX) design. We will walk participants through how best to use UX research methods for making design decisions in scientific software development. Participants will learn how to identify high priority usability issues, conduct a user study, and analyze user research data.

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Sponsored by the Vermont Complex Systems Institute and the Vermont Research Open Source Program Office (VERSO)

We R1 UVM Celebration

9:00 - 10:30 am | Davis Center's Grand Maple Ballroom

Celebrate UVM’s historic R1 designation. Decades in the making, achieving R1 — categorized by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education — recognizes the university’s robust research enterprise. Hear from university leadership and researchers across disciplines and get your hands on some celebratory swag. 

Register For the We R1 UVM Celebration

Student Research Conference

10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Davis Center's Grand Maple Ballroom

Open to any UVM undergraduate, graduate, or medical student, the Student Research Conference, hosted by the Fellowships, Opportunities, and Undergraduate Research (FOUR) Office, showcases hundreds of students' research all day at the Davis Center.

Find Out More and Register for the SRC Here

STRUDEL Kit - UX Clinic

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. | Patrick Leahy Building Room 102

STRUDEL is an open source science project building resources to enable teams to plan, design, and build user-centered software for their scientific communities. We invite research software engineers, developers, UX researchers, and students working on a research software project to join our usability designers for a 15-25 minute work session. Together, we will walk through your usability needs and challenges to better refine your ideas.

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Sponsored by the Vermont Complex Systems Institute and the Vermont Research Open Source Program Office (VERSO)

Post-Doctoral Research Conference

1:30 - 3:30 pm | Hoehl Gallery, HSRF 100

1:30-2:30pm: “Lightning Talks”  
2:30-3:30pm: Poster session and reception

Postdoctoral scholars are essential to UVM’s status as a top 100 and R1 public research university. Through vibrant collaborations, rigorous training, and inclusive community, UVM’s postdoctoral scholars power our innovation. Join UVM postdoctoral scholars to create the world’s best collaborations, research, and researchers. This showcase will kick-start UVM’s next year of research by connecting faculty, staff, students, and postdoctoral scholars via lively “Lightning Talk” presentations and poster sessions.

Hosted by the Graduate College Office of Postdoctoral Affairs as part of the UVM Research Week

2025 UVM Graduate College 3 Minute Thesis Competition

4:00 - 6:00 pm | Innovation Hall E105

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an internationally recognized research communication competition that challenges Ph.D. students to present a compelling oration on their research project and its significance in just 180 seconds, in language accessible to a non-specialist audience.  UVM’s 2025 3MT is a celebration of the discoveries made by our Ph.D. students and will allow the broader community to learn about ongoing research at UVM. The competition assists Ph.D. students with fostering effective presentation and research communication skills: it asks Ph.D. researchers to consolidate their ideas, crystallize their research discoveries, and capture the imagination of their audience. Competitors will be judged on comprehension, content, engagement, and communication.

Eligibility: All UVM Ph.D. students who have passed their candidacy examination by the date of the competition are eligible to participate in the 3MT competition.

Rules: present research in non-technical language to a general audience with only one static visual slide to accompany the speech.

Hosted by the Graduate College as part of UVM Research Week

Prizes: All contestants gains invaluable experience.

1st prize:  $750
2nd prize:  $500
People’s Choice Award: $250

Visit the 3MT Event page for more information

Invention 2 Venture

1:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Alumni House Silver Pavilion

UVM Innovation's annual Invention 2 Venture (I2V) Conference pulls together dynamic experts, academic researchers, students, entrepreneurs and business leaders from across Vermont and New England to talk about how to protect, develop and finance your ideas.

Register for I2V Now For Free!

School of the Arts Celebration

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Royal Tyler Theatre

The School of the Arts will share samples of the faculty and student research, scholarship, and creative work done across its programs in Studio Art, Music, Theatre, and Dance through exhibitions, performances, and presentations, followed by a reception.

UVM Partners Mixer

(by Invitation Only)

Annual Business Partnerships Celebration hosted by the UVM Office of Engagement/Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships. A premier opportunity to network with UVM leaders while learning about UVM partnership opportunities, the V-GaN Tech Hub, the Professional and Continuing Education Office, and student-business organizations, immediately following the UVM Innovations Invention-2-Venture event.

UVM Business Pitch Competition 

5:00 - 8:00 pm | Leahy Hall 102

The annual University of Vermont Business Pitch competition challenges students to present their business ideas and concepts to a panel of judges in the hopes of winning cash prizes. UVM students who have innovative and impactful plans to start and grow either a business or a mission-driven organization are invited to apply. The presentation and pitch must demonstrate a viable business solution and plan that addresses an existing consumer need, or can create one, identifies a target market, and outlines the operational and management plan for success. The winning business teams walk away with cash prizes.

Learn More About the UVM Business Pitch Competition

Planetary Health Research Flash Talks

11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Waterman Memorial Lounge

Join us as we round out Research Week with Planetary Health Initiative Flash Talks featuring planetary health researchers from across the university. Nibbles and time to connect with fascinating colleagues will be provided!

Library Open House

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Howe Library

UVM Libraries will host a special research open house to showcase the libraries’ services and resources that support research at UVM. Come and meet your librarians and staff and learn about how we can help you with your research, or simply explore our library and check out our cool multimedia services!

UVM Humanities Center | Research Open House

Wednesday, April 30
4:30- 6:00 pm, Marsh Room, Billings Library

The UVM Humanities Center is a hub of humanistic research at UVM, sponsoring projects that reflect the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences. Join recent grant winners as they briefly present their Center-supported projects and stick around for a reception!