Sanjay Sharma, dean of the Grossman School of Business at the University of Vermont, has been distinguished as the 2024 Dean of the Year by the international business honor society Beta Gamma Sigma.

The society also awarded UVM the 2024 Bronze Outstanding Chapter Award, recognizing its active involvement in various society-sponsored activities and its commitment to advancing the Beta Gamma Sigma mission. Alongside this honor, BGS will grant a $750 scholarship to the Grossman School to recognize an exceptional student.

University of Vermont faculty members Arby Ghemari and Lizzy Pope have been named recipients of the school's 2023 Prelock Online Teaching Award, celebrating superior online asynchronous and synchronous instruction.

Ghemari, a lecturer of education for cultural and linguistic diversity, was honored for his asynchronous course Language Policy Issues, Race and School in the College of Education and Social Services. He was cited for introducing a global perspective in the course by lecturing on the topic of privilege in Singapore.

Travis Stills, an environmental lawyer in Colorado and a graduate of Vermont Law and Graduate School, has been awarded the Kerry Rydberg-Jack Tuholske Award for Excellence by the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. The annual award recognizes a lawyer exemplifying the best in public interest environmental advocacy.