Location: Burlington

The program encompasses the following areas of neuroscience: Molecular and Cellular; Developmental, Plasticity, and Repair; Behavioral, Cognitive, and Systems; Human Neurobiology. The NGP is designed to create a dynamic graduate education environment that leverages the diversity of neuroscience research at the University of Vermont. The strong curriculum and research environment and the excellent students that they allow us to attract, results in a low attrition rate, good student productivity, relatively short time to degree, and success in placing graduates in competitive post-doctoral programs.

The University of Vermont’s Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration (HESA) graduate program is among the top programs in the country preparing student affairs professionals to collaboratively transform higher education.

We welcome full-time and part-time students with various levels of experience and backgrounds. We enroll a relatively small cohort each year to promote strong and enduring relationships with fellow colleagues, award-winning faculty, and campus partners. Committed to the future of the nation’s higher education system, we challenge students to make their graduate education an unparalleled learning experience.

The Department of History offers a comprehensive program of courses in the history of the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in global and comparative studies. At the graduate level, students develop broad historical knowledge and acquire training in historical interpretation and methods. Students may pursue the M.A. on either a part-time or full-time basis.

The department maintains a small, selective graduate program leading to the master’s degree in history. Faculty are distinguished both as active scholars and as engaged teachers, and this graduate program is based on close mentoring relationships between faculty and graduate students. The department aims to keep the program at a size that best supports students’ individual curricular and career goals: approximately 10-12 students are admitted each year.

The goal of the Doctor of Philosophy in Interprofessional Health Sciences degree program is to promote interprofessional research across fields and in the biomedical and psychosocial domains relevant to the health sciences. Students will understand, create, and undertake interprofessional, hypothesis-driven approaches to research and promote the translation of findings into practice.

UVM’s graduate program in Materials Science is engaged in interdisciplinary education and research on the fundamental physical, chemical, electrical and mechanical properties and applications of materials. Our internationally recognized faculty and our graduate students focus on a variety of theoretical and experimental research topics ranging from electronic materials to bio-polymers.

Current interests include nanomechanics, graphene and quantum magnetism, dynamics of quantum systems, spin-dependent phenomena in semiconductors, real-time X-ray scattering and thin film microfabrication, synthesis of novel organometallics and small molecule semiconductors, supramolecular nanomaterials, computational multiscale modeling of complex materials, as well as materials for biomedical applications.

Experimental and computational on-campus facilities include state-of-the-art transport, microscopy, spectroscopy (optical and X-ray) characterization and a supercomputing center. Our experimental faculty and graduate students work in close collaboration with scientists from national laboratories such as the Brookhaven National Lab and the National Renewable Energy Lab.

While the origins of materials science lie in metallurgy, today it is a highly interdisciplinary field that brings together condensed matter physicists, engineers and chemists in a quest for understanding the fundamental mechanical, electronic or thermal properties of basically all materials known to humans.

The University of Vermont’s program is ideally suited for student trying to get their bearing in the promising materials science field. With 20 faculty members and 17 graduate students, our students don’t get “lost in the crowd.” They develop close working relationships with world renowned scientists in multiple disciplines. The program is ideally balanced in terms of faculty and students research interests and expertise. This is reflected in the three tracks we offer: Electronic Materials, Biomaterials and Mechanics of Materials.

The Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Sciences is offered in three areas of concentration: Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics. Research interests of the Mathematics faculty include: algebraic geometry, algebraic and computational topology, arithmetic geometry, combinatorics/graph theory, complex systems, computational social science, Fourier/harmonic analysis, logic, mathematical cryptography, network science, number theory, topological data analysis, biomathematics, fluid mechanics, numerical methods for, and analytical theories of, partial differential equations.

The Master of Science in Mathematical Sciences program offers students an opportunity to advance their understanding of pure and/or applied mathematics at the graduate level, in preparation for a career in industry or a doctoral degree program. The program has two options: coursework (non-thesis) and thesis. Those applicants interested in the thesis option should review research interests of our Department’s faculty. The Department also offers an Master’s degree programs in Statistics and Biostatistics, as well as Accelerated Master’s programs in Mathematics and in Statistics for UVM undergraduate students.