UVM Foundation Annual Report
July 1, 2021 - Jun 30, 2022
Philanthropic investments continue to make UVM stronger, year after year. In fiscal year 2022, more than 24,000 donors stepped forward, with gifts totaling $78.2 million. They support an enriching campus environment in which students strive to build bright futures, professors show them the way, and researchers help to make the world a better place. Here are just a few highlights from the year.
Steven Grossman ’61 made a second extraordinary gift that will launch a new era of excellence at the UVM business school that bears his name. As part of Grossman’s growing legacy at the university—Grossman and the Grossman Family Foundation have contributed or incentivized gifts to the Grossman School in excess of $75 million—this commitment will further solidify the Grossman School’s reputation as one of the nations’ preeminent business schools by expanding its top-ranked Sustainable Innovation MBA (SI-MBA) and Masters of Accountancy (MAcc) graduate programs. The gift will establish new endowed chairs in two areas of excellence, family business and entrepreneurship, as well as provide significant scholarship support to recruit and retain outstanding graduate students in the SI-MBA and MAcc programs.
In 2022, the university established the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UVM, supported by a $5.5 million grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation. This broad, new initiative will deliver innovative, transdisciplinary, evidence-based healthcare practices to Vermont and the region. The institution-wide center will dramatically advance whole patient care, research, education, and health policy centered on treatments that incorporate methods from a variety of fields, complementing allopathic medicine. An established leader in integrative clinical and educational programs, UVM joins an international collaborative network of ten academic institutions—ranging from Harvard and Northwestern to the University of Washington and UC San Francisco—as a center of excellence in integrative health aimed at improving patient care and well-being.
A new flagship research vessel will be plying the waters of Lake Champlain this year, thanks to a major gift from the estate of the late F. Peter Rose ’54, a longtime supporter and advocate of environmental research at UVM. The first-of-its-kind research boat, a 64-foot hybrid electric aluminum catamaran that will serve as a floating classroom and laboratory, replaces its predecessor, the R/V Melosira. The new boat will aid UVM researchers in conducting a wide range of science missions on Lake Champlain, from restoring local lake trout populations to probing global climate change.
