Donors’ Generosity Helps UVM Scholarship Students Train Their Sights on a Bright Future
Ben Ogden ’22
In March, Ben Ogden ’22 brought home gold for UVM in the ten-kilometer freestyle race at the NCAA National Skiing Championships. The sophomore standout counts the win as his proudest achievement thus far at UVM—but a recent good grade in thermodynamics isn’t far behind. It’s taken serious physical stamina and brainpower to keep up with both skiing and his mechanical engineering classes. Ogden says he’s humbled by the support he’s received from the Daigle Ski Scholarship. “I hope they take personal pride in the things that I’ve been able to accomplish,” he says. If all goes well, he hopes to be a contender in the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, his senior year.
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Ben Ogden ’22, (atop the podium) from Landgrove, Vermont, is the inaugural recipient of the David and Beth Daigle Ski Scholarship.
Age Desranleau ’20
Age Desranleau ’20 has known she would become a veterinarian since she was six years old. The animal sciences major credits her exceptional UVM experience and the support of scholarship donors for helping her get there. “UVM has a wonderful, wonderful pre-vet program with the CREAM program,” says Desranleau. “And if someone’s believing in you enough to nominate you for a scholarship and making an investment in your time at UVM, then it really pushes you to be a better student.” With her hard-earned UVM degree now in hand, she looks forward to continuing her journey at veterinary school in the fall.
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Age Desranleau ’20, from Milton, Vermont, is a recipient of the Fred and Sally Hackett Scholarship, the James and Jeanne Carpenter Scholarship, the Doris and Julian Malkiel Scholarship, and the Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy Scholarship.
Riley Mulroy ’22 (left), from Walpole, Massachusetts, appears in UVM’s production of Shakespeare in Love. He is a recipient of the Brennan Family Scholarship and the inaugural recipient of the GlasGalahad Arts Scholarship.
Riley Mulroy ’22
Riley Mulroy is spending his time in the UVM Department of Theatre preparing for his final act, so to speak. He has an ambitious 40-year plan that includes one day owning and operating his own theater with a successful production company. As he hones his stage management chops alongside some outstanding faculty mentors, he is grateful for the ways that alumni and friends support students in the arts. As a triplet with three other siblings in college, he is paying his own way at UVM. “These scholarships mean a lot,” he says. “It really proves that I’m meant to be here. It gives me more self-confidence to do what I’m doing.”
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Ali Javed MS’18, from Islamabad, Pakistan, is a doctoral student and Barrett Fellow at UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment.
Ali Javed MS’18
Ali Javed MS’18 first came to UVM in 2014 on a Fulbright Scholarship to earn his master’s degree in computer science. Thanks to his winning a competitive Barrett Fellowship with the Gund Institute for Environment, he’s returned as a Ph.D. student to continue his research on water quality in the Lake Champlain Basin. Javed hopes that when he looks back on his time at UVM he will have been part of preserving this precious resource. “Watersheds, I think they represent the state of nature,” he says. “There are a lot of lifeforms in the watershed, and human life depends on them. I don’t know of anything that’s more important than that.”