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04/23/2024

Senior Reflections

As the Spring 2024 semester winds down, we take a moment to celebrate some of our exceptional students in the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering (EBE).    Couby Ouattara '24  ...

EBE students share their plans

04/22/2024

Vermont Science Olympiad Encourages Students to Pursue Their STEM Passions

In hushed silence, a dozen crime-scene investigators work in pairs, scrutinizing the crime scene report, assessing the physical evidence gathered, and reviewing a list of possible suspects. The silence breaks as pairs of investigators begin to discuss in hurried whispers what the presented...

Two students hold a box fan above a tower they have built for competition

04/18/2024

FabLabulous!

Welcome to the UVM FabLab! The student staff members at the FabLab share their experiences of working at the lab and why the resources and support other students and classes receive from the lab are so valuable. FabLabbers featured in this video include: ...

A behind-the-scenes look at what makes the UVM FabLab such a great campus resource and place to work.

04/15/2024

Teams Triumph at UVM's First Annual Hackathon

Participants in UVM's first annual Hackathon joined forces with their peers to create teams of two to six people and take on one of four programming challenges. The problems included Bus Signage, Programming Language Learning Tool, Outdoors App, and Phishing Emails Prevention. Organized by CS...

Students collaborate to solve a challenge during the first annual Hackathon

04/15/2024

PhD student Niharika Singh receives Presidential Doctoral Fellowship

Niharika Singh, a new PhD student who will be joining Professor David Jangraw's Glass Brain Lab this fall, has received a Presidential Doctoral Fellowship from the...

New PhD student Niharika Singh will be joining Professor David Jangraw's Glass Brain Lab this coming fall.

04/15/2024

Abbey Knobel named the BME Student Engineer of the Year

Senior Abbey Knobel has been named the Biomedical Engineering program's Student Engineer of the Year. She is completing an Honors College thesis, entitled “Inferring Patient Fear from Word Properties in Pediatric Psychotherapy”. She has been performing research in...

Abbey Knobel

04/15/2024

Biomedical Engineering Announces New Hires

The Biomedical Engineering program is delighted to announce the hire of three new faculty members who will be joining the team during the next three semesters. Dr. Michael Brasino is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon....

Michael Brasino, Kaitlin McCreery, and Michael Rosenberg will soon be joining the BME faculty.

04/11/2024

Scientists Use Wearable Technology to Detect Stress Levels During Sleep

What if changes in a person’s stress levels could be detected while they sleep using wearable devices? A new study by University of Vermont researchers published today in PLOS Digital Health is...

04/08/2024

Preparing for the Eclipse

Everyone is getting ready for the eclipse, even kindergarteners. UVM Physics lecturer Luke Donforth took a break from teaching college students to head down to the Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes in Burlington to help the littlest learners get ready for the eclipse.  "...

03/15/2024

As Eclipse Nears, Catamounts Join NASA Efforts

As millions look to the sky on April 8 hoping for a view of the total eclipse, scientists will be racing to glean as much data as they can. They’ll have help from UVM Catamounts who see another opportunity:...

An image of a person beside a telecope. The sky in the background is full of stars, and the person is pointing upward.

03/14/2024

Increasing the Pressure on Skin Infections

A public health crisis is looming over nearly every medical facility in the country. Each year, over six million people are affected and over 200,000 people die from it. Treating this threat costs tens of billions of dollars annually. And perhaps the most troubling aspect of this threat is that...

Amber Doiron tearing wound dressing apart

02/28/2024

UVM Eclipse Experts Grab Their Solar Glasses

University of Vermont experts are gearing up to create an unforgettable experience for students, staff and faculty as a major natural event approaches. On April 8, at 3:26 p.m., as anticipated record crowds fill Burlington, a shadow will sweep across Lake Champlain to cloak the city in middle-of...

An image of the "diamond ring effect," which is a dark circle with one bright spot on the side, during a solar eclipse. Credit: NASA

02/27/2024

UVM Wins 3rd Place Overall at ENGCOMM

The University of Vermont (UVM) earned third place overall at this year’s ENGCOMM—the Engineering and Commerce Case Competition at Concordia University in Montreal last week. ENGCOMM is the only student-led multidisciplinary case competition in the world at...

02/16/2024

Building More Than Robots

A cacophony of whirring motors, timing buzzers, and shouts of encouragement filled the Lamoille Union High School gymnasium this past weekend during the 2024 Vermont First Tech Challenge (FTC) as 19 teams from across the state took center stage...

The CVU RoboHawks (#5741) Team ready their robot for the final championship match of the 2024 Vermont First Tech Challenge (FTC).

02/02/2024

Electrical and Computer Engineering Program Debuts Its New Name

The faculty of the former Electrical Engineering (EE) program in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) has recently voted to adopt a new name— the Electrical and Computer...

Research Assistant Professor Jackson Anderson provides senior Electrical Engineering students Couby Ouattara and Tom Sykes an introduction to the wafer prober station

01/24/2024

Inspiring the Next Generation

A love for nature and science. An innate talent for teaching math. Family connections to agriculture and a passion for outdoor education. UVM graduate students with a range of interests and backgrounds are pursuing a shared dream. With support from the National Science Foundation's...

Laurel Marshia, Aidan McAuliffe and Michelle O'Donnell

01/17/2024

New Agreement Aims to Engineer Improved Access to Rural Healthcare

With nearly 65% of its population living in rural areas, Vermont is considered the most rural state in the nation. Delivering high-quality care to these communities has always been a top priority for...

Larner College of Medicine students Lindsay Aldrich ’25 and Richard Vuong ’25 join XXXX XXXXX inside a mock-up of the rural healthcare delivery vehicle.

12/19/2023

SI-MBA Innovator in Residence Skylar Bagdon ’22 Shared Entrepreneurial Insights in Energy

Skylar Bagdon ’22 recently joined our Sustainable Innovation MBA (SI-MBA) students as part of the program's Innovator in Residence speaker series. As the CEO of Verde Technologies, a...

Skylar Bagdon UVM '22

12/16/2023

Making Science Fun and Memorable

Over 80 8th-grade students from Browns River Middle School got to feel like college students at UVM this week. Four different classes came to campus to see demonstrations from the Chemistry and Physics departments, as well as spend some time on campus and see the Davis Center. It's a...

12/11/2023

2023 Computer Science Fair

The 2023 Computer Science Fair took over the Grand Maple Ballroom again this December with over 100 individuals and teams vying for the top prize in each of the 8 categories. Projects this year range from whimsical game design to counter cyberterrorism to measuring soil moisture content....

2023 Computer Science Fair

12/07/2023

Driving Change grant will jumpstart new DEI initiatives across campus 

The University of Vermont enjoys a well-earned reputation as a progressive institution, but improved diversity across the campus community remains an important goal for the university. Now, thanks to a new grant, undergraduate students, faculty and staff will have the time and resources to...

View of the UVM Green and "Unlocked" sculpture with Old Mill in background

12/04/2023

2023 Barrett Scholars Gain Valuable Experience During Engineering Internships

This past summer, nine engineering students—Zai Gluck, Emily Hall, Agusten Hoen, Ben Mays, Luca Mossman, Charlotte Perveiler, Cooper Petrie, ...

2023 UVM Barrett Scholars

11/20/2023

How Will Climate Change Impact Snow Sports?

With ski resorts set to open across the U.S., skiers and snowboarders—and the entire winter sports industry—are turning their attention to the snow forecast. After a summer of extreme weather, University of Vermont experts shared their insights on how...

A photo of a snowboarder carving through snowy Vermont woods.

11/14/2023

UVM, MassMutual Renew Partnership to Help People Live Healthier, More Enjoyable Lives

Advancing its groundbreaking partnership with University of Vermont’s (UVM) Complex Systems Center, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) announced today a $4.25-million extension...

MassMutual Center of Excellence for Complex Systems and Data Science in Innovation Hall

11/10/2023

The Code to a Better Textbook

The first exposure to college-level coding for most students at UVM happens in the Introduction to Programming course (Computer Science 1210). For some, the prospect of learning to code is exciting and full of creative possibilities,...

Senior Lecturer Clayton Cafiero assists students during a lab exercise