VTSGC/VT NASA EPSCoR Leadership Change

After over 21 years of outstanding service, Dr. William Lakin, Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics in the Mathematics and Statistics Department, has stepped down as the Director of the Vermont Space Grant Consortium (VTSGC) and Vermont's NASA EPSCoR Program to be replaced by Dr. Darren Hitt.

Strong Gold and Weird Kinks at the Nanoscale

A recent experiment -- reported in Nature Communications and led by University of Vermont engineer Frederic Sansoz and Scott Mao at the University of Pittsburgh -- demonstrated that gold nanowires could be made to have Herculean strength: ten times stronger than steel.

AERO lays down fastest electric runs at international competition

UVM's Alternative Energy Racing Organization (AERO) and their all-electric racecar "CleanSpeed" ran the fastest electric acceleration and electric autocross times at the recently completed Formula Hybrid International Competition (FHIC). FHIC 2013 was held at the New Hampshire Speedway...