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CEMS News

Below you will find the latest 10 news stories for the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS).

Release Date: 11-11-2009

UVM engineer weighs options for Champlain Bridge demolition

Bridge engineering is one of the fields of research for Dryver Huston, professor of engineering in UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS). Huston's expertise was featured in two WCAX-TV Channel 3 interviews concerning the Champlain Bridge. Full Story...

Release Date: 10-22-2009

EnergyMinder to gauge effect of social networking on energy consumption

A team of researchers led by Paul Hines, assistant professor in engineering, and Josh Bongard, assistant professor in computer science, are seeking participants for a research project designed to help people manage their electric energy consumption. Full Story...

Release Date: 10-14-2009

UVM CEMS receives NSF collaborative research grant

A collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been received for research on data mining by Dr. Xindong Wu, chair and professor for the CEMS Department of Computer Science, as principal investigator along with Marc Greenblatt from the UVM College of Medicine. Full Story...

Release Date: 10-12-2009

VSGC receives NASA Consortium Development Competition Award for CubeSat satellite

The Vermont Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) has received a 2009 Consortium Development Competition Award of $195,000 from the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) to fund a research project that will develop a CubeSat satellite payload package capable of escaping low Earth orbit, autonomously navigating into a lunar orbit, then landing on the Moon. Full Story...

Release Date: 09-25-2009

Stuart Kauffman, Complex Systems pioneer, to join UVM faculty

Stuart Kauffman, one of the world's most eminent scientists — a founder of the field of complex systems science, pioneer of biocomplexity research, and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow — will join the faculty of the university's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) and College of Medicine. Full Story...

Release Date: 09-18-2009

UVM researcher focuses on improving climate predictions

Climate prediction is one of the research areas of CEMS professor Chris Danforth, who was featured in the Burlington Free Press on Thursday, September 17 in a news article, "UVM prof works to aid hurricane forecasts." Full Story...

Release Date: 09-08-2009

Rocket science done on a very small scale

Darren Hitt's work really is rocket science. But forget about blinding flames and thundering engines generating millions of pounds of thrust. The UVM professor is working on propulsion systems built on silicon chips that would generate thrust in tiny puffs of steam. Full Story...

Release Date: 08-31-2009

NASA awards UVM $1.5 million in research funding

The National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) has awarded $1.5 million in research grants to two research groups based in UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) to study topics that are NASA research priorities. Full Story...

Release Date: 08-24-2009

Dodds receives prestigious science award from National Science Foundation

Peter Sheridan Dodds has received a prestigious five-year $678,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for research entitled, "Explorations of Complex Social and Psychological Phenomena through Multiscale Online Sociological Experiments, Empirical Studies, and Theoretical Models." Full Story...

Release Date: 08-19-2009

Tribute to John O. Outwater, 1923-2009

Dr. John O. Outwater (1923-2009) was Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) from 1956 to 1993 when he retired. Full Story...


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