CEMS News Latest headlines 06/20/2024 Enabling Better Bots As more industrial and autonomous robots come online for an increasingly diverse array of applications, ensuring adequate safety protections exist for the humans who share their workspaces is a growing concern. Luis... 05/19/2024 The Mary Jean Simpson Award: Anja Samsom The Mary Jean Simpson Award is presented to the senior student who best exemplifies the qualities of character, leadership, and scholarship. It is named in honor of Mary Jean Simpson who exemplified these qualities throughout her professional career, including as UVM’s third Dean of... 05/13/2024 2024 CEMS Faculty Award Winners Five outstanding faculty members in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences were recently honored with Faculty Awards during the college's annual spring faculty retreat. The winners were recognized in four categories including a new award introduced this year, The James and... 05/06/2024 Taking Off: the “Covid Class” of 2024 Reflects on Challenges and Changes Four years ago this month they were effectively grounded. Stuck at home, they prepared for a graduation ceremony like no other–or, for some of them, no ceremony at all. It was the start of the first “Covid Summer,” and for the high school classes of 2020, that meant graduating via Zoom, or while... 05/02/2024 Honeybees to Hate Speech About four years ago, editors from Nature Portfolio, the team that publishes the journal Nature, reached out to UVM professor of computer science Laurent Hébert-Dufresne. They knew of his leading work using networks, contagion theory, and co-evolution to explore many... 04/30/2024 2024 Engineering Honors Awards Congratulations to all the 2024 honorees in Civil and Environmental, Electrical and Biomedical, and Mechanical Engineering! CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Reginald Milbank Sophomore Award: James Cilwik and Lilac Damon (CE) and... 04/29/2024 Engineering Design Night Showcases Senior Innovation The skill, innovation, and engineering prowess of seniors in the Mechanical, Electrical, Biomedical, Civil, and Environmental Engineering programs were on display this past Friday as 31 teams of students presented their capstone projects during the annual... 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 ... 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... 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: ... 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... 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... 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... 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.... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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...