CEMS News CEMS Newsletters 2025 CEMS Spring Newsletter 2024 CEMS Fall/Winter Newsletter 2024 CEMS Spring Newsletter 2023 CEMS Fall/Winter Newsletter 2023 CEMS Spring Newsletter CEMS Student Spotlights 2026 Senior Spotlights Featuring three new graduating senior profiles each week through commencement. 2026 Senior Spotlights Latest headlines UVM Researchers Receive $950K to Help Lead Statewide PFAS Research Network Funded Through $7.9 Million NSF Investment Vermont Complex Systems Institute Hosts International Conference on Computational Social Science at UVM Gund Institute Awards $300,000 to Bring Clean, Reliable Energy to Remote Alaska Communities New Study Reveals Editorial Trends at Top Science Journals From the Classroom to the Cloud Forest More news 06/22/2026 Lighting the Spark: Future Scientists Inspired on Campus It’s unusual to get end-of-semester evaluations done in crayon, but for Physics and Chemistry, it’s par for the course. That’s because those... 06/02/2026 Science or Sorcery? Transforming Sustainable Water Systems in the ALCHEMIST Lab Engineering is synonymous with magic in Dr. Raju Badireddy’s ALCHEMIST lab. Here, the Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and... 05/13/2026 Record Number of 14 UVM Student Fulbright Winners are Announced, Ready to Exchange Knowledge and Skills Across the Globe More UVM students and recent alumni have received Fulbright U.S. Student Awards this year than ever before, with 11 set to teach English as a second... 05/13/2026 Senior Spotlight: Will Rekas In the weeks leading up to the 2026 commencement ceremonies for UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we will be... 05/12/2026 Laurent Hébert-Dufresne Wins 2026 Erdős–Rényi Prize Laurent Hébert-Dufresne Wins 2026 Erdős–Rényi PrizeLaurent Hébert-Dufresne, a core faculty member of the Vermont Complex Systems Institute and... 05/12/2026 Senior Spotlight: Alisson Ailhin Fernandez Tuiro In the weeks leading up to the 2026 commencement ceremonies for UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we will be... 05/08/2026 CEMS Students Join the Podium at the ASME Electric and Human Powered Vehicle Challenge This past month, a team of eight undergraduate students in UVM’s American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) section travelled to the... 05/07/2026 Senior Spotlight: Crow Stephenson In the weeks leading up to the 2026 commencement ceremonies for UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we will be... 05/07/2026 Jihong Ma Receives NSF CAREER Award for Quantum-Inspired Vibration Control Research When an airplane flies through turbulence, a bridge sways under heavy traffic, or a building vibrates during an earthquake, invisible waves of energy... 05/06/2026 Human Language is Biased Towards Safety, Major Study Reveals, Challenging 70-Year Scientific Consensus A new UVM study challenges a widely accepted theory: that the meaning of words is organized around expressing emotion. Instead, a team of scientists... 05/05/2026 Senior Spotlight: Rachel Goodwin In the weeks leading up to the 2026 commencement ceremonies for UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we will be... 05/04/2026 Senior Spotlight: Ryan Poliquin In the weeks leading up to the 2026 commencement ceremonies for UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we will be... 05/01/2026 Senior Spotlight: Audrey Tucker As we approach the commencement ceremonies for the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we are excited to share these... 04/30/2026 Meet the Class of 2026 They come from throughout the Green Mountain State, around the nation, and across the globe. But the many members of the Class of 2026 all share an... 04/30/2026 Vermont Students Head to International Robotics Competition Vermont middle and high school robotics teams are in Houston, Texas this week, competing at the international FIRST Championship. It started... 04/29/2026 Senior Spotlight: Max Olechna Over the next two weeks, as we approach the commencement ceremonies for the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we will... 04/28/2026 A Tour de Force of Student Innovation, Design, and Teamwork The top floor of the Davis Center was once again home to a phenomenal display of engineering prowess as over 130 students from Mechanical,... 04/28/2026 Cipolla Receives Prestigious Neuroscience Award Marilyn J. Cipolla, Ph.D.’97, professor of neurological sciences at the Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, has... 04/27/2026 Senior Spotlight: Jes Bennett Over the next four weeks, as we approach the commencement ceremonies for the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we will... 04/24/2026 Senior Spotlight: Ryan Anderson Over the next two weeks, as we approach the commencement ceremonies for the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we will... 04/22/2026 Senior Spotlight: Alli Cooper-Ellis Over the next four weeks, as we approach the commencement ceremonies for the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Class of 2026, we will... 04/08/2026 UVM STEM Ambassadors Reflect on Teaching, Learning with Local Youth Each semester, University of Vermont students studying STEM — science, technology, engineering, or math — are trained to deliver experiential... 03/31/2026 Investigating What Lies Below CEMS researchers helps VTrans reimagine culvert inspections with DIY robots and help from an enterprising first-year STEM scholar 03/27/2026 UVM launches new graduate programs in competitive fields With the introduction of five new graduate programs, the University of Vermont is positioning itself to provide students with a competitive edge in... 03/27/2026 EDGE Consortium Scholars Explore Semiconductor Innovation in Burlington As part of their Scholars program, the EDGE Consortium recently brought together eleven exceptional students for an immersive site visit to...