CEMS News CEMS Newsletters 2024 CEMS Fall/Winter Newsletter 2024 CEMS Spring Newsletter 2023 CEMS Fall/Winter Newsletter 2023 CEMS Spring Newsletter Latest headlines 01/15/2025 Vermont Tech Hub Awarded Nearly $24M For Semiconductor Innovation The Vermont Gallium Nitride (V-GaN) Tech Hub—a consortium led by the University of Vermont (UVM) and including GlobalFoundries and the State of Vermont—has been awarded... 01/07/2025 From Scraps to Stats: Testing a Tabletop Food Recycler at the Climate Kitchen For many home cooks, food waste is a constant challenge—what can you do with apple cores and onion skins? Composting and food scrap recycling are growing trends, and one UVM undergraduate is taking a close look at their results. Cora Pohlman, an environmental engineering major, teamed... 12/17/2024 GlobalFoundries Supports CEMS Students with New Scholarship Program BURLINGTON, Vt., December 18, 2024 — Students at UVM’s College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) will soon... 12/16/2024 Browns River Eighth Graders Explore Physics and Chemistry at UVM December is here, and the traditional signs are all around campus. Cold winds blow. Snow flurries fly. UVM students hunker down for finals. And local... 12/09/2024 2024 Computer Science Fair Highlights Student Innovation The annual Computer Science Fair descended on the Davis Center once more this December, filling the Grand Maple Ballroom with over 70 unique projects competing for top honors in 5 different categories. The scope and breadth of this year's innovative projects spanned a diverse and exciting range... 12/05/2024 From Food Waste to Industry Panagiota “Yiota” Stamatopoulou, a FSRC PhD Fellow, recently earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at UVM working on research that might... 12/01/2024 The Barrett Foundation Provides Engineering Research Pathways in Environmental Stewardship For more than 20 years, the Barrett Foundation has served as a research catalyst at the University of Vermont, providing funding for both undergraduate and graduate students to pursue their research interests in environmental stewardship. At the same time, the convergence of funding, student... 11/30/2024 After the Floods Water will continue to shape—and reshape—Vermont communities. Sometimes it will come in a deluge, pummeling agricultural fields and swamping downtowns. Sometimes water will be scarce. There will be seasons that feel abnormally normal. This is life in a rapidly changing climate. ... 11/27/2024 Innovative New Research Drone Garners Accolades Like all harmful algal blooms (HABs), the persistent prevalence of toxin-producing cyanobacteria in the freshwater habitats of the Lake Champlain basin presents growing risks to Vermont's aquatic ecosystems, public health, and our local economy. A UVM research project led by electrical... 11/07/2024 Unraveling the Complexity Behind Bird Population Declines As bird populations dwindle across the globe, a new study from University of Vermont researchers suggests some species may be more flexible to habitat changes than previously understood, creating new opportunities for supporting populations through city planting efforts. The team’s findings were... 11/06/2024 Dr. Niccolo Fiorentino Invested as the Inaugural Karl and Mary Fessenden Professor in Biomedical Engineering Dr. Niccolo Fiorentino, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering with a secondary appointment in Biomedical Engineering, has been invested as the inaugural holder of the Karl and Mary Fessenden Professorship in Biomedical Engineering. In a formal ceremony on November 7,... 10/31/2024 Correcting Corrections On a blustery morning in November, Kathy Fox steers her car through snow squalls to the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, Vt. She and her co-pilot, Abigail Crocker, wear matching green t-shirts with the words “University of Vermont Justice Research Initiative” across the front... 10/14/2024 UVM Receives $2.7 Million in Funding to Advance Rural Climate Resiliency research Climate change is disrupting water systems across the United States, impacting communities of all sizes and financial stature. The effects can be particularly devastating in rural areas that lack the infrastructure and resources needed to manage their water resources. Droughts, floods, and... 10/04/2024 What is Planetary Health? The planet is alive. This ecstatic skin of the Earth that stretches but a few miles up and down is teeming with critters, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria. We don’t just live on the planet, we live because of it. We’re creatures, very smart apes, whose blood and breath and food exist as a... 10/03/2024 Introducing UVM's First Presidential Doctoral Fellows What role does the microbiome of plants play in their ability to survive extreme environments? How can mathematics be used to democratize artificial intelligence? Which factors are driving the spread of a deadly fungal disease affecting the planet’s amphibian populations? What really happens in... 08/27/2024 New naturalistic garden takes root at Votey Building Twelve volunteers gathered on a cloudy afternoon last Thursday to install new plants in the grounds surrounding Votey Hall, an area covering about 3,000 square-feet on central campus. Tunes by Van Morrison, The Chicks and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band provided background music. Gavin Young, a... 07/23/2024 Engineering Connections Santhosh Balasubramanian is only a sophomore in college but over two decades he’s seen the climate change in his home city of Chennai, India. “The rains used to be more periodic and better,” he says, while he looks at a whiteboard full of equations in the office of... 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 ...
