Caitlin Grasso Wins a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Caitlin Grasso and stills from research slides

Caitlin Grasso has won one of the 2021 National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. The UVM Ph.D candidate works with Josh Bongard on artificial intelligence (AI). 

The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and...

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Dr.Laurent Hébert-Dufresne to explore the effects of climate change on diseases

University of Vermont researchers will play a leadership role in a project designed to predict where populations of plants and animals in New England will move as their current locations become less hospitable in a warming world. Data generated by the project will help New England farmers and rural communities plan and adapt to the range shifts.

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Laurent Hebert-Dufresne

Why School Closures Help

Sadly, it’s “a very busy time” to be a mathematical epidemiologist, says Laurent Hébert-Dufresne —professor of computer science at UVM and, yes, an expert on the mathematical modeling of epidemics. 

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