Host Anya Huneke from Vermont Public Television (VPT) has featured scientists and researchers from the UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) on two of their Emerging Science Series.
“Out of this World” features researchers at four Vermont schools collaborating to send a tiny, 10-centimeter satellite called a CubeSat into orbit around the moon. In this post-shuttle era, NASA’s EPSCoR program helps fund work on dramatically cheaper ways of exploring space, including CubeSat research at institutions around the country. At Vermont Technical College, Carl Brandon leads the effort to design and build Vermont’s satellite. He predicts Vermont will be first to launch a CubeSat into lunar orbit. Colleagues Danner Friend at Norwich University; Jeff Frolik and Jun Yu at UVM; their students and students from St. Michael’s College are working on the propulsion, navigation and communications that will enable the CubeSat to gather information.
To view this program visit: http://www.vpt.org/show/16403/401
“Cyber Shadows” features scientists at work to make sense of the cyber world people now inhabit. Mathematicians Chris Danforth and Peter Dodds at the University of Vermont and their students use masses of Twitter data to measure the happiness of society. To view this program visit: http://www.vpt.org/show/16403/402
For more on this VPT Series visit: http://www.vpt.org/show/16403
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