SUMMIT MAGAZINE — FALL 2023
FALL 2022
FALL 2021
FALL 2020
In this issue:
- 2020 Awards and Accolades
- CEMS Covid Champions
- Open Resilience: Teams across all industries have moved to a remote work setting. UVM is partnering with Google to understand how working will change in the coming years.
- Inventing the World's Strongest Silver: Professor Frederic Sansoz is transforming more than materials.
- Team Builds the First Living Robots: Tiny 'xenobots' assembled from cells are a whole new class of organisms – and they can be programmed. See how Professor Josh Bongard and his team helped create them.
- Student Achievements
- Girls Who Code: Lisa Dion impacts youth in computing.
- Bridge to the Future: Graduate students in engineering management build vital connections.
- New CEMS Faculty
- Bionic Growth: Biomedical Engineering program granted ABET accreditation
- Policy Solutions in Vermont Prisons
- Forward Motion: UVM student’s research on wearable sensors
- Tiny Price Gap Costs Investors Millions
- Meet the Class of 2020
- Going the Extra Mile
SPRING 2019
In this issue:
- CEMS News & Updates
- Grace Hopper Celebration: Women in Computing
- Engineering a Safer Chulha: Students Travel to India to Build Safer Stoves with Helping Hands Hospital
- Computer Science Fair
- Undergraduate Research
- StatFest
- Just Building: Student Highlight: Dia Brown
- Research Awards
- Tech Career Fair
- Privacy Matters: On Social Media Your Privacy Is At Risk— Even If You Don't Have An Account
- Early Detection: Wearable sensor could detect hidden anxiety, depression in young children
- Alumni Giving: Greg Sweeny ’70, Richard ’66 and Elaine Barrett, Anthony F. Voellm ’73 and Beth Zimmerman ’93
- Groundbreaking Data Science Partnership: $5 million gift establishes MassMutual Center for Complex Systems and Data Science Campus
- Internship Opportunities
- Victoria Hand Project
- Looking Back: Class of 1968: Building the Hyperbolic Paraboloid Shells
SPRING 2018
In this issue:
- Smart Structures: How CEMS-led Research on Smart and Lightweight Polymers are Reducing Cost and Waste for the Automotive and Aerospace Industries and Beyond
- CEMS News and Updates
- Reliable Renewables: A Team of CEMS UVM Researchers Want to Balance Supply and Demand in the Nation’s Electrical Grid, One Packet of Energy at a Time
- A Cyber Approach to ACL Rehab: Toth and Skalka BME Grant Breaks New Ground
- Wheels in Motion: Engineering Students Work with NASA to Develop a New Lunar Navigational Tool
- Biomedical Engineering Students Dive into Research
- Student Engineers Her Future with Help of UVM’s Fab Lab
- A New Angle on Gerrymanders: UVM Mathematicians Invent Tool to Judge
- When Voting Maps Have Been Unfairly Drawn
FALL 2017
In this issue:
- CEMS News and Updates
- Expanding Innovation
- In Memoriam: Ken Gross
- Researchers Discover an Early-warning System for Depression in Social Media
- What Lies Beneath. Solving for the Bigger Picture
- Real-world Solutions for Cars and Communities
- A Passion for Collecting and Understanding Natural Data
- The Power of Student Innovation
- Alumni Spotlight: David Hosmer
- Votey 2.0 Upgrade and Discovery Building Labs
SPRING 2017
In this issue:
- CEMS News & Updates
- A New Wrinkle in Conductivity
- Reddit Brings Evolutionary Robotics Class to the World
- UVM's New Data Science Degree
- Greed for Speed
- Making it Real
- Alumni Spotlight: Nick Strayer
- Looking Back: When Votey was New
FALL 2016
In this issue:
- CEMS News & Updates
- CEMS Welcomes New Faculty and Staff
- Healing with Seaweed
- Alternative Energy Racing Organization
- Racing Toward the Future
- Close to You: Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering: New Major Opens Cutting Edge Field to Students
- Innovation in Action: Senior Projects Design Night Showcases Engineering for the Community
- Alumni Spotlight: Cynthia Barnhart, Nicole Mason, Greg Santoro
- Engineers Across Centuries
SPRING 2016
In this issue:
- FEATURE STORY: LEARNING THROUGH SERVICE: For their senior capstone, students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Program help area nonprofit and government agencies move forward with engineering projects.
- SHOWCASING INNOVATION: Computer science students participate in CS Fair to display their creations.
- CEMS CLUBS LIVEN UP SCIENCE FOR KIDS: Club members have middle schoolers test their engineering prowess.
- BUILDING APPS FOR CLASS: Students learn the ins and outs of app-making in Chris Skalka’s Mobile and Embedded Devices class.
- ADDING RENEWABLES TO THE GRID: $1.5 million grant will help CEMS professors research ways to make the electric grid accommodate power from renewable energy sources.
- DIRTY PIPELINE: Study shows how fracking interacts with abandoned wells to release methane.
- CELEBRATING DIY: Maker Faire pairs with engineering competition to introduce kids in grades K-12 to STEM fields.
- WHAT MAKES A SKI HUM?: Olympic Skier uses Advanced Structural Analysis to study beam loads and go faster.
- ALUMNI PROFILE: KEN PIDGEON ’84
- JOSH BONGARD TALKS ROBOTS ON REDDIT
FALL 2015
In this issue:
- ENGINEERING THE CLASSROOM: How the new Vermont Engineering Initiative is preparing K-12 teachers to add engineering design to their curricula.
- DISCOVER CEMS: The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont hits the sweet spot of summer learning, while UVM breaks ground on its new STEM building complex.
- NEW FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: The next wave of new faculty and staff at CEMS spans expertise in fields ranging from big data to geotechnical engineering.
- A BRIDGE TO CROSS: A model steel bridge from the college’s ASCE student chapter scores high marks in the National Steel Bridge Competition.
- MAKING THE SMART GRID SMARTER: Funded by the National Science Foundation, an interdisciplinary team at CEMS is tackling problems such as energy conservation and climate change.
- SPARKING NEW IDEAS: Four CEMS research groups win seed grants for moving their ideas to the marketplace.
- A FLUID SITUATION: CEMS professor George Pinder applies modern medicine to an age-old ecological problem.
- HACKING 101: An all-night hackathon in Votey Hall leads to new apps for improving student life at UVM.
- SHOOTING FOR THE STARS: How Professor Doug Fletcher is studying the ways materials perform in the hostile environments of space.
- THE LIVES OF STRUCTURES: New techniques are helping Professor Eric Hernandez predict the life spans of bridges and buildings.
- WHERE NUMBERS MEET MEDICINE: The FDA looks to UVM biostatistician Chip Cole in assessing biosimilars, or generic copies of biological drugs.
- MAKING THE GRADE: STUDENT PROFILES: How Katherine King’s love of math and stats led to her new job with the Mayo Clinic, while Presidential scholar Nick Martin aims for the aerospace industry.
- A TWITTER EARLY WARNING SYSTEM: A team of CEMS scientists taps the social-media network to mine evidence of drug interactions.
- A LEGACY OF GENEROSITY: Growing up poor in the Northeast Kingdom sparked a desire in Richard Fisher ’47 to give back to CEMS.
SUMMIT is a semiannual magazine published by the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS). Each issue explores the College's rich offerings in scholarship, education and service. CEMS alumni are encouraged to submit news for future issues. Please send your name, graduating class and news to info@cems.uvm.edu.