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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
Paying Their Success Forward
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.