The Board of Trustees approved the creation of a new UVM Water Resources Institute that will be housed in the Office of the Vice President for Research and led by Dr. Beverley Wemple from the department of Geography and Geosciences. There have long been informal conversations about the possibility of a water institute on our campus, but the discussion began in earnest in Fall 2022 and quickly ...

Vermont EPSCoR kicked off a new chapter with a Strategic Planning Meeting for the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 award, Harnessing the Data Revolution for Vermont: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS), which entered its first year in June, 2023. The two-day meeting held on August 24th and 25th at Hula in Burlington, VT gathered the full SOCKS team together, allowing interactive ...

Randall Harp, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont, is interested in how non-artificially intelligent beings should make sense of this uncharted ethical territory. Harp, who studies the philosophy of action, moral psychology, and data and technology ethics, has given talks on AI to UVM faculty and the general public.

Oct. 15, 2023
Researchers at UVM are looking into how emerging technology influences people, and they’re urging Vermont to be a leader in regulating artificial intelligence. The automation market is hot, and as companies integrate AI into their systems, the work employees do is being collected with the potential to later automate their jobs. Juniper Lovato, one of the researchers in the ...

Oct. 10, 2023
Juniper Lovato, a Co-PI for the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) award, and Director of Outreach for Complex Systems at UVM, successfully defended her PhD on September 7, 2023. With the presentation of her dissertation "Group-Level Frameworks for Data Ethics, Privacy, Safety and Security in Digital Environments," Dr. Lovato has now ...

Chris Danforth, PhD, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at UVM and RII Track-1 SOCKS Co-Principal Investigator, presented the keynote lecture at UVM's National Research Administrator Day observance on September 21, 2023.
 
Research Administrator Day is observed each September to recognize the invaluable contributions made by research administrators to research enterprise. The ...

In July 2023, The Saint Michael's Natural Area was flooded by a historic rain event. Professor Declan McCabe explains to us the impact of these rainfalls, and specifically how it impacted the Saint Michael's Natural Area located directly on our campus in Colchester, VT.

Vermont EPSCoR and the Vermont 4-H program teamed up to present Science Fun Day, a two-hour-long set of activities for elementary students of grades 3-5. Held at the Barre Civic Center on May 21, 2023, this free event focused on hands-on STEM activities that helped students apply scientific learning to many different projects.

In a pair of studies published this spring, researchers sought to figure out when, why and under what circumstances those entities collaborate to try to address the problems plaguing Lake Champlain and the waterways that feed it.

The University of Vermont is proud to announce the appointment of three distinguished individuals to institutes and offices under the Office of Research: Beverley Wemple, Ph.D. will serve as the new Director of UVM’s Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH); Sara Helms Cahan, Ph.D. will serve as the Associate Vice President for Research; and Patricia “Tricia” ...

With a warmer climate creating more humid conditions in the Northeast, extreme precipitation events are projected to increase in the Northeast by 52% by the end of the century. BREE Climate Team members Jonathan Winter at Dartmouth College, former BREE GRA Charlotte Cockburn, Janel Hanrahan at Northern Vermont University — Lyndon, Patrick Clemins and Brian Beckage at the University of Vermont ...

This year the university is pleased to announce Payne Hiraldo, M.Ed., and Courtney Giles, Ph.D., as the HERS Leadership Institute for Women’s 2023-2024 participants from UVM. Please join us in congratulating these dedicated and talented faculty and staff members at UVM.