AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
UVM Wins Big at ENGCOMM—UVM’s team placed in the Top 5 and earned the award for best international team at the annual Engineering and Commerce (ENGCOMM) case competition at Concordia University in Montreal.
Matt Scarborough worked with four students on their capstone project, which won second place at the InternationalWater Environment Federation Student Design Competition.
Gregory Rowangould has been named the new Director of the Transportation Research Center.
Mandar Dewoolkar has been named an ASCE Fellow.
Jeff Marshall has been named the new Associate Dean of Research. Bernard "Chip" Cole is the new NASA EPSCOR and Space Grant Director. CEMS Faculty Win Local IEEE Chapter Awards! Mads Almassalkhi: Outstanding Young Professional Engineer, Faculty of the Year and Hamid Ossareh: Innovator of the Year.
Jianke Yang has been named an Optical Society of America Fellow. Luis Duffaut Espinosa was elected IEEE Senior Member.
GRANTS
Frederic Sansoz has been named an ASME Fellow. Matthew Scarborough is the Early Career winner for the Environmental Engineering Division of ASEE for the 2020 conference. Rachael Oldinski won the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Advisor Award. John Lens is one of two winners of UVM’s Outstanding New Service-Learning Faculty Awards. Niccolo Fiorentino won the U.S. Bone and Joint Initiative Young Investigator Award. CEE graduate student Bijay KC and mathematics graduate student Patrick Mullins have been selected as Graduate Teaching Assistants of the Year by the Graduate College. Kristin Underwood won the RW Carbin Community Award for Conservation. Lisa Dion – Athena Award Winner, VT Chamber of Commerce for her work inspiring women in STEM.
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U V M.E D U/C E M S
Cold REgion Research Laboratory awarded a $3.7 million grant to UVM over the next 3 years. The CS department received a $1 million pilot grant with Google to study open source software team optimization. Senator Leahy announced a $3 million grant to establish a National Center on Restorative Justice at Vermont Law School. Members of UVM CEMS, including Abigail Crocker, formed the Justice Research Initiative to engage in this important work. BRAID FUNDING UVM has received $30,000 in BRAID funding for 2020. The BRAID initiative (Building, Recruiting, And Inclusion for Diversity), co-led by AnitaB.org and Harvey Mudd College, launched in September 2014 in partnership with 15 universities across the nation. BRAID Schools implement efforts to increase the participation of students from underrepresented groups in their undergraduate CS programs.
