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Section 1 Lorem ipsum... Section 2 Lorem ipsum... Section 3 Lorem ipsum...VERMONT EPSCoR Who We AreImpacts of VT EPSCoRPeople Join Us Donations Contact Us What We Do Current Research (SOCKS) Prior Research (BREE) Prior ResearchEducation Outreach and Inclusion (CWDD) Communications PTACPrivate Sector What We Create Publications Training Data & Software Cyberinfrastructure Resources How We Engage News, Events, Funding Opportunities Policy and Technical Advisory Committee Data Dashboards Blog NEWSSOCKS Kicks Off with a Strategic Planning Meeting 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 ... NEWSSOCKS Co-PI Randall Harp on the Moral Dilemmas of AI 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. NEWSSOCKS Co-PI Juniper Lovato calls for workers protection from AI 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 ... NEWSJuniper Lovato Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation 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 ... NEWSChris Danforth Provides Keynote Presentation at National Research ... 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 ... NEWSSaint Michael’s College Natural Area Floodplain with Professor Declan ... 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. NEWSScience Fun Day with Vermont 4-H! 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. NEWSResearchers look into the determinants of collaboration between groups ... 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. NEWSBREE team member, Beverley Wemple, appointed Council of Fellows (CoF) ... 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” ... NEWSExtreme precipitation in northeast to increase 52% by the end of the ... 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 ... NEWSCourtney Giles selected for HERS Institute - RACC Postdoc Alum 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. NEWSUVM Earns $20M Research Grant to ’Harness the Data Revolution’ A groundbreaking data science effort to better understand and harness the power of stories has earned the University of Vermont a $20 million research capacity building award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The five-year Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-1 award, which promotes world-class research ... SOCKS Research BREE Research Education & Inclusion Funding Opportunities Data Dashboards News Events BlogPrivate Sector About The Vermont Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (VT EPSCoR) helps build the state’s capacity for scientific research and trains a diverse, prepared science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce. We do this through multi-year, federally funded projects that integrate statewide higher institutions, stakeholders, private sector, partners and collaborators. Together, research teams, post-doctoral associates and graduate students work to advance science and engage stakeholders, undergraduate interns and high school teams to discover new scientific knowledge, share broadly with diverse communities, and train the next generation of innovators. Current Research Harnessing the Data Revolution for Vermont: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) SOCKS will advance initiatives grounded in principled methods through the quantitative measurement of sentiment and stories across a diverse portfolio of corpora. It will also provide new insights into the power and use of stories and narratives across a broad array of social, economic and health domains through integrated data and teams. For more information about SOCKS, please visit the SOCKS Website . Prior Research The BREE project helps identify strategies for resilience in the social ecological system of the Lake Champlain Basin. Research methods include creation of a new soil sensor network, leveraging of existing water sensors for redeployment, and development of new models, including land use and network models that capture the cognitive behaviors and opinions of land users and policy makers. More ...More ...More ...Ecological Systems Responsible for developing a new configuration of environmental sensors from UVM and Middlebury College in an observation network that spans the important interface between the terrestrial and aquatic environments. VideoSocial Systems Focuses on building calibrated, predictive models of the governance networks and sub-networks responsible for promoting existing and future hazard reduction practices for water quality resilience.Integrated Assessment Undertakes the development of the BREE Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) using novel complex systems approaches.Climate Studies how the frequency, intensity, and spatial scale of extreme weather events have changed this century and what local climate feedbacks...