NEWS UVM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
STEM COMPLEX ON THE RISE CEMS students and faculty will soon reap the benefits from UVM’s investment in a $104 million Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) complex, the university’s largest-ever capital project. The Discovery building is nearing its completion this spring, along with its bridge to Votey Hall. Discovery will bring new laboratory facilities online for the College. Renovations in the summer of 2017 to Votey Hall will provide significant upgrades to numerous engineering labs, including the CEMS machine shop and prototyping lab. The next two years will see the demolition of the Cook Science Building and its replacement with the the final STEM complex component, the new Innovation building, scheduled for completion in May 2019. Innovation will house the CEMS departments of computer science, and mathematics and statistics; and the Vermont Complex Systems Center.
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The Barrett Bridge connects Votey to the new STEM Complex.
CEMS NEW STAFF Samantha Dawn Williams
Coordinator for Graduate Programs Samantha comes to CEMS from the Grossman School of Business at UVM, where she was an enrollment management professional. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2010, and a Masters in Higher Education Administration from New England College in 2011. Prior to coming to UVM she was a resident director at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts, and a graduate hall director at New England College.
Courtney Giles Lab Manager
Courtney earned her B.S. in chemistry and B.A, in environmental geochemical science from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2007, and she completed a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Vermont in 2012. Before returning to UVM she was a postdoctoral research associate at the James Hutton institute in Dundee, U.K.
Katarina Khosravi
Administrative Assistant Katarina received her undergraduate degree in economics from SP University in Kosice, Slovakia. She then pursued graduate studies at both the University of Virginia and University of Oklahoma graduate schools of banking. She comes to CEMS after most recently working as the administrative assistant to the CEO of Niku and Associates in Champlain, N.Y.
Photos: Dave Seaver