August 21, 2025

It might start as a joke, a belief, or a rumor. At first, it’s easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others take over the internet?

August 12, 2025
SOCKS Doctoral Candidate Katie Ekstrom Grenon appeared as a guest on the WCAX program Across the Fence. Click here to view the video.

August 7, 2025
It all adds up to a great experience! Vermont EPSCoR and the Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV) teamed up to strengthen workforce development efforts among Vermont high school students with an amazing summer camp opportunity! GIV hosted two, week-long institutes in July 2025 which brought 10th, 11th, and 12th graders from across Vermont together for a week of learning. The ...

August 4, 2025
"I wish I had started sooner because this is so fun and there's so much to do, but I couldn't have. I think we needed this technological computational revolution to ask kinds of questions that are really important for improving human outcomes." Katie Ekstrom Grenon, SOCKS Doctoral Candidate, Interprofessional Health Sciences Program, UVM

July 22, 2025
"SOCKS is a big data tool which enables us to understand human text in ways that reveal things about human beings. Whether it's Wikipedia or Twitter or Reddit or all these kind of spaces where people talk, we can see things that are happening in all those conversations that we couldn't see if we're just looking one page at a time or one tweet at a time." Randall Harp, Associate ...

July 18, 2025
Join us as the SOCKS Summer Interns present their summer research projects.

June 3, 2025
SOCKS Health Team Graduate Research Associate, Katie Grenon, and undergraduate research student, Skyler Heininger, disseminated findings from their work at the University of Vermont College of Nursing and Health Sciences Zeigler Research Forum on May 7, 2025.

June 3, 2025
SOCKS Postdoctoral Research Associate, Giulio Burgio, PhD co-authored a recent article published in the May 2025 issue of Nature Communications. The article, "Characteristic Scales and Adaptation in Higher-Order Contagions," presented research from Dr. Burgio's work on SOCKS.

May 29, 2025
Regina Toolin, PhD, Associate Professor of STEM Education at the University of Vermont (UVM) and member of the SOCKS Education and Workforce Development Team, was named a recipient of the 2025 Joseph A. Abruscato Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, recognizing her as an exemplar who achieves the ideals of the teacher-scholar recognition as a researcher and educator ...

May 20, 2025
The University of Vermont (UVM) held its annual Research Week from April 21-25, 2025, showcasing the many research projects going on at the institution. SOCKS researchers featured prominently in several events, including talks, tours, and poster presentations.