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.

May 16, 2025
SOCKS Co-PI, Christopher Danforth, PhD, was one of two UVM University Scholar awardees for the 2024-2025 academic year. His University Scholar’s lecture focused on "Computational Social Science at UVM: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) Project & Lived Experiences Measured Using Rings Study (LEMURS)" on May 5, 2025 at the UVM Waterman Memorial Lounge.

May 7, 2025
Trisha Shrum, PhD, Assistant Professor Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont and member of the SOCKS Social Team, was featured in The Washington Post on April 29, 2025. Columnist Michael J. Coren spoke with her in the article "Writing to the Future is One of the Most Powerful Climate Actions You Can Take."

May 6, 2025
Four SOCKS Health Team Undergraduate Research Assistants, Nabil Balach, Ian Bhatia, Suzannah Buehler, and Maggie Demeo-Meres presented a poster at the National Undergraduate Research Conference at Brown University in April 2025.

May 1, 2025
Please join in congratulating Dr. Nick Cheney, SOCKS Social Team Member, for receiving the UVM Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring!  The award celebrates and honors exemplary mentoring of Ph.D. students by members of the Regular Graduate Faculty. 

March 16, 2025
Vermont EPSCoR partnered with Norwich University for the 66th annual Vermont Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fair on March 16, 2025.

The day-long event at Norwich University showcased the work of Vermont students in grades 6-12. Student projects answered questions and offered solutions from across the many STEM fields.

April 11, 2025
The University Scholars Awards, presented annually, honor and recognize distinguished UVM faculty members for sustained excellence in research, creative and scholarly activities.
 
Please join us at the Waterman Memorial Lounge for his University Scholar Lecture, May 5th at 4PM: "Computational Social Science at UVM: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and ...

March 21, 2025
In 2020 cinema-going plummeted amid the COVID pandemic. In the years since, attendance has been on the rise in many parts of the world but is still below prepandemic levels. Inflation, the rise of streaming services such as Netflix and a shift towards prestigious TV series may all play a part in these trends. The film industry is therefore under more pressure than ever to attract ...

March 19, 2025
Julia Zimmerman, a Graduate Research Assistant with the SOCKS Capacity Team, presented her dissertation defense on March 19, 2025. The presentation, "Locality, Relation, and Meaning Construction in Language, as Implemented in Humans and Large Language Models (LLMs)," explored the evolution of LLMs and neural networks.