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Save the date! SBIR/STTR Funding Workshops:

November 4 - Burlington at the Davis Center, UVM Campus
November 5 - Montpelier at the Capital Plaza Hotel
November 6 - Bennington at Bennington College

To register or find out more, please contact us at epscor@uvm.edu

Early Bird Preview at the Tech Jam, October 25, 1 p.m. at 242 Main, Burlington
"Finding the Money"
http://www.techjamvt.com/vermont-tech-jam/schedule/

Stay tuned for more details!

New Study Examines Role of Government in Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
UVM News
The initial idea for the Deepwater Horizon article flowed from a previous article written by Koliba, Mills and Asim Zia, associate professor in CDAE, that used a governance network accountability model created by the three researchers to look at the ...

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Next month, Vermonters will go to the polls to vote for the governor, lieutenant governor, U.S. Representative, state representatives and senators and a host of other positions. And they’ll also decide on county positions, such as sheriff, assistant judge and high bailiff.

So what people elected to these positions actually do?

Chris Koliba, UVM Master of Public Administration Program and a professor in Community Development and Applied Economics, and Vermont historian Paul Gillies look at Vermont’s county government system, why it exists and how it developed.

"Finding the Money"
Dr. Patrick Clemins, Cyber Specialist, and Private Sector Liaison, VT EPSCoR, will moderate this panel discussion on Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer grants aimed at innovative entrepreneurs seeking funding. A panel of grant recipients and funding specialists will discuss SBIR/STTR, how it differs from and can be used with venture capital, and how Vermont entrepreneurs have used federal SBIR/STTR grants to boost technology development and build successful businesses.

Marching toward our climate future
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... for those who come after us. Look at the autumn colors and remember. Alan Betts is a leading climate scientist and a past president of the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering. He lives in Pittsford and can be reached at vtclimatescience@aol.com.

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Vermont Public Radio
Whyfor Vermont County Government?
Vermont Public Radio
Chris Koliba, UVM Master of Public Administration Program and a professor in Community Development and Applied Economics, and Vermont historian Paul Gillies look at Vermont's county government system, why it exists and how it developed. Post your ...

VT EPSCoR is pleased to provide 3 funding opportunities with awards of up to $15,000 to Vermont based businesses and 1 funding opportunity for Vermont faculty. Web application forms are now available.

NORTHFIELD, Vt. – A way to turn stormwater runoff into drinking water will be investigated in one of two recently awarded research grants to the David Crawford School of Engineering at Norwich University.
Both grant projects are overseen by Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Tara Kulkarni.

The outspoken voices of four young high-school women, who just participated in one of nine Governor’s Institutes of Vermont (GIV), best captures the spirit of GIV’s educational empowerment:

“I wanted to have conversations that don’t happen at school.”
“Traditionally men are in leadership roles. The women here want to change that.”
“There is only so much I can do on my own. Here I learn ways to make a difference.”
“I wanted more confidence to speak out.”
Their particular Institute happened to be focused on Current Issues and Youth Activism and was held at The School for International Training in Brattleboro in July. But each summer, in nine different focus-areas and locations, 12-day long residencies geared to Vermont high school students on Vermont college campuses provide transformative educational opportunities. GIV also organizes two winter events.

- See more at: http://www.vermontwoman.com/articles/2014/0914/gouvinstitutes/gov-institutes.html#sthash.mm9xkojM.dpuf

On September 25th, 2014, the Center for Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD) hosted a RACC/NEWRnet Water Quality Workshop at Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington, VT. There were >250 seventh and eighth grade students with their 3 science teachers: Kate Jesdale, Michelle Cullen, and Kathy Willey. Students worked in small groups to collect field data, make observations on the biotic/abiotic habitat, and learn how scientists use technology to answer regional and local biogeochemical questions related to climate change and land use.

VT EPSCoR RACC Team Visits the National Science Foundation Sept. 17, 2014 for Reverse Site Visit.

Professional News: Sept. 24, 2014
UVM News
18 and 19, Vermont state climatologist and geography professor Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux visited the the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she gave a presentation, titled "Communication of scientific information to general audiences,” as part of ...

A NORWICH UNIVERSITY professor-student team is working to build a better environment for our communities, demonstrating another example of NU's guiding value, "service to nation and others before self."

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Tara Kulkarni has earned two different research grants that both aim to improve our environment.

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One is a pilot grant that funds her collaboration with a student research project led by senior civil engineering student Susan Limberg. Kulkarni, as the faculty adviser, wrote a proposal based on Limberg's idea for improving sustainability within our constructed environment. They received a Phase I, $15,000 grant from the P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability, a national-level competition offered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Top 5 accomplishments: President of the Vermont Commons School's chapter of National Honor Society, Volleyball – won a state championship, Outstanding Player of state tournament, all league selection, and Co-Captain, Received Vermont Commons Science Award, Awarded Best High School Poster for year long research project on climate change through EPSCoR, Presented at NAIS conference in Orlando FL on Engaging Students as Global Citizens.

Funding opportunity for Vermont small businesses, in partnership with university faculty, to develop projects that are aligned with the current VT EPSCoR RII Track-1 grant, Research on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin (RACC)

This weekend, some Vermonters were in New York City for a massive protest about climate change in the United States. Meanwhile, new research from UVM has added more data to a picture of rising temperatures and less snow in the coming century. Monday on Vermont Edition, we’ll look at the impacts of climate change in our region. Our guests are: Brian Beckage, a plant biologist at UVM and co-author of the study, "Impacts of Projected Climate Change over the Lake Champlain Basin in Vermont" that was published last month in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology; and Gillian Galford, an ecologist at the Gund Institute at UVM, who authored the Vermont Climate Change Assessment in June.

RACC member Alan Betts provided a presentation entitled "Climate Change in the Northeast" at the annual conference of the Northern NE Chapter of the American Planning Association in Stow Vermont on Sept 11th 2014.
This year’s conference was held at the beautiful Stoweflake Resort and Spa in Stowe, Vermont. This year’s theme was BIG PICTURE PLANNING; planning for big issues and big outcomes! Climate Change, Transportation/Infrastructure, and Economic Development – in the New England context.

RACC member Alan Betts interviewed on September 2nd, 2014 on WGDR Radio

Breck Bowden, director of the Lake Champlain Sea Grant Program, teaches us about lake phenomena like turnover and seiche.

Seven Days
Climate Gathering in Middlebury Preps Activists for March
Seven Days
The Lake Champlain basin will grow hotter and hotter as the century progresses, according to the forecast offered by UVM engineering graduate student Justin Guilbert, with support from plant biology professor Brian Beckage. Average temperatures will ...

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