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MBF Bioscience received a prestigious Tibbetts Award during a ceremony at the White House on May 16. The Tibbetts Award recognizes MBF Bioscience for a number of accomplishments including: technological innovation, serving federal Research and Development needs, encouraging diverse participation, and increasing the practical commercial use of federal research.

Chris Danforth (left) and Peter Dodds, associate professors of mathematics at UVM, look at their hedonometer, which measures public emotions by analyzing words used on Twitter.

Out for trout in Lake Champlain
BurlingtonFreePress.com
On Saturday, Marsden, her colleague Jason Stockwell, a skipper, a student, three guys from Lake Champlain International, a couple from Shelburne, their friend from New Jersey, a man from Essex, N.Y., and a newspaper reporter set sail for Shelburne Bay ...

After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire. Lots of people were wondering if global warming had finally arrived, here at home. This week, stories about this new reality.

Presentations from the 2013 VT EPSCoR Annual State Meeting are now available on the Vermont EPSCoR website.

Wireless Sensor Networks Market to 2016: Global Industry Trends, Size, Growth ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Comprehensive profiles of key companies such as SmartLabs Inc., Zensys, Dust Networks, MicroStrain Inc. and so on are discussed. Analytical Framework a Porters five forces analysis is provided to give a comprehensive. Reasons to buy. Exploit growth ...

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How Vermont Raised Its Gas Tax  Governing

Bears boys tennis starts off strong in D-V playoffs
Hanford Sentinel
“We played really well ... ,” said Michael Cross, Selma coach. “Coalinga was a pretty familiar team for us to face having them in league last year and all. My singles players got off to a strong start, and most of them kept that momentum.” Selma went 5 ...

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BU picks marketing firm
Peoria Journal Star
“Nelligan has a level of professionalism and expertise that comes from doing this with schools across the country,” said BU athletics director Michael Cross. “When you're doing it in-house, you're somewhat limited in knowing what's going on out there ...

The first round of photos from the Vermont EPSCoR annual state meeting have been posted to Facebook. More photos coming soon.......

Gullerat, along with three other CCV students, has been selected by Vermont EPSCoR to work as an intern this summer in the organization’s Research on Adaptation to Climate Change (RACC) program. According to Vermont EPSCoR’s Center for Workforce Development and Diversity Director Miranda Lescaze, the four students will be working in watershed areas around the state collecting water samples, analyzing data, answering research questions, and creating final presentations that in the end will give them, and the state, a better grasp on the challenges climate change poses for the region.

Three Colchester High School students have been recognized for their contributions to climate change research as a result of their extensive and impressive work with the University of Vermont’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Research on Adaptation to Climate Change (RACC) project!

Bowls Club marks 28 years with awards evening
Watford Observer
The winners this year were Chipperfield resident Ray Phillips with his competition partner Alan Betts, just beating Club Chairman Terry Timberlake and Ted Luck. Mr Timberlake presented the John Prestwich trophy to Derek Bates, as the most improved ...

New technology developing a thermometer for happiness  USA TODAY

NASA采用RFID技术获取航天飞机和火箭发射过程中的振动数据
RFID世界网
由无线传感器公司MicroStrain提供的这套解决方案，用的是内置传感器的2.4 GHz有源RFID标签，它们安装在发射台周围的不同位置，以测量火箭发射期间产生的振动水平。美国宇航局通过对数据的分析，更深入地了解发射过程 ...

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LORD Corporation's Ketcham to Present At the American Helicopter Society ...
Newswire Today (press release)
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Cary, NC, United States, 2013/05/13 - LORD Corporation has announced that Rich Ketcham, Senior Electrical Engineer, LORD MicroStrain Sensing Systems, will present a paper at the American Helicopter Society (AHS) ...

Registration for the VT EPSCoR Annual State Meeting closes today (May 13th, 2013) at 4 p.m.

We invite you to join us for the VT EPSCoR Research on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin (RACC) Annual State Meeting, a 1-day meeting comprised of scientific presentations, posters and networking opportunities.

Visitors from the National Science Foundation, Congressional Offices, State and Local Agencies, Researchers, Private Sector, Graduate and Undergraduate Students will be present to share progress and provide updates on the second year of the Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin: New Understanding through Complex Systems (RACC) project.

Members of the VT EPSCoR Question 1 team presented their work to the LCBP technical advisory committee at the LCBP spring meeting. RACC Q1 Team Leader Andrew Schroth provided an overview of the Q1 overall progress as well as their plans for the upcoming field season. RACC Q1 team members Peter Isles and Courtney Giles provided talks about their research.

Do well-needed vacations actually bum us out?  NBC News

Vermont EPSCoR members visited the Vermont State House on May 7, 2013. Legislators from around the state stopped by to learn about the Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin: New Understanding through Complex Systems (RACC) research and VT EPSCoR Center for Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD) at Saint Michael's College integrated workforce development outreach programs for middle school teachers, high schools, undergraduates including disabled and military veterans.