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The $1.12 million award given to Norwich University Applied Research Institutes will include funding for remote monitoring and cybersecurity with oversight from the Army Corps of Engineer’s Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory.
“The importance of having a reliable energy grid in cold weather is something that every Vermonter understands,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). “With this project, Vermont is again at the front of designing and developing microgrids that can be relied on in cold weather conditions, in the face of the forces of nature and malicious human attackers, and will teach this to the next generation of students.”
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In ‘Learning Spaces’ contest, international group designs outdoor learning and play spaces
The “think globally, act locally” catchphrase encourages problem solvers to consider global health and local communities as they work. For “Learning Spaces,” an outdoor classroom design competition, Norwich University thought and looked globally inviting inventive high schoolers from around the world to submit ideas for outdoor spaces for learning and play.
Fifty-seven people from 10 countries on four continents registered for the contest, which ran Nov. 12 through Dec. 13. Forty-two students entered, including students from India, Sri Lanka and Canada. The first-place winner submitted from Poland.
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Vermont Business Magazine Norwich University has joined the U.S. Strategic Command Academic Alliance (USSTRATCOM) Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance to enable collaborative faculty and student research and interactions with the nation’s top experts on issues related to nuclear deterrence and assurance and national security.
USSTRATCOM membership will provide opportunities for Norwich University students to participate in the annual Academic Alliance research conference and to apply for paid internships at USSTRATCOM’s headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.
The alliance also offers nuclear deterrence-focused war game simulations and experiential learning opportunities to member universities and a platform to participate in a national security speaker series.
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For Arctic Microgrids and Energy Resilience education
Vermont Business Magazine Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI) announced today that it has successfully secured two contracts received under the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Broad Agency Announcement process totaling $1.12 million.
Regarding the Arctic Microgrid program, worth $625K, work in this initial effort will identify the necessary requirements to characterize, design, simulate and develop plans to prototype and test the cold regions microgrids. These systems will be built upon an open architecture to allow modular construction and operation in response to location and operational issues. Consideration for remote monitoring and operations and cybersecurity constraints will be integrated into the program with oversight from the ERDC Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory (CRREL).
Support from university community, standout students help project thrive, co-director Tara Kulkarni says
As Norwich University, and the rest of the country, wait for COVID-19 vaccinations to arrive, the interdisciplinary Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Initiative team keeps working to keep campus healthy in the interim, gathering on-campus samples and searching for genetic tracers of the novel coronavirus.
To spread the word, civil and environmental engineering professor Tara Kulkarni, on Tuesday explained the initiative on Waterbury, Vermont, radio station WDEV’s “Vermont Viewpoint” program.
During a half-hour chat, Kulkarni, who co-directs the initiative and directs the university’s Center for Global Resilience and Security, told host Ric Cengeri how an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students, which includes civil engineering, construction management, chemistry and biochemistry and humanities majors, had since September developed a plan to test wastewater from the