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Good morning everybody as you're joining.

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I am going to get started

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because we have quite a full agenda today.

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I wanna thank you for
joining us online today.

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We have about 55 people

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that are listening in
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So it's very exciting.

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We're glad that you're
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and we hope to give you an orientation

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to the University of Vermont today

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to help you to get a flavor of
what your graduate experience

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at the College of Engineering
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would be.

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We want you to enjoy today
what we have to present to you,

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and to ask questions

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so that by the end of our time together,

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you can feel more comfortable
in your familiarity with UVM

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and be excited for all
that awaits you here.

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We are using a teams
live event format today.

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So please be aware that
though we wish we could,

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we presenters can't see you.

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We will be presenting to you.

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If you have a question however,

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there is a Q&A chat that I
have open and am monitoring

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and we'll be monitoring
during our time together.

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So therefore,

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enter your questions in the Q&A chat

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and we'll be sure to address them.

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This event is also being recorded.

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I will send the recording
to all of the participants

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with a short after event survey

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where you can give feedback
about the visit day.

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So you'll see that there
is the agenda I sent to you

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earlier this week and
is really read up online

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and is really kind of
the outline of the time

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that we have today, who
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And yeah, I do wanna just stress

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that I'd love for you to
enjoy our time together.

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I am now very pleased
to introduce the dean

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of the College of Engineering
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to give an introduction
to graduate studies here.

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Thank you for being here

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at our Accepted Student Visit Day.

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You're coming or visiting UVM
at a really exciting time.

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We have two brand new buildings,

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innovation and discovery
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mathematics, statistics, data
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physics and also chemistry.

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And a fully renovated engineering building

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that has the engineering programs.

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So we have fantastic new spaces.

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We're also embarking on renovating

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a really historic building

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with huge tall ceilings
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as a new graduate student space

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to encourage social interaction and study

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and scholarly interaction
where there's meeting spaces

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and beautiful graduate student offices.

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So that should be coming online
in the next couple of years.

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I wanna also let you know
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at an exciting time because
our graduate research funding

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has grown by at least 50%
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So there's really exciting
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growing really rapidly.

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So I hope you take a look at
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I also wanted to let you know

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about two other important outcomes

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that we've learned about recently.

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We had a reviews of all
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in the last year.

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that emerged out of that

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is how strong the faculty
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in our graduate programs.

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The students and the faculty

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have a real intellectual community

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and they feel very supported

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and valued by their faculty advisors.

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So as you're meeting with faculty today,

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explore that a little bit,
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that we have some of the
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most creative faculty that
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That's how I feel about them anyway.

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Another thing I wanna let you know about

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is that we have a
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but this is a group of students
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but are also doing social
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So in addition to the
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that we're creating, we're working hard

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on continuing to grow the social community

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that we have in the college
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So those were kind of my key messages.

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I don't know, Jane, if
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for questions or I should step aside.

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(Linda laughs)

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[Jane] We don't have any questions yet,

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but let's hold on a minute
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a chance to put in a
question in the live chat.

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And so if you have any
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please fire away.

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We'll give that just another-

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Yeah, that's fine.

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The important questions are
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of your fellow graduate
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and the faculty program directors.

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So enjoy your day.

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And again, thank you
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and I look forward to seeing
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Thank you Dean Schadler.

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Okay, then we are gonna
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with the faculty members who are here

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to introduce the programs.

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And we will start with
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to Professor Sansoz.

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So I'm Frederic Sansoz.

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I am the graduate program director

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for the mechanical
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So if you are here today,
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I assume you've been
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so congratulations.

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is we'll be able getting
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through your graduate studies at UVM.

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is to associate you with a thesis advisor.

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if you want to receive some
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you are required to conduct a thesis,

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either the PhD or the master's student

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and therefore you have
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with a thesis advisor.

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So that's the goal of
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So just for mechanical
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we have faculty in five areas

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material science in engineering,

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we have faculty in
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also faculty who inform research

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applied to medical research.

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on computational mechanics.

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contact me and I will put you in touch

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with the right faculty.

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Thank you.

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Next, we'll go to biomedical engineering

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and we'll hear from Professor Doiron.

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I will do a brief intro
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We're the biomedical engineering program.

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You can see here on
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and their areas of expertise.

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We range in expertise from
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to neuroimaging and computational modeling

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with all of the focus

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being of course on the
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we have three options
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coursework only, project
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where about half of the
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of the BME graduate program

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is that we collaborate very heavily

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with the college of medicine,
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It's in fact about maybe
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in research and in teaching

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and be able to have a very strong program

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that bridges the main
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with a strong vision

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that is focused on enhancing opportunities

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LCOM and the electrical
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is one of our main focus
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The interests that we have in
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bridges all areas of research.

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to learn more about
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and talk more about opportunities

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that might be potential collaborations

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and you can see just some
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a couple of months ago in that conference.

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and in your interest area.

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So I'll leave it at that and
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to talking to some of you later on today.

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Thank you so much.

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With a technical difficulty,

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I actually have Professor
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so I'm going to pass it over

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to talk about civil and
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Hello, everybody.

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Sorry for a little technical difficulty,

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but we are resourceful

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in civil and environmental engineering.

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So I just came down to Jane's office

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and decided to talk from her computer.

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So my name is Eric Hernandez

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and I am the graduate program director

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for civil and environmental engineering.

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We have a vibrant program

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with more than 40 graduate
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that advise students at different levels.

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As I said, accelerated
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affiliated with our department,

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including the UVM
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that has been going on
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A very strong research center
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related to transportation,
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and other interesting issues like that.

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We were just recently awarded
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where we have a number
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for PhD students that are
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So definitely worthwhile taking a look.

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It has a lot of great benefits

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and very flexible in terms of
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that can be addressed
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So I encourage all of you
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and contact me if you have any questions

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or any interest in talking
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that might be of interest to you.

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So thank you and I hope you
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Thank you very much Professor Hernandez.

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And next we're gonna hear
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and data science with
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Thank you Jane.

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You did a great job on my name.

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It's not an easy one.

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So I'm Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
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you can call me Laurent Hébert-Dufresne.

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That's okay.

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So I'm a professor of
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but the program director
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in complex systems and data science.

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And so I think what I wanna explain today

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sort of break some assumptions
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It's a weirder program

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'cause it doesn't sit in
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computer science, also
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from food systems, philosophy.

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is just like you,

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doesn't necessarily
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It's a very diverse group of people

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that are interested in
working on multidisciplinary

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and important problems.

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And so other students
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might also be interested in knowing

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what our data science courses are like,

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because that's really
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of a lot of programs.

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I like to think of the data
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as statistics for problem or the theory

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isn't quite been worked out yet.

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So that's a lot of natural
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machine learning, network models,

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trying to build on sort
of the core foundation

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of statistics, but in
those weirder applications.

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half of our program is a
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building models for
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like the link between social
media and mental health.

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You can't tell, but I'm
pointing at Chris Danforth

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who's on the screen right now.

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All applications of machine learning.

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I'm pointing at Safwan Wshah.

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And I do sort of network models

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for the spread of epidemics, hate speech,

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trying to understand how bad things

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and good things sometimes

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spread through our social networks.

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I also wanna highlight that the fact that

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it's a very diverse group of people

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doesn't mean they're social cohesion.

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I invite you to as quickly as possible

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ask questions to other graduate students

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about the different social activities.

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We have student led seminars every Monday.

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We have get together with faculty

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and students every Thursday.

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So as quickly as possible

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you'll wanna be sort of
incorporated in this cohort

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because people can sit
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different labs.

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It's good to like get together
and talk about weird stuff.

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And in terms of funding and
registering for courses,

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it goes as other programs
which you've heard.

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We have a lot of partnerships
with federal funding agencies

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and some private companies
like MassMutual and Google.

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And so we have fellowships available

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for people interested in doing research.

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So at if any stage, even starting today,

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if you're curious in getting
connected with faculty members

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and you haven't done so yet,
feel free to reach out to me.

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If you have questions about courses,

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you can reach out to me,

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but I think you'll get
a more honest answer

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if you reach out to senior grad students

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that you'll meet throughout
the rest of the day.

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And so I'll be happy
to answer any questions

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about complex STEMs and data science,

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but that's the very fast sort of breakdown

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of who we are and what we do.

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Wonderful, thank you very much.

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We are now going to head over
to math and Professor Danforth

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has graciously joined us
today to talk about that.

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Thanks Jane.

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I appreciate everybody coming

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to hear about what we do here at UVM.

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It's a exciting time in all of the areas

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that people are here to talk about.

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So I'm Chris,

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I've been at UVM for 17 years now

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and I'm in the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics

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and I advise students in
a few of the PhD programs

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that you're hearing about
today and master's programs.

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But I'm filling in for Taras Lakoba

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who is the graduate director in math.

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So the math department
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tenure track faculty who do research

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in theoretical mathematical
areas like analysis,

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algebra, arithmetic, geometry,
number theory, graph theory,

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which is sort of the more theoretical side

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of network science,
combinatorics, topology.

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So those are some of our more active areas

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in theoretical mathematics.

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And then we have applied
mathematics expertise also

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in differential equations,
numerical analysis,

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mathematical biology, complex systems.

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Some of the folks
Laurent just talked about

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work on that data science,
computational social science.

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So those are some areas.

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And I work in applied math

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and I'll just tell you
briefly about one project

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that's really exciting
where you might not expect

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mathematicians to be involved,

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but we have this big new study of health

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that involves 600 first year
students at UVM this year

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who've been wearing this aura ring

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measuring their heart rate continuously.

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And in the fall we just
did some observation

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of how much sleep they were getting,

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maybe you were recently
in college and know

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that freshmen don't
like to sleep very much.

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So we're trying to figure
out how to help them

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do better turns their GPA
will increase by a point

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for every extra half
hour that they're in bed.

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So that's good.

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And this spring we're sending them

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into different treatment groups,

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spending time outside
being exposed to nature

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and the restorative benefits they get.

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There's a therapy group
talking about mindfulness

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and gratitude and different practices

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that can help with stress.

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And then there's an exercise group

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that people are waking up

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and trying to get their body
moving and (indistinct).

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We're gonna see how these wearable devices

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can tell us about their health.

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And there's lots of interesting
data science questions

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in there, data ethics questions.

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I thought maybe people
haven't done much of this yet,

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but I'll tell you where
some of our recent graduates

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have gone.

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You're thinking about
how a graduate degree

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would help you in your career.

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And I wouldn't recommend
going to graduate school

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just because you don't
know what else to do.

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I think it's a good idea
that you have a plan in mind

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and part of our goal today

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and when you meet with potential advisors

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is to help you see how this
could help you get there

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to that goal and maybe even
help you see what it is,

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what that goal could be.

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So that's one of the most
exciting aspects of our job

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is helping people get
the career that they want

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and love and are happy in.

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So we take a lot of pride in
that and work hard on that.

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So we have recent graduates
who are faculty members

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who wanted to keep
teaching and doing research

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at Rutgers, Drexel, Lehigh,
the University of Pittsburgh,

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University of Western Washington.

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Those are some recent PhDs
who went on to teach there

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and do research.

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We have a lot of graduates
in mathematical sciences

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who go on to be data scientists,

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several at life insurance companies.

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We have a few at Adobe, L.L.
Bean, Zillow and Facebook

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and few other of the tech companies.

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And then we also have people

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who wanna do research and not teach.

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And so they've ended up
as staff members at NASA

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in the Jet Propulsion Lab
at Sandia National Lab

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and the Department of Veterans Affairs

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working on oncology for veterans

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and the Institute for Defense Analyses,

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helping do the code breaking

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that helps our country protect itself.

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And anyway, so those are the ways

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that some of our recent graduates

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have gone off into the world.

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I am happy to answer questions
about any of that stuff

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and really excited that you're here.

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Thank you.

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Thanks very much.

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Yeah, and I'm looking at our live Q&A

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and there aren't too many questions yet,

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so please feel free to put
them in and I'll be sure to ask

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while we have faculty here.

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And in the meantime
we're gonna move to stats

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and talk with Professor Single

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about what's going on over there.

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Okay.

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Yes, I'm Professor Richard Single

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and I'm going to share my screen

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and hopefully that is the correct screen.

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Someone yell if that looks
like I'm sharing my email

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or some other...

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So I'm gonna talk about three
aspects of the statistics

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and biostatistics programs here.

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I'll just briefly mention
some of the community aspects.

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Laurent has mentioned some aspects

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that our students will
participate already.

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We also have a separate

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statistics and data science journal club

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that is across the campus.

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We have participation from
groups, various departments.

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There are opportunities for
learning beyond the classroom.

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I'll talk a little bit about
various research expertise

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of our faculty and places
where you can get involved.

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We have had a very
strong internship program

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that took a bit of a
pause during the pandemic

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because of issues related to being site.

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One of the primary places

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that we've had lots of student interns go

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is the Vermont Department of Health.

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And as you can imagine,
they were very much involved

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in the pandemic work,

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and that precluded our interns

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from being there on site
for a period of time.

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And that's just coming back.

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And then if I don't go too long,

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maybe I'll mention some
employment issues and ideas.

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So I'm gonna start by letting Hal Varian

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say a few words here.

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I keep saying the sexy
job in the next 10 years

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will be statisticians.

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Okay, so I just have to play
that little bit right there.

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I play it every once
in a while for my wife.

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So she hears that the
sexy job is statistician.

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And now just let him finish off here.

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The ability to take that data,

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to be able to understand it,

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to process it, to extract value from it,

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to visualize it, to communicate it,

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that's going to be a
hugely important skill.

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Okay, so that's really what
our program is all about

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is being able to understand data

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and extract value from it.

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And data from a variety of areas.

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So that's what I wanna just touch on

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the diversity of some
of the faculty research

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that we have here.

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We are a moderate sized program

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but the areas that our faculty
touch on are very diverse.

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So Professor Buzas works
on measurement error

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in regression models

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and he has applied work in epidemiology

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and economics, geosciences.

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His major work is with
neonatal intensive care units.

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So doing assessment of the performance

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of these hospitals for
very young children.

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Professor Cole works
in cancer biostatistics

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and his methodological work involves

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evaluating quality of life

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at the same time as evaluating survival

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in clinical trials involving cancer.

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Most clinical trial research

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focuses strictly on the survival analysis

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of individuals undergoing
cancer treatment.

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And this is a pretty unique area

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of research that he has pioneered.

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He has large collaborations
with breast cancer researchers

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and involved in several
international clinical trials.

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Professor Crocker is
the director of research

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for the National Center
on Restorative Justice.

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And so her work focuses on looking

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at incarcerated populations,
health disparities,

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looking at the social
conditions within the prisons

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and opportunities for restorative justice

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and evaluating those opportunities.

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Professor Single, hey that's me,

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works in immunogenetics.

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And I work with genes of the immune system

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and do both anthropological work

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and look for disease associations.

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The part that I find
most enjoyable about this

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is being able to look
at developing methods

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for this is a difficult area
of the genome to analyze.

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And so a lot of methods
that work out of the box

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for other areas do not

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because we've got so
many different variants

524
00:27:05,580 --> 00:27:07,923
for our immune genes.

525
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:14,360
And also then looking at the
evidence of natural selection.

526
00:27:15,510 --> 00:27:20,170
And so getting to put
an anthropologist hat

527
00:27:21,086 --> 00:27:22,953
for a bit of my my work.

528
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,983
I have also been involved in
opioid use disorder programs,

529
00:27:29,850 --> 00:27:34,850
evaluation of the interventions for those.

530
00:27:35,370 --> 00:27:39,393
And Professor Young works
in Beijing Statistics.

531
00:27:41,910 --> 00:27:43,530
His methodological research

532
00:27:43,530 --> 00:27:47,883
is in network models and network science.

533
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,650
And he does his applied research.

534
00:27:52,650 --> 00:27:56,910
A lot of it is involving
epidemiological models

535
00:27:56,910 --> 00:27:58,990
and working through

536
00:28:00,594 --> 00:28:05,340
the Global Infectious
Disease Research Center,

537
00:28:05,340 --> 00:28:09,870
which is housed here at UVM
in the College of Medicine.

538
00:28:09,870 --> 00:28:12,930
And I'm going to say Laurent

539
00:28:12,930 --> 00:28:15,180
because I know I will
butcher his last name

540
00:28:15,180 --> 00:28:17,670
if I try to say it.

541
00:28:17,670 --> 00:28:22,670
But Laurent also collaborates
with Professor Young

542
00:28:22,950 --> 00:28:24,123
on those as well.

543
00:28:25,350 --> 00:28:30,350
And finally I'm just gonna
touch on a couple of students

544
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:35,337
and where they go from
their degrees in statistics.

545
00:28:37,650 --> 00:28:40,260
So here we've got a student Rachel,

546
00:28:40,260 --> 00:28:43,260
who did an internship while she was here

547
00:28:43,260 --> 00:28:48,260
in survey sampling design
with a local company ICF

548
00:28:49,980 --> 00:28:51,660
that's down at the bottom of the page.

549
00:28:51,660 --> 00:28:55,440
She then worked for an
engineering company,

550
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,423
the resource systems group.

551
00:28:58,860 --> 00:29:01,140
And has now taken a job

552
00:29:01,140 --> 00:29:04,950
that's at the Dartmouth
Institute for Health and Policy.

553
00:29:04,950 --> 00:29:08,973
So she is over in neighboring
New Hampshire doing that.

554
00:29:10,890 --> 00:29:14,460
Another student of ours
started with an internship

555
00:29:14,460 --> 00:29:16,650
at the Department of Health.

556
00:29:16,650 --> 00:29:21,510
She moved on to her
first job out of school

557
00:29:21,510 --> 00:29:26,510
was as a SAS programmer
for Kaiser Permanente,

558
00:29:28,740 --> 00:29:33,150
which is one of the large HMOs

559
00:29:33,150 --> 00:29:36,270
health maintenance
organizations that we have.

560
00:29:36,270 --> 00:29:41,220
She moved on to be a
business intelligence analyst

561
00:29:41,220 --> 00:29:45,633
and now is working as a senior
data scientist for Uber.

562
00:29:47,550 --> 00:29:52,550
And another former student, Frank

563
00:29:52,650 --> 00:29:57,650
was also an intern at the
Vermont Department of Health.

564
00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:02,730
He went on to a startup, My Web Grocer

565
00:30:02,730 --> 00:30:07,050
and then on to as a data
scientist for paychecks,

566
00:30:07,050 --> 00:30:12,033
which processes a large
proportion of online purchases,

567
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,550
and is now a data scientist and manager

568
00:30:17,550 --> 00:30:20,100
at Blue Cross Blue Shield.

569
00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:25,100
So just snapshot of three
individuals that we have there.

570
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,880
Students have done quite well

571
00:30:33,145 --> 00:30:37,967
in their post grad school job searches.

572
00:30:39,494 --> 00:30:40,327
Okay.

573
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,130
Thanks so much Professor Single.

574
00:30:44,130 --> 00:30:48,120
It's really helpful to
hear where graduates

575
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,530
are going onto and some of the
really interesting projects

576
00:30:52,530 --> 00:30:54,063
that people are working on.

577
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,620
Still don't have any
questions in the live Q&A,

578
00:30:57,620 --> 00:30:59,430
so just wanna put a plug into.

579
00:30:59,430 --> 00:31:03,810
Please put your questions so
that we can get them answered.

580
00:31:03,810 --> 00:31:05,580
But next we are going to hear

581
00:31:05,580 --> 00:31:09,573
from the computer science Professor Wshah.

582
00:31:10,650 --> 00:31:11,516
Thank you.

583
00:31:11,516 --> 00:31:13,087
Yeah, thanks Jane.

584
00:31:13,087 --> 00:31:15,780
And hello everyone and
thanks for your interest

585
00:31:15,780 --> 00:31:18,003
in CS graduate program.

586
00:31:19,058 --> 00:31:22,770
I am Safwan Wshah the
graduate program director.

587
00:31:22,770 --> 00:31:26,340
And here at CS we have two
main tracks or programs,

588
00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:28,260
which is the computer science one,

589
00:31:28,260 --> 00:31:31,770
which offer bachelor MS and PhD.

590
00:31:31,770 --> 00:31:34,410
I am the graduate program
director for this one.

591
00:31:34,410 --> 00:31:37,080
And the other one is the
complex system and data science

592
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,190
and lower is the graduate
program director for that one.

593
00:31:41,190 --> 00:31:44,550
So if you have any question in the future

594
00:31:44,550 --> 00:31:46,770
about CS just refer to me

595
00:31:46,770 --> 00:31:49,530
and complex system
please refer to Laurent.

596
00:31:49,530 --> 00:31:53,280
So maybe we are one of
the biggest department

597
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:54,543
and maybe Chris could challenge me

598
00:31:54,543 --> 00:31:56,400
that math is the biggest, right?

599
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,260
So maybe we are the second one

600
00:31:58,260 --> 00:31:59,940
but then we have a lot of research

601
00:31:59,940 --> 00:32:01,560
and many things is going on.

602
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,320
But most of our research I could say

603
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,570
it is interdisciplinary research

604
00:32:06,570 --> 00:32:10,320
that is with corporation
with UVM Medical Center,

605
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,130
with other colleges across
UVM with external corporations

606
00:32:14,130 --> 00:32:17,730
from other universities, from
the state, from industry.

607
00:32:17,730 --> 00:32:22,053
So there are many things going
on here in the CS department.

608
00:32:24,143 --> 00:32:28,140
The professors here working
on cutting edge research,

609
00:32:28,140 --> 00:32:30,990
I could see Josh Bongard
and Nick, Jane working

610
00:32:30,990 --> 00:32:32,880
on evolutionary robotics,

611
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,650
machine learning and its applications.

612
00:32:34,650 --> 00:32:36,420
Nick, Jane and myself,

613
00:32:36,420 --> 00:32:41,235
complex systems and networks
is Peter does and Laurent.

614
00:32:41,235 --> 00:32:44,160
And for the human computer interaction

615
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,810
is Yuanyuan Feng

616
00:32:45,810 --> 00:32:49,080
and maybe Josh Bongard
also in this field as well.

617
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,440
Software engineer is Jason Heppler,

618
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,400
Young Lee is in database and data mining.

619
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,500
Jonah data privacy and security.

620
00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:01,890
So we have a group for
cybersecurity which is called

621
00:33:01,890 --> 00:33:03,000
and they have a center called

622
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,700
Center for Computer Security and Privacy

623
00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:09,750
and Jonah, Jeremiah and
Chris Skalka in this one.

624
00:33:09,750 --> 00:33:14,280
I think also when in this one as well.

625
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:18,810
So Jonah is doing a lot of
data privacy and security.

626
00:33:18,810 --> 00:33:22,590
Jeremiah is doing cybersecurity
and malicious activity,

627
00:33:22,590 --> 00:33:25,170
understanding in online
accounts and honey botts

628
00:33:25,170 --> 00:33:27,540
and social network security.

629
00:33:27,540 --> 00:33:30,930
Chris Skalka is focusing
in addition to the security

630
00:33:30,930 --> 00:33:34,020
to the programming languages
and type of theory.

631
00:33:34,020 --> 00:33:37,410
So all of these CS professors
is working and publishing

632
00:33:37,410 --> 00:33:39,480
and capturing conferences and journals

633
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,950
and I'm sure you will
be part of this kind of

634
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,673
research very soon.

635
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,380
Also, as Linda said,

636
00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:52,050
CS is also been awarded many grants

637
00:33:52,050 --> 00:33:53,490
in the last few years.

638
00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:55,860
I don't wanna say it
was exponential increase

639
00:33:55,860 --> 00:33:58,860
but at least you could say
it is monatomic increase.

640
00:33:58,860 --> 00:34:02,070
So we have a lot of project is going on

641
00:34:02,070 --> 00:34:02,903
and we have...

642
00:34:04,890 --> 00:34:08,610
And I'm sure that most
of the professors at CS

643
00:34:08,610 --> 00:34:10,800
looking for good students

644
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,690
to carry on these research projects.

645
00:34:15,690 --> 00:34:19,140
So just touching base on the environments

646
00:34:19,140 --> 00:34:23,760
as a PhD students or master
student joining CS department,

647
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,910
you will have a very unique
and friendly environment

648
00:34:26,910 --> 00:34:28,920
to be engaged with
other students actually.

649
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,280
So Laurent has been actually went to this

650
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,350
and talked about it in details

651
00:34:34,350 --> 00:34:36,120
on how this interaction with our students.

652
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,580
So complex systems students and CS,

653
00:34:38,580 --> 00:34:40,380
they kind of same floor,

654
00:34:40,380 --> 00:34:42,690
they have a lot of interaction.

655
00:34:42,690 --> 00:34:47,100
So our strategy is to
have multiple students

656
00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:49,650
from different backgrounds,
from different labs

657
00:34:49,650 --> 00:34:51,420
sitting next to each other.

658
00:34:51,420 --> 00:34:54,300
And this experience by itself,

659
00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:57,570
students learned from each
other more than courses

660
00:34:57,570 --> 00:34:58,533
I could say that.

661
00:35:00,870 --> 00:35:04,350
Also, we have two main
graduate events every year.

662
00:35:04,350 --> 00:35:05,640
We have the CS Fair,

663
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,640
this is actually for both the
graduate and undergraduate.

664
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,920
But this brings everyone together.

665
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,870
The graduate students
will represent their work,

666
00:35:12,870 --> 00:35:14,850
not just only for faculty and students

667
00:35:14,850 --> 00:35:18,540
but also from representative
from industry.

668
00:35:18,540 --> 00:35:21,810
And the second one, which is
the Graduate Research Day.

669
00:35:21,810 --> 00:35:25,350
And this one is basically
focused on the graduate students.

670
00:35:25,350 --> 00:35:28,860
We invite external speakers
and internal speakers

671
00:35:28,860 --> 00:35:31,190
and the graduate students
present their research work

672
00:35:31,190 --> 00:35:33,630
in a full fund of day.

673
00:35:33,630 --> 00:35:38,280
So at the end, CS there is a
lot of things going on here

674
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,190
in all aspects, I don't
wanna give you examples

675
00:35:41,190 --> 00:35:43,110
but you can go to our webpage.

676
00:35:43,110 --> 00:35:44,550
There is many, many examples.

677
00:35:44,550 --> 00:35:46,410
We have our Twitter account

678
00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:49,320
with all these kind of stories in there.

679
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,000
Feel free to to go there.

680
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,970
Also one remind if you go to our website

681
00:35:53,970 --> 00:35:55,890
and go to any one of those programs,

682
00:35:55,890 --> 00:35:58,650
PhD or MS at the end you will find

683
00:35:58,650 --> 00:36:00,570
all that degree requirements.

684
00:36:00,570 --> 00:36:02,520
So take a look there,

685
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,310
make sure that this actually
match your interest.

686
00:36:05,310 --> 00:36:08,497
And one of the good thing about the PhD,

687
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,540
a comprehensive exam for example,

688
00:36:12,540 --> 00:36:14,730
like we leave it to the students to choose

689
00:36:14,730 --> 00:36:19,020
their three areas to be in
that comprehensive exam.

690
00:36:19,020 --> 00:36:22,200
And most of our students
actually did a great job in that.

691
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:23,550
So please at the end,

692
00:36:23,550 --> 00:36:26,970
please do not hesitate to
reach out to us at any time

693
00:36:26,970 --> 00:36:30,930
during your study to the
graduate program directors

694
00:36:30,930 --> 00:36:34,020
and to your supervisor all the time.

695
00:36:34,020 --> 00:36:36,210
Be connected with them
and we will do our best

696
00:36:36,210 --> 00:36:39,360
to make your education
at UVM fun and productive

697
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:40,530
as much as we can.

698
00:36:40,530 --> 00:36:42,973
Thank you very much everyone.

699
00:36:42,973 --> 00:36:45,690
Wonderful, thank you so much.

700
00:36:45,690 --> 00:36:50,690
And our final department
is electrical engineering.

701
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,290
We're gonna have Professor Almassalkhi,

702
00:36:55,290 --> 00:36:58,380
talk about all of the exciting
things going on there.

703
00:36:58,380 --> 00:37:01,080
Hey everyone, thanks for chiming in.

704
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,730
And I see we have 25 attendees

705
00:37:02,730 --> 00:37:04,140
and hopefully some of those are EEs.

706
00:37:04,140 --> 00:37:05,700
And it's too bad I can't see you guys

707
00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:08,287
but I appreciate you joining in.

708
00:37:08,287 --> 00:37:09,930
And so in electrical engineering

709
00:37:09,930 --> 00:37:12,210
we really focus on impactful research.

710
00:37:12,210 --> 00:37:14,130
So research that matters if it works

711
00:37:14,130 --> 00:37:16,350
and we try really hard to make it work.

712
00:37:16,350 --> 00:37:20,490
And we do that across
basically three general themes.

713
00:37:20,490 --> 00:37:22,230
And so that's computing

714
00:37:22,230 --> 00:37:24,060
where we touch on both computing hardware

715
00:37:24,060 --> 00:37:26,010
and computing software.

716
00:37:26,010 --> 00:37:28,920
It's on autonomy and control

717
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:33,420
where we basically look
at how do you get agents

718
00:37:33,420 --> 00:37:36,180
or devices or systems
to talk to each other

719
00:37:36,180 --> 00:37:39,360
to achieve something that
on their own they cannot.

720
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:40,860
And how do we make sure they can do so

721
00:37:40,860 --> 00:37:42,660
even under significant disturbances.

722
00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:45,300
So this could be for example, spacecraft,

723
00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:49,680
satellite trajectory
optimization, collision avoidance,

724
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,010
drones and autonomous vehicles.

725
00:37:53,010 --> 00:37:55,980
But we also take the idea
of autonomous systems

726
00:37:55,980 --> 00:37:59,070
to much, much bigger systems
including power systems.

727
00:37:59,070 --> 00:38:03,870
And so in the third theme
of electrical engineering

728
00:38:03,870 --> 00:38:07,110
is really energy and power systems.

729
00:38:07,110 --> 00:38:08,490
And in energy and power systems

730
00:38:08,490 --> 00:38:12,450
we have three faculty that
work broadly across the field

731
00:38:12,450 --> 00:38:16,080
looking at both transmission
scale, distribution scale,

732
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,460
optimization and control of
network energy resources.

733
00:38:20,460 --> 00:38:22,650
We look at cybersecurity
and grid resilience

734
00:38:22,650 --> 00:38:24,990
and we just brought in a new faculty

735
00:38:24,990 --> 00:38:27,150
who'll be looking at
machine learning and AI

736
00:38:27,150 --> 00:38:29,100
for safety critical systems.

737
00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:29,933
And hopefully we'll work

738
00:38:29,933 --> 00:38:31,320
with the computer science department

739
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,040
to kind of accelerate the
ideas and make an impact

740
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,130
with both our funding
partners and industry national

741
00:38:38,130 --> 00:38:41,193
and international as well.

742
00:38:46,410 --> 00:38:47,970
In addition to our research faculty,

743
00:38:47,970 --> 00:38:49,830
we also have some lecturers

744
00:38:49,830 --> 00:38:51,567
who teach in our graduate courses.

745
00:38:51,567 --> 00:38:54,067
And so you'll run into
some of those guys as well.

746
00:38:55,470 --> 00:38:59,250
And then lastly, just to bring
up some of the recent places

747
00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:02,520
that folks go and it really is
up to the individual student

748
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:03,720
kind of the path they set

749
00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:07,650
and that path is not usually set in stone.

750
00:39:07,650 --> 00:39:09,000
And so we have students

751
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,430
who want to pursue academic positions

752
00:39:11,430 --> 00:39:14,760
and then take on post-doctoral research.

753
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,890
And so we've had folks go to UC San Diego

754
00:39:16,890 --> 00:39:21,210
to lead some of the
largest research projects.

755
00:39:21,210 --> 00:39:23,730
In power and energy, we've
had folks go to Virginia Tech

756
00:39:23,730 --> 00:39:25,530
to work on control theory

757
00:39:25,530 --> 00:39:26,730
and we have lots of folks heading

758
00:39:26,730 --> 00:39:28,260
to the national laboratories

759
00:39:28,260 --> 00:39:31,470
to kind of bridge the gap
between academic research

760
00:39:31,470 --> 00:39:34,440
and industry implementation and practice.

761
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:35,580
Besides the research path,

762
00:39:35,580 --> 00:39:38,820
we have folks who are very
happy and succeed entering

763
00:39:38,820 --> 00:39:42,090
both in this large industry
but also small startups.

764
00:39:42,090 --> 00:39:44,730
And so we have folks working
as technology managers

765
00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:45,900
in National Grid.

766
00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:47,430
We have folks graduating

767
00:39:47,430 --> 00:39:48,600
with an electrical engineering degree

768
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,510
and becoming data scientists
or energy modelers

769
00:39:51,510 --> 00:39:53,250
at Form Energy,

770
00:39:53,250 --> 00:39:56,880
which is one of the biggest
battery manufacturers

771
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,410
in the US today.

772
00:39:58,410 --> 00:40:01,740
And then we have all kinds of engineers

773
00:40:01,740 --> 00:40:04,110
making an impact in Vermont and beyond

774
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:06,360
at small and large companies

775
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,600
including local electrification,

776
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,400
aviation folks at Beta Technologies,

777
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,290
Dyna Power, Siemens.

778
00:40:13,290 --> 00:40:16,110
We have folks coming from local companies

779
00:40:16,110 --> 00:40:18,810
that I may or may not be involved in

780
00:40:18,810 --> 00:40:20,700
such as Packetized Energy and Energy Hub

781
00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:25,140
and we have folks having an
impact at chip manufacturers,

782
00:40:25,140 --> 00:40:26,970
which is surprisingly dense in Vermont.

783
00:40:26,970 --> 00:40:29,460
And so Marvel for example
and GlobalFoundries

784
00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:32,790
are places where you find our graduates.

785
00:40:32,790 --> 00:40:34,290
I'm happy to answer any questions

786
00:40:34,290 --> 00:40:36,780
and happy to meet you guys later

787
00:40:36,780 --> 00:40:39,293
and certainly looking forward
to see you all in the fall.

788
00:40:41,730 --> 00:40:43,500
Thank you very much.

789
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:45,510
Really you have heard

790
00:40:45,510 --> 00:40:50,510
from all of our academic
departments at this point

791
00:40:51,420 --> 00:40:56,420
and I'm happy to put forth any questions

792
00:40:57,330 --> 00:40:59,760
that anybody may have.

793
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,270
I know that a couple of attendees

794
00:41:03,270 --> 00:41:07,013
have had some technical difficulties

795
00:41:07,013 --> 00:41:09,477
and are kinda joining as they can.

796
00:41:09,477 --> 00:41:10,598
And please be assured

797
00:41:10,598 --> 00:41:14,790
that I am going to send a full recording

798
00:41:14,790 --> 00:41:16,980
to everybody who RSVP.

799
00:41:16,980 --> 00:41:21,150
There were over 55 who did RSVP.

800
00:41:21,150 --> 00:41:23,670
So if you for some reason have a problem

801
00:41:23,670 --> 00:41:28,670
and have to rejoin you
won't miss anything,

802
00:41:29,070 --> 00:41:31,353
you'll be able to catch right back up.

803
00:41:32,641 --> 00:41:37,641
I'm not seeing any questions
for our faculty members here.

804
00:41:38,310 --> 00:41:41,990
And what we have in our schedule

805
00:41:41,990 --> 00:41:46,990
is we are next going to hear
from a current graduate student

806
00:41:48,930 --> 00:41:53,930
Irfan Tahir and he will be ready at 10:15.

807
00:41:55,410 --> 00:41:57,510
So it's currently about 10 o'clock.

808
00:41:57,510 --> 00:41:59,280
We're a little bit early.

809
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,250
Oh, I do have one question here.

810
00:42:02,250 --> 00:42:06,382
How can one transition from a master's

811
00:42:06,382 --> 00:42:10,530
to a PhD in statistics?

812
00:42:10,530 --> 00:42:12,660
So I'm not sure if Professor Single,

813
00:42:12,660 --> 00:42:17,660
you might be able to talk to that question

814
00:42:17,730 --> 00:42:20,250
about transitioning from
a master's of science

815
00:42:20,250 --> 00:42:22,530
to a PhD in statistics.

816
00:42:22,530 --> 00:42:24,280
So we've had a couple of students

817
00:42:25,230 --> 00:42:28,830
and do it in different ways.

818
00:42:28,830 --> 00:42:33,830
We've had students that went
through the master's program

819
00:42:38,190 --> 00:42:43,190
in statistics and then
continued onto a PhD

820
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,113
in complex systems and data science.

821
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:54,196
And we've also had students

822
00:42:54,196 --> 00:42:59,196
that have stayed within
the statistics program

823
00:43:01,770 --> 00:43:06,003
and continued on for a PhD.

824
00:43:07,199 --> 00:43:10,770
We are a relatively new PhD program

825
00:43:10,770 --> 00:43:15,460
so we are just graduating
the first of our students

826
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:22,400
with a PhD in statistics
specifically this spring.

827
00:43:25,380 --> 00:43:30,380
So there's two two paths
that are possible for that.

828
00:43:33,754 --> 00:43:36,551
Okay, looks like we're at 10:03 now

829
00:43:36,551 --> 00:43:40,590
and our scheduled break was for 10:05.

830
00:43:40,590 --> 00:43:43,710
So we can just go ahead, take a break,

831
00:43:43,710 --> 00:43:48,160
get yourself a cup of tea or
coffee or a cold drink of water

832
00:43:49,230 --> 00:43:52,380
and be ready to settle back in

833
00:43:52,380 --> 00:43:54,884
and to listen to some of our grad students

834
00:43:54,884 --> 00:43:57,000
talk about their experiences here

835
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,070
in just a couple of minutes.

836
00:43:59,070 --> 00:44:03,330
So we're gonna take a break
and be back very shortly.

837
00:44:03,330 --> 00:44:04,323
Thank you.

838
00:44:06,030 --> 00:44:07,170
We do have one question,

839
00:44:07,170 --> 00:44:10,320
one question just came in and
I'll see if I can get that.

840
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,590
How can one get to know
about research topics

841
00:44:13,590 --> 00:44:15,243
in different departments?

842
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,950
I have some ideas but I will open it up

843
00:44:19,950 --> 00:44:21,840
and if there's any faculty members

844
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:26,840
who want to address person
might be able to know more

845
00:44:28,650 --> 00:44:32,913
about the research topics
in different departments.

846
00:44:34,470 --> 00:44:36,570
Yeah, I'm happy to answer that question.

847
00:44:38,310 --> 00:44:43,020
I think the group of people
that you're hearing from today

848
00:44:43,020 --> 00:44:47,119
have a good sense for the
research areas that people work in

849
00:44:47,119 --> 00:44:50,100
but not so much like the
specific details of projects

850
00:44:50,100 --> 00:44:53,013
or whether there's funding
available for them.

851
00:44:54,450 --> 00:44:57,240
So I think the best way to do it

852
00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,370
is probably to go on the websites

853
00:44:59,370 --> 00:45:02,640
of the individual faculty
members in the programs,

854
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,363
which usually can be found on
the websites of the programs.

855
00:45:08,220 --> 00:45:09,750
That's where you'd probably find

856
00:45:09,750 --> 00:45:12,330
the most up-to-date
information about research

857
00:45:12,330 --> 00:45:13,443
that people are doing.

858
00:45:16,541 --> 00:45:18,150
There's lots of work, for example,

859
00:45:18,150 --> 00:45:20,970
going on in our research
group that's not on my website

860
00:45:20,970 --> 00:45:25,413
because it's not ready for
public consumption yet,

861
00:45:26,250 --> 00:45:29,010
but then having a
conversation with those people

862
00:45:29,010 --> 00:45:29,843
you can find out.

863
00:45:29,843 --> 00:45:33,480
So I would encourage you
to kinda do your homework

864
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,807
by identifying a short list of faculty

865
00:45:35,807 --> 00:45:37,600
in the program you're applying to

866
00:45:40,380 --> 00:45:42,575
who have published work in the recent past

867
00:45:42,575 --> 00:45:44,399
in the area you're interested in.

868
00:45:44,399 --> 00:45:48,090
And you could even read the
abstracts of those papers

869
00:45:48,090 --> 00:45:50,820
and get a sense for what they're into.

870
00:45:50,820 --> 00:45:52,560
You could find the graduate students

871
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,240
who are co-authors on those papers

872
00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:55,743
and reach out to them.

873
00:45:56,910 --> 00:45:59,160
And then you can ask, what
are you working on now

874
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:00,232
that you know in the next few years

875
00:46:00,232 --> 00:46:01,833
you think is gonna be important.

876
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:06,873
Thank you very much.

877
00:46:09,090 --> 00:46:13,470
Your question about kind of
the next steps for you to go,

878
00:46:13,470 --> 00:46:15,240
whoever I'm seeing anonymous

879
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:17,700
on the who answered the question

880
00:46:17,700 --> 00:46:20,133
that's why I don't have
a name to address it to.

881
00:46:22,110 --> 00:46:27,110
But let us know if there's
any follow up on that.

882
00:46:29,460 --> 00:46:32,340
So we are gonna go
ahead and take our break

883
00:46:32,340 --> 00:46:36,960
and we will be back at 10:15

884
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,710
to talk more about graduate
student life here at UVM.

885
00:46:40,710 --> 00:46:43,140
So we'll see you very, very shortly.

886
00:46:43,140 --> 00:46:45,270
Good morning again to everybody.

887
00:46:45,270 --> 00:46:46,860
I hope you had a chance

888
00:46:46,860 --> 00:46:48,993
to take a little bit of a stretch break.

889
00:46:50,340 --> 00:46:55,170
It was wonderful to hear from
our graduate program directors

890
00:46:55,170 --> 00:46:59,025
and faculty members a
little bit earlier today

891
00:46:59,025 --> 00:47:02,070
and from our dean who shared a lot

892
00:47:02,070 --> 00:47:06,690
about the many things
that are going on here

893
00:47:06,690 --> 00:47:08,820
at the University of Vermont

894
00:47:08,820 --> 00:47:13,820
with regard to just the
different academic departments.

895
00:47:14,550 --> 00:47:17,600
And I think a really
valuable part of your day

896
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:22,600
is gonna be from talking with
actual graduate students.

897
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:28,273
And we have one special
graduate student, Irfan Tahir

898
00:47:29,910 --> 00:47:34,360
who is a PhD student in
mechanical engineering

899
00:47:35,250 --> 00:47:39,150
who has graciously given his time

900
00:47:39,150 --> 00:47:41,760
to be here with you today.

901
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,830
I wish he could see you.

902
00:47:43,830 --> 00:47:48,480
As you know in this
live teams event format,

903
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,150
we presenters are not able to see you

904
00:47:51,150 --> 00:47:53,610
but are presenting to you.

905
00:47:53,610 --> 00:47:56,280
But I want to just assure you

906
00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,600
that I am monitoring the Q&A chat.

907
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:05,550
So if you have any questions
you can put them in the chat

908
00:48:05,550 --> 00:48:09,640
and then perhaps once Irfan has done

909
00:48:10,770 --> 00:48:12,900
talking about the things
that he wants to talk about

910
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:15,060
and opens it up for questions

911
00:48:15,060 --> 00:48:20,060
I can help facilitate
getting those questions

912
00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:21,750
answered for you.

913
00:48:21,750 --> 00:48:26,750
So just wanted yeah, to
reintroduce you to that,

914
00:48:27,725 --> 00:48:32,370
to the live event Q&A
'cause that's a great place

915
00:48:32,370 --> 00:48:34,290
to put your questions.

916
00:48:34,290 --> 00:48:39,290
And with that I think I'll go
right to saying hello to Irfan

917
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:47,250
and thank him again for the
time that he's spending today

918
00:48:47,250 --> 00:48:50,850
and yeah I'm here monitoring the chat

919
00:48:50,850 --> 00:48:53,013
so take it away Irfan.

920
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:56,650
Thank you Jane.

921
00:48:57,690 --> 00:48:59,400
Hello everyone, it's
really nice to meet you.

922
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:00,660
So as Jane mentioned,

923
00:49:00,660 --> 00:49:03,750
I am a PhD student in
mechanical engineering

924
00:49:03,750 --> 00:49:06,030
but my research focus is in cell biology

925
00:49:06,030 --> 00:49:07,890
and material science.

926
00:49:07,890 --> 00:49:09,660
I am also an international student.

927
00:49:09,660 --> 00:49:11,070
Originally I'm from Pakistan.

928
00:49:11,070 --> 00:49:14,220
And I did my master's from
the University of Minnesota

929
00:49:14,220 --> 00:49:17,578
and then after that I
came here for my PhD.

930
00:49:17,578 --> 00:49:22,260
I actually arrived in August,
2020 at UVM during COVID.

931
00:49:22,260 --> 00:49:24,240
So it was a much different time

932
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:27,840
but I will try my best to sort
of extrapolate my experiences

933
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,590
from that time to whatever
you guys will be facing

934
00:49:31,590 --> 00:49:32,913
when you come to UVM.

935
00:49:33,780 --> 00:49:35,730
and if you were to sort of ask me

936
00:49:35,730 --> 00:49:38,970
like what are the things that
I'm comfortable talking about

937
00:49:38,970 --> 00:49:40,110
or what are my experiences

938
00:49:40,110 --> 00:49:41,730
then firstly I already mentioned

939
00:49:41,730 --> 00:49:42,760
I'm an international student,

940
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,790
I'm a mechanical engineering PhD.

941
00:49:44,790 --> 00:49:46,920
I also do research in
biomedical engineering

942
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,580
so definitely I'll be happy to
answer questions about that.

943
00:49:50,580 --> 00:49:53,310
I have done an on-campus
job during the summer,

944
00:49:53,310 --> 00:49:55,650
I think that was two years ago

945
00:49:55,650 --> 00:49:58,410
so I can ask some questions
about finding an on-campus job.

946
00:49:58,410 --> 00:50:02,550
I am doing an internship
next summer on the CPT

947
00:50:02,550 --> 00:50:05,310
which is what international
students are allowed to do on.

948
00:50:05,310 --> 00:50:08,460
I had one year of teaching
assistantship experience

949
00:50:08,460 --> 00:50:11,310
and then rest of it has
been like an RA experience,

950
00:50:11,310 --> 00:50:12,870
the research assistant experience.

951
00:50:12,870 --> 00:50:15,840
So you can also ask some
questions about that.

952
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:18,270
So the plan is that I don't
really have any slides

953
00:50:18,270 --> 00:50:21,420
but I will talk for like
maybe like 10 minutes

954
00:50:21,420 --> 00:50:24,390
and then after that I can
answer your questions.

955
00:50:24,390 --> 00:50:28,770
I've sort of grouped my talking
points into four categories.

956
00:50:28,770 --> 00:50:31,260
The first one is academics.

957
00:50:31,260 --> 00:50:34,320
Secondly I want to talk a
little bit about social life.

958
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,870
Third I want to talk about like the pros

959
00:50:36,870 --> 00:50:38,850
of UVM and Vermont in general.

960
00:50:38,850 --> 00:50:42,180
And then lastly we can end with the cons

961
00:50:42,180 --> 00:50:44,850
like the things that you
need to be mindful of

962
00:50:44,850 --> 00:50:46,800
when you're coming here.

963
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,020
So yeah, let's start with academics.

964
00:50:49,020 --> 00:50:52,290
I think for academics
the most important thing

965
00:50:52,290 --> 00:50:55,260
and this applies heavily for PhD students

966
00:50:55,260 --> 00:50:57,960
is the relationship that
you have with your advisor

967
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,380
and also the advisor that
you're going to end up choosing.

968
00:51:01,380 --> 00:51:02,283
It's just because the way

969
00:51:02,283 --> 00:51:06,180
that the academic system is set up,

970
00:51:06,180 --> 00:51:08,790
as long as you have a good
relationship with your advisor

971
00:51:08,790 --> 00:51:11,190
and a good understanding
of what you have to do

972
00:51:11,190 --> 00:51:12,690
and the expectations are clear,

973
00:51:12,690 --> 00:51:15,180
then you're gonna have a
really good time in your PhD.

974
00:51:15,180 --> 00:51:16,980
But if there's a lot of
friction with your advisor

975
00:51:16,980 --> 00:51:19,320
then you're basically
like going to be miserable

976
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:20,397
the whole time.

977
00:51:20,397 --> 00:51:22,490
And I would advise that if you sense that

978
00:51:22,490 --> 00:51:24,450
in like the first few months,

979
00:51:24,450 --> 00:51:27,270
then perhaps like try
to find another advisor

980
00:51:27,270 --> 00:51:29,970
or talk about it and
resolve those issues sooner

981
00:51:29,970 --> 00:51:31,680
rather than later.

982
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,960
I was really lucky I
found an excellent advisor

983
00:51:35,850 --> 00:51:39,270
who actually let me join
the groups meetings online

984
00:51:39,270 --> 00:51:41,280
during the summer even
before I joined my PhD

985
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:42,810
and that really gave me a head start

986
00:51:42,810 --> 00:51:45,330
on the kind of work that they were doing.

987
00:51:45,330 --> 00:51:48,210
We also started
brainstorming research ideas

988
00:51:48,210 --> 00:51:53,210
which kind of forced me to
organize my research goals,

989
00:51:53,970 --> 00:51:55,530
my PhD goals, things like that.

990
00:51:55,530 --> 00:51:58,350
And because of that I was
able to win an internal grant

991
00:51:58,350 --> 00:52:01,980
from UVM to do research in lab grown meat,

992
00:52:01,980 --> 00:52:03,569
which is what I do right now.

993
00:52:03,569 --> 00:52:06,120
And then I was also able to use that grant

994
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,520
then to win another fellowship

995
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,560
which is now like funding my PhD.

996
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,410
So definitely advise if you
already know your advisors,

997
00:52:13,410 --> 00:52:14,280
send them an email,

998
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,920
ask them if you can
join their lab meetings,

999
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:17,770
things like that.

1000
00:52:19,620 --> 00:52:22,140
In terms of courses, 'cause a lot of you,

1001
00:52:22,140 --> 00:52:24,780
I mean, every one of you
will have to take courses.

1002
00:52:24,780 --> 00:52:27,300
I would say that my
experience with courses

1003
00:52:27,300 --> 00:52:29,160
in terms of like how difficult they were

1004
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,220
varied depending on my prior
knowledge of the course.

1005
00:52:32,220 --> 00:52:35,490
So for example, I was quite
comfortable in courses

1006
00:52:35,490 --> 00:52:38,790
that were close to mechanical
engineering, maths, physics,

1007
00:52:38,790 --> 00:52:40,230
those kind of things.

1008
00:52:40,230 --> 00:52:44,070
But I had to go out of my way
to basically take some courses

1009
00:52:44,070 --> 00:52:45,120
and cell biology,

1010
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:48,480
take some courses in
biomedical engineering

1011
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,990
and I had to work really
hard in those courses.

1012
00:52:51,990 --> 00:52:53,467
So I remember there was this one PhD

1013
00:52:53,467 --> 00:52:55,080
at a cell biology course

1014
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,044
where I had to study quite a lot

1015
00:52:57,044 --> 00:52:58,230
and it took a lot of my energy.

1016
00:52:58,230 --> 00:52:59,430
But it was totally worth it

1017
00:52:59,430 --> 00:53:01,410
because all of that was
like quite applicable

1018
00:53:01,410 --> 00:53:02,313
to my research.

1019
00:53:03,690 --> 00:53:04,940
One thing that you find about courses

1020
00:53:04,940 --> 00:53:08,190
is that there are not a
lot of options for courses

1021
00:53:08,190 --> 00:53:10,690
in terms of like exactly
like what you want to do.

1022
00:53:12,300 --> 00:53:13,740
I think that happens with everyone

1023
00:53:13,740 --> 00:53:17,612
because your research
topic is so specific to you

1024
00:53:17,612 --> 00:53:18,630
that you're not gonna have a course

1025
00:53:18,630 --> 00:53:21,210
that's like created exactly
to your research topic.

1026
00:53:21,210 --> 00:53:23,520
So I would advise like
definitely shop around

1027
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:27,900
and talk to people from other departments

1028
00:53:27,900 --> 00:53:30,120
and see like what kind of
courses are they offering.

1029
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,330
So for example, my research
was in cell biology

1030
00:53:33,330 --> 00:53:35,670
but my department doesn't have
any courses in cell biology.

1031
00:53:35,670 --> 00:53:38,343
So I went to that department
to take those courses.

1032
00:53:39,690 --> 00:53:42,240
One really good thing about
courses is that professors

1033
00:53:42,240 --> 00:53:45,630
are really easy to approach and talk to.

1034
00:53:45,630 --> 00:53:47,460
So that can be about assignments,

1035
00:53:47,460 --> 00:53:50,130
about maybe like some other
projects that you're working on,

1036
00:53:50,130 --> 00:53:51,780
things that you're confused about.

1037
00:53:51,780 --> 00:53:54,090
They have like a very easy
like open door policy.

1038
00:53:54,090 --> 00:53:57,090
I was able to sort of form
like good relationships

1039
00:53:57,090 --> 00:54:01,050
with the professors that
I was taking courses from.

1040
00:54:01,050 --> 00:54:02,280
And I think that's really important

1041
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,110
because if you form good
relationships with them

1042
00:54:04,110 --> 00:54:05,070
then later on you can ask them

1043
00:54:05,070 --> 00:54:06,750
to be on your thesis committee

1044
00:54:06,750 --> 00:54:09,750
or ask them for recommendation
letters, those kinda things.

1045
00:54:09,750 --> 00:54:11,130
And lastly for the academics

1046
00:54:11,130 --> 00:54:14,763
I would say that other students,

1047
00:54:14,763 --> 00:54:16,500
like for example like
students in your class

1048
00:54:16,500 --> 00:54:18,270
like master students, domestic students,

1049
00:54:18,270 --> 00:54:21,150
I found them like really easy
to work with or ask questions.

1050
00:54:21,150 --> 00:54:23,100
We had a lot of group projects,

1051
00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:24,420
we met for the group projects

1052
00:54:24,420 --> 00:54:26,130
like outside of the university.

1053
00:54:26,130 --> 00:54:28,680
Overall like I found people
to be like quite friendly

1054
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,070
and sort of like professional
in their approach.

1055
00:54:32,070 --> 00:54:33,780
And one good thing about UVM

1056
00:54:33,780 --> 00:54:37,260
is that there is not a
lot of competitiveness

1057
00:54:37,260 --> 00:54:38,093
between students.

1058
00:54:38,093 --> 00:54:39,892
So for example, like
if you're sitting next

1059
00:54:39,892 --> 00:54:41,010
to a student in a classroom,

1060
00:54:41,010 --> 00:54:44,280
I didn't find that they
wanted to be better than me

1061
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,590
or they wanted to get more marks than me.

1062
00:54:46,590 --> 00:54:48,690
I found that we were all
sort of like in it together,

1063
00:54:48,690 --> 00:54:49,980
especially in grad courses.

1064
00:54:49,980 --> 00:54:52,410
'Cause grad courses can
sometimes be so challenging

1065
00:54:52,410 --> 00:54:54,750
that everyone is struggling
on that homework problem

1066
00:54:54,750 --> 00:54:56,490
at the same time.

1067
00:54:56,490 --> 00:54:59,310
So I found that like to be quite nice.

1068
00:54:59,310 --> 00:55:04,310
All right, so I think that's
enough about academics for now

1069
00:55:04,710 --> 00:55:07,110
and I'd be able to answer your questions.

1070
00:55:07,110 --> 00:55:10,650
Maybe we can move on to something more fun

1071
00:55:10,650 --> 00:55:13,825
like social life, which is
a huge part of grad school,

1072
00:55:13,825 --> 00:55:15,453
a huge part of being a student.

1073
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,650
When I joined I was in...

1074
00:55:19,650 --> 00:55:21,675
So this was in August, 2020.

1075
00:55:21,675 --> 00:55:25,050
It was during COVID,
everything was online.

1076
00:55:25,050 --> 00:55:28,530
The only thing that I was doing in person

1077
00:55:28,530 --> 00:55:31,200
was like going to my lab
to do the actual work.

1078
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,150
So I was only friends with
like two or three people

1079
00:55:33,150 --> 00:55:36,180
and they were also from my
lab for the first few months.

1080
00:55:36,180 --> 00:55:37,950
But something that
really, really helped me

1081
00:55:37,950 --> 00:55:40,650
make more friends was
that I joined this thing

1082
00:55:40,650 --> 00:55:42,540
called graduate student senate,

1083
00:55:42,540 --> 00:55:44,430
which is kind of the student body

1084
00:55:44,430 --> 00:55:46,320
that is there to sort of like look after

1085
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:47,670
the graduate students.

1086
00:55:47,670 --> 00:55:49,680
And it's made by students,
it run by students.

1087
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,620
I joined that as a senator
which really helped me

1088
00:55:52,620 --> 00:55:54,090
and that sort of like forces you

1089
00:55:54,090 --> 00:55:56,550
to connect with other
graduate students in meetings

1090
00:55:56,550 --> 00:55:58,680
and social events, those kind of things.

1091
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,860
And then I also decided after
one year of being a senator,

1092
00:56:01,860 --> 00:56:03,960
I decided to be an executive board member

1093
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:04,920
of that organization,

1094
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,110
which means that I was
sort of like responsible

1095
00:56:07,110 --> 00:56:08,250
for organizing events,

1096
00:56:08,250 --> 00:56:09,650
organizing different things.

1097
00:56:10,650 --> 00:56:12,360
And I joined a few clubs

1098
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,870
and also co-founded one of my own clubs,

1099
00:56:15,870 --> 00:56:19,200
which is the UVM Cellular
Agriculture Club,

1100
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:20,940
which might not mean anything to you,

1101
00:56:20,940 --> 00:56:22,050
but it's basically a club

1102
00:56:22,050 --> 00:56:25,540
which is based on raising awareness

1103
00:56:25,540 --> 00:56:27,840
about like my research topic.

1104
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:30,120
So I would say definitely look for GSS,

1105
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,850
you join as a senator, it
doesn't take a lot of time.

1106
00:56:32,850 --> 00:56:34,380
And then that way you will get a chance

1107
00:56:34,380 --> 00:56:36,483
to interact with other graduate students.

1108
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,840
Another thing in terms of
social life I would say

1109
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,960
is that sports is one of the
best ways to make friends.

1110
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,440
So we have this thing
called intramural sports,

1111
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,110
which are basically these
like small like sports leagues

1112
00:56:49,110 --> 00:56:51,540
that are completely free for UVM students.

1113
00:56:51,540 --> 00:56:54,300
So you can play a variety of
sports and it's very chill.

1114
00:56:54,300 --> 00:56:56,400
So even if you never
played that sport before,

1115
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,773
you can basically like have a lot of fun.

1116
00:56:59,610 --> 00:57:01,890
I've played a lot of
different sports through that.

1117
00:57:01,890 --> 00:57:06,890
I've played volleyball,
soccer, badminton, trench ball,

1118
00:57:07,020 --> 00:57:11,970
dodge ball, kickball, even
like something like ice hockey.

1119
00:57:11,970 --> 00:57:14,010
It's like new things I
hadn't been done before.

1120
00:57:14,010 --> 00:57:15,580
So definitely highly recommend

1121
00:57:16,650 --> 00:57:18,120
getting involved in sports more,

1122
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,160
even if you don't have a history

1123
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,410
of playing sports before this.

1124
00:57:22,410 --> 00:57:25,350
Because they really relaxed
and usually they make sure

1125
00:57:25,350 --> 00:57:30,243
that the goal is to have fun
and not basically like win.

1126
00:57:31,770 --> 00:57:34,380
And then I would say one
of the biggest things

1127
00:57:34,380 --> 00:57:37,440
that led to me having
like a good social life

1128
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,150
and also like improve my mental health

1129
00:57:39,150 --> 00:57:43,470
was that try to start a
new activity if you can,

1130
00:57:43,470 --> 00:57:44,850
something that you've never done before.

1131
00:57:44,850 --> 00:57:47,640
So examples of this include
skiing and snowboarding.

1132
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:49,950
Obviously because we're in
Vermont we get a lot of snow

1133
00:57:49,950 --> 00:57:53,220
or rock climbing, hiking or biking.

1134
00:57:53,220 --> 00:57:56,430
For me I did start like new
things I had never done before

1135
00:57:56,430 --> 00:57:58,620
and one of my favorite
ones is snowboarding.

1136
00:57:58,620 --> 00:58:00,870
Before coming to Vermont
I had never snowboarded,

1137
00:58:00,870 --> 00:58:03,990
never thought about something
that I would be able to do.

1138
00:58:05,310 --> 00:58:07,770
But thanks to this nonprofit

1139
00:58:07,770 --> 00:58:09,720
which is known as unlikely rider,

1140
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:11,790
so they basically give
you snowboarding equipment

1141
00:58:11,790 --> 00:58:13,710
and lift tickets and those kind of things

1142
00:58:13,710 --> 00:58:15,930
as long as you are a person of color

1143
00:58:15,930 --> 00:58:18,120
or you're from like an ethnic background.

1144
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:19,230
And because of them,

1145
00:58:19,230 --> 00:58:20,730
like I was able to learn snowboarding

1146
00:58:20,730 --> 00:58:23,460
and now it's like one of
my favorite things to do.

1147
00:58:23,460 --> 00:58:28,460
Vermont is also super duper good place

1148
00:58:28,770 --> 00:58:32,010
if you want to go for hiking.

1149
00:58:32,010 --> 00:58:34,590
I have done a lot of summer
hiking, a lot of fall hiking.

1150
00:58:34,590 --> 00:58:35,953
And then just like two weeks ago

1151
00:58:35,953 --> 00:58:38,010
I did like my first winter hike,

1152
00:58:38,010 --> 00:58:39,810
which was a lot of fun.

1153
00:58:39,810 --> 00:58:42,360
And it's also a very
like bike friendly city.

1154
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:47,360
So I was able to sort of like
rejuvenate my love for biking.

1155
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,400
So I bought a bike and now I basically

1156
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,663
like bike around campus,
I bike around town.

1157
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,910
If you are into sort of like night events

1158
00:58:56,910 --> 00:59:01,910
like nightlife bars, clubbing,
those kind of things,

1159
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:03,540
it's pretty good over here.

1160
00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:06,930
There are some bars that are
always one of UVM grad students

1161
00:59:06,930 --> 00:59:09,060
for example, there's
one called Three Needs.

1162
00:59:09,060 --> 00:59:10,920
So those are really
like a really good place

1163
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:13,350
to go to if you wanna
connect with other students

1164
00:59:13,350 --> 00:59:14,850
in an informal setting.

1165
00:59:14,850 --> 00:59:16,800
And then we have certain clubs

1166
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:18,690
which have events every single day.

1167
00:59:18,690 --> 00:59:21,090
So they have like cover bands

1168
00:59:21,090 --> 00:59:23,880
or for example if you're
a Taylor Swift fan,

1169
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:25,380
then they have like a DJ that comes over

1170
00:59:25,380 --> 00:59:27,210
and plays just Taylor Swift songs, right?

1171
00:59:27,210 --> 00:59:29,447
So you can like always
like sign up for those.

1172
00:59:29,447 --> 00:59:30,840
And they're all like relatively cheap,

1173
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:34,680
they're like $10 or like
$5 for like an entry fee.

1174
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:37,110
So I highly recommend like
checking on the calendars

1175
00:59:37,110 --> 00:59:38,853
of the local bars around town.

1176
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:43,110
And I would say they go
to events around campus

1177
00:59:43,110 --> 00:59:45,750
most of the time I find that
there are way more events

1178
00:59:45,750 --> 00:59:48,000
than I have time to go to.

1179
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,760
The Office of International
Education or IE,

1180
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,730
they organize some really good
events like waffle breakfast,

1181
00:59:53,730 --> 00:59:56,250
coffee breaks, those kinda things.

1182
00:59:56,250 --> 00:59:59,130
And even if an event is like targeted

1183
00:59:59,130 --> 01:00:00,330
towards undergrad students,

1184
01:00:00,330 --> 01:00:02,580
you as a UVM student can go to that event

1185
01:00:02,580 --> 01:00:05,490
and sort of like have fun and participate.

1186
01:00:05,490 --> 01:00:08,730
So don't be shy of going to events

1187
01:00:08,730 --> 01:00:11,280
and you will stay updated
with all the events

1188
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:12,180
like through your email.

1189
01:00:12,180 --> 01:00:14,250
They're really good at
like marketing the events

1190
01:00:14,250 --> 01:00:15,607
through that.

1191
01:00:15,607 --> 01:00:18,120
So that's a little bit
of about social life.

1192
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:19,650
Let me just do like a time check.

1193
01:00:19,650 --> 01:00:20,790
Okay good.

1194
01:00:20,790 --> 01:00:23,250
Yeah I think I'll speak
for like five more minutes

1195
01:00:23,250 --> 01:00:24,873
and then I can get questions.

1196
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:28,140
So yeah, let's do some like quick pros

1197
01:00:28,140 --> 01:00:30,690
of UVM to Vermont before we do the cons.

1198
01:00:30,690 --> 01:00:31,790
I think one of the biggest pros

1199
01:00:31,790 --> 01:00:33,359
is that it's a really great location

1200
01:00:33,359 --> 01:00:35,730
and extremely beautiful in all seasons.

1201
01:00:35,730 --> 01:00:37,710
Like I said, I've already been hiking

1202
01:00:37,710 --> 01:00:42,710
so we don't have like really
big mountains over here.

1203
01:00:42,767 --> 01:00:44,580
So I would say like the hiking difficulty

1204
01:00:44,580 --> 01:00:46,590
is like pretty good.

1205
01:00:46,590 --> 01:00:48,090
So if you've never hiked
in your life before,

1206
01:00:48,090 --> 01:00:50,670
you're gonna have a good
time hiking in Vermont.

1207
01:00:50,670 --> 01:00:52,320
It's a great place to do snow sports.

1208
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,980
It's close to two big cities
like Boston and Montreal.

1209
01:00:55,980 --> 01:01:00,750
So definitely you are not in
Montreal, you're not in Boston.

1210
01:01:00,750 --> 01:01:03,200
But again, like they're
only like a few hours away

1211
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:04,800
on a car ride.

1212
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:07,710
A less unknown fact about
Vermont that it's actually,

1213
01:01:07,710 --> 01:01:09,360
or Burlington is that it's protected

1214
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,460
from most national disasters.

1215
01:01:11,460 --> 01:01:14,280
So for example, it does not
lie on any tectonic place.

1216
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:15,600
So there are no earthquakes here,

1217
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,552
there are no wildfires and
there's no hurricanes, tsunamis.

1218
01:01:18,552 --> 01:01:21,570
I think the only thing we
get are like snowstorms,

1219
01:01:21,570 --> 01:01:24,870
but so far from what I've seen,
like they're not that bad.

1220
01:01:24,870 --> 01:01:27,480
Maybe for like one day it's
a bit of an inconvenience

1221
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:30,300
and then like everything sort
of like goes back to normal.

1222
01:01:30,300 --> 01:01:32,370
So that's something good to think about

1223
01:01:32,370 --> 01:01:35,220
if you're trying to be here
for five or six years, right?

1224
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,130
Something that I already mentioned

1225
01:01:38,130 --> 01:01:40,770
is that faculty are really
easy to approach and work with.

1226
01:01:40,770 --> 01:01:44,640
Collaborations of research
and sharing of equipment

1227
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:47,520
are encouraged and really easy to do.

1228
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:48,630
So for example,

1229
01:01:48,630 --> 01:01:51,720
I do a lot of different
characterization techniques

1230
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:54,000
and for that I go to the
chemistry department,

1231
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:55,500
I go to the physics department,

1232
01:01:55,500 --> 01:01:57,720
I go to the Microscopy Imaging Center

1233
01:01:57,720 --> 01:01:59,841
that we have in the medical building

1234
01:01:59,841 --> 01:02:02,670
and there's really easy to sort
of like get access to that.

1235
01:02:02,670 --> 01:02:04,140
I just ever sent a couple emails

1236
01:02:04,140 --> 01:02:06,140
and then they basically give you access.

1237
01:02:07,020 --> 01:02:09,300
All the buildings on campus
are close to each other.

1238
01:02:09,300 --> 01:02:11,130
This is something I appreciated

1239
01:02:11,130 --> 01:02:13,800
after I went to some other
universities in the US.

1240
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:15,990
So I think it takes like
a maximum of 20 minutes

1241
01:02:15,990 --> 01:02:18,033
from one end of the campus to the other,

1242
01:02:18,930 --> 01:02:20,520
which is always a good thing.

1243
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:24,750
That means that you can work
in your lab for a few hours

1244
01:02:24,750 --> 01:02:25,770
but then at the end of
the day go to the gym

1245
01:02:25,770 --> 01:02:27,930
and then go like somewhere else.

1246
01:02:27,930 --> 01:02:31,200
And Burlington also is
like a really small city

1247
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,380
and like very easy to sort
of like walk around in.

1248
01:02:34,380 --> 01:02:38,120
Another big pro is that
Vermont especially Burlington

1249
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,500
is very progressive and liberal.

1250
01:02:40,500 --> 01:02:43,470
So if you sort of like are
politically like inclined

1251
01:02:43,470 --> 01:02:45,357
towards that, I think that
you're gonna have a good time.

1252
01:02:45,357 --> 01:02:47,190
And that's generally a good thing

1253
01:02:47,190 --> 01:02:48,960
for international students.

1254
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,930
For example, when COVID happened

1255
01:02:51,930 --> 01:02:54,120
and the government gave
out stimulus checks

1256
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,760
to all the citizens in Vermont residents,

1257
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:00,660
anyone on a visa was not
eligible for that stimulus check.

1258
01:03:00,660 --> 01:03:03,300
But the Vermont state government
gave our stimulus checks

1259
01:03:03,300 --> 01:03:05,280
to anyone who was an
international student.

1260
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,170
So Vermont was, as far as I know,

1261
01:03:07,170 --> 01:03:09,030
the only state that did that.

1262
01:03:09,030 --> 01:03:10,860
Or if you're religious in any sense,

1263
01:03:10,860 --> 01:03:12,477
there's a lot of religious freedom

1264
01:03:12,477 --> 01:03:14,750
or as an example of that is that,

1265
01:03:14,750 --> 01:03:17,560
so I come from a Muslim
background and for Muslim students

1266
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:21,210
there are Friday prayers
in Halal lunch on campus

1267
01:03:21,210 --> 01:03:23,910
on Fridays, which is like
super convenient, right?

1268
01:03:23,910 --> 01:03:25,290
Because then you don't have to take a bus

1269
01:03:25,290 --> 01:03:26,820
or like go on a car to a mosques

1270
01:03:26,820 --> 01:03:29,070
even though we do have
like a mosque as well.

1271
01:03:30,030 --> 01:03:31,020
Those are some of the pros

1272
01:03:31,020 --> 01:03:33,060
and let's just end with some of the cons

1273
01:03:33,060 --> 01:03:34,470
which you have to be mindful of

1274
01:03:34,470 --> 01:03:36,060
before you of course
like make your decision

1275
01:03:36,060 --> 01:03:37,590
or if you come here.

1276
01:03:37,590 --> 01:03:40,440
The biggest con which is the obvious one

1277
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:43,650
that everyone talks about
is the cost of living.

1278
01:03:43,650 --> 01:03:45,570
Living here is very expensive.

1279
01:03:45,570 --> 01:03:48,720
It's still lower than major cities.

1280
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:50,970
So it's lower than Boston,
it's lower than New York City,

1281
01:03:50,970 --> 01:03:52,680
lower than San Francisco.

1282
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:57,680
But given like sort of like
how much our stipend is

1283
01:03:58,440 --> 01:03:59,850
and how much things cost,

1284
01:03:59,850 --> 01:04:02,220
I would say it's like
really, really expensive

1285
01:04:02,220 --> 01:04:03,570
and things have only gone worse

1286
01:04:03,570 --> 01:04:05,880
like since COVID as an example,

1287
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:10,080
when I came here I got a
studio for $950 a month

1288
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,990
'cause I didn't want to live
with anyone during COVID,

1289
01:04:12,990 --> 01:04:14,730
but the same studio is now 1,200.

1290
01:04:14,730 --> 01:04:15,960
So I eventually I to move out

1291
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:18,555
and had to live with roommates.

1292
01:04:18,555 --> 01:04:20,821
So like I mentioned, the stipend is low

1293
01:04:20,821 --> 01:04:23,310
and then there is a
high comprehensive fee.

1294
01:04:23,310 --> 01:04:25,329
So that means that you're
basically then paying

1295
01:04:25,329 --> 01:04:27,393
some of the statin back to the university.

1296
01:04:27,393 --> 01:04:30,330
The health insurance is not
good that we get from UVM,

1297
01:04:30,330 --> 01:04:32,190
so there's no dental, no vision

1298
01:04:32,190 --> 01:04:35,589
and the out-of-pocket maximum
is really, really high.

1299
01:04:35,589 --> 01:04:38,460
And just be prepared that
like when you come here

1300
01:04:38,460 --> 01:04:40,710
you will be sharing like
with other students.

1301
01:04:40,710 --> 01:04:42,824
So you'll be living in a
house of like three people,

1302
01:04:42,824 --> 01:04:44,552
one bathroom, something like that.

1303
01:04:44,552 --> 01:04:48,183
And usually those go for
around like 800, $900 a month.

1304
01:04:49,170 --> 01:04:51,930
And these are generally speaking

1305
01:04:51,930 --> 01:04:55,230
like any PhD student in
the US like they are poor.

1306
01:04:55,230 --> 01:04:58,350
So it's not like the UVM students are poor

1307
01:04:58,350 --> 01:05:00,060
and everyone else is rich.

1308
01:05:00,060 --> 01:05:01,490
So if you like sort of like compare UVM

1309
01:05:01,490 --> 01:05:02,857
to like other students and you'll find out

1310
01:05:02,857 --> 01:05:05,670
that like most PhD students like in the US

1311
01:05:05,670 --> 01:05:07,380
are like really poor.

1312
01:05:07,380 --> 01:05:10,320
And by poor I mean like they're
not able to save any money.

1313
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:11,580
So the stipend that they get,

1314
01:05:11,580 --> 01:05:12,413
they basically spend on their groceries

1315
01:05:12,413 --> 01:05:14,370
and spend on their rent

1316
01:05:14,370 --> 01:05:17,970
and then sort of like go month to month.

1317
01:05:17,970 --> 01:05:19,173
So yeah, that's definitely something

1318
01:05:19,173 --> 01:05:20,557
that you should like keep in mind.

1319
01:05:20,557 --> 01:05:23,220
And inflation is like pretty high.

1320
01:05:24,178 --> 01:05:25,821
So just keep that in mind

1321
01:05:25,821 --> 01:05:29,160
when you're budgeting
for different things.

1322
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:31,950
And my stipend actually
used to be much lower

1323
01:05:31,950 --> 01:05:34,140
than what I think you guys will get

1324
01:05:34,140 --> 01:05:36,420
or like it is this year
and I was able to get by.

1325
01:05:36,420 --> 01:05:39,870
Okay, I'm just saying like
I wasn't able to save a lot.

1326
01:05:39,870 --> 01:05:43,020
To conquer this like take
advantage of resources on campus

1327
01:05:43,020 --> 01:05:44,550
or like off campus.

1328
01:05:44,550 --> 01:05:45,383
So for example,

1329
01:05:45,383 --> 01:05:47,100
we have this thing called
Rally Cat's Cupboard

1330
01:05:47,100 --> 01:05:48,840
where you can get groceries for free

1331
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,030
or we have this program
called Everybody Eats

1332
01:05:51,030 --> 01:05:53,400
where you can get meals
from restaurants from free.

1333
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:57,690
The transportation in
Burlington is completely free.

1334
01:05:57,690 --> 01:05:59,254
You get free meal swipes

1335
01:05:59,254 --> 01:06:02,100
if you just let like
the dining center know

1336
01:06:02,100 --> 01:06:03,780
that you're in need for like meal swipes.

1337
01:06:03,780 --> 01:06:05,880
And then we have a lot of
really good thrift stores

1338
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:10,260
which sell winter clothes, shoes

1339
01:06:10,260 --> 01:06:12,600
those kind of things like
for really, really cheap

1340
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:15,090
and they're like in
really good conditions.

1341
01:06:15,090 --> 01:06:19,620
Another con is that UVM has
like not the best options

1342
01:06:19,620 --> 01:06:20,880
for food on campus.

1343
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:25,880
So most days I bring my own
lunch or go home for lunch.

1344
01:06:25,950 --> 01:06:27,690
Finding on-campus jobs can be difficult,

1345
01:06:27,690 --> 01:06:29,520
especially if you are an
international student.

1346
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:30,990
There's a lot of places on campus

1347
01:06:30,990 --> 01:06:33,870
that only cater to people
with a work study program

1348
01:06:33,870 --> 01:06:34,770
which we don't have.

1349
01:06:34,770 --> 01:06:36,450
It's like a federal program.

1350
01:06:36,450 --> 01:06:37,830
So if you don't already have a TA

1351
01:06:37,830 --> 01:06:39,150
and you don't already have funding

1352
01:06:39,150 --> 01:06:41,090
and you come here as a master's student,

1353
01:06:41,090 --> 01:06:42,600
so let's see you wanna work at the library

1354
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:44,167
or you wanna do something else,

1355
01:06:44,167 --> 01:06:47,460
then it's gonna be hard
to find on-campus job.

1356
01:06:47,460 --> 01:06:49,440
It's not impossible 'cause like I said

1357
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:50,522
I was able to find it on campus job

1358
01:06:50,522 --> 01:06:52,993
but you have to work hard for it.

1359
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:56,633
Other cons are just the same as the cons

1360
01:06:56,633 --> 01:06:58,791
as like any other grad school.

1361
01:06:58,791 --> 01:07:01,530
Advisor issues, too much
work, funding issues,

1362
01:07:01,530 --> 01:07:05,010
those parking on campus can be difficult.

1363
01:07:05,010 --> 01:07:08,160
Some days are really, really cold.

1364
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:10,857
So I think the worst that it got for me

1365
01:07:10,857 --> 01:07:14,070
was like minus 15 or minus 20.

1366
01:07:14,070 --> 01:07:16,463
So I definitely don't
enjoy those like cold days.

1367
01:07:16,463 --> 01:07:19,620
So just keep in mind
that we have long winters

1368
01:07:19,620 --> 01:07:20,620
and lots of snow

1369
01:07:21,540 --> 01:07:23,604
but it's still, I would
say relatively better

1370
01:07:23,604 --> 01:07:27,510
than some places in Canada
or Minnesota for example.

1371
01:07:27,510 --> 01:07:29,519
And the last con I would say

1372
01:07:29,519 --> 01:07:31,277
is that there is a lack
of diversity in Vermont,

1373
01:07:31,277 --> 01:07:35,940
like generally, so 85%
people identify as white

1374
01:07:35,940 --> 01:07:38,400
and the ethnic foods are just okay.

1375
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:40,230
So you're definitely
gonna have a hard time

1376
01:07:40,230 --> 01:07:43,020
like finding communities
of like your own people.

1377
01:07:43,020 --> 01:07:44,010
Like I'm from Pakistan

1378
01:07:44,010 --> 01:07:46,290
and I think for the first
like one and a half year

1379
01:07:46,290 --> 01:07:48,267
I didn't even like meet
a single Pakistani.

1380
01:07:48,267 --> 01:07:51,840
And I think total there are
like five in the university.

1381
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:52,980
So just keep that in mind.

1382
01:07:52,980 --> 01:07:54,910
I mean that that can be a pro or a con

1383
01:07:54,910 --> 01:07:57,060
like depending on your personality,

1384
01:07:57,060 --> 01:08:00,780
depending on like how comfortable
you are with other people.

1385
01:08:00,780 --> 01:08:03,335
And with that, I we'll
open it to questions

1386
01:08:03,335 --> 01:08:05,329
so that we can do that as well.

1387
01:08:05,329 --> 01:08:06,162
Thank you.

1388
01:08:08,693 --> 01:08:10,290
Thanks so much, Irfan.

1389
01:08:10,290 --> 01:08:13,410
I'm smiling at a number of
all of the things you said

1390
01:08:13,410 --> 01:08:16,830
and for sharing really so honestly.

1391
01:08:16,830 --> 01:08:17,797
I really appreciate

1392
01:08:17,797 --> 01:08:22,797
and I'm sure that our
attendees do as well.

1393
01:08:22,950 --> 01:08:24,690
We have a couple of general questions

1394
01:08:24,690 --> 01:08:28,020
because I think folks
might be still processing

1395
01:08:28,020 --> 01:08:29,220
some of what you're saying

1396
01:08:29,220 --> 01:08:32,120
and I'm hoping that they
will enter those questions

1397
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:35,903
that they have on your specific comments

1398
01:08:35,903 --> 01:08:39,363
in the chat live event Q&A.

1399
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:44,523
But couple of questions that have come in

1400
01:08:44,523 --> 01:08:47,373
that I don't know if you
wanna take a stab at.

1401
01:08:48,570 --> 01:08:51,840
One is a really general sort of question

1402
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:54,226
and that is what is the best way

1403
01:08:54,226 --> 01:08:57,489
for a student to prepare themselves

1404
01:08:57,489 --> 01:09:01,343
for beginning their studies at UVM?

1405
01:09:01,343 --> 01:09:04,830
So that's really very
broad, that's from Farsan.

1406
01:09:04,830 --> 01:09:05,897
Thank you Farsan.

1407
01:09:06,930 --> 01:09:09,150
If there's any more detail

1408
01:09:09,150 --> 01:09:12,226
that you wanna add to
that question be happy to,

1409
01:09:12,226 --> 01:09:14,910
but I don't know Irfan
if you wanna take a stab

1410
01:09:14,910 --> 01:09:17,940
at the best way for a
student to prepare themselves

1411
01:09:17,940 --> 01:09:21,183
for beginning their studies at UVM.

1412
01:09:22,110 --> 01:09:24,143
Yeah, it just depends on like
if you're a master's student

1413
01:09:24,143 --> 01:09:27,069
or a PhD student, I could
speak for PhD students.

1414
01:09:27,069 --> 01:09:31,500
I think the biggest thing is
to start brainstorming ideas

1415
01:09:31,500 --> 01:09:32,940
for your research.

1416
01:09:32,940 --> 01:09:37,020
So for example, before you
get here you can read papers,

1417
01:09:37,020 --> 01:09:38,430
you can do literature reviews,

1418
01:09:38,430 --> 01:09:42,120
you can sort of read papers off your lab

1419
01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:43,157
that have been published.

1420
01:09:43,157 --> 01:09:45,210
So you might not have done that yet,

1421
01:09:45,210 --> 01:09:46,350
but that's something that you can do

1422
01:09:46,350 --> 01:09:48,450
and familiarize yourself
with the kind of skills

1423
01:09:48,450 --> 01:09:51,270
that they have so that when
you are planning your research

1424
01:09:51,270 --> 01:09:52,470
then you know already,

1425
01:09:52,470 --> 01:09:54,390
okay these are the things
that my lab has done.

1426
01:09:54,390 --> 01:09:56,820
That means I can go to
them to ask for questions.

1427
01:09:56,820 --> 01:09:58,830
So I would say that's like
in terms of the academic,

1428
01:09:58,830 --> 01:10:00,873
that's one of the sort
of like the basic things

1429
01:10:00,873 --> 01:10:02,460
that you can do.

1430
01:10:02,460 --> 01:10:05,250
Other than that I'd say
there's not really too much

1431
01:10:05,250 --> 01:10:06,083
that you really need to do.

1432
01:10:06,083 --> 01:10:09,393
It's like really everything
like starts once you get here.

1433
01:10:11,501 --> 01:10:12,600
Thank you.

1434
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:14,460
And we have another question

1435
01:10:14,460 --> 01:10:17,760
which is a little more
specific and academic related.

1436
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:18,990
And that is,

1437
01:10:18,990 --> 01:10:22,990
is it possible to do
material science research

1438
01:10:24,297 --> 01:10:26,013
from mechanical engineering?

1439
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,150
Is it possible to do
material science research

1440
01:10:30,150 --> 01:10:31,710
from the mechanical engineering

1441
01:10:31,710 --> 01:10:34,140
as an electrical engineering student?

1442
01:10:34,140 --> 01:10:36,270
So I think that he means that or she

1443
01:10:36,270 --> 01:10:38,340
that mechanical engineering program

1444
01:10:38,340 --> 01:10:40,530
as an electrical engineering student.

1445
01:10:40,530 --> 01:10:42,303
Do you happen to know that?

1446
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:44,633
Yeah.

1447
01:10:45,990 --> 01:10:49,260
So mechanical and electrical are both

1448
01:10:49,260 --> 01:10:54,240
sort of part of the same parent system

1449
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:57,240
and they're both actually
in the same building.

1450
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:00,540
It entirely depends like on your advisor.

1451
01:11:00,540 --> 01:11:03,270
So for example, I'm in
mechanical engineering,

1452
01:11:03,270 --> 01:11:05,100
my advisor is a mechanical engineer

1453
01:11:05,100 --> 01:11:08,070
but all of my research
is in biomedical, right?

1454
01:11:08,070 --> 01:11:12,480
So I would say it's relatively
easy to have one discipline.

1455
01:11:12,480 --> 01:11:14,550
So be in electrical
engineering but do research

1456
01:11:14,550 --> 01:11:16,230
in like something that's related to that

1457
01:11:16,230 --> 01:11:17,220
like material science.

1458
01:11:17,220 --> 01:11:19,410
So I had say yeah it's possible.

1459
01:11:20,550 --> 01:11:22,980
There aren't any other questions

1460
01:11:22,980 --> 01:11:27,470
but please feel free
to ask those questions

1461
01:11:27,470 --> 01:11:28,923
in the live event Q&A.

1462
01:11:30,030 --> 01:11:32,370
'Cause we've got Irfan right here

1463
01:11:32,370 --> 01:11:36,120
who's just been a wealth of experience

1464
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:38,430
as a graduate student in-

1465
01:11:38,430 --> 01:11:40,200
[Irfan] I see some questions

1466
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:41,550
that I can answer quickly.

1467
01:11:41,550 --> 01:11:42,383
Yeah, I see.

1468
01:11:42,383 --> 01:11:44,580
Oh, great, oh, yeah, oh gosh, thank you.

1469
01:11:44,580 --> 01:11:47,400
Irfan actually yes, I
see them now as well.

1470
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:49,170
[Irfan] Yeah, no worries
I can answer them.

1471
01:11:49,170 --> 01:11:50,003
Okay.

1472
01:11:50,003 --> 01:11:50,836
Good.

1473
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:53,940
So the first is like
I came from Islamabad,

1474
01:11:53,940 --> 01:11:56,400
I'm a Muslim and I was
contemplating the school stories

1475
01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:57,630
from Islam.

1476
01:11:57,630 --> 01:12:00,180
I'd say like you have absolutely
nothing to worry about

1477
01:12:00,180 --> 01:12:01,530
in that sense.

1478
01:12:01,530 --> 01:12:05,070
All of my friends who
are practicing Muslims,

1479
01:12:05,070 --> 01:12:07,050
they like are pretty happy.

1480
01:12:07,050 --> 01:12:08,250
They have a good time over here.

1481
01:12:08,250 --> 01:12:11,190
Like I said, we have
(indistinct) on campus,

1482
01:12:11,190 --> 01:12:14,127
we have like some halal options as well.

1483
01:12:14,127 --> 01:12:16,650
And then the mosque is not
too far away from campus.

1484
01:12:16,650 --> 01:12:20,130
I think it's like two miles
away, something like that.

1485
01:12:20,130 --> 01:12:22,590
And the mosque is like
super super duper nice.

1486
01:12:22,590 --> 01:12:24,780
Like they have actually
a gym inside the mosque

1487
01:12:24,780 --> 01:12:27,450
and they have these community
events like at the mosque.

1488
01:12:27,450 --> 01:12:30,000
I think the main thing is that
you just like take some time

1489
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:34,140
to find out other people who
follow the same faith as you

1490
01:12:34,140 --> 01:12:36,240
and then they'll definitely
be able to help you out.

1491
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:38,490
So it's pretty easy.

1492
01:12:38,490 --> 01:12:41,820
How close or far away are
your classes to each other?

1493
01:12:41,820 --> 01:12:44,760
Usually they're actually
very close to each other.

1494
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:47,553
So most of my classes were like
either in the same building

1495
01:12:47,553 --> 01:12:49,620
or maybe like the next building.

1496
01:12:49,620 --> 01:12:51,570
But it depends on if you're taking classes

1497
01:12:51,570 --> 01:12:53,770
from like a completely
different department.

1498
01:12:55,113 --> 01:12:56,160
And then someone said,

1499
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:57,930
I'm a Pakistani student joining this fall,

1500
01:12:57,930 --> 01:13:00,480
how can I connect with
other Pakistani students?

1501
01:13:00,480 --> 01:13:04,533
Just send me an email and then
I can connect you to them.

1502
01:13:05,833 --> 01:13:07,920
As an international student
we should be a bit challenging

1503
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,260
at the beginning to think
critically express your ideas

1504
01:13:10,260 --> 01:13:11,340
and English as we used to think,

1505
01:13:11,340 --> 01:13:13,470
express ourselves in other languages.

1506
01:13:13,470 --> 01:13:14,580
What are your suggestions?

1507
01:13:14,580 --> 01:13:18,510
Yeah, there's actually a couple programs

1508
01:13:18,510 --> 01:13:23,510
which help international
students practice their English.

1509
01:13:24,030 --> 01:13:26,310
I would ask the Office
of International Students

1510
01:13:26,310 --> 01:13:28,590
so you can have a session
from them in a little while

1511
01:13:28,590 --> 01:13:31,390
about this specific question
or just send them an email.

1512
01:13:33,900 --> 01:13:36,870
How to seek your housing
before they arrive in UVM?

1513
01:13:36,870 --> 01:13:40,110
I would say like instead of
going randomly on Craiglist,

1514
01:13:40,110 --> 01:13:45,110
go for like the websites
of leasing companies

1515
01:13:46,500 --> 01:13:49,740
instead of and then applying
officially through them.

1516
01:13:49,740 --> 01:13:51,049
So instead of applying to,

1517
01:13:51,049 --> 01:13:52,793
reaching out to some
random person on Craiglist

1518
01:13:52,793 --> 01:13:54,780
or random person on Facebook,

1519
01:13:54,780 --> 01:13:56,010
like go through a company

1520
01:13:56,010 --> 01:13:58,020
and that way you would be
like guaranteed housing

1521
01:13:58,020 --> 01:14:00,160
and of course you'd have to
pay a deposit if you do that.

1522
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:03,210
But that's how I did it basically.

1523
01:14:03,210 --> 01:14:06,120
And I will take last two questions

1524
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:08,220
'cause I think we have three minutes left.

1525
01:14:10,620 --> 01:14:11,463
Let me see.

1526
01:14:18,870 --> 01:14:21,390
Yeah, if there are any.

1527
01:14:21,390 --> 01:14:23,160
Someone says please share your email.

1528
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:25,230
Just like write Irfan (indistinct) UVM,

1529
01:14:25,230 --> 01:14:28,683
like you'll find it or yeah.

1530
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:31,560
Or I'll send it to you a deal.

1531
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:36,560
And yeah, I think that's it, yeah.

1532
01:14:36,738 --> 01:14:37,571
Okay.

1533
01:14:38,580 --> 01:14:41,760
And I see that Gideon has asked

1534
01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:43,920
about the statistics program

1535
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:47,730
help graduate students
in securing internships.

1536
01:14:47,730 --> 01:14:50,910
I don't think spoke to that.

1537
01:14:50,910 --> 01:14:52,230
Hopefully I didn't miss that.

1538
01:14:52,230 --> 01:14:57,230
But yes, I think faculty
definitely statistics.

1539
01:14:57,990 --> 01:15:01,260
You heard from professor Single earlier,

1540
01:15:01,260 --> 01:15:03,000
but that definitely worked

1541
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:07,020
to try and get people
meaningful experiences

1542
01:15:07,020 --> 01:15:10,140
that are gonna lead to
hopefully employment

1543
01:15:10,140 --> 01:15:12,900
or whatever it is that
the student wants to do

1544
01:15:12,900 --> 01:15:14,493
after graduation.

1545
01:15:15,780 --> 01:15:18,330
Looking for information about timing,

1546
01:15:18,330 --> 01:15:23,330
about receiving letters,
especially for funding.

1547
01:15:23,970 --> 01:15:27,240
And those are done at
the department level.

1548
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:30,300
And my understanding
was that those letters

1549
01:15:30,300 --> 01:15:32,670
have all gone out.

1550
01:15:32,670 --> 01:15:35,823
If you have a question
about that specifically,

1551
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:42,560
feel free to reach out
to electrical engineering

1552
01:15:42,930 --> 01:15:46,470
if you've got a contact
there or if you don't,

1553
01:15:46,470 --> 01:15:49,170
please feel free to reach out to me

1554
01:15:49,170 --> 01:15:52,263
and I will help you track that down.

1555
01:15:59,040 --> 01:15:59,873
Let's see.

1556
01:15:59,873 --> 01:16:02,430
What is the average cost
of living per month,

1557
01:16:02,430 --> 01:16:05,130
including housing and accommodation?

1558
01:16:05,130 --> 01:16:08,713
Yeah, I think minimum
you're looking at like 16,

1559
01:16:09,850 --> 01:16:10,803
$1700 a month.

1560
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,070
Including everything, not just, yeah,

1561
01:16:17,070 --> 01:16:19,560
housing, accommodation, fun stuff.

1562
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:20,583
Yeah, everything.

1563
01:16:24,239 --> 01:16:26,640
I know, I wish it wasn't so expensive.

1564
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:28,050
Oh, Amira is asking,

1565
01:16:28,050 --> 01:16:30,250
can you talk a little
bit more about housing

1566
01:16:31,410 --> 01:16:34,650
and I do wanna say that
one of the departments

1567
01:16:34,650 --> 01:16:38,100
has done a really good job
of some graduate students

1568
01:16:38,100 --> 01:16:39,270
in that department of putting together

1569
01:16:39,270 --> 01:16:42,510
some resources for housing.

1570
01:16:42,510 --> 01:16:46,980
And if anybody is interested
in some of those specific,

1571
01:16:46,980 --> 01:16:48,750
please send me an email.

1572
01:16:48,750 --> 01:16:51,180
Amir, I've got you down.

1573
01:16:51,180 --> 01:16:53,310
Anybody else, I'd be happy to share that.

1574
01:16:53,310 --> 01:16:54,930
It's not something I put together

1575
01:16:54,930 --> 01:16:58,980
but it's something that
I saw and it was helpful.

1576
01:16:58,980 --> 01:17:01,803
So sorry and Irfan you wanna.

1577
01:17:02,670 --> 01:17:03,990
I just wanted to give a tip

1578
01:17:03,990 --> 01:17:05,640
that once you get your UVM email,

1579
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:07,740
then there is this thing called grad net.

1580
01:17:07,740 --> 01:17:09,660
So basically what happens
is you send an email

1581
01:17:09,660 --> 01:17:12,630
and goes to every single
graduate student at UVM

1582
01:17:12,630 --> 01:17:14,670
and that's a really good
place to ask for housing.

1583
01:17:14,670 --> 01:17:16,500
So introduce yourself and tell them

1584
01:17:16,500 --> 01:17:19,050
that this is your budget and
you're looking for housing

1585
01:17:19,050 --> 01:17:21,720
and then somebody usually
like if they have a vacancy

1586
01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:23,438
they'll reply to you.

1587
01:17:23,438 --> 01:17:27,423
So just google UVM grad net for that.

1588
01:17:30,540 --> 01:17:31,373
Great.

1589
01:17:31,373 --> 01:17:34,500
So thanks so much Irfan.

1590
01:17:34,500 --> 01:17:37,320
Boy, lot of information there

1591
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:40,770
and I hope that I am sure
that our participants

1592
01:17:40,770 --> 01:17:43,080
found that really, really helpful.

1593
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:45,000
What we have coming up next

1594
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:50,000
is actually a panel with
several more graduate students.

1595
01:17:50,910 --> 01:17:53,850
Irfan was from mechanical engineering.

1596
01:17:53,850 --> 01:17:56,790
We're going to hear from Kate Porterfield,

1597
01:17:56,790 --> 01:18:01,790
who's one of the civil and
environmental engineering

1598
01:18:03,180 --> 01:18:07,770
PhD students, Jenna Cohen who's
in biomedical engineering,

1599
01:18:07,770 --> 01:18:10,830
Rick Danner who's in mathematics,

1600
01:18:10,830 --> 01:18:15,273
and Avi Chala who's in complex systems.

1601
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:21,090
So we've got them kind of keyed up.

1602
01:18:21,090 --> 01:18:23,220
They're gonna each share
with you a little bit

1603
01:18:23,220 --> 01:18:25,950
and then we'll have Q&A again.

1604
01:18:25,950 --> 01:18:27,630
And now that I'm on board here

1605
01:18:27,630 --> 01:18:30,210
for seeing that I need to scroll for Q&A

1606
01:18:30,210 --> 01:18:32,160
to see all of those questions.

1607
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:34,053
I will be monitoring those.

1608
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:39,810
But I'm gonna kinda hand
it off to each of them

1609
01:18:39,810 --> 01:18:42,510
so they can individually
kind of introduce themselves

1610
01:18:42,510 --> 01:18:46,710
more fully and then we'll do the Q&A.

1611
01:18:46,710 --> 01:18:51,710
So I am going to start with Kate.

1612
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:55,710
Thank you.

1613
01:18:55,710 --> 01:18:57,360
I'm Kate Porterfield.

1614
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:01,080
I am in my fifth year at UVM.

1615
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:03,510
I think I'm in my second
or third year of my PhD

1616
01:19:03,510 --> 01:19:07,470
and I'm in civil and
environmental engineering.

1617
01:19:07,470 --> 01:19:11,310
And I've lived in Vermont
for almost 10 years

1618
01:19:11,310 --> 01:19:14,313
and in Burlington for five years or so.

1619
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:17,160
And yeah, that's it.

1620
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:19,500
I'm happy to talk about anything

1621
01:19:19,500 --> 01:19:21,450
related to civil and
environmental engineering

1622
01:19:21,450 --> 01:19:24,693
or living in Burlington,
anything like that.

1623
01:19:26,017 --> 01:19:29,577
And I guess we can go right to Jenna,

1624
01:19:29,577 --> 01:19:31,230
you can introduce yourself

1625
01:19:31,230 --> 01:19:33,750
and say whatever you'd like to say.

1626
01:19:33,750 --> 01:19:35,400
Hi, I'm Jenna.

1627
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:38,310
I am a first year PhD student

1628
01:19:38,310 --> 01:19:40,710
in the biomedical engineering program.

1629
01:19:40,710 --> 01:19:44,100
I'm from Connecticut
and I did my undergrad

1630
01:19:44,100 --> 01:19:45,330
at Bucknell University.

1631
01:19:45,330 --> 01:19:47,340
It's in middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania

1632
01:19:47,340 --> 01:19:49,080
if you don't know that school.

1633
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:52,470
And yeah, so I'm new to
Burlington, new to UVM,

1634
01:19:52,470 --> 01:19:53,940
new to the PhD program.

1635
01:19:53,940 --> 01:19:57,753
I was right in your
shoes a year ago today.

1636
01:19:59,057 --> 01:19:59,890
I'm trying to think about it.

1637
01:19:59,890 --> 01:20:01,980
Oh, and then I guess like some
little things about me too,

1638
01:20:01,980 --> 01:20:04,134
I really like hiking
and cross country skiing

1639
01:20:04,134 --> 01:20:05,910
and all things outdoors.

1640
01:20:05,910 --> 01:20:08,010
Which if you like a
lot of outdoors things,

1641
01:20:08,010 --> 01:20:10,023
Burlington will be amazing.

1642
01:20:10,890 --> 01:20:15,483
Thanks Jenna, I'm just gonna
introduce Rick next please.

1643
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:18,180
Hi, I'm Rick Danner.

1644
01:20:18,180 --> 01:20:19,915
I'm in my third year.

1645
01:20:19,915 --> 01:20:24,915
PhD in mathematics I'm coming
from California originally.

1646
01:20:25,063 --> 01:20:30,063
I got my master's there in
Sacramento and happy to be here.

1647
01:20:31,170 --> 01:20:32,490
I really like Burlington.

1648
01:20:32,490 --> 01:20:36,933
And yeah, I like the group of
people in the math department

1649
01:20:36,933 --> 01:20:39,000
that I'm working with.

1650
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:40,020
Thanks Rick.

1651
01:20:40,020 --> 01:20:42,825
And I'm gonna introduce Avi next.

1652
01:20:42,825 --> 01:20:44,700
Go right ahead Avi.

1653
01:20:44,700 --> 01:20:46,890
Sorry, this is gonna be...

1654
01:20:46,890 --> 01:20:50,520
Hi I'm Avi I'm a first
year in master student

1655
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:52,747
in complex systems and data science.

1656
01:20:52,747 --> 01:20:54,990
I moved here from Santa Fe, New Mexico

1657
01:20:54,990 --> 01:20:57,330
and I'm fairly new to Burlington.

1658
01:20:57,330 --> 01:20:59,370
I'm really enjoying my
programming in complex systems

1659
01:20:59,370 --> 01:21:02,350
so if you have any questions
on complex systems statistics

1660
01:21:04,110 --> 01:21:06,603
and just being new in Burlington.

1661
01:21:07,605 --> 01:21:08,438
Yeah.

1662
01:21:11,820 --> 01:21:14,010
I see that there's one question already

1663
01:21:14,010 --> 01:21:17,190
about best neighborhoods to live in.

1664
01:21:17,190 --> 01:21:19,083
I could speak to that briefly.

1665
01:21:21,540 --> 01:21:24,840
So there's like the downtown
district of Burlington

1666
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:29,190
that's like right directly
down from the university

1667
01:21:29,190 --> 01:21:34,190
and that I think tends to be
a lot of college students.

1668
01:21:34,500 --> 01:21:37,001
And then on either side
there's the south end

1669
01:21:37,001 --> 01:21:38,673
and the north end.

1670
01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:41,340
I'm in the north end.

1671
01:21:41,340 --> 01:21:42,390
Sorry, what was that?

1672
01:21:43,650 --> 01:21:44,730
Oh, okay.

1673
01:21:44,730 --> 01:21:45,768
So I'm in the north end now.

1674
01:21:45,768 --> 01:21:47,820
I have lived in the south end.

1675
01:21:47,820 --> 01:21:52,360
The south end I think
tends to be more families

1676
01:21:53,400 --> 01:21:55,410
and there's like some
great parks down there,

1677
01:21:55,410 --> 01:21:57,240
a whole bunch of schools.

1678
01:21:57,240 --> 01:21:59,790
There are fewer rental options down there

1679
01:21:59,790 --> 01:22:00,990
than there are in the north end.

1680
01:22:00,990 --> 01:22:01,950
But if it's kind of like,

1681
01:22:01,950 --> 01:22:05,133
if you can find something
there, there's some great gems.

1682
01:22:06,060 --> 01:22:08,580
I think there tend to
be more rental options

1683
01:22:08,580 --> 01:22:12,060
in the north end and you
know there's also great parks

1684
01:22:12,060 --> 01:22:16,050
and it's very walkable to
downtown and to the university.

1685
01:22:16,050 --> 01:22:17,880
So there's that benefit.

1686
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:19,590
I live in a location right now

1687
01:22:19,590 --> 01:22:22,680
where it's a 15 minute walk
up to the engineering building

1688
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:24,360
and a 10 minute walk into town.

1689
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:27,483
So I rarely ever use my
car, which is pretty nice.

1690
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:31,440
The new north end is kind
of a little bit further away

1691
01:22:31,440 --> 01:22:33,120
from the downtown area

1692
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:36,080
and I think there's even
more rental options there

1693
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:40,590
but you might have to take
a bus or drive to campus.

1694
01:22:40,590 --> 01:22:44,430
And then there's also, Winooski

1695
01:22:44,430 --> 01:22:46,500
is not technically Burlington

1696
01:22:46,500 --> 01:22:48,240
but it's pretty close, walkable.

1697
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:50,190
I know a bunch of people who live there

1698
01:22:50,190 --> 01:22:53,223
and either take the bus to
campus or walk over the bridge.

1699
01:22:54,210 --> 01:22:56,970
I think sometimes there tend
to be some cheaper options

1700
01:22:56,970 --> 01:23:01,020
over there than there
are in Burlington proper.

1701
01:23:01,020 --> 01:23:02,130
And then if you were to go

1702
01:23:02,130 --> 01:23:04,530
either even further outside of town,

1703
01:23:04,530 --> 01:23:08,400
there's South Burlington I
think has more like condo

1704
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:12,600
maybe like larger options for
families and then Colchester

1705
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:14,610
and those are both great areas

1706
01:23:14,610 --> 01:23:18,157
but again you'd probably need
to either take the bus in

1707
01:23:18,157 --> 01:23:20,448
or if you're that far outside

1708
01:23:20,448 --> 01:23:23,730
of the university circumference

1709
01:23:23,730 --> 01:23:26,700
you can get a commuter parking pass

1710
01:23:26,700 --> 01:23:29,010
where you would be able to
drive a personal vehicle

1711
01:23:29,010 --> 01:23:32,460
to school park kind of far
away from the buildings

1712
01:23:32,460 --> 01:23:34,830
and then walk to class.

1713
01:23:34,830 --> 01:23:36,150
So hopefully that was helpful.

1714
01:23:36,150 --> 01:23:37,983
Maybe someone else could jump in.

1715
01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:42,990
Oh, I think that was great.

1716
01:23:42,990 --> 01:23:44,850
Yeah, I'm in the old north end right now

1717
01:23:44,850 --> 01:23:47,040
and I really like where I am

1718
01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:48,840
and I was looking at
places in South Burlington

1719
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:50,430
and they were definitely
more like you were saying

1720
01:23:50,430 --> 01:23:53,100
like condos or there were
some houses there too.

1721
01:23:53,100 --> 01:23:55,710
And I know I have a lot of
friends that are grad students

1722
01:23:55,710 --> 01:23:58,223
that live in all of the
towns that she mentioned.

1723
01:23:58,223 --> 01:24:01,050
There's definitely a lot in Winooski.

1724
01:24:01,050 --> 01:24:03,720
Yeah, those are all good suggestions

1725
01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:05,430
and if you're looking for other people

1726
01:24:05,430 --> 01:24:07,500
maybe that are looking for roommates

1727
01:24:07,500 --> 01:24:09,270
or don't know how to go
about looking for housing,

1728
01:24:09,270 --> 01:24:12,060
I would say Zillow is
definitely a great one

1729
01:24:12,060 --> 01:24:13,440
or any of those.

1730
01:24:13,440 --> 01:24:15,430
I think it's like hotpadsapartments.com,

1731
01:24:15,430 --> 01:24:17,220
all of those are great.

1732
01:24:17,220 --> 01:24:19,080
And then also if we're
looking for roommates,

1733
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:21,570
UVM has a portal,

1734
01:24:21,570 --> 01:24:22,950
I don't know if you
remember the name of it,

1735
01:24:22,950 --> 01:24:23,850
I'm blanking on it right now,

1736
01:24:23,850 --> 01:24:26,970
but if you just Google
UVM housing roommates,

1737
01:24:26,970 --> 01:24:27,840
you'll find it.

1738
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:29,310
And that's how I found the two roommates

1739
01:24:29,310 --> 01:24:31,810
that I live with now they're
both master students.

1740
01:24:34,650 --> 01:24:36,000
And Facebook groups too actually.

1741
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,513
Facebook groups are really,
really, really helpful.

1742
01:24:41,190 --> 01:24:43,290
If you've looked around
here in Burlington,

1743
01:24:43,290 --> 01:24:46,497
there's one that comes up
a lot is Redstone Lofts,

1744
01:24:46,497 --> 01:24:51,497
then I'm gonna be going into
my third year there next year.

1745
01:24:52,380 --> 01:24:55,230
They have you sign a lease
and everything quite early.

1746
01:24:55,230 --> 01:24:57,600
I don't know about slots being open now,

1747
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:00,736
but a friend of mine in the program

1748
01:25:00,736 --> 01:25:03,240
have spent quite a bit of
time looking around town

1749
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:06,630
and we keep coming back
to the consistency here,

1750
01:25:06,630 --> 01:25:09,780
fairly consistent for
hot water and everything.

1751
01:25:09,780 --> 01:25:12,123
I'm 15 minute walk from campus.

1752
01:25:12,990 --> 01:25:17,990
I pay 1,050 and that includes
internet and everything

1753
01:25:18,423 --> 01:25:22,260
and I'm staring right
now at the soccer field

1754
01:25:22,260 --> 01:25:24,810
and the track and the gym.

1755
01:25:24,810 --> 01:25:28,620
So if that's available now or next year,

1756
01:25:28,620 --> 01:25:31,143
I do recommend Redstone Lofts.

1757
01:25:36,690 --> 01:25:39,540
Great, Avi, anything you
wanna to jump in and out

1758
01:25:39,540 --> 01:25:41,700
about housing or?

1759
01:25:41,700 --> 01:25:44,230
Oh, just if you have pets

1760
01:25:45,480 --> 01:25:48,300
maybe take that into consideration

1761
01:25:48,300 --> 01:25:51,273
because a lot of the houses
here are not very pet friendly.

1762
01:25:53,190 --> 01:25:54,690
For some reason I know this even though

1763
01:25:54,690 --> 01:25:57,360
I don't have any pets but
a landlord is pretty strict

1764
01:25:57,360 --> 01:25:59,670
but I live in South Burlington,
it's a great neighborhood,

1765
01:25:59,670 --> 01:26:04,200
especially for families
or not and can get a loud.

1766
01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:05,370
My friends live there.

1767
01:26:05,370 --> 01:26:08,040
But if you really need
like a quiet, peaceful,

1768
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:10,800
secluded area, Winooski,
Colchester, south Burlington,

1769
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:12,633
that's probably where you wanna go.

1770
01:26:14,147 --> 01:26:15,600
Great, thank you.

1771
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:17,640
We have some questions

1772
01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:20,760
you can all probably see them coming in.

1773
01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:25,230
But odds of getting a
part-time job on or off campus

1774
01:26:25,230 --> 01:26:27,620
or Irfan mentioned that
it's a little bit hard

1775
01:26:27,620 --> 01:26:31,290
to get one on campus,
though it isn't impossible

1776
01:26:31,290 --> 01:26:33,390
and I just don't know if anybody can speak

1777
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:39,320
to any of the kinda off
campus job opportunities.

1778
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:44,550
So I know a little bit about this

1779
01:26:44,550 --> 01:26:45,450
because my friends do this

1780
01:26:45,450 --> 01:26:47,189
and again take this with a grain of salt.

1781
01:26:47,189 --> 01:26:49,890
But we have like a lot of industries here

1782
01:26:49,890 --> 01:26:52,860
that are looking to
hire part-time students.

1783
01:26:52,860 --> 01:26:56,490
I know this because a lot of
them come for data scientists.

1784
01:26:56,490 --> 01:26:58,245
So if you want something off campus,

1785
01:26:58,245 --> 01:26:59,910
there are a lot of companies

1786
01:26:59,910 --> 01:27:01,605
who can get you some part-time work.

1787
01:27:01,605 --> 01:27:06,300
On campus is a little bit more
tricky as Irfan mentioned.

1788
01:27:06,300 --> 01:27:10,920
There's not a lot of facilities
that need students here.

1789
01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:12,660
Usually my friends would tend to work

1790
01:27:12,660 --> 01:27:13,830
at the Gutterson Center,

1791
01:27:13,830 --> 01:27:15,900
which is the recreation center

1792
01:27:15,900 --> 01:27:17,829
or they would work at the Davis Center

1793
01:27:17,829 --> 01:27:21,063
and that's sort of what I'm aware of.

1794
01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:24,720
And of course there are
TAs and stuff like that.

1795
01:27:26,707 --> 01:27:28,067
And then off campus
there's also a lot of...

1796
01:27:28,067 --> 01:27:30,091
Like I have friends that
work at coffee shops

1797
01:27:30,091 --> 01:27:34,860
or a grocery store, babysit,
tutor jobs like that too

1798
01:27:34,860 --> 01:27:37,503
that you'll always find off campus.

1799
01:27:40,830 --> 01:27:41,940
Looks like there's a question

1800
01:27:41,940 --> 01:27:46,380
about clubs and activities
to get involved in.

1801
01:27:46,380 --> 01:27:47,790
On campus or specifically

1802
01:27:47,790 --> 01:27:50,763
with the biomedical
engineering department.

1803
01:27:51,900 --> 01:27:53,760
So anybody have some favorites

1804
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,150
that you've been able to participate in

1805
01:27:56,150 --> 01:27:59,430
besides the graduate student council,

1806
01:27:59,430 --> 01:28:03,213
which is a wonderful group,
but any other activities?

1807
01:28:09,150 --> 01:28:12,270
I probably find that my lab group

1808
01:28:12,270 --> 01:28:17,270
is kind of the way that I like
primarily do social things

1809
01:28:19,069 --> 01:28:21,300
with other graduate students.

1810
01:28:21,300 --> 01:28:24,780
So like our lab group is
going bowling this week

1811
01:28:24,780 --> 01:28:27,090
and then I'm like going to the game room,

1812
01:28:27,090 --> 01:28:28,560
which is like a board game cafe

1813
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:30,810
with like some other
folks in my lab tonight.

1814
01:28:31,740 --> 01:28:34,620
So I definitely like, we
do stuff as a lab group.

1815
01:28:34,620 --> 01:28:37,983
I know that that varies from lab to lab.

1816
01:28:39,060 --> 01:28:40,680
And then between that

1817
01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:45,680
and just like the other things
I'm involved in on campus,

1818
01:28:46,530 --> 01:28:50,010
like I mean the civil and environmental

1819
01:28:50,010 --> 01:28:52,176
engineering department has weekly seminars

1820
01:28:52,176 --> 01:28:55,200
for all graduate students on Fridays.

1821
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:58,170
And then like a couple
times maybe once a semester

1822
01:28:58,170 --> 01:29:00,540
there will be like an event,

1823
01:29:00,540 --> 01:29:01,890
that's held for graduate students.

1824
01:29:01,890 --> 01:29:04,736
So just going to all the things

1825
01:29:04,736 --> 01:29:09,350
that you know come up from
being a graduate student at UVM

1826
01:29:09,350 --> 01:29:13,590
I feel like I get enough
kind of social exposure

1827
01:29:13,590 --> 01:29:14,969
to other graduate students

1828
01:29:14,969 --> 01:29:16,740
but maybe someone else could speak

1829
01:29:16,740 --> 01:29:19,800
to like other extracurricular clubs.

1830
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:21,300
I'm not as familiar with that.

1831
01:29:23,190 --> 01:29:26,190
So I really like sports
and like anything active.

1832
01:29:26,190 --> 01:29:28,980
So I've done volleyball with
some other grad students

1833
01:29:28,980 --> 01:29:30,973
and some med students.

1834
01:29:30,973 --> 01:29:32,700
I also did broom ball.

1835
01:29:32,700 --> 01:29:34,170
I didn't know what it was before I did it.

1836
01:29:34,170 --> 01:29:36,330
It's hockey but you're not wearing skates

1837
01:29:36,330 --> 01:29:39,060
so you're just running around
on the ice with sneakers on.

1838
01:29:39,060 --> 01:29:40,713
That was really fun.

1839
01:29:42,049 --> 01:29:43,080
And I found some groups

1840
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:45,720
to do like cross-country skiing with too.

1841
01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:50,610
About VME Clubs, I don't
know about a specific club

1842
01:29:50,610 --> 01:29:52,020
that grad students are involved in,

1843
01:29:52,020 --> 01:29:56,700
but I know that there are
talks that are specific

1844
01:29:56,700 --> 01:29:59,160
for the BME department that they'll host

1845
01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:00,750
and they'll be like sandwiches

1846
01:30:00,750 --> 01:30:03,663
or some kind of lunch normally with that.

1847
01:30:04,530 --> 01:30:05,363
Yeah.

1848
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:13,380
Yeah, just going off of
what Jenna and Kate said,

1849
01:30:13,380 --> 01:30:16,080
as grad students you're more
likely to just be working

1850
01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:17,460
with your grad students

1851
01:30:17,460 --> 01:30:22,460
and your social circle is
through them primarily.

1852
01:30:22,890 --> 01:30:24,720
And for clubs it really depends

1853
01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:26,310
on what kind of activities you like.

1854
01:30:26,310 --> 01:30:28,470
We have a host of activities,
you wanna do yoga,

1855
01:30:28,470 --> 01:30:29,670
you wanna do rock climbing,

1856
01:30:29,670 --> 01:30:31,950
you wanna not do something that's active,

1857
01:30:31,950 --> 01:30:33,600
you wanna like join, like for example,

1858
01:30:33,600 --> 01:30:36,140
I'm doing a reading club, it's not like a,

1859
01:30:36,990 --> 01:30:38,130
there are many clubs like this.

1860
01:30:38,130 --> 01:30:39,900
So I think there's a website

1861
01:30:39,900 --> 01:30:40,977
that sort of curates all this information.

1862
01:30:40,977 --> 01:30:43,740
I don't know if Jane has access to that.

1863
01:30:43,740 --> 01:30:47,190
But just good typing UVM school clubs

1864
01:30:47,190 --> 01:30:48,990
and seeing what specific activity you like

1865
01:30:48,990 --> 01:30:50,310
might be really helpful.

1866
01:30:50,310 --> 01:30:52,760
But other than that, I'm
sure when you get to UVM

1867
01:30:54,330 --> 01:30:55,650
you're not gonna be worried

1868
01:30:55,650 --> 01:30:57,500
about not having enough things to do.

1869
01:31:00,390 --> 01:31:01,223
That's kinda weird.

1870
01:31:01,223 --> 01:31:05,400
I haven't participated but
the intramural sports here

1871
01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:07,530
seems pretty robust lots of options.

1872
01:31:07,530 --> 01:31:12,530
There's a new bouldering wall in the gym.

1873
01:31:12,630 --> 01:31:13,560
There's an old rock wall.

1874
01:31:13,560 --> 01:31:15,540
I don't know if they're
still working on that,

1875
01:31:15,540 --> 01:31:17,130
but just a lot of options.

1876
01:31:17,130 --> 01:31:22,130
Some were just mentioned
in our math department.

1877
01:31:22,140 --> 01:31:24,870
We make an effort together

1878
01:31:24,870 --> 01:31:29,010
to find times like last
Friday we went out to eat

1879
01:31:29,010 --> 01:31:30,420
and then went to the free pizza

1880
01:31:30,420 --> 01:31:31,920
for a graduate student senate.

1881
01:31:34,230 --> 01:31:35,220
And the math form, yeah.

1882
01:31:35,220 --> 01:31:38,220
We do our best to get
together every other week

1883
01:31:38,220 --> 01:31:39,120
or something like that.

1884
01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:42,930
There's a couple of
questions that have come in.

1885
01:31:42,930 --> 01:31:46,440
Is it possible for
prospective computer science

1886
01:31:46,440 --> 01:31:49,770
master's students to make a
contact with faculty members

1887
01:31:49,770 --> 01:31:51,423
from different departments?

1888
01:31:54,180 --> 01:31:56,970
Generally there's a lot of...

1889
01:31:56,970 --> 01:32:01,360
My impression is that there's
a lot of interdisciplinary

1890
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:07,280
interaction, whether it's at
formal talks or forums or.

1891
01:32:08,190 --> 01:32:11,130
I have found in general
that there, like you said,

1892
01:32:11,130 --> 01:32:15,270
there's a ton of cross-department
collaboration at UVM.

1893
01:32:15,270 --> 01:32:17,280
I don't think I've been
on a single project

1894
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:18,113
since I've been here.

1895
01:32:18,113 --> 01:32:23,113
The other co-authors on the paper

1896
01:32:23,520 --> 01:32:25,200
are only from one department.

1897
01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:26,910
Usually there are a couple

1898
01:32:26,910 --> 01:32:28,320
different departments represented.

1899
01:32:28,320 --> 01:32:31,290
So like I've worked closely with faculty

1900
01:32:31,290 --> 01:32:33,960
in civil environmental engineering.

1901
01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:36,060
And the natural resources department

1902
01:32:36,060 --> 01:32:40,110
in plant and soil science
in the food systems program.

1903
01:32:40,110 --> 01:32:42,240
So those are obviously like very tailored

1904
01:32:42,240 --> 01:32:45,930
to my environmental engineering arena.

1905
01:32:45,930 --> 01:32:50,070
But I have the sense that there
are kind of cross department

1906
01:32:50,070 --> 01:32:53,100
collaborations going
on all over the place,

1907
01:32:53,100 --> 01:32:56,490
which is I think has been,
is really, really wonderful

1908
01:32:56,490 --> 01:32:59,040
'cause if I'm starting up something new

1909
01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:00,810
and there's an area of it,

1910
01:33:00,810 --> 01:33:02,250
the project that I wanna get into

1911
01:33:02,250 --> 01:33:04,110
that I don't have a ton of experience,

1912
01:33:04,110 --> 01:33:05,970
then it's pretty standard

1913
01:33:05,970 --> 01:33:08,070
that I'll like reach
out to a faculty member

1914
01:33:08,070 --> 01:33:10,230
who I know has expertise in that area

1915
01:33:10,230 --> 01:33:13,020
and kind of pull them onto the project.

1916
01:33:13,020 --> 01:33:14,973
So yes, definitely, yes.

1917
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:20,160
Oh, yeah, so I am not sure

1918
01:33:20,160 --> 01:33:21,570
if I'm in computer science department.

1919
01:33:21,570 --> 01:33:23,700
I'm in complex systems,
which is its own thing,

1920
01:33:23,700 --> 01:33:25,980
but I'm a GTA for computer science

1921
01:33:25,980 --> 01:33:28,710
and one of my advisor is a
computer science faculty,

1922
01:33:28,710 --> 01:33:31,683
the other advisor is statistics faculty.

1923
01:33:32,580 --> 01:33:34,410
And one of the projects
that I'm working on

1924
01:33:34,410 --> 01:33:36,540
also involves a philosophy department.

1925
01:33:36,540 --> 01:33:39,723
It's an ethics project in
computational data science.

1926
01:33:40,710 --> 01:33:44,400
So yeah, I feel like the
cross-departmental work

1927
01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:48,060
is pretty much fundamental
to a lot of the research

1928
01:33:48,060 --> 01:33:52,680
that happens here because
we have a lot of departments

1929
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:56,520
like the medical score
that needs a lot of help

1930
01:33:56,520 --> 01:33:58,920
with some of the projects,
the agricultural score.

1931
01:33:58,920 --> 01:34:01,773
So we have like a lot of
things that need to be done.

1932
01:34:02,700 --> 01:34:04,900
It's a big state school
so that helps a lot.

1933
01:34:09,720 --> 01:34:10,956
[Jane] Thank you I guess that Kate,

1934
01:34:10,956 --> 01:34:12,180
I don't know if you can answer this.

1935
01:34:12,180 --> 01:34:14,136
Usual size for a CEE class.

1936
01:34:14,136 --> 01:34:15,000
I don't know if they're talking

1937
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:18,573
from being a teaching
assistant perspective or.

1938
01:34:19,800 --> 01:34:24,800
Yeah, so I've been in a bunch
of different CEE classes.

1939
01:34:26,820 --> 01:34:29,850
I've been in one that
was like a 395 level,

1940
01:34:29,850 --> 01:34:32,190
which is like the highest level.

1941
01:34:32,190 --> 01:34:35,550
That was just six graduate
students and that was super cool

1942
01:34:35,550 --> 01:34:38,370
'cause we just like all
sat in the front row

1943
01:34:38,370 --> 01:34:40,530
and did like code along in Python.

1944
01:34:40,530 --> 01:34:43,920
And then on the other end
of the spectrum I took,

1945
01:34:43,920 --> 01:34:46,170
I was in a engineering undergraduate

1946
01:34:46,170 --> 01:34:48,570
so I wanted to go back
and take hydraulics.

1947
01:34:48,570 --> 01:34:50,850
And so I took hydraulics and it was me

1948
01:34:50,850 --> 01:34:52,140
one other graduate student

1949
01:34:52,140 --> 01:34:55,173
and then about 20 undergraduate students.

1950
01:34:56,880 --> 01:34:59,730
I'm sure that there are like intro classes

1951
01:34:59,730 --> 01:35:01,500
that are larger than that,

1952
01:35:01,500 --> 01:35:05,520
but I think usually the like
200 to 300 level classes

1953
01:35:05,520 --> 01:35:07,530
that a graduate student would be in

1954
01:35:07,530 --> 01:35:12,530
are like maybe 15 people on average.

1955
01:35:12,780 --> 01:35:15,390
That's about the size of
the ones that I've been in

1956
01:35:15,390 --> 01:35:18,360
and it's usually a mixture
of graduate students

1957
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:22,241
and undergraduate students
who are in the later stages

1958
01:35:22,241 --> 01:35:23,313
of their program.

1959
01:35:24,630 --> 01:35:26,640
It's been kinda rare that I was in a class

1960
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:29,313
that was just graduate students.

1961
01:35:32,070 --> 01:35:36,363
Anybody else wanna talk to
that in their experiences,

1962
01:35:37,740 --> 01:35:42,390
class sizes or how that's gone.

1963
01:35:42,390 --> 01:35:44,970
Being a graduate student maybe in...

1964
01:35:44,970 --> 01:35:48,010
I know there's some UVM is
doing a little bit of rejigging

1965
01:35:49,050 --> 01:35:52,350
of their courses to make
sure that courses where

1966
01:35:52,350 --> 01:35:55,100
there are graduate students
and undergraduate students.

1967
01:35:56,010 --> 01:35:57,450
They really are two different courses

1968
01:35:57,450 --> 01:36:00,240
even if you're hearing some
of the same lecture material.

1969
01:36:00,240 --> 01:36:04,803
But I'd love to hear any
perspectives or any others.

1970
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:10,020
Okay, thank you Kate.

1971
01:36:10,020 --> 01:36:12,120
I mean, that was great.

1972
01:36:12,120 --> 01:36:14,757
There's a question about
funding in data science

1973
01:36:14,757 --> 01:36:18,870
and complex systems in
particular a master's student,

1974
01:36:18,870 --> 01:36:23,367
but I think it probably
applies to most any discipline

1975
01:36:23,367 --> 01:36:27,900
and it's about how to
find RA NTA positions.

1976
01:36:27,900 --> 01:36:32,373
And do you have any ideas that to help?

1977
01:36:33,930 --> 01:36:35,460
So I don't know.

1978
01:36:35,460 --> 01:36:39,540
Sometimes people come in I know
as RAs or TAs automatically,

1979
01:36:39,540 --> 01:36:44,070
but I know that those
kinds of things can change

1980
01:36:44,070 --> 01:36:47,220
and whether you can actually
get them when you're here.

1981
01:36:47,220 --> 01:36:50,313
What kind of experiences
have you had in those areas.

1982
01:36:54,960 --> 01:36:57,813
Specifically for complex
systems and data science.

1983
01:36:59,100 --> 01:37:00,300
so I don't know about TA,

1984
01:37:00,300 --> 01:37:04,023
I feel like TA is more of
like a departmental thing.

1985
01:37:05,070 --> 01:37:06,660
And complex systems and data science

1986
01:37:06,660 --> 01:37:10,413
is not like a department
on its own, it's a center.

1987
01:37:11,250 --> 01:37:14,670
So for TA I think it really
just depends on talking

1988
01:37:14,670 --> 01:37:16,980
to a professor who may be looking for a TA

1989
01:37:16,980 --> 01:37:20,910
or depending on like you can be a TA

1990
01:37:20,910 --> 01:37:23,310
in math, computer science, chats.

1991
01:37:23,310 --> 01:37:26,040
So it all depends on that.

1992
01:37:26,040 --> 01:37:27,510
As for the audio position,

1993
01:37:27,510 --> 01:37:32,510
that is strictly contingent
if you have a professor

1994
01:37:33,030 --> 01:37:34,470
who can advise you.

1995
01:37:34,470 --> 01:37:38,040
So if you really want an RA for next year,

1996
01:37:38,040 --> 01:37:39,180
the best strategy would be

1997
01:37:39,180 --> 01:37:41,970
to go to the complex system center,

1998
01:37:41,970 --> 01:37:43,800
look at all the professors we have,

1999
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:46,260
see if any of them is doing
any research that you like,

2000
01:37:46,260 --> 01:37:48,000
that you wanna be a part of.

2001
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:51,420
And then take their class if
they're offering one in four

2002
01:37:51,420 --> 01:37:52,837
or contact them and be like,

2003
01:37:52,837 --> 01:37:54,570
"Hey, I'm interested in taking your class

2004
01:37:54,570 --> 01:37:57,050
and I'm interested in like
doing this research with you."

2005
01:37:57,050 --> 01:38:00,150
And if they like you
and if that works out,

2006
01:38:00,150 --> 01:38:02,280
then you can be an RA with them.

2007
01:38:02,280 --> 01:38:03,390
And again, it all depends

2008
01:38:03,390 --> 01:38:05,590
on what the funding
availability looks like.

2009
01:38:06,502 --> 01:38:08,040
It's like a lot of moving parts,

2010
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:10,653
but that's usually the system.

2011
01:38:14,760 --> 01:38:17,670
I have a bit of a unique
situation like that.

2012
01:38:17,670 --> 01:38:21,090
My first year here I did not have funding

2013
01:38:21,090 --> 01:38:24,777
but I came from teaching
back home for years

2014
01:38:24,777 --> 01:38:26,850
and I really wanted to do this.

2015
01:38:26,850 --> 01:38:28,560
Once I got to know people here,

2016
01:38:28,560 --> 01:38:32,820
they got me funding as a
GTA for last couple years

2017
01:38:32,820 --> 01:38:35,040
and now with my advisor all,

2018
01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:37,200
he's got money for me for the entirety

2019
01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:39,900
of the next year and a
half, which is pretty cool.

2020
01:38:39,900 --> 01:38:42,570
So generally I think when you come here

2021
01:38:42,570 --> 01:38:45,180
you're told that you have
some kind of a package

2022
01:38:45,180 --> 01:38:46,260
and if you're not,

2023
01:38:46,260 --> 01:38:48,810
I don't know that you
could pick one up now

2024
01:38:48,810 --> 01:38:50,283
they would probably tell you that by now

2025
01:38:50,283 --> 01:38:51,930
that they have some
kind of funding for you.

2026
01:38:51,930 --> 01:38:54,210
But if you decide to come anyways,

2027
01:38:54,210 --> 01:38:57,720
that doesn't mean that once
you start to to know people

2028
01:38:57,720 --> 01:38:58,553
and they realize like,

2029
01:38:58,553 --> 01:39:01,260
"Hey, maybe I want this person around."

2030
01:39:01,260 --> 01:39:02,790
They might find some money for you.

2031
01:39:02,790 --> 01:39:04,343
At least that's how it works for me.

2032
01:39:06,930 --> 01:39:09,570
I would just also add,

2033
01:39:09,570 --> 01:39:13,920
if anyone is doing or
planning on doing research

2034
01:39:13,920 --> 01:39:15,150
as a PhD student,

2035
01:39:15,150 --> 01:39:17,940
that is kind of like operating somewhere

2036
01:39:17,940 --> 01:39:21,150
in like the environmental arena.

2037
01:39:21,150 --> 01:39:25,950
The Gund Institute at
UVM is this institute

2038
01:39:25,950 --> 01:39:29,460
that will fund PhD students

2039
01:39:29,460 --> 01:39:32,160
for the entirety of their degree.

2040
01:39:32,160 --> 01:39:35,250
And it's something that you can apply to.

2041
01:39:35,250 --> 01:39:38,040
There's also a fellowship that's specific

2042
01:39:38,040 --> 01:39:42,720
to folks who are doing an engineering PhD

2043
01:39:42,720 --> 01:39:45,180
in the environmental arena.

2044
01:39:45,180 --> 01:39:47,190
It's called the Gund Barrett Fellowship.

2045
01:39:47,190 --> 01:39:51,120
I've been funded by that
for the past two years.

2046
01:39:51,120 --> 01:39:52,860
It's been really, really amazing

2047
01:39:52,860 --> 01:39:57,210
because it's not attached
to a specific project.

2048
01:39:57,210 --> 01:39:59,040
It's like funding you as an individual.

2049
01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:03,300
So I got to propose what I
wanted to do my research on

2050
01:40:03,300 --> 01:40:06,090
and there's a little bit
of extra research funding

2051
01:40:06,090 --> 01:40:07,440
that comes with that.

2052
01:40:07,440 --> 01:40:09,705
So that's the one that I'm familiar with.

2053
01:40:09,705 --> 01:40:12,873
There might be other kind
of fellowship opportunities

2054
01:40:12,873 --> 01:40:16,800
like that in other departments at UVM

2055
01:40:16,800 --> 01:40:18,573
that I'm not familiar with.

2056
01:40:19,590 --> 01:40:23,580
But the Gund is there
for people interested

2057
01:40:23,580 --> 01:40:25,231
in environmental engineering

2058
01:40:25,231 --> 01:40:28,023
and really just any environmental project.

2059
01:40:30,780 --> 01:40:33,480
I know that NASA is another big one

2060
01:40:33,480 --> 01:40:35,550
because I think that
it's specific to Vermont

2061
01:40:35,550 --> 01:40:37,200
but I haven't applied for it

2062
01:40:37,200 --> 01:40:38,437
so I can't really speak much on it,

2063
01:40:38,437 --> 01:40:41,160
but if you wanna Google
or ask some other people,

2064
01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:44,313
I know that NASA is a really
big one for UVM students.

2065
01:40:46,710 --> 01:40:48,240
I have a couple friends waiting here back

2066
01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:49,740
on the Vermont Space Grant,

2067
01:40:49,740 --> 01:40:52,040
which I think is the one
you're talking about.

2068
01:40:55,407 --> 01:41:00,407
Experience with faculty
and peers as women in STEM,

2069
01:41:00,660 --> 01:41:04,293
any especially Jenna and Kate.

2070
01:41:05,245 --> 01:41:06,813
Anything to say there?

2071
01:41:10,230 --> 01:41:12,420
[Kate] Jenna, do you wanna go first?

2072
01:41:12,420 --> 01:41:14,670
Sure, so this is, like I said,

2073
01:41:14,670 --> 01:41:16,748
only my first year, second semester,

2074
01:41:16,748 --> 01:41:21,008
last semester actually both
of my professors were female

2075
01:41:21,008 --> 01:41:24,300
and this semester one of them is female,

2076
01:41:24,300 --> 01:41:25,133
one of them is male.

2077
01:41:25,133 --> 01:41:29,646
So I've actually worked with
a lot of female professors.

2078
01:41:29,646 --> 01:41:32,013
One of my advisors is a female too.

2079
01:41:32,970 --> 01:41:35,370
And so I think that's really great.

2080
01:41:35,370 --> 01:41:37,350
In my undergrad didn't totally have that.

2081
01:41:37,350 --> 01:41:39,480
I only had one female professor

2082
01:41:39,480 --> 01:41:41,571
in my entire biomedical
engineering department.

2083
01:41:41,571 --> 01:41:43,650
So that has been really great

2084
01:41:43,650 --> 01:41:47,640
getting to just have females to look up to

2085
01:41:47,640 --> 01:41:49,920
that are in those advisory roles

2086
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:51,870
and that are teaching and lecturing.

2087
01:41:51,870 --> 01:41:53,700
And so that's really exciting to me.

2088
01:41:53,700 --> 01:41:58,700
And my research group is also
I think pretty 50/50 split

2089
01:41:59,010 --> 01:42:00,060
with females and males.

2090
01:42:00,060 --> 01:42:01,110
That's not how it's going to be

2091
01:42:01,110 --> 01:42:02,610
in every single department and group,

2092
01:42:02,610 --> 01:42:03,767
but that's how it's been for me.

2093
01:42:03,767 --> 01:42:08,760
And so that environment already
of it being very diverse

2094
01:42:08,760 --> 01:42:10,020
is really great.

2095
01:42:10,020 --> 01:42:14,160
I haven't experienced anything negative

2096
01:42:14,160 --> 01:42:16,380
in regards to being female yet in STEM.

2097
01:42:16,380 --> 01:42:18,660
But like I said, this is
only my second semester

2098
01:42:18,660 --> 01:42:20,300
I've just getting into research,

2099
01:42:20,300 --> 01:42:22,713
but so far everything's
been really positive.

2100
01:42:24,960 --> 01:42:28,042
Yeah, I also would echo that.

2101
01:42:28,042 --> 01:42:31,377
I have not experienced any challenges

2102
01:42:32,580 --> 01:42:35,130
associated with my gender identity

2103
01:42:35,130 --> 01:42:38,130
in the civil and environmental
engineering department.

2104
01:42:38,130 --> 01:42:40,837
In general I think all the professors

2105
01:42:40,837 --> 01:42:43,010
that I've interacted with at UVM

2106
01:42:43,010 --> 01:42:47,403
are incredibly respectful
and really wonderful people.

2107
01:42:48,360 --> 01:42:51,360
And I think that goes
for most of the people

2108
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:53,493
I've interacted with at UVM.

2109
01:42:55,170 --> 01:43:00,170
And I think there's a lot of
like support systems at UVM

2110
01:43:01,288 --> 01:43:04,168
for graduate students
and students in general.

2111
01:43:04,168 --> 01:43:06,870
And there's like
counselors, there's like...

2112
01:43:06,870 --> 01:43:08,517
I just feel like there's
like a lot of people

2113
01:43:08,517 --> 01:43:12,750
that I can go to if I need help

2114
01:43:12,750 --> 01:43:16,683
but haven't yet needed to
mobilize those resources.

2115
01:43:19,080 --> 01:43:20,130
I would also say too something

2116
01:43:20,130 --> 01:43:21,690
that I really appreciate about UVM

2117
01:43:21,690 --> 01:43:24,879
when I came in I was doing
my training for being a TA.

2118
01:43:24,879 --> 01:43:26,580
There was definitely an emphasis

2119
01:43:26,580 --> 01:43:29,730
and you could tell that UVM
was very focused on training us

2120
01:43:29,730 --> 01:43:32,107
around being respectful of
everyone's gender identities

2121
01:43:32,107 --> 01:43:35,813
and just inclusion.

2122
01:43:35,813 --> 01:43:39,510
And so I think that having
that kind of emphasis

2123
01:43:39,510 --> 01:43:42,273
and training on it should help too.

2124
01:43:45,842 --> 01:43:48,299
If my understanding is correct.

2125
01:43:48,299 --> 01:43:49,920
Sorry, if my understanding is correct,

2126
01:43:49,920 --> 01:43:51,690
there's also a center for women

2127
01:43:51,690 --> 01:43:54,180
and women identifying students.

2128
01:43:54,180 --> 01:43:57,930
Is there not I maybe mistaken on that.

2129
01:43:57,930 --> 01:44:01,020
Yeah, I think that there's like I think,

2130
01:44:01,020 --> 01:44:04,680
I've been invited to a bunch
of like women in STEM events.

2131
01:44:04,680 --> 01:44:07,530
I think I went to a couple
when I was first starting out.

2132
01:44:09,551 --> 01:44:11,940
But I haven't been to them recently.

2133
01:44:11,940 --> 01:44:13,980
A lot of the people in my
lab are women in STEM though.

2134
01:44:13,980 --> 01:44:16,983
So we have our own little group.

2135
01:44:17,940 --> 01:44:20,190
Well there is a society of women engineers

2136
01:44:20,190 --> 01:44:23,640
and I know that I've seen undergraduate

2137
01:44:23,640 --> 01:44:26,670
and I'm sure there's graduate
involvement in there too.

2138
01:44:26,670 --> 01:44:30,090
But that's an important
organization as well.

2139
01:44:30,090 --> 01:44:32,010
There's some specific questions coming in

2140
01:44:32,010 --> 01:44:36,786
about kind of tax rates and
funding letters and things.

2141
01:44:36,786 --> 01:44:38,340
I would encourage folks

2142
01:44:38,340 --> 01:44:40,170
who have those very specific questions

2143
01:44:40,170 --> 01:44:42,720
to reach out for your specific situation

2144
01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:43,830
to the graduate college,

2145
01:44:43,830 --> 01:44:45,750
which is where the letter came from

2146
01:44:45,750 --> 01:44:49,863
because they'll be able to
address those more fully.

2147
01:44:51,480 --> 01:44:52,536
And also the question

2148
01:44:52,536 --> 01:44:57,536
about kind of like related
PhD master program at UVM,

2149
01:45:01,890 --> 01:45:06,720
I guess interdisciplinary
outside of sort of STEM stuff.

2150
01:45:06,720 --> 01:45:10,440
I think the graduate program
would be a great place to start

2151
01:45:10,440 --> 01:45:14,926
with that conversation
because they'll know more.

2152
01:45:14,926 --> 01:45:19,233
Can you do a job in parallel
of having a GRA or GTA?

2153
01:45:21,030 --> 01:45:24,183
I think that's unique to
the funding offer letter.

2154
01:45:25,740 --> 01:45:28,650
I've heard of people having different...

2155
01:45:28,650 --> 01:45:31,560
Like I have known people
who like had a job

2156
01:45:31,560 --> 01:45:33,780
in addition to being a graduate student,

2157
01:45:33,780 --> 01:45:35,790
but I think that's something
that they worked out

2158
01:45:35,790 --> 01:45:37,080
with their advisor

2159
01:45:37,080 --> 01:45:39,663
and I don't know a ton
about that personally.

2160
01:45:42,776 --> 01:45:45,360
And again, if you're an
international student,

2161
01:45:45,360 --> 01:45:46,987
you might not be allowed to do that.

2162
01:45:46,987 --> 01:45:49,227
Even if you want to.

2163
01:45:49,227 --> 01:45:50,070
And this is something

2164
01:45:50,070 --> 01:45:52,323
you probably also wanna
negotiate beforehand.

2165
01:45:57,180 --> 01:45:58,230
Thank you for that.

2166
01:45:59,310 --> 01:46:00,210
Yes.

2167
01:46:00,210 --> 01:46:01,950
And then we have got a question

2168
01:46:01,950 --> 01:46:05,160
about faculty members
receiving a lot of email

2169
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:08,253
and if you wanna reach out to professors.

2170
01:46:09,758 --> 01:46:13,323
I would say that the faculty
members who spoke earlier today

2171
01:46:13,323 --> 01:46:15,573
were the graduate program directors.

2172
01:46:16,440 --> 01:46:20,670
Each one of them I heard
encourage questions to them.

2173
01:46:20,670 --> 01:46:22,380
They're really there.

2174
01:46:22,380 --> 01:46:25,802
They may not be the advisor
that you end up working with,

2175
01:46:25,802 --> 01:46:29,550
but they're a good point of contact

2176
01:46:29,550 --> 01:46:34,410
and I believe will be very
responsive to your questions.

2177
01:46:34,410 --> 01:46:36,783
If for some reason you have trouble,

2178
01:46:37,860 --> 01:46:39,360
you can always email me

2179
01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:41,310
and say you're having trouble
getting ahold of somebody

2180
01:46:41,310 --> 01:46:43,050
and I can help you do that.

2181
01:46:43,050 --> 01:46:46,502
But I do believe reach right out.

2182
01:46:46,502 --> 01:46:48,660
Fact, that's what they said to do.

2183
01:46:48,660 --> 01:46:51,133
And I would encourage you to do that.

2184
01:46:51,133 --> 01:46:53,910
And we had a question about diversity

2185
01:46:53,910 --> 01:46:55,833
like within the math department.

2186
01:46:58,200 --> 01:47:00,210
I was just typing a response to that.

2187
01:47:00,210 --> 01:47:04,260
We have actually a
surprisingly diverse group

2188
01:47:04,260 --> 01:47:06,123
of graduate students anyways.

2189
01:47:07,144 --> 01:47:10,486
A student from Ghana, from Philippines,

2190
01:47:10,486 --> 01:47:13,860
probably split down
the middle male female,

2191
01:47:13,860 --> 01:47:16,323
maybe a little bit more men.

2192
01:47:18,512 --> 01:47:21,033
Student from Trinidad and Tobago.

2193
01:47:23,010 --> 01:47:25,560
Yeah, surprisingly fairly.

2194
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:27,750
I was surprised coming here to Vermont,

2195
01:47:27,750 --> 01:47:29,313
it's been been really nice.

2196
01:47:30,600 --> 01:47:32,810
Not just a whole bunch of
all white guys like me.

2197
01:47:32,810 --> 01:47:35,310
(Rick laughs)

2198
01:47:37,710 --> 01:47:39,360
-I can talk about just-
-What about-

2199
01:47:39,360 --> 01:47:40,838
Yeah, this travel one.

2200
01:47:40,838 --> 01:47:41,671
[Jenna] Yeah.

2201
01:47:41,671 --> 01:47:44,880
So there's a brand new train line

2202
01:47:44,880 --> 01:47:48,240
that goes from directly
downtown into New York City.

2203
01:47:48,240 --> 01:47:49,710
I haven't made use of it yet,

2204
01:47:49,710 --> 01:47:51,600
but I'm really excited to.

2205
01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:53,040
It's kind of a long ride,

2206
01:47:53,040 --> 01:47:55,320
but if you like bring
your laptop and do work,

2207
01:47:55,320 --> 01:47:58,500
I think it's really beautiful.

2208
01:47:58,500 --> 01:48:01,361
There's an airport 10
minutes away from campus,

2209
01:48:01,361 --> 01:48:03,573
Burlington International Airport.

2210
01:48:04,530 --> 01:48:09,530
It obviously there's
limited flights out of it,

2211
01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:14,190
but like you can get to all
the major hubs directly.

2212
01:48:14,190 --> 01:48:15,937
So you can like fly direct to DC.

2213
01:48:15,937 --> 01:48:19,290
You can fly direct not to
Boston, but direct to New York,

2214
01:48:19,290 --> 01:48:21,360
like I think direct to Chicago

2215
01:48:21,360 --> 01:48:23,520
and then from there get anywhere else.

2216
01:48:23,520 --> 01:48:26,610
So usually if I'm traveling out of state,

2217
01:48:26,610 --> 01:48:29,223
I'll be on two flights.

2218
01:48:30,480 --> 01:48:35,480
Can be pricey at times,
but I do fly out of here.

2219
01:48:36,840 --> 01:48:41,280
The plane tickets aren't like
obscenely expensive sometimes

2220
01:48:41,280 --> 01:48:43,100
if you get them far enough ahead of time,

2221
01:48:43,100 --> 01:48:47,850
it is sometimes worth
it to go down to Boston

2222
01:48:47,850 --> 01:48:48,750
and fly out of Boston

2223
01:48:48,750 --> 01:48:51,183
if you're going somewhere really far away.

2224
01:48:52,170 --> 01:48:55,465
The other place you can get
to pretty quickly is Montreal

2225
01:48:55,465 --> 01:48:58,080
is only like an hour and 40 minutes away

2226
01:48:58,080 --> 01:48:59,790
and that's a larger airport.

2227
01:48:59,790 --> 01:49:01,110
So if you have a personal vehicle,

2228
01:49:01,110 --> 01:49:04,410
sometimes people will drive up to Montreal

2229
01:49:04,410 --> 01:49:06,060
and then fly out of that airport.

2230
01:49:07,620 --> 01:49:10,979
And then there are also bus
lines going various places.

2231
01:49:10,979 --> 01:49:15,630
So I actually for how remote we are,

2232
01:49:15,630 --> 01:49:19,270
it is fairly easy to travel out of state

2233
01:49:20,850 --> 01:49:22,890
through all those various different route.

2234
01:49:22,890 --> 01:49:26,040
There's also ferries across
the lake into New York

2235
01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:27,180
that are really fun to take

2236
01:49:27,180 --> 01:49:29,070
if you like wanna go over there and hike

2237
01:49:29,070 --> 01:49:30,770
or see something else for the day.

2238
01:49:34,110 --> 01:49:34,943
Oh, go ahead.

2239
01:49:34,943 --> 01:49:35,776
You go first.

2240
01:49:37,500 --> 01:49:38,333
Okay.

2241
01:49:38,333 --> 01:49:40,330
I was gonna add that there's a ride board

2242
01:49:41,220 --> 01:49:42,837
on teams that anyone can join.

2243
01:49:42,837 --> 01:49:45,900
And so a couple weeks ago
I wanted to go to Boston

2244
01:49:45,900 --> 01:49:49,350
and I have a car but I
didn't wanna drive by myself

2245
01:49:49,350 --> 01:49:51,396
'cause it can be expensive
gas and everything.

2246
01:49:51,396 --> 01:49:53,543
And so I posted on teams,

2247
01:49:53,543 --> 01:49:56,250
it was three days before my trip

2248
01:49:56,250 --> 01:49:59,100
and I had five people reach
out that they were interested,

2249
01:49:59,100 --> 01:50:00,360
wanted to ride we split gas.

2250
01:50:00,360 --> 01:50:03,270
And so depending on how far
you're trying to travel,

2251
01:50:03,270 --> 01:50:08,270
I know that there's a ride board

2252
01:50:08,670 --> 01:50:09,990
and there's one for like New York,

2253
01:50:09,990 --> 01:50:13,260
Pennsylvania, Boston, Connecticut.

2254
01:50:13,260 --> 01:50:14,820
And then sometimes people even post

2255
01:50:14,820 --> 01:50:16,920
that they're going all
the way to North Carolina

2256
01:50:16,920 --> 01:50:18,390
and they find people to cardpool with them

2257
01:50:18,390 --> 01:50:21,090
or at least drop them off along the way.

2258
01:50:21,090 --> 01:50:23,063
So people are really good about that too.

2259
01:50:26,550 --> 01:50:27,900
I didn't know about the ride board.

2260
01:50:27,900 --> 01:50:30,030
I should look into that.

2261
01:50:30,030 --> 01:50:32,250
[Rick] I didn't either,
I'm gonna check that out.

2262
01:50:32,250 --> 01:50:33,600
But the train is really cool,

2263
01:50:33,600 --> 01:50:34,800
the one that Kate mentioned.

2264
01:50:34,800 --> 01:50:37,620
I took it from New York City to Burlington

2265
01:50:37,620 --> 01:50:40,470
and it's just gorgeous to use.

2266
01:50:40,470 --> 01:50:42,480
And yeah, if you wanna
fly out internationally,

2267
01:50:42,480 --> 01:50:43,980
Boston is your best bet.

2268
01:50:43,980 --> 01:50:46,800
Take a bus, I've flown multiple times.

2269
01:50:46,800 --> 01:50:47,633
It's great.

2270
01:50:53,850 --> 01:50:58,680
Great, I guess send your
live event Q&A questions

2271
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:00,630
in participants please.

2272
01:51:00,630 --> 01:51:04,020
But I'd love to hear from each one of you

2273
01:51:04,020 --> 01:51:06,303
maybe starting with Avi.

2274
01:51:07,650 --> 01:51:10,263
What do you wish you
knew before you arrived?

2275
01:51:12,690 --> 01:51:15,030
I feel like one thing that
nothing can prepare you enough

2276
01:51:15,030 --> 01:51:17,040
for is the winter.

2277
01:51:17,040 --> 01:51:19,950
I come from a very warm place

2278
01:51:19,950 --> 01:51:23,340
and I wish I knew what the
winter would look like.

2279
01:51:23,340 --> 01:51:26,190
And this is weird.

2280
01:51:26,190 --> 01:51:29,532
There was like a lot of like
fear mongering as I got here.

2281
01:51:29,532 --> 01:51:32,010
They were like, oh, winter,
be prepared for winter,

2282
01:51:32,010 --> 01:51:34,980
you want to be covered,
you're not gonna survive.

2283
01:51:34,980 --> 01:51:35,880
It's gonna be bad.

2284
01:51:35,880 --> 01:51:37,860
It's not that bad.

2285
01:51:37,860 --> 01:51:39,480
I feel like once you get used to it.

2286
01:51:39,480 --> 01:51:41,760
But yeah, I really wish I knew much more

2287
01:51:41,760 --> 01:51:43,560
about what the winter is gonna look like.

2288
01:51:43,560 --> 01:51:46,410
And I was also worried that
as the winter might roll out

2289
01:51:46,410 --> 01:51:50,610
my social life would beat it out.

2290
01:51:50,610 --> 01:51:51,450
But that didn't happen.

2291
01:51:51,450 --> 01:51:52,800
I went swing dancing last night

2292
01:51:52,800 --> 01:51:55,180
and then honky-tonk, so it's clearly

2293
01:51:56,160 --> 01:51:58,410
winter is not stopping anyone.

2294
01:51:58,410 --> 01:52:00,420
So yeah, that was really helpful

2295
01:52:00,420 --> 01:52:02,193
if I'd known that beforehand.

2296
01:52:09,840 --> 01:52:10,680
[Jane] What about you Jenna?

2297
01:52:10,680 --> 01:52:12,993
What do you wish you
knew before you had come?

2298
01:52:17,458 --> 01:52:18,813
Oh, that's so hard.

2299
01:52:20,070 --> 01:52:21,030
Let's go back to me.

2300
01:52:21,030 --> 01:52:23,698
I can't come up with
anything at the moment.

2301
01:52:23,698 --> 01:52:24,531
Okay.

2302
01:52:24,531 --> 01:52:28,920
I don't know Rick, do you
have any thoughts there?

2303
01:52:28,920 --> 01:52:30,150
I've been thinking about it.

2304
01:52:30,150 --> 01:52:32,310
Honestly, I don't know
that I have an answer.

2305
01:52:32,310 --> 01:52:36,150
There wasn't anything,
certainly the cold is a shock.

2306
01:52:36,150 --> 01:52:37,443
I knew about it.

2307
01:52:38,430 --> 01:52:42,210
Yeah, I think just felt
negative 40 for the first time.

2308
01:52:42,210 --> 01:52:44,190
I just went out for about 60 seconds

2309
01:52:44,190 --> 01:52:46,950
to see what that was all
about a few weeks ago.

2310
01:52:46,950 --> 01:52:47,820
That was something else.

2311
01:52:47,820 --> 01:52:51,450
But yeah, otherwise I
can't think of anything

2312
01:52:51,450 --> 01:52:54,480
that was like a negative
or positive surprise

2313
01:52:54,480 --> 01:52:57,633
that I was like, ooh, I
wish I had known about that.

2314
01:52:59,556 --> 01:53:01,290
Maybe some of the transportation stuff

2315
01:53:01,290 --> 01:53:02,583
we're talking about.

2316
01:53:03,570 --> 01:53:05,880
I might have made some
less efficient choices

2317
01:53:05,880 --> 01:53:07,410
'cause I didn't know as much.

2318
01:53:07,410 --> 01:53:10,380
So there are a ton of
opportunities for transportation

2319
01:53:10,380 --> 01:53:13,500
and getting to know all
those options will definitely

2320
01:53:13,500 --> 01:53:15,330
can save you some time or money.

2321
01:53:15,330 --> 01:53:16,780
Maybe that's my answer, yeah.

2322
01:53:18,120 --> 01:53:18,953
Okay, that was good.

2323
01:53:18,953 --> 01:53:20,310
You just made me think of mine then.

2324
01:53:20,310 --> 01:53:23,190
So the buses are really, really great here

2325
01:53:23,190 --> 01:53:25,380
and I did not figure that out right away.

2326
01:53:25,380 --> 01:53:28,090
And now I can take a bus every day to UVM,

2327
01:53:28,090 --> 01:53:29,280
which really is nice

2328
01:53:29,280 --> 01:53:31,590
'cause I don't have to walk up the hill.

2329
01:53:31,590 --> 01:53:33,690
And yeah, definitely figuring
out the transportation.

2330
01:53:33,690 --> 01:53:34,710
There's an app on your phone,

2331
01:53:34,710 --> 01:53:37,200
it tells you when it's coming
and it gives you updates.

2332
01:53:37,200 --> 01:53:38,970
It tells you, oh, it's one minute away,

2333
01:53:38,970 --> 01:53:41,850
it's 30 seconds away, whatever.

2334
01:53:41,850 --> 01:53:43,620
Biking is another really great thing

2335
01:53:43,620 --> 01:53:45,570
that I didn't totally know about.

2336
01:53:45,570 --> 01:53:48,770
And so I definitely would
have invested earlier

2337
01:53:48,770 --> 01:53:49,920
in a better bike.

2338
01:53:49,920 --> 01:53:52,140
But yeah, that was...

2339
01:53:52,140 --> 01:53:54,660
And I guess that there's
a lot of bike theft

2340
01:53:54,660 --> 01:53:55,493
and so that's just something

2341
01:53:55,493 --> 01:53:58,740
that if you would like to ride a bike,

2342
01:53:58,740 --> 01:54:01,350
you definitely want to make sure you know

2343
01:54:01,350 --> 01:54:02,793
how to lock up your bike.

2344
01:54:03,960 --> 01:54:06,390
Yeah, that was something that I guess

2345
01:54:06,390 --> 01:54:08,340
I would've liked to have known earlier.

2346
01:54:10,830 --> 01:54:13,290
[Jane] Kate, any thoughts for you?

2347
01:54:13,290 --> 01:54:15,270
Yeah, I don't think I have
anything about Burlington.

2348
01:54:15,270 --> 01:54:18,360
Like I really love living in Burlington.

2349
01:54:18,360 --> 01:54:21,240
I love most things about it.

2350
01:54:21,240 --> 01:54:23,460
I guess the only thing that comes to mind

2351
01:54:23,460 --> 01:54:27,270
is just more about being in
graduate school in general

2352
01:54:27,270 --> 01:54:29,610
and I'm like thinking back
to like five years ago

2353
01:54:29,610 --> 01:54:30,660
when I first started

2354
01:54:30,660 --> 01:54:35,160
and everything felt
really like consequential.

2355
01:54:35,160 --> 01:54:38,430
And when I made a mistake
it was really horrible

2356
01:54:38,430 --> 01:54:41,220
and like would ruin my week.

2357
01:54:41,220 --> 01:54:44,370
And I think what I wish
that I'd known earlier,

2358
01:54:44,370 --> 01:54:46,430
but maybe you just have to
like learn along the way

2359
01:54:46,430 --> 01:54:49,110
is to like disconnect yourself

2360
01:54:49,110 --> 01:54:51,090
from the work that you're doing.

2361
01:54:51,090 --> 01:54:54,330
And so now when like I don't
feel good about a product

2362
01:54:54,330 --> 01:54:56,400
I'm working on or like I make a mistake,

2363
01:54:56,400 --> 01:54:59,310
I don't take it personally anymore.

2364
01:54:59,310 --> 01:55:01,360
I know that it's like part of the process

2365
01:55:02,220 --> 01:55:06,900
and it makes it a lot easier
to like push forward on things

2366
01:55:06,900 --> 01:55:11,900
when I have like decoupled
how I feel about myself

2367
01:55:12,720 --> 01:55:15,360
from like how I feel
about what I'm working on,

2368
01:55:15,360 --> 01:55:16,713
if that makes any sense.

2369
01:55:20,070 --> 01:55:20,903
I have one more,

2370
01:55:20,903 --> 01:55:23,640
it's maybe specific to
the math department,

2371
01:55:23,640 --> 01:55:26,850
but the qualifying exams are a big deal.

2372
01:55:26,850 --> 01:55:28,200
This professors that'll tell you

2373
01:55:28,200 --> 01:55:30,750
they won't even start working with you

2374
01:55:30,750 --> 01:55:32,310
until you've passed them.

2375
01:55:32,310 --> 01:55:34,290
And there's a lot of
things too exciting things

2376
01:55:34,290 --> 01:55:36,630
you wanna do, learn for yourself.

2377
01:55:36,630 --> 01:55:39,090
But least in math it'd be,

2378
01:55:39,090 --> 01:55:42,870
I wish that I had not
gotten as sidetracked.

2379
01:55:42,870 --> 01:55:45,780
I passed my calls so I'm fine,

2380
01:55:45,780 --> 01:55:48,180
but could have passed them earlier

2381
01:55:48,180 --> 01:55:49,830
if I had kinda gone all in.

2382
01:55:49,830 --> 01:55:52,410
And if that's a big deal in the department

2383
01:55:52,410 --> 01:55:55,890
that you want to be in,
definitely make that a priority.

2384
01:55:55,890 --> 01:55:59,490
We've lost several people
to the qualifying exams.

2385
01:55:59,490 --> 01:56:01,140
But again, I think that's maybe

2386
01:56:01,140 --> 01:56:03,590
a little more specific in
math, but I'm not sure.

2387
01:56:05,880 --> 01:56:08,550
Great, I wonder if anybody has thoughts

2388
01:56:08,550 --> 01:56:13,473
on some of the biggest sources of support

2389
01:56:15,750 --> 01:56:20,640
that you've had probably UVM related.

2390
01:56:20,640 --> 01:56:25,640
So academic student life
professional that kind of thing

2391
01:56:28,050 --> 01:56:29,253
that you wanna share.

2392
01:56:34,980 --> 01:56:39,980
I know one I'm relatively new
to the University of Vermont

2393
01:56:40,380 --> 01:56:43,240
and I've been learning about
some of the career services

2394
01:56:45,420 --> 01:56:47,670
that we have and career services

2395
01:56:47,670 --> 01:56:49,590
certainly serves our
undergraduate population,

2396
01:56:49,590 --> 01:56:51,930
but also works with graduate students

2397
01:56:51,930 --> 01:56:56,930
and allowing into all of the ways

2398
01:56:57,450 --> 01:57:01,350
so that I can help make those
known to graduate students.

2399
01:57:01,350 --> 01:57:06,120
But even if it's just, my
feel since I've been here

2400
01:57:06,120 --> 01:57:08,490
is that I feel a real warmth

2401
01:57:08,490 --> 01:57:12,630
I think from faculty and
students just in general

2402
01:57:12,630 --> 01:57:14,580
an excitement about the
work that they're doing

2403
01:57:14,580 --> 01:57:16,950
and an excitement to work together.

2404
01:57:16,950 --> 01:57:20,520
But that's an outsider's
perspective, so love to hear.

2405
01:57:22,050 --> 01:57:24,393
Yeah, any other thoughts?

2406
01:57:25,440 --> 01:57:27,750
I mean, for me so far it's
really been my professors

2407
01:57:27,750 --> 01:57:28,860
and my advisors.

2408
01:57:28,860 --> 01:57:33,573
Everyone has been so willing
to meet with me, chat.

2409
01:57:34,530 --> 01:57:35,400
There's been once in a while

2410
01:57:35,400 --> 01:57:36,810
where I've stressed about something

2411
01:57:36,810 --> 01:57:38,400
and 7:00 p.m. that's okay.

2412
01:57:38,400 --> 01:57:40,710
They'll get back to me or
we can talk on the phone.

2413
01:57:40,710 --> 01:57:42,630
People have been really great like that.

2414
01:57:42,630 --> 01:57:44,020
In terms of other kinds of support,

2415
01:57:44,020 --> 01:57:46,470
like you were talking about career.

2416
01:57:46,470 --> 01:57:49,590
There's I think her name
is Holly Foster maybe.

2417
01:57:49,590 --> 01:57:50,423
And yeah, okay.

2418
01:57:50,423 --> 01:57:51,960
And so she's really great.

2419
01:57:51,960 --> 01:57:55,110
She helped me with my LinkedIn
and getting stuff organized.

2420
01:57:55,110 --> 01:57:59,730
She also earlier last
semester did headshot photos

2421
01:57:59,730 --> 01:58:01,740
for people to use for LinkedIn.

2422
01:58:01,740 --> 01:58:03,790
And so yeah, she's been really great too.

2423
01:58:04,950 --> 01:58:06,270
The career center is awesome.

2424
01:58:06,270 --> 01:58:07,440
They helped me with my resume.

2425
01:58:07,440 --> 01:58:10,090
They're excellent and they
really, really wanna help.

2426
01:58:13,110 --> 01:58:14,580
I haven't had an opportunity

2427
01:58:14,580 --> 01:58:16,080
to work with the career services yet,

2428
01:58:16,080 --> 01:58:18,270
hopefully soon need to
look for that internship.

2429
01:58:18,270 --> 01:58:22,083
But the Mosaic Center is incredible.

2430
01:58:22,980 --> 01:58:27,980
They are like this group for
people of color in Vermont

2431
01:58:30,120 --> 01:58:32,858
and I think they are
definitely a part of UVM

2432
01:58:32,858 --> 01:58:35,820
and they have like this amazing
Friday morning breakfast,

2433
01:58:35,820 --> 01:58:36,653
which are great.

2434
01:58:36,653 --> 01:58:39,060
So you go, you socialize
not just with other people

2435
01:58:39,060 --> 01:58:40,920
of color, but everyone in the community

2436
01:58:40,920 --> 01:58:43,650
and usually a department
or a group within UVM

2437
01:58:43,650 --> 01:58:44,940
is sponsoring those breakfasts,

2438
01:58:44,940 --> 01:58:46,770
which is, so you get to learn a lot.

2439
01:58:46,770 --> 01:58:50,100
So that has been like
an incredible support

2440
01:58:50,100 --> 01:58:51,813
coming to UVM for sure.

2441
01:58:55,050 --> 01:58:58,590
I feel really lucky to
have a lot of people

2442
01:58:58,590 --> 01:59:03,120
who I consider in like my
academic support network,

2443
01:59:03,120 --> 01:59:08,120
definitely my advisor and other
graduate students in my lab.

2444
01:59:08,400 --> 01:59:10,650
But I've also cultivated relationships

2445
01:59:10,650 --> 01:59:12,870
with other faculty members at UVM,

2446
01:59:12,870 --> 01:59:16,680
which I've found to be really useful.

2447
01:59:16,680 --> 01:59:19,170
Not just for making
connections for projects,

2448
01:59:19,170 --> 01:59:22,290
but just like when I want to
get someone else's perspective

2449
01:59:22,290 --> 01:59:26,310
on like career path and life choices.

2450
01:59:26,310 --> 01:59:29,940
It's nice sometimes to be
able to schedule a meeting

2451
01:59:29,940 --> 01:59:34,200
with someone different and who
has different perspectives.

2452
01:59:34,200 --> 01:59:36,240
So I definitely...

2453
01:59:36,240 --> 01:59:39,750
I think that forming relationships

2454
01:59:39,750 --> 01:59:42,510
with as many people as
possible is always helpful.

2455
01:59:42,510 --> 01:59:44,190
And sometimes that's professors who I met

2456
01:59:44,190 --> 01:59:45,810
through like taking classes.

2457
01:59:45,810 --> 01:59:48,386
Sometimes it's ones I met
through working on projects.

2458
01:59:48,386 --> 01:59:49,683
It kind of varies.

2459
01:59:51,990 --> 01:59:52,823
[Rick] I've got-

2460
01:59:52,823 --> 01:59:53,730
Thank you so much.

2461
01:59:53,730 --> 01:59:55,051
Oh, yeah Rick.

2462
01:59:55,051 --> 01:59:55,884
I was gonna say briefly,

2463
01:59:55,884 --> 01:59:59,070
I have friends at other
universities, we are small,

2464
01:59:59,070 --> 02:00:01,320
so everyone who's talked today,

2465
02:00:01,320 --> 02:00:05,370
it's clear that I think
we all we get out there

2466
02:00:05,370 --> 02:00:07,710
to go find these connections.

2467
02:00:07,710 --> 02:00:09,060
I think there are universities

2468
02:00:09,060 --> 02:00:11,130
where there's like the math
department for example,

2469
02:00:11,130 --> 02:00:12,630
has 50 grad students.

2470
02:00:12,630 --> 02:00:14,778
So sometimes I think they're
just right in your face,

2471
02:00:14,778 --> 02:00:17,190
just you don't need to go hunting for it.

2472
02:00:17,190 --> 02:00:18,472
But it is a little smaller here,

2473
02:00:18,472 --> 02:00:23,472
so there's a little bit
of impetus on your part

2474
02:00:24,180 --> 02:00:27,120
to go make these connections
they're not as in your face

2475
02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:28,833
as like a bigger university.

2476
02:00:30,810 --> 02:00:32,070
And that's a great point Rick

2477
02:00:32,070 --> 02:00:35,900
and I do wanna say that UVM
is in especially at CEMS,

2478
02:00:39,060 --> 02:00:41,790
College of Engineering
and Mathematical Sciences,

2479
02:00:41,790 --> 02:00:45,540
we're actually growing
in graduate students too.

2480
02:00:45,540 --> 02:00:49,874
So really hope that the
community is building

2481
02:00:49,874 --> 02:00:54,874
and I'm so thankful to
our graduate students

2482
02:00:55,036 --> 02:01:00,036
who've joined today Kate
and Rick and Jenna and Avi

2483
02:01:01,230 --> 02:01:05,895
because it really added
to what Irfan said earlier

2484
02:01:05,895 --> 02:01:08,943
and I've found it to be very valuable.

2485
02:01:10,170 --> 02:01:12,159
I trust that our
participants have as well.

2486
02:01:12,159 --> 02:01:15,360
I'm not seeing any other questions.

2487
02:01:15,360 --> 02:01:20,360
We are at 11:30 and now
I would love to introduce

2488
02:01:23,130 --> 02:01:26,989
from our Office of
International Student Services,

2489
02:01:26,989 --> 02:01:31,989
someone who can really speak
specifically to process

2490
02:01:32,160 --> 02:01:36,780
and just the supports that are available.

2491
02:01:36,780 --> 02:01:39,210
And that is Sarah Denu.

2492
02:01:39,210 --> 02:01:42,003
So Sarah, please take it away.

2493
02:01:44,910 --> 02:01:46,170
All right, wonderful.

2494
02:01:46,170 --> 02:01:47,370
Thank you so much.

2495
02:01:47,370 --> 02:01:49,380
Thanks for having me here.

2496
02:01:49,380 --> 02:01:51,753
Super excited to be able
to chat with everyone.

2497
02:01:52,830 --> 02:01:56,070
So as Jane mentioned,
my name is Sarah Denu

2498
02:01:56,070 --> 02:01:59,070
and I am an international
student and scholar advisor

2499
02:01:59,070 --> 02:02:02,157
in the Office of International Education.

2500
02:02:02,157 --> 02:02:04,350
You may hear that be called the OIE.

2501
02:02:04,350 --> 02:02:07,560
So that's the Office of
International Education.

2502
02:02:07,560 --> 02:02:11,520
And I'm really excited to be
chatting with you all today.

2503
02:02:11,520 --> 02:02:13,320
I'm gonna be spending just a few minutes

2504
02:02:13,320 --> 02:02:15,887
to talk about kind of
the high level support

2505
02:02:15,887 --> 02:02:17,790
that we offer in our office

2506
02:02:17,790 --> 02:02:21,180
as well as go through a
few action items or tasks

2507
02:02:21,180 --> 02:02:26,180
for you all to focus on
as you are coming to UVM

2508
02:02:26,190 --> 02:02:27,717
in a non-immigrant student visa status.

2509
02:02:27,717 --> 02:02:30,840
And so if some of you
are not in that situation

2510
02:02:30,840 --> 02:02:33,840
happy to chat kind of
about individual questions

2511
02:02:33,840 --> 02:02:34,950
you have at a later point,

2512
02:02:34,950 --> 02:02:38,580
but just kinda wanna give
a general overview of that.

2513
02:02:38,580 --> 02:02:41,760
And so I will plan to share my screen

2514
02:02:41,760 --> 02:02:45,213
and then if there are any
issues, please let me know.

2515
02:02:46,811 --> 02:02:49,740
So great, now I can see it as well.

2516
02:02:49,740 --> 02:02:52,680
Awesome, so like I mentioned,

2517
02:02:52,680 --> 02:02:54,660
just talk through kind of some of the ways

2518
02:02:54,660 --> 02:02:57,900
that our office can support
you as an international student

2519
02:02:57,900 --> 02:03:02,760
and then also some kinda
some more task related items.

2520
02:03:02,760 --> 02:03:05,910
So a few action items
for you to be working on

2521
02:03:05,910 --> 02:03:08,310
at this point in the process.

2522
02:03:08,310 --> 02:03:11,250
And so before we jump right into that,

2523
02:03:11,250 --> 02:03:12,750
just a teeny bit about me.

2524
02:03:12,750 --> 02:03:14,640
So as I said, my name is Sarah.

2525
02:03:14,640 --> 02:03:17,540
I work in the Office of
International Education or the OIE

2526
02:03:18,387 --> 02:03:21,450
and I started working here in 2018.

2527
02:03:21,450 --> 02:03:23,760
Before that I lived in
Colorado for several years

2528
02:03:23,760 --> 02:03:25,020
where I did my master's degree,

2529
02:03:25,020 --> 02:03:27,090
but before that I did
my undergraduate degree

2530
02:03:27,090 --> 02:03:28,410
right here at UVM.

2531
02:03:28,410 --> 02:03:29,700
I'm also from Vermont,

2532
02:03:29,700 --> 02:03:32,250
so I grew up just about
an hour south of here.

2533
02:03:32,250 --> 02:03:34,020
So I'm really familiar with UVM,

2534
02:03:34,020 --> 02:03:36,150
the Burlington area
and Vermont in general.

2535
02:03:36,150 --> 02:03:39,660
And I'm always really excited
to share my love for the state

2536
02:03:39,660 --> 02:03:41,670
with other new incoming students.

2537
02:03:41,670 --> 02:03:46,110
So I'm happy to kinda
answer other questions

2538
02:03:46,110 --> 02:03:49,740
about Vermont or Burlington
too, if that's helpful for you.

2539
02:03:49,740 --> 02:03:50,573
All right.

2540
02:03:53,190 --> 02:03:55,620
So a few action items like I mentioned.

2541
02:03:55,620 --> 02:04:00,620
So the first step for
students that are coming here

2542
02:04:03,000 --> 02:04:07,860
in a non-immigrant student visa status

2543
02:04:07,860 --> 02:04:11,793
is to request your
immigration document from us.

2544
02:04:12,960 --> 02:04:15,750
It sounds like some of
you have already confirmed

2545
02:04:15,750 --> 02:04:17,670
your intent to enroll
with the graduate college

2546
02:04:17,670 --> 02:04:19,650
and maybe some of you have not yet.

2547
02:04:19,650 --> 02:04:23,880
For those of you that
have about 24 to 48 hours

2548
02:04:23,880 --> 02:04:28,590
after you do that, after you
submit that intent to enroll,

2549
02:04:28,590 --> 02:04:32,610
you'll receive an a automatically
sent email from our office

2550
02:04:32,610 --> 02:04:33,870
and that's going to invite you

2551
02:04:33,870 --> 02:04:37,470
to either request a new student
immigration document from us

2552
02:04:37,470 --> 02:04:41,070
or tell us about an existing
status that you might hold.

2553
02:04:41,070 --> 02:04:43,290
And so there are some
students, for example,

2554
02:04:43,290 --> 02:04:45,810
that may already be in the United States

2555
02:04:45,810 --> 02:04:46,827
in a different type of status.

2556
02:04:46,827 --> 02:04:49,500
And so there's a lot of
different situations.

2557
02:04:49,500 --> 02:04:51,000
And so we send you that email

2558
02:04:51,000 --> 02:04:53,451
again after you've confirmed
your intent to enroll.

2559
02:04:53,451 --> 02:04:56,632
And there's a lot of helpful
information in that email

2560
02:04:56,632 --> 02:04:59,610
with instructions as well on what to do

2561
02:04:59,610 --> 02:05:02,280
and how to request that
new immigration document

2562
02:05:02,280 --> 02:05:05,313
or upload other documentation
that you might have.

2563
02:05:06,360 --> 02:05:09,174
And we have a student
portal, it's called iStart.

2564
02:05:09,174 --> 02:05:10,099
And in that email

2565
02:05:10,099 --> 02:05:12,720
you'll be able to gain
access to that portal

2566
02:05:12,720 --> 02:05:16,080
and that's where all of
those requests will happen.

2567
02:05:16,080 --> 02:05:20,970
So the deadline for a fall 2023 start

2568
02:05:20,970 --> 02:05:22,800
is not until July 15th,

2569
02:05:22,800 --> 02:05:25,710
which feels like a really,
really far way away.

2570
02:05:25,710 --> 02:05:28,902
However, we strongly recommend
that you complete this

2571
02:05:28,902 --> 02:05:31,039
as soon as possible.

2572
02:05:31,039 --> 02:05:34,980
The reason for that is
this next bullet point,

2573
02:05:34,980 --> 02:05:38,760
which is to apply for
your non immigrant visa.

2574
02:05:38,760 --> 02:05:40,920
Our office can't issue that for you.

2575
02:05:40,920 --> 02:05:44,640
We are able to issue the
immigration document that you need

2576
02:05:44,640 --> 02:05:46,020
in order to apply for that,

2577
02:05:46,020 --> 02:05:47,599
but that is through the
Department of State.

2578
02:05:47,599 --> 02:05:51,535
You will need to travel to
the US Embassy or Consulate

2579
02:05:51,535 --> 02:05:54,630
in your area in order to do that.

2580
02:05:54,630 --> 02:05:55,463
But first,

2581
02:05:55,463 --> 02:05:57,990
you need to receive that
immigration document from us.

2582
02:05:58,927 --> 02:06:01,680
The processing times vary greatly

2583
02:06:01,680 --> 02:06:03,480
depending on the US embassy

2584
02:06:03,480 --> 02:06:05,850
or Consulate that you will be visiting.

2585
02:06:05,850 --> 02:06:06,810
So we just recommend

2586
02:06:06,810 --> 02:06:09,180
that you are beginning that
Visa application process

2587
02:06:09,180 --> 02:06:10,770
as soon as you can

2588
02:06:10,770 --> 02:06:12,529
to help ensure that
you're able to arrive here

2589
02:06:12,529 --> 02:06:15,270
at UVM in time.

2590
02:06:15,270 --> 02:06:18,540
And so our feelings have been

2591
02:06:18,540 --> 02:06:20,280
that if students don't
request their document

2592
02:06:20,280 --> 02:06:22,860
until close to that July 15th deadline,

2593
02:06:22,860 --> 02:06:26,940
then it can be really tricky
to obtain your visa in time

2594
02:06:26,940 --> 02:06:28,173
for the fall semester.

2595
02:06:29,081 --> 02:06:34,081
So we do require that
students arrive here in time

2596
02:06:34,740 --> 02:06:37,860
for our international
graduate student orientation.

2597
02:06:37,860 --> 02:06:41,430
That begins on Tuesday, August 15th.

2598
02:06:41,430 --> 02:06:46,430
And so you are able to
arrive up to 30 days

2599
02:06:46,470 --> 02:06:47,700
before the start date

2600
02:06:47,700 --> 02:06:49,740
that's listed on that immigration document

2601
02:06:49,740 --> 02:06:50,880
I was talking about.

2602
02:06:50,880 --> 02:06:52,800
So some students will choose to arrive

2603
02:06:52,800 --> 02:06:54,050
a little bit before that

2604
02:06:54,050 --> 02:06:57,660
to start settling into
their accommodations,

2605
02:06:57,660 --> 02:07:00,750
start getting accustomed to
the Burlington community,

2606
02:07:00,750 --> 02:07:02,601
the time change, all of that stuff.

2607
02:07:02,601 --> 02:07:05,610
So some will choose to arrive

2608
02:07:05,610 --> 02:07:06,934
maybe in the first week of August.

2609
02:07:06,934 --> 02:07:08,730
Sometimes this will depend

2610
02:07:08,730 --> 02:07:10,281
on what your housing is looking like.

2611
02:07:10,281 --> 02:07:13,043
I know a lot of leases
might begin on August 1st,

2612
02:07:13,043 --> 02:07:17,324
and so some students may
choose to be moving in early.

2613
02:07:17,324 --> 02:07:20,100
Our requirement is that
you are checking in with us

2614
02:07:20,100 --> 02:07:21,570
on August 15th.

2615
02:07:21,570 --> 02:07:23,684
So that's just something to keep in mind.

2616
02:07:23,684 --> 02:07:27,570
Also in terms of getting your visa in time

2617
02:07:27,570 --> 02:07:29,284
to arrive for that date.

2618
02:07:29,284 --> 02:07:34,284
And it's actually two
weeks before classes begin.

2619
02:07:34,440 --> 02:07:38,010
Typically what we have noticed
is that following week,

2620
02:07:38,010 --> 02:07:40,380
so the week before classes begin,

2621
02:07:40,380 --> 02:07:44,040
is there are a lot of
departmental specific orientations

2622
02:07:44,040 --> 02:07:46,230
that may happen for new graduate students.

2623
02:07:46,230 --> 02:07:48,690
And so we are trying not
to interfere with that.

2624
02:07:48,690 --> 02:07:50,711
And so that's why we start

2625
02:07:50,711 --> 02:07:53,373
that previous Tuesday on the 15th.

2626
02:07:54,298 --> 02:07:56,010
And will talk a little bit more

2627
02:07:56,010 --> 02:07:59,043
about our orientation in just a moment.

2628
02:08:01,650 --> 02:08:03,543
And so just wanna go over a few things

2629
02:08:03,543 --> 02:08:07,830
that we are able to do
for you as an office.

2630
02:08:07,830 --> 02:08:11,700
So, whoops, there we go.

2631
02:08:11,700 --> 02:08:15,120
Okay, immigration advising
document processing.

2632
02:08:15,120 --> 02:08:16,630
So like I was talking about

2633
02:08:18,420 --> 02:08:22,410
we will issue that new
immigration document for you

2634
02:08:22,410 --> 02:08:23,490
if you require one.

2635
02:08:23,490 --> 02:08:25,740
And again, it'll depend on your situation.

2636
02:08:25,740 --> 02:08:28,800
Read that email we send very
carefully you will know.

2637
02:08:28,800 --> 02:08:31,350
We also do of course,
immigration advising.

2638
02:08:31,350 --> 02:08:32,653
And it's really important

2639
02:08:32,653 --> 02:08:34,980
for international graduate students

2640
02:08:34,980 --> 02:08:38,400
to know that we are really
the only office on campus

2641
02:08:38,400 --> 02:08:42,697
that should be giving
immigration advice or advising.

2642
02:08:42,697 --> 02:08:45,690
There are lots of students here

2643
02:08:45,690 --> 02:08:47,880
that are international students

2644
02:08:47,880 --> 02:08:50,580
and they may have really
great advice for you,

2645
02:08:50,580 --> 02:08:52,489
but it may be specific to their situation.

2646
02:08:52,489 --> 02:08:53,930
And just know that everyone

2647
02:08:53,930 --> 02:08:55,050
is a little bit different, right?

2648
02:08:55,050 --> 02:08:57,600
So even if you have a good
friend in your program

2649
02:08:57,600 --> 02:08:58,980
that is also an international student,

2650
02:08:58,980 --> 02:09:00,933
it doesn't necessarily mean
that what's true for them,

2651
02:09:00,933 --> 02:09:03,060
it's also true for you.

2652
02:09:03,060 --> 02:09:04,800
Same goes for faculty members

2653
02:09:04,800 --> 02:09:07,200
who may have really wonderful intentions

2654
02:09:07,200 --> 02:09:09,810
and are trying to be helpful
in giving you advice.

2655
02:09:09,810 --> 02:09:12,420
But if is immigration
related, we always say,

2656
02:09:12,420 --> 02:09:13,653
please come talk with us.

2657
02:09:13,653 --> 02:09:15,630
We're always happy to chat.

2658
02:09:15,630 --> 02:09:18,000
We do a lot of advising in person.

2659
02:09:18,000 --> 02:09:19,481
We also do virtual advising

2660
02:09:19,481 --> 02:09:22,380
and we also do a lot of email advising.

2661
02:09:22,380 --> 02:09:26,550
So we are largely available
and easy to get in touch with.

2662
02:09:26,550 --> 02:09:28,734
So please don't ever
hesitate to reach out to us.

2663
02:09:28,734 --> 02:09:33,120
And that also is true for
kinda the pre-arrival period.

2664
02:09:33,120 --> 02:09:35,040
So between now and arrival,

2665
02:09:35,040 --> 02:09:37,650
we are still available to meet with you

2666
02:09:37,650 --> 02:09:39,630
via a virtual advising appointment.

2667
02:09:39,630 --> 02:09:41,280
So we're always happy to do that.

2668
02:09:43,140 --> 02:09:44,558
We offer personal support.

2669
02:09:44,558 --> 02:09:48,030
And so we cover kinda anything.

2670
02:09:48,030 --> 02:09:50,370
There's no right or wrong
reason to come meet with us,

2671
02:09:50,370 --> 02:09:52,770
so it doesn't have to
be immigration related.

2672
02:09:52,770 --> 02:09:54,150
We're happy to talk with you

2673
02:09:54,150 --> 02:09:56,130
if you are having any kind of issues

2674
02:09:56,130 --> 02:09:57,750
or confusion around settling in.

2675
02:09:57,750 --> 02:09:59,640
Maybe you have some
feelings of home sickness.

2676
02:09:59,640 --> 02:10:00,900
That's very normal.

2677
02:10:00,900 --> 02:10:02,937
And we chat with a lot
of students about that

2678
02:10:02,937 --> 02:10:06,000
and kind of work through
some different strategies.

2679
02:10:06,000 --> 02:10:07,800
And solutions there.

2680
02:10:07,800 --> 02:10:09,390
Sometimes it's something
as simple as like,

2681
02:10:09,390 --> 02:10:12,270
I can't find a laundromat and
we're happy to help with that.

2682
02:10:12,270 --> 02:10:14,310
Setting up a bank account,

2683
02:10:14,310 --> 02:10:17,190
maybe you need to get a
Vermont driver's license

2684
02:10:17,190 --> 02:10:19,110
or you're just looking for a Vermont ID

2685
02:10:19,110 --> 02:10:22,380
so that you don't have to
carry your passport everywhere.

2686
02:10:22,380 --> 02:10:24,510
We're happy to talk with you

2687
02:10:24,510 --> 02:10:26,060
about any of those types of questions.

2688
02:10:26,060 --> 02:10:28,233
It doesn't have to be immigration related.

2689
02:10:29,370 --> 02:10:32,523
We also do a lot of connecting
to campus resources,

2690
02:10:33,420 --> 02:10:35,760
and it sounds like you've probably heard

2691
02:10:35,760 --> 02:10:37,320
of a lot of these already this morning,

2692
02:10:37,320 --> 02:10:40,320
but we can help direct you to services

2693
02:10:40,320 --> 02:10:42,510
that help support you both academically,

2694
02:10:42,510 --> 02:10:44,380
but also to help support

2695
02:10:45,540 --> 02:10:47,970
your mental and physical
wellbeing as well.

2696
02:10:47,970 --> 02:10:51,690
So we're really tuned in to
what's going on around campus

2697
02:10:51,690 --> 02:10:54,630
and we talk with a lot of
different campus partners

2698
02:10:54,630 --> 02:10:57,750
and try to connect
students to those resources

2699
02:10:57,750 --> 02:10:59,280
where we make it would be helpful.

2700
02:10:59,280 --> 02:11:01,860
So if you're not sure where to turn,

2701
02:11:01,860 --> 02:11:04,140
if you just need a place to start,

2702
02:11:04,140 --> 02:11:06,813
we are always happy to
be that place for you.

2703
02:11:08,460 --> 02:11:11,850
We also lead some social and
cultural programming events.

2704
02:11:11,850 --> 02:11:15,240
And I will talk through
those in just a moment.

2705
02:11:15,240 --> 02:11:19,080
But know that that's
something else that we offer

2706
02:11:19,080 --> 02:11:21,543
and coordinate through our office.

2707
02:11:25,140 --> 02:11:26,610
Some other things that we do.

2708
02:11:26,610 --> 02:11:28,857
So leading international
graduate student orientation.

2709
02:11:28,857 --> 02:11:32,250
And so I had mentioned that it's required

2710
02:11:32,250 --> 02:11:34,140
for international students

2711
02:11:34,140 --> 02:11:37,983
and it does begin on that
Tuesday, August 15th.

2712
02:11:39,000 --> 02:11:42,573
We generally have three
main goals for orientation.

2713
02:11:43,551 --> 02:11:45,210
One is just that we're providing you

2714
02:11:45,210 --> 02:11:46,800
with some helpful information.

2715
02:11:46,800 --> 02:11:48,330
You're gonna get a lot of information

2716
02:11:48,330 --> 02:11:49,410
in those first few weeks,

2717
02:11:49,410 --> 02:11:51,630
so we know that it can be an overload.

2718
02:11:51,630 --> 02:11:55,770
But we hope to give you
some helpful information

2719
02:11:55,770 --> 02:11:58,077
that's gonna support you in
your success here at UVM.

2720
02:11:58,077 --> 02:12:00,960
And that can be both academically

2721
02:12:00,960 --> 02:12:04,890
but also your mental
wellbeing, physical wellbeing

2722
02:12:04,890 --> 02:12:05,760
and all of that.

2723
02:12:05,760 --> 02:12:08,910
So we're gonna give you a
lot of information on that.

2724
02:12:08,910 --> 02:12:11,220
We're also going to
just give you some time

2725
02:12:11,220 --> 02:12:12,810
and resources support

2726
02:12:12,810 --> 02:12:15,900
to help you get settled in to your housing

2727
02:12:15,900 --> 02:12:18,450
to the UVM campus.

2728
02:12:18,450 --> 02:12:20,433
That might include a campus tour,

2729
02:12:21,360 --> 02:12:24,990
leading volunteer led
trips to the local banks

2730
02:12:24,990 --> 02:12:26,550
so that you can open a big account.

2731
02:12:26,550 --> 02:12:29,133
Things like that as just as examples.

2732
02:12:30,630 --> 02:12:32,790
We also offer volunteer
life shopping trips.

2733
02:12:32,790 --> 02:12:33,960
And so if you don't have a car,

2734
02:12:33,960 --> 02:12:36,690
you're not sure how the
bus system works yet.

2735
02:12:36,690 --> 02:12:40,350
We have volunteers that are
other students, current students

2736
02:12:40,350 --> 02:12:43,890
that will take you on the
bus to those shopping areas.

2737
02:12:43,890 --> 02:12:46,560
And so you get to kinda
learn how to do that

2738
02:12:46,560 --> 02:12:47,970
and not have to do it by yourself.

2739
02:12:47,970 --> 02:12:49,680
And I think that can be really nice.

2740
02:12:49,680 --> 02:12:51,600
So we wanna make sure
we're giving students

2741
02:12:51,600 --> 02:12:54,420
the time and support
to help get settled in.

2742
02:12:54,420 --> 02:12:57,420
And then lastly, and I
think personally maybe

2743
02:12:57,420 --> 02:12:58,770
the most important to me

2744
02:12:58,770 --> 02:13:01,470
is that we are providing
plenty of opportunities

2745
02:13:01,470 --> 02:13:04,890
for you as new students
to meet other new students

2746
02:13:04,890 --> 02:13:06,000
and current students.

2747
02:13:06,000 --> 02:13:09,090
So just making those connections early on.

2748
02:13:09,090 --> 02:13:11,130
We know that you're
gonna be working closely

2749
02:13:11,130 --> 02:13:14,220
in your departments and
you're gonna have classmates

2750
02:13:14,220 --> 02:13:16,710
that you collaborate with a lot,

2751
02:13:16,710 --> 02:13:18,660
but we wanna make sure we're
giving you opportunities

2752
02:13:18,660 --> 02:13:20,370
to meet some other people too

2753
02:13:20,370 --> 02:13:23,550
that maybe are not in
your academic discipline,

2754
02:13:23,550 --> 02:13:24,690
but find connections

2755
02:13:24,690 --> 02:13:28,380
both with the other new graduate students,

2756
02:13:28,380 --> 02:13:31,110
but also just other
students around campus.

2757
02:13:31,110 --> 02:13:33,660
So we coordinate some different events,

2758
02:13:33,660 --> 02:13:38,160
certainly during our required
sessions during the week,

2759
02:13:38,160 --> 02:13:41,160
we provide parts of those
sessions kinda dedicated

2760
02:13:41,160 --> 02:13:44,070
to making sure students
get to know one another

2761
02:13:44,070 --> 02:13:45,330
a little bit more.

2762
02:13:45,330 --> 02:13:47,380
So that's really important to us as well.

2763
02:13:51,300 --> 02:13:55,320
So I wanna touch on some organizations.

2764
02:13:55,320 --> 02:13:56,700
I know this looks like a huge list.

2765
02:13:56,700 --> 02:14:00,570
This is just a screenshot from our webpage

2766
02:14:00,570 --> 02:14:03,063
and that's the URL if
anyone is interested.

2767
02:14:04,620 --> 02:14:07,080
Honestly, I typically just Google UVM, OIE

2768
02:14:07,080 --> 02:14:09,240
and then if you say involved,
it'll take you to that page.

2769
02:14:09,240 --> 02:14:11,070
But this is just a list

2770
02:14:11,070 --> 02:14:15,300
of some international
student organizations

2771
02:14:15,300 --> 02:14:18,540
and we are always
recommending to students,

2772
02:14:18,540 --> 02:14:20,550
both incoming international graduate

2773
02:14:20,550 --> 02:14:23,160
and undergraduate students to reach out

2774
02:14:23,160 --> 02:14:26,010
to these clubs and organizations early on,

2775
02:14:26,010 --> 02:14:28,410
even before you arrive to start getting

2776
02:14:28,410 --> 02:14:30,480
some of that connection building.

2777
02:14:30,480 --> 02:14:32,940
So you can see we have it
broken down in different ways.

2778
02:14:32,940 --> 02:14:36,240
So there's some country specific
groups and organizations

2779
02:14:36,240 --> 02:14:38,070
regionally, globally focused groups,

2780
02:14:38,070 --> 02:14:40,620
and then also identity-based groups.

2781
02:14:40,620 --> 02:14:43,200
There's contact information
for all of these.

2782
02:14:43,200 --> 02:14:46,680
And so again, you can
find it on our webpage

2783
02:14:46,680 --> 02:14:48,870
is probably the easiest way to do that.

2784
02:14:48,870 --> 02:14:50,790
But just know that this exists.

2785
02:14:50,790 --> 02:14:52,410
This is not an exhaustive list

2786
02:14:52,410 --> 02:14:55,830
of all the clubs and
organizations on campus certainly,

2787
02:14:55,830 --> 02:14:57,060
but it is kind of a focus

2788
02:14:57,060 --> 02:14:59,433
on the international
student organizations.

2789
02:15:01,050 --> 02:15:02,490
I have talked to a lot of students

2790
02:15:02,490 --> 02:15:05,340
that have found these to
be really, really helpful

2791
02:15:05,340 --> 02:15:06,360
for a number of reasons.

2792
02:15:06,360 --> 02:15:10,053
Sometimes it's just
because take for example,

2793
02:15:10,920 --> 02:15:13,020
the Bangladesh student and scholar group,

2794
02:15:13,020 --> 02:15:15,690
maybe you are from Bangladesh,
you are coming by yourself,

2795
02:15:15,690 --> 02:15:18,030
you don't know anyone else.

2796
02:15:18,030 --> 02:15:20,380
And to be able to connect
to the other students

2797
02:15:21,420 --> 02:15:23,610
from Bangladesh that are in this club,

2798
02:15:23,610 --> 02:15:26,520
it can be just really,
really helpful and comforting

2799
02:15:26,520 --> 02:15:30,453
and just a really great point of support

2800
02:15:30,453 --> 02:15:32,673
when you're first settling in.

2801
02:15:33,630 --> 02:15:37,620
We've had students find
airport pickup rides

2802
02:15:37,620 --> 02:15:39,903
by contacting people through here,

2803
02:15:40,740 --> 02:15:43,830
find housing by contacting
groups through here.

2804
02:15:43,830 --> 02:15:48,690
So I think there's no
wrong way to get involved

2805
02:15:48,690 --> 02:15:49,523
with these groups,

2806
02:15:49,523 --> 02:15:50,790
but I think reaching out to them early

2807
02:15:50,790 --> 02:15:53,460
and saying, "Hey, I'm interested
in being part of this.

2808
02:15:53,460 --> 02:15:56,010
What kind of resources can you offer,

2809
02:15:56,010 --> 02:15:58,257
or how can I get involved?"

2810
02:15:59,160 --> 02:16:01,530
These students have all
volunteered to lead these groups

2811
02:16:01,530 --> 02:16:04,320
and so they're all
quite active and excited

2812
02:16:04,320 --> 02:16:06,390
to work with new students.

2813
02:16:06,390 --> 02:16:11,390
So know that that exists
and we definitely recommend

2814
02:16:12,150 --> 02:16:13,750
that you take advantage of that.

2815
02:16:15,090 --> 02:16:18,270
And again, that's just on
our getting involved page

2816
02:16:18,270 --> 02:16:19,173
through the OIE.

2817
02:16:24,270 --> 02:16:29,100
So just to go over a few
of the programs and events

2818
02:16:29,100 --> 02:16:31,080
that we coordinate and offer

2819
02:16:31,080 --> 02:16:33,720
through our office specifically.

2820
02:16:33,720 --> 02:16:36,810
So we do host waffle breakfast,

2821
02:16:36,810 --> 02:16:39,960
which happens on the first
Friday of every month

2822
02:16:39,960 --> 02:16:41,760
during the school year.

2823
02:16:41,760 --> 02:16:43,920
So it does not happen over winter break

2824
02:16:43,920 --> 02:16:44,967
or the summer for example.

2825
02:16:44,967 --> 02:16:47,880
But we do have it all semester in the fall

2826
02:16:47,880 --> 02:16:49,560
and all semester in the spring.

2827
02:16:49,560 --> 02:16:53,700
So we just had one last week for March.

2828
02:16:53,700 --> 02:16:54,930
They're really, really fun.

2829
02:16:54,930 --> 02:16:56,283
They're very relaxed.

2830
02:16:57,174 --> 02:16:58,710
It's like the international
student lounge,

2831
02:16:58,710 --> 02:17:03,710
so it's attached to where
our office is on campus.

2832
02:17:03,750 --> 02:17:04,890
It's totally free.

2833
02:17:04,890 --> 02:17:06,630
We cook fresh waffles all morning.

2834
02:17:06,630 --> 02:17:08,100
We have a giant fruit salad.

2835
02:17:08,100 --> 02:17:09,660
It'd be a hot coffee and tea

2836
02:17:09,660 --> 02:17:12,150
and anyone in the community is welcome.

2837
02:17:12,150 --> 02:17:14,520
But it is international
student waffle breakfast.

2838
02:17:14,520 --> 02:17:17,370
So primarily we see
international graduate students.

2839
02:17:17,370 --> 02:17:19,530
We might see some
international exchange students

2840
02:17:19,530 --> 02:17:22,170
that are just here for a semester or two.

2841
02:17:22,170 --> 02:17:24,537
We might see our international
undergraduate students

2842
02:17:24,537 --> 02:17:27,190
and we might see some fun
campus partners showing up

2843
02:17:28,320 --> 02:17:30,840
whether they're from different
identity groups on campus

2844
02:17:30,840 --> 02:17:31,830
or identity centers.

2845
02:17:31,830 --> 02:17:33,810
So Mosaic or the Interfaith Center,

2846
02:17:33,810 --> 02:17:37,260
sometimes we have folks
joining us from those places.

2847
02:17:37,260 --> 02:17:39,120
It's really fun, it's very relaxed.

2848
02:17:39,120 --> 02:17:40,200
You don't even need to sign up,

2849
02:17:40,200 --> 02:17:43,500
you can just stop by anytime
to get a free breakfast

2850
02:17:43,500 --> 02:17:46,290
and just kinda be in some good company.

2851
02:17:46,290 --> 02:17:48,363
So that's something we do that's ongoing.

2852
02:17:49,560 --> 02:17:53,010
Another ongoing series that we coordinate

2853
02:17:53,010 --> 02:17:54,900
is the Cultural Kitchen series.

2854
02:17:54,900 --> 02:17:56,820
And these are pictures

2855
02:17:56,820 --> 02:18:00,150
from our most recent
one we had in February

2856
02:18:00,150 --> 02:18:01,740
that was Cultural Kitchen, Mexico.

2857
02:18:01,740 --> 02:18:04,680
And we have one graduate
student on the left there

2858
02:18:04,680 --> 02:18:06,780
and an undergraduate student on the right.

2859
02:18:07,733 --> 02:18:09,357
And they helped host that for us.

2860
02:18:09,357 --> 02:18:11,607
And so we made chilaquiles and conchas

2861
02:18:11,607 --> 02:18:13,320
and they were delicious.

2862
02:18:13,320 --> 02:18:18,320
But it's this event that we
do three times each semester

2863
02:18:18,537 --> 02:18:20,610
and so we just had the
first one in February.

2864
02:18:20,610 --> 02:18:22,950
We'll do another one later this month.

2865
02:18:22,950 --> 02:18:27,600
And student hosts get to plan
what they would like to make.

2866
02:18:27,600 --> 02:18:31,620
So we had two Mexican
hosts this coming month.

2867
02:18:31,620 --> 02:18:34,200
We have three Japanese exchange students

2868
02:18:34,200 --> 02:18:36,900
that will be hosting a
Cultural Kitchen, Japan.

2869
02:18:36,900 --> 02:18:39,690
And my hope is that April
will have one for Jordan

2870
02:18:39,690 --> 02:18:40,620
and the Middle East.

2871
02:18:40,620 --> 02:18:42,990
So it's up to students.

2872
02:18:42,990 --> 02:18:45,120
They can volunteer to sign up,

2873
02:18:45,120 --> 02:18:47,190
they get to decide what they would like

2874
02:18:47,190 --> 02:18:49,770
to have students help them make.

2875
02:18:49,770 --> 02:18:51,690
They teach students how
to make these things.

2876
02:18:51,690 --> 02:18:53,370
We make them together as a group,

2877
02:18:53,370 --> 02:18:55,664
and then we get to sit and
enjoy the food together.

2878
02:18:55,664 --> 02:18:56,850
And it's just a really special event

2879
02:18:56,850 --> 02:18:59,250
that we do throughout the semester.

2880
02:18:59,250 --> 02:19:01,560
So something else just to keep in mind.

2881
02:19:01,560 --> 02:19:04,110
So if you're a graduate
student and you love to cook,

2882
02:19:04,110 --> 02:19:06,000
or even if you don't
know really how to cook,

2883
02:19:06,000 --> 02:19:09,390
but you love food, this could
be a great event for you.

2884
02:19:09,390 --> 02:19:13,110
And so we're always looking
for a new hosts for that.

2885
02:19:13,110 --> 02:19:14,860
So that's something that's ongoing.

2886
02:19:16,530 --> 02:19:19,110
We also coordinate through our office,

2887
02:19:19,110 --> 02:19:20,940
the community host program.

2888
02:19:20,940 --> 02:19:23,610
This is a picture on the right

2889
02:19:23,610 --> 02:19:24,930
his face got a little bit cut off,

2890
02:19:24,930 --> 02:19:29,130
but he's one of our international
students from Argentina

2891
02:19:29,130 --> 02:19:34,130
and he joined his host family
for Thanksgiving there.

2892
02:19:34,710 --> 02:19:37,590
So this program pairs
international students

2893
02:19:37,590 --> 02:19:40,410
with a UVM staff or faculty member

2894
02:19:40,410 --> 02:19:44,220
that really acts as like a
community friend and mentor.

2895
02:19:44,220 --> 02:19:46,530
So sometimes people are
confused by the term host.

2896
02:19:46,530 --> 02:19:48,630
They are not hosting you in the sense

2897
02:19:48,630 --> 02:19:50,910
that you're not living with them,

2898
02:19:50,910 --> 02:19:52,710
but they are really just acting

2899
02:19:52,710 --> 02:19:55,650
as a community friend and mentor.

2900
02:19:55,650 --> 02:19:58,260
So you might meet up with them for coffee,

2901
02:19:58,260 --> 02:20:00,090
you might decide to go for a hike together

2902
02:20:00,090 --> 02:20:02,070
outside of Burlington,

2903
02:20:02,070 --> 02:20:05,010
maybe you both share
a love of the theater.

2904
02:20:05,010 --> 02:20:07,800
And so you might go to a
local theater production

2905
02:20:07,800 --> 02:20:09,120
in downtown Burlington together.

2906
02:20:09,120 --> 02:20:10,230
Maybe you really like hockey,

2907
02:20:10,230 --> 02:20:11,629
so you go to a hockey game together.

2908
02:20:11,629 --> 02:20:12,532
There's really no rules.

2909
02:20:12,532 --> 02:20:14,308
It's not a very structured program.

2910
02:20:14,308 --> 02:20:17,190
So our office is involved

2911
02:20:17,190 --> 02:20:19,140
in the sense that you express interest,

2912
02:20:19,140 --> 02:20:21,073
we will find a host for you

2913
02:20:21,073 --> 02:20:23,460
and then it's up to you all to decide

2914
02:20:23,460 --> 02:20:25,452
what you'd like to do, how
often you'd like to meet.

2915
02:20:25,452 --> 02:20:27,660
So there's tons of flexibility there,

2916
02:20:27,660 --> 02:20:29,760
but it's a really special program.

2917
02:20:29,760 --> 02:20:31,050
It helps build connections,

2918
02:20:31,050 --> 02:20:34,318
I think outside of your
academic discipline,

2919
02:20:34,318 --> 02:20:37,740
it's really not meant to
be academically focused,

2920
02:20:37,740 --> 02:20:40,680
it's more just to have
someone in the community

2921
02:20:40,680 --> 02:20:43,050
that can help you feel a
little bit more grounded

2922
02:20:43,050 --> 02:20:44,820
in your experience here

2923
02:20:44,820 --> 02:20:47,926
and kind of explore Burlington
and the surrounding areas.

2924
02:20:47,926 --> 02:20:50,910
So we've gotten just a
lot of great feedback

2925
02:20:50,910 --> 02:20:51,990
so far in this program

2926
02:20:51,990 --> 02:20:54,446
and the matches are just
made on a rolling basis

2927
02:20:54,446 --> 02:20:56,910
and we ask that students

2928
02:20:56,910 --> 02:20:59,550
kinda commit to one semester at a time.

2929
02:20:59,550 --> 02:21:00,383
In my experience,

2930
02:21:00,383 --> 02:21:04,682
students have stayed in touch
with their hosts for years.

2931
02:21:04,682 --> 02:21:07,068
So they're choosing to stay in touch

2932
02:21:07,068 --> 02:21:08,430
even after they graduate.

2933
02:21:08,430 --> 02:21:10,890
They stay in touch with their hosts

2934
02:21:10,890 --> 02:21:13,110
and so I think that's kind of speaks

2935
02:21:13,110 --> 02:21:16,470
to how great of a program it can be.

2936
02:21:16,470 --> 02:21:19,598
So that's just something that is available

2937
02:21:19,598 --> 02:21:21,390
that we coordinate through our office

2938
02:21:21,390 --> 02:21:24,650
and really recommend that
you take advantage of,

2939
02:21:24,650 --> 02:21:27,750
especially if you're
feeling like you are looking

2940
02:21:27,750 --> 02:21:31,053
for more connection as you settle in.

2941
02:21:33,577 --> 02:21:35,340
All right, I'm gonna
stop sharing my screen.

2942
02:21:35,340 --> 02:21:38,910
I wanted to save plenty of time

2943
02:21:38,910 --> 02:21:42,603
to see if there are any
questions that I can help answer.

2944
02:21:46,020 --> 02:21:48,403
All right, there we go.

2945
02:21:49,307 --> 02:21:50,910
And so I guess I will add too,

2946
02:21:50,910 --> 02:21:52,320
I know that every student

2947
02:21:52,320 --> 02:21:55,353
may have like specific
immigration related questions

2948
02:21:55,353 --> 02:21:58,617
that may be just really unique to them.

2949
02:21:58,617 --> 02:22:00,660
And so I think if you
are one of those people

2950
02:22:00,660 --> 02:22:03,870
in that situation, certainly
we'd love to chat with you.

2951
02:22:03,870 --> 02:22:06,480
If it is kind of a personal question,

2952
02:22:06,480 --> 02:22:07,950
it might be better answered

2953
02:22:07,950 --> 02:22:10,170
through our international
student email account

2954
02:22:10,170 --> 02:22:12,510
or by setting up an appointment with us.

2955
02:22:12,510 --> 02:22:13,931
But if you had kind of general questions

2956
02:22:13,931 --> 02:22:15,750
that might be relevant to the whole group,

2957
02:22:15,750 --> 02:22:18,393
of course I am happy to
try and answer those.

2958
02:22:20,280 --> 02:22:21,660
Thank you, Sarah.

2959
02:22:21,660 --> 02:22:25,637
I do wanna just kind of ask
a general question myself.

2960
02:22:26,910 --> 02:22:31,170
When students kind of
first get here to UVM,

2961
02:22:31,170 --> 02:22:35,053
is there an international
student orientation?

2962
02:22:40,350 --> 02:22:44,070
What can people expect kind
of when they first arrive?

2963
02:22:44,070 --> 02:22:45,670
Yeah, that's a great question.

2964
02:22:46,950 --> 02:22:49,800
And we do host two different orientations

2965
02:22:49,800 --> 02:22:52,290
and so that the two weeks
before starting August 15th,

2966
02:22:52,290 --> 02:22:54,810
that is specific for graduate students.

2967
02:22:54,810 --> 02:22:58,110
The following week is for our
international undergraduate

2968
02:22:58,110 --> 02:22:59,580
and exchange students.

2969
02:22:59,580 --> 02:23:02,520
And the major difference
kinda that I noticed

2970
02:23:02,520 --> 02:23:04,950
is undergrad or the graduate students

2971
02:23:04,950 --> 02:23:06,237
are all living off campus

2972
02:23:06,237 --> 02:23:09,243
and so there's a really
specific move in time

2973
02:23:09,243 --> 02:23:11,700
and day that everyone
arrives for the undergrads

2974
02:23:11,700 --> 02:23:13,950
in that following week.

2975
02:23:13,950 --> 02:23:16,870
There's a lot more flexibility
when students are arriving

2976
02:23:18,120 --> 02:23:19,050
for graduate students

2977
02:23:19,050 --> 02:23:22,380
because there isn't any
set move in time for them.

2978
02:23:22,380 --> 02:23:25,650
And so because you're able to
arrive up to 30 days before

2979
02:23:25,650 --> 02:23:26,880
that program start date,

2980
02:23:26,880 --> 02:23:29,186
that's gonna be listed on
your immigration document,

2981
02:23:29,186 --> 02:23:31,830
sometimes we see students
sort of trickle in,

2982
02:23:31,830 --> 02:23:33,930
they might show up to our
office and say, "Hey, I'm here"

2983
02:23:33,930 --> 02:23:35,846
Which is wonderful.

2984
02:23:35,846 --> 02:23:40,013
Folks can set up earlier
check-ins if they do arrive early.

2985
02:23:40,013 --> 02:23:43,440
Our first required event

2986
02:23:43,440 --> 02:23:45,360
is starting on that Tuesday the 15th

2987
02:23:45,360 --> 02:23:47,340
where they're officially
checking in with us

2988
02:23:47,340 --> 02:23:49,080
and that's really the kick, excuse me,

2989
02:23:49,080 --> 02:23:50,643
the kickoff to orientation.

2990
02:23:51,870 --> 02:23:54,270
So it really will vary what to expect.

2991
02:23:54,270 --> 02:23:57,240
But if students arrive early,

2992
02:23:57,240 --> 02:24:01,140
they do have the opportunity
to contact us, check in.

2993
02:24:01,140 --> 02:24:02,610
We're happy to sit down
and meet with them,

2994
02:24:02,610 --> 02:24:03,483
give them some materials

2995
02:24:03,483 --> 02:24:06,088
kinda before orientation actually starts

2996
02:24:06,088 --> 02:24:10,623
just in case they need a
little support for settling in.

2997
02:24:11,490 --> 02:24:14,248
But we really seen a lot of folks arriving

2998
02:24:14,248 --> 02:24:15,870
kind of in early August

2999
02:24:15,870 --> 02:24:18,014
and so by the time we're
officially meeting with them,

3000
02:24:18,014 --> 02:24:20,553
they may have been here
already for a week or two.

3001
02:24:22,560 --> 02:24:24,539
So yeah, it does depend,

3002
02:24:24,539 --> 02:24:27,900
but Tuesday the 15th is our check-in.

3003
02:24:27,900 --> 02:24:30,674
We'll have a big welcome
event that's required.

3004
02:24:30,674 --> 02:24:33,390
Some of the sessions during
orientation are optional

3005
02:24:33,390 --> 02:24:34,910
and a lot of those are
the more of the social

3006
02:24:34,910 --> 02:24:37,890
kind of connection building events.

3007
02:24:37,890 --> 02:24:39,841
But during our required events,

3008
02:24:39,841 --> 02:24:41,910
that first one is our welcome session

3009
02:24:41,910 --> 02:24:43,830
where everyone will be in the same room,

3010
02:24:43,830 --> 02:24:46,290
they'll all have a chance to
kinda introduce themselves,

3011
02:24:46,290 --> 02:24:47,520
get to know one another a little bit,

3012
02:24:47,520 --> 02:24:49,980
and then get to know us as well.

3013
02:24:49,980 --> 02:24:51,600
So that's really the first time

3014
02:24:51,600 --> 02:24:52,740
at least that would be required

3015
02:24:52,740 --> 02:24:54,483
where everyone would be together.

3016
02:24:55,860 --> 02:24:56,693
Yeah.

3017
02:24:56,693 --> 02:24:57,600
Thank you very much.

3018
02:24:57,600 --> 02:24:59,670
And I know you did talk about this,

3019
02:24:59,670 --> 02:25:03,870
but I know I'm not a
hundred percent clear.

3020
02:25:03,870 --> 02:25:07,740
At what point do each of the students,

3021
02:25:07,740 --> 02:25:11,460
we have a lot of international
students joining us today

3022
02:25:11,460 --> 02:25:14,650
start to work with you on the immigration

3023
02:25:16,140 --> 02:25:18,480
in the visa paperwork.

3024
02:25:18,480 --> 02:25:20,680
So does each person,

3025
02:25:24,220 --> 02:25:27,087
'cause I'm not seeing any
specific questions in the Q&A

3026
02:25:28,080 --> 02:25:30,510
But I'm assuming does each person know

3027
02:25:30,510 --> 02:25:33,400
in the International
Student Service Office

3028
02:25:35,441 --> 02:25:37,983
who they need to reach
out to in your office?

3029
02:25:39,480 --> 02:25:41,303
Yeah, it's a great, great question.

3030
02:25:43,440 --> 02:25:46,650
My understanding is that
they first will confirm

3031
02:25:46,650 --> 02:25:48,988
their intent to enroll
with the graduate college.

3032
02:25:48,988 --> 02:25:53,988
Our office will not know
that they have been accepted

3033
02:25:54,180 --> 02:25:56,010
to UVM until that point.

3034
02:25:56,010 --> 02:25:59,250
So we really are removed
from that at the point

3035
02:25:59,250 --> 02:26:01,860
that they confirm their
intent to enroll the students,

3036
02:26:01,860 --> 02:26:06,660
it'll sync with our system
usually a day or two later.

3037
02:26:06,660 --> 02:26:09,210
So it's not immediate,
but a day or two later,

3038
02:26:09,210 --> 02:26:10,721
whenever that syncs into our system,

3039
02:26:10,721 --> 02:26:15,498
it automatically triggers an
email to go out to that student

3040
02:26:15,498 --> 02:26:18,667
with instructions to either say,

3041
02:26:18,667 --> 02:26:20,100
"Hey, it's time to request

3042
02:26:20,100 --> 02:26:21,850
your new student immigration document."

3043
02:26:21,850 --> 02:26:23,640
Or sometimes we have students

3044
02:26:23,640 --> 02:26:25,280
that may already have an existing status

3045
02:26:25,280 --> 02:26:27,930
so we give them an opportunity to tell us

3046
02:26:27,930 --> 02:26:30,480
what that might be in
upload documentation.

3047
02:26:30,480 --> 02:26:33,960
So they will not hear from us
and we are really not involved

3048
02:26:33,960 --> 02:26:37,166
until after they've confirmed
that they're coming to UVM.

3049
02:26:37,166 --> 02:26:38,250
At which point,

3050
02:26:38,250 --> 02:26:40,800
yeah they'll start getting
communications from us

3051
02:26:40,800 --> 02:26:45,000
and we will issue an immigration document

3052
02:26:45,000 --> 02:26:48,240
typically within five business
days of getting that request.

3053
02:26:48,240 --> 02:26:49,680
So it's a pretty quick turnaround

3054
02:26:49,680 --> 02:26:51,573
once we have everything we need.

3055
02:26:52,650 --> 02:26:54,630
Occasionally we may go back and forth

3056
02:26:54,630 --> 02:26:55,770
a little bit with a student.

3057
02:26:55,770 --> 02:26:56,850
So for example,

3058
02:26:56,850 --> 02:27:00,510
sometimes they may upload the
wrong funding documentation

3059
02:27:00,510 --> 02:27:01,343
or something like that.

3060
02:27:01,343 --> 02:27:03,300
Maybe it's a student with
a graduate assistantship

3061
02:27:03,300 --> 02:27:05,790
but they didn't upload that
letter, whatever it might be.

3062
02:27:05,790 --> 02:27:08,880
So we may go back and forth a little bit.

3063
02:27:08,880 --> 02:27:09,990
But if everything looks good,

3064
02:27:09,990 --> 02:27:12,087
we get alerted when that
submission is complete

3065
02:27:12,087 --> 02:27:13,830
so we know that it's there

3066
02:27:13,830 --> 02:27:16,413
and we'll process that
within about a week or so.

3067
02:27:17,340 --> 02:27:19,493
And yeah, the student will be notified,

3068
02:27:19,493 --> 02:27:22,170
they will get that immigration document

3069
02:27:22,170 --> 02:27:25,230
and they can use the information
that's listed on that

3070
02:27:25,230 --> 02:27:30,183
to start moving forward with
the visa application process.

3071
02:27:31,440 --> 02:27:33,791
Fantastic, thank you.

3072
02:27:33,791 --> 02:27:35,610
That is so helpful.

3073
02:27:35,610 --> 02:27:38,163
I'm still not seeing any Q&As.

3074
02:27:39,030 --> 02:27:44,030
If there's any question
that anybody has for Sarah,

3075
02:27:44,280 --> 02:27:48,567
please feel free to publish that right now

3076
02:27:48,567 --> 02:27:50,700
and we'll answer it live.

3077
02:27:50,700 --> 02:27:52,740
And assuming Sarah,

3078
02:27:52,740 --> 02:27:55,649
that if somebody has
a question afterwards,

3079
02:27:55,649 --> 02:27:57,270
you'd be willing to get an email

3080
02:27:57,270 --> 02:27:58,763
and get back to somebody?

3081
02:27:58,763 --> 02:28:00,420
[Sarah] Absolutely yeah.

3082
02:28:00,420 --> 02:28:02,250
And I think probably the best contact

3083
02:28:02,250 --> 02:28:04,539
is just our general email account,

3084
02:28:04,539 --> 02:28:09,539
which is internationalstudents@uvm.edu,
no punctuation.

3085
02:28:09,540 --> 02:28:11,280
So pretty simple.

3086
02:28:11,280 --> 02:28:14,603
And the reason I say that
is all three of the advisors

3087
02:28:14,603 --> 02:28:16,227
that are working right now will see that

3088
02:28:16,227 --> 02:28:18,260
and so that's the fastest
way to get a response

3089
02:28:18,260 --> 02:28:19,953
is to use that general account.

3090
02:28:21,030 --> 02:28:22,860
Certainly it's fine if I
get an email personally

3091
02:28:22,860 --> 02:28:24,960
but it might take me a little
bit longer to get back to you.

3092
02:28:24,960 --> 02:28:26,370
So I think generally the best bet

3093
02:28:26,370 --> 02:28:30,840
is to email that
internationalstudents@uvm.edu email.

3094
02:28:30,840 --> 02:28:34,800
And once you get that first
communication from our office,

3095
02:28:34,800 --> 02:28:35,730
you will have our email.

3096
02:28:35,730 --> 02:28:37,702
So you can always reply to that as well.

3097
02:28:37,702 --> 02:28:40,230
But you can also find us online

3098
02:28:40,230 --> 02:28:41,820
if you are looking for contact info

3099
02:28:41,820 --> 02:28:43,533
just on our regular webpage.

3100
02:28:45,420 --> 02:28:49,200
And it does look like
we have a question here.

3101
02:28:49,200 --> 02:28:52,380
Somebody has an interview next week

3102
02:28:52,380 --> 02:28:54,750
and do we have any suggestions

3103
02:28:54,750 --> 02:28:56,190
about things we should pay attention to

3104
02:28:56,190 --> 02:28:58,830
before the interview?

3105
02:28:58,830 --> 02:29:00,210
Yeah, well that's wonderful.

3106
02:29:00,210 --> 02:29:01,500
They have an appointment already.

3107
02:29:01,500 --> 02:29:03,600
I'm very excited to hear that.

3108
02:29:03,600 --> 02:29:05,382
So yeah.

3109
02:29:05,382 --> 02:29:08,010
I think my best advice is to check out

3110
02:29:08,010 --> 02:29:13,010
our visa application
web page on our website.

3111
02:29:13,290 --> 02:29:15,180
So we offer a lot of good guidance there

3112
02:29:15,180 --> 02:29:16,770
and I can actually pull it up right now

3113
02:29:16,770 --> 02:29:18,940
just to give you the correct new URL.

3114
02:29:22,830 --> 02:29:24,273
It is just, yeah.

3115
02:29:29,490 --> 02:29:33,630
The page is just titled
applying for your F1 or J1 visa.

3116
02:29:33,630 --> 02:29:36,240
It's under the main
immigration tab of our website.

3117
02:29:36,240 --> 02:29:38,490
So certainly you can pull that up.

3118
02:29:38,490 --> 02:29:43,490
But we go through the basic
rundown of what it looks like

3119
02:29:44,430 --> 02:29:47,610
to apply for your F1 or J1 visa

3120
02:29:47,610 --> 02:29:51,131
depending on your
situation that will vary.

3121
02:29:51,131 --> 02:29:53,700
We can help determine that
for you though at the point

3122
02:29:53,700 --> 02:29:56,550
that you're filling out that
paperwork for us online.

3123
02:29:56,550 --> 02:29:59,550
In most cases international
students that will be joining us

3124
02:30:00,480 --> 02:30:04,110
for graduate programs will
be coming as an F1 student.

3125
02:30:04,110 --> 02:30:06,600
That can vary depending on
different factors like funding,

3126
02:30:06,600 --> 02:30:08,100
but again, you'll learn more about that

3127
02:30:08,100 --> 02:30:10,593
when you fill out your
paperwork through iStart.

3128
02:30:11,610 --> 02:30:14,670
But on this webpage about
applying for your visa,

3129
02:30:14,670 --> 02:30:16,590
we kinda lay out the steps of,

3130
02:30:16,590 --> 02:30:19,620
first get your immigration
document which we talked about.

3131
02:30:19,620 --> 02:30:20,453
Paying a CVAs fee.

3132
02:30:20,453 --> 02:30:22,110
So it sounds like this
person already did that

3133
02:30:22,110 --> 02:30:23,610
because they have their appointment,

3134
02:30:23,610 --> 02:30:25,590
they completed their DS-160.

3135
02:30:25,590 --> 02:30:27,390
We kinda lay out these steps here

3136
02:30:27,390 --> 02:30:29,520
under we have a step called schedule

3137
02:30:29,520 --> 02:30:31,380
and prepare for your interview

3138
02:30:31,380 --> 02:30:33,390
and there is some helpful information

3139
02:30:33,390 --> 02:30:36,990
about kinda some of the
questions you might expect to get

3140
02:30:36,990 --> 02:30:38,160
at that interview.

3141
02:30:38,160 --> 02:30:40,440
I will say they're
typically extremely quick,

3142
02:30:40,440 --> 02:30:42,330
they're like two minutes,

3143
02:30:42,330 --> 02:30:44,730
and the officer will ask
you some quick questions

3144
02:30:44,730 --> 02:30:46,680
and you give them the documentation.

3145
02:30:46,680 --> 02:30:49,590
There's no dilly-dallying,
it's like vary to the point.

3146
02:30:49,590 --> 02:30:50,760
So just kinda being prepared

3147
02:30:50,760 --> 02:30:54,990
to answer honestly,
accurately and briefly.

3148
02:30:54,990 --> 02:30:57,390
They don't want your life story.

3149
02:30:57,390 --> 02:31:00,030
And so there is a common
list of optimists to prepare

3150
02:31:00,030 --> 02:31:01,127
that's listed on our website.

3151
02:31:01,127 --> 02:31:03,390
It's a pretty long list so
I won't go through them,

3152
02:31:03,390 --> 02:31:06,930
but please do take advantage of this page.

3153
02:31:06,930 --> 02:31:10,290
And then we do have a section
on attending the interview

3154
02:31:10,290 --> 02:31:12,479
and some tips for that.

3155
02:31:12,479 --> 02:31:14,550
And so let's see if I touched on them.

3156
02:31:14,550 --> 02:31:17,880
So yeah, answer questions
clearly, briefly speak honestly,

3157
02:31:17,880 --> 02:31:20,910
politely maintain a positive attitude,

3158
02:31:20,910 --> 02:31:23,190
be ready to explain how your time at UVM

3159
02:31:23,190 --> 02:31:25,410
fits your academic and career goals.

3160
02:31:25,410 --> 02:31:27,630
I think that's an important one.

3161
02:31:27,630 --> 02:31:30,330
And then if you don't
understand a question

3162
02:31:30,330 --> 02:31:33,240
I think it's best just
to name that right away

3163
02:31:33,240 --> 02:31:35,280
and say, "Can you please
repeat that question."

3164
02:31:35,280 --> 02:31:37,650
Instead of kinda doing
a little bit of rambling

3165
02:31:37,650 --> 02:31:38,483
trying to figure it out.

3166
02:31:38,483 --> 02:31:41,973
I think it's best if you just
sort of directly address that.

3167
02:31:43,050 --> 02:31:44,370
So please do check that out.

3168
02:31:44,370 --> 02:31:47,040
But I'm thrilled to hear that already have

3169
02:31:47,040 --> 02:31:48,990
an appointment scheduled, that's great.

3170
02:31:50,370 --> 02:31:51,990
Well Sarah, thank you so much

3171
02:31:51,990 --> 02:31:53,520
for spending the time with us.

3172
02:31:53,520 --> 02:31:57,060
That was really very informative.

3173
02:31:57,060 --> 02:31:57,893
[Sarah] Great.

3174
02:31:57,893 --> 02:32:00,130
And yeah and I appreciate your willingness

3175
02:32:01,470 --> 02:32:04,020
yet to for that general sort of reach out

3176
02:32:04,020 --> 02:32:06,400
and certainly if anybody has any trouble

3177
02:32:07,350 --> 02:32:10,440
reaching international student services

3178
02:32:10,440 --> 02:32:12,570
they can certainly also.

3179
02:32:12,570 --> 02:32:14,502
I'd be very happy to help
make that connection.

3180
02:32:14,502 --> 02:32:16,080
[Sarah] Yeah, wonderful.

3181
02:32:16,080 --> 02:32:17,850
Great, well yeah, thank
you so much for having us.

3182
02:32:17,850 --> 02:32:20,400
Yeah, take care.

3183
02:32:20,400 --> 02:32:22,043
-Bye everyone.
-Have a good day.

3184
02:32:23,460 --> 02:32:27,300
So for the rest of our time together today

3185
02:32:27,300 --> 02:32:31,320
we have some virtual
tours of our facilities.

3186
02:32:31,320 --> 02:32:33,783
We have really a STEM complex,

3187
02:32:34,650 --> 02:32:39,183
three main buildings, Votey,
Discovery and Innovation.

3188
02:32:42,420 --> 02:32:45,210
We've got some folks who
are just gonna give you

3189
02:32:45,210 --> 02:32:48,630
a quick tour of what those facilities are,

3190
02:32:48,630 --> 02:32:51,483
even though it's a little
bit hard virtually.

3191
02:32:52,320 --> 02:32:56,340
Then around 12:45 there will be a break

3192
02:32:56,340 --> 02:33:01,340
and then really our time together will end

3193
02:33:02,580 --> 02:33:07,580
because several of you,
either that ends your day

3194
02:33:08,250 --> 02:33:11,280
or you might have some
academic advisor meetings

3195
02:33:11,280 --> 02:33:12,930
that you've set up.

3196
02:33:12,930 --> 02:33:15,450
Don't worry if you
haven't set up a meeting

3197
02:33:15,450 --> 02:33:17,280
with your academic advisor.

3198
02:33:17,280 --> 02:33:20,010
I think you heard today that
the graduate program directors,

3199
02:33:20,010 --> 02:33:21,480
if you don't have an advisor yet

3200
02:33:21,480 --> 02:33:24,327
or need to speak with somebody,

3201
02:33:24,327 --> 02:33:27,030
I'm very happy to help facilitate that.

3202
02:33:27,030 --> 02:33:30,090
So just 'cause it might
not be happening today

3203
02:33:30,090 --> 02:33:31,893
is no worry at all.

3204
02:33:32,940 --> 02:33:37,170
You can certainly set up
another time in the near future

3205
02:33:37,170 --> 02:33:38,103
to talk with them.

3206
02:33:40,740 --> 02:33:44,310
So we'll go on our
tours and then you take,

3207
02:33:44,310 --> 02:33:45,540
hopefully you'll have a little bit of time

3208
02:33:45,540 --> 02:33:47,778
to take a little break
and then it will be time

3209
02:33:47,778 --> 02:33:51,660
to meet with your advisors.

3210
02:33:51,660 --> 02:33:55,320
So here is, I'm gonna
introduce Jamie Catalan

3211
02:33:55,320 --> 02:33:57,840
who's our lab manager in Votey.

3212
02:33:57,840 --> 02:33:58,950
And he's gonna start us off

3213
02:33:58,950 --> 02:34:01,860
by taking us through really
the engineering building

3214
02:34:01,860 --> 02:34:03,000
in the engineering labs.

3215
02:34:03,000 --> 02:34:04,053
So thank you.

3216
02:34:04,890 --> 02:34:06,033
Here you go Jamie.

3217
02:34:14,850 --> 02:34:17,130
[Man] Gotta unmute, you got It.

3218
02:34:17,130 --> 02:34:20,340
Hi everyone, I'm Jamie,
I'm the STEM lab manager.

3219
02:34:20,340 --> 02:34:22,290
If you have questions you
can type them in the chat

3220
02:34:22,290 --> 02:34:25,387
or just speak out loud and
we'll try and answer them.

3221
02:34:25,387 --> 02:34:27,810
I'm gonna go through Votey Hall.

3222
02:34:27,810 --> 02:34:30,210
Votey has the majority of
our engineering departments

3223
02:34:30,210 --> 02:34:33,870
and engineering labs including
teaching and research labs.

3224
02:34:33,870 --> 02:34:36,783
We'll kinda walk up and down
and go through some labs.

3225
02:34:37,650 --> 02:34:40,350
Right now we're in the
materials and structures lab.

3226
02:34:40,350 --> 02:34:42,690
This lab's primarily
used by civil engineering

3227
02:34:42,690 --> 02:34:44,580
as a teaching lab,

3228
02:34:44,580 --> 02:34:45,960
but as with most of our teaching labs,

3229
02:34:45,960 --> 02:34:47,580
a lot of the equipment in here

3230
02:34:47,580 --> 02:34:50,190
is used by research faculty as well.

3231
02:34:50,190 --> 02:34:52,020
So here we have like an introduction

3232
02:34:52,020 --> 02:34:54,033
to structures for students.

3233
02:34:54,870 --> 02:34:58,560
We have concrete crusher, some
ovens for heating materials,

3234
02:34:58,560 --> 02:35:01,950
thermal chamber, (indistinct)
which is oldest piece

3235
02:35:01,950 --> 02:35:03,870
of testing equipment in college.

3236
02:35:03,870 --> 02:35:05,730
new tensile compression tests

3237
02:35:05,730 --> 02:35:08,973
and then a large reaction
frame for larger scale testing.

3238
02:35:17,940 --> 02:35:19,290
So a lot of the first floor

3239
02:35:19,290 --> 02:35:22,350
is devoted to civil engineering labs,

3240
02:35:22,350 --> 02:35:23,703
some of the bigger labs.

3241
02:35:24,900 --> 02:35:28,500
This building was mostly
renovated about six years ago

3242
02:35:28,500 --> 02:35:31,110
when the STEM complex
was also constructed.

3243
02:35:31,110 --> 02:35:34,800
So a lot of the labs have
been recently refurbished.

3244
02:35:34,800 --> 02:35:36,450
This is our student club space,

3245
02:35:36,450 --> 02:35:37,920
which is mainly undergraduate

3246
02:35:37,920 --> 02:35:39,900
but it's a cool space for the undergrads.

3247
02:35:39,900 --> 02:35:41,880
There's the arrow vehicle in there

3248
02:35:41,880 --> 02:35:43,413
which they design and build.

3249
02:35:47,490 --> 02:35:52,490
Walk in on my right here
is our senior design space

3250
02:35:52,980 --> 02:35:57,210
for mechanical, electrical
and biomedical engineers.

3251
02:35:57,210 --> 02:35:58,470
So you might TA in here

3252
02:35:58,470 --> 02:36:00,690
but you wouldn't actually
be taking a class

3253
02:36:00,690 --> 02:36:03,390
but that's just where our
senior design students work.

3254
02:36:05,430 --> 02:36:08,970
On my left here is our machine shop.

3255
02:36:08,970 --> 02:36:10,080
Machine shop is used

3256
02:36:10,080 --> 02:36:12,840
for an intro mechanical engineering class,

3257
02:36:12,840 --> 02:36:15,630
which is available to
other students as well.

3258
02:36:15,630 --> 02:36:18,540
We have things like mills,
lays, drill presses,

3259
02:36:18,540 --> 02:36:23,490
saws and water jet and one
CNC that our machinists used.

3260
02:36:23,490 --> 02:36:25,470
So in addition to teaching classes,

3261
02:36:25,470 --> 02:36:29,250
our machine shops supports
teaching and research labs.

3262
02:36:29,250 --> 02:36:31,230
Floyd and I work together
on a lot of projects,

3263
02:36:31,230 --> 02:36:34,350
designing and building specific equipment

3264
02:36:34,350 --> 02:36:35,823
that you can't buy elsewhere.

3265
02:36:36,840 --> 02:36:38,913
Manufacturing things needed for testing.

3266
02:36:49,110 --> 02:36:52,593
Our left, this is a geo
tech lab, civil engineering.

3267
02:37:00,540 --> 02:37:03,477
So this space again is used for
undergraduate teaching labs.

3268
02:37:03,477 --> 02:37:06,780
But we also have spaces that
are used by researchers.

3269
02:37:06,780 --> 02:37:09,840
So we have a mixing area back here

3270
02:37:09,840 --> 02:37:12,600
which we use for concrete mixing

3271
02:37:12,600 --> 02:37:14,400
and it can get dirty and
we don't care about it.

3272
02:37:14,400 --> 02:37:15,840
It's easier to clean up.

3273
02:37:15,840 --> 02:37:17,250
And then we also have a Darwin Chamber

3274
02:37:17,250 --> 02:37:19,980
which controls temperature and humidity.

3275
02:37:19,980 --> 02:37:23,310
So we're able to properly
cure concrete specimens

3276
02:37:23,310 --> 02:37:27,033
for classes or a lot of faculty
do research on concrete.

3277
02:37:46,620 --> 02:37:51,620
Here this is the
hydraulics and fluids lab.

3278
02:37:53,160 --> 02:37:56,820
It's shared between mechanical
and civil engineering.

3279
02:37:56,820 --> 02:38:00,390
So mechanical has a pipe flow
apparatus and wind tunnel.

3280
02:38:00,390 --> 02:38:04,480
And then civil does variety
of bench top experiments

3281
02:38:05,640 --> 02:38:06,540
for hydraulics.

3282
02:38:06,540 --> 02:38:08,700
And then they also have a large

3283
02:38:08,700 --> 02:38:10,653
recirculating plume in the back.

3284
02:38:12,120 --> 02:38:13,410
There's a undergraduate

3285
02:38:13,410 --> 02:38:15,877
I mean, teaching lab going
on in there right now.

3286
02:38:18,111 --> 02:38:19,778
We'll head upstairs.

3287
02:38:46,200 --> 02:38:48,900
Second floor has variety

3288
02:38:48,900 --> 02:38:52,140
of our wet and biological research labs.

3289
02:38:52,140 --> 02:38:53,730
We also have other spaces,

3290
02:38:53,730 --> 02:38:58,173
this is a large capstone space
used by civil engineering.

3291
02:39:02,250 --> 02:39:06,090
They're able to work
collaboratively in that space.

3292
02:39:06,090 --> 02:39:08,850
There is a printer for
printing out large plots

3293
02:39:08,850 --> 02:39:11,460
and design drawings.

3294
02:39:11,460 --> 02:39:12,303
Good questions.

3295
02:39:15,090 --> 02:39:18,650
[Man] Second, maybe there's
a bubble on the Q&A.

3296
02:39:32,040 --> 02:39:33,963
[Man] No questions in the Q&A yet.

3297
02:39:48,450 --> 02:39:51,150
Right, this is part of
what we call our Fab Lab,

3298
02:39:51,150 --> 02:39:53,160
abrication Lab, we did a laser cutter

3299
02:39:53,160 --> 02:39:56,943
and a circuit bar soldering oven in there.

3300
02:39:59,970 --> 02:40:04,970
And then I left the rest of the Fab Lab

3301
02:40:05,460 --> 02:40:08,800
which has a variety of 3D printers

3302
02:40:09,660 --> 02:40:12,840
and some senior design
students working in there.

3303
02:40:12,840 --> 02:40:16,590
So this space is open to
anyone in the college.

3304
02:40:16,590 --> 02:40:19,620
You can send in tickets
to have things 3D printed

3305
02:40:19,620 --> 02:40:21,810
if it's for teaching or research project.

3306
02:40:21,810 --> 02:40:25,740
So I'll need something printed
out or design it myself

3307
02:40:25,740 --> 02:40:27,360
and send it in they print it out

3308
02:40:27,360 --> 02:40:28,470
or if you need help with design

3309
02:40:28,470 --> 02:40:30,893
then they have students
that help with that as well.

3310
02:40:36,120 --> 02:40:38,700
So there's a couple of
research labs on the inside,

3311
02:40:38,700 --> 02:40:41,700
we'll take a look in one of
them on the other side probably.

3312
02:40:46,920 --> 02:40:50,163
Briefly step into this
is our VME teaching lab.

3313
02:40:52,425 --> 02:40:53,775
So yeah we're doing a tour.

3314
02:40:55,170 --> 02:40:56,770
You wanna talk about some stuff.

3315
02:40:58,590 --> 02:41:00,150
Bring those to the chemistry park.

3316
02:41:00,150 --> 02:41:02,769
But otherwise I don't know
what did I talk about?

3317
02:41:02,769 --> 02:41:03,990
It's all right.

3318
02:41:03,990 --> 02:41:07,028
So this is used by an undergrad,

3319
02:41:07,028 --> 02:41:11,850
a couple undergrad VME labs
kind of introductory courses.

3320
02:41:11,850 --> 02:41:13,470
So we have a BSL lab,

3321
02:41:13,470 --> 02:41:16,860
biosafety lab in the back
with biosafety cabinets.

3322
02:41:16,860 --> 02:41:20,010
We have a tensile and
compression tester over here

3323
02:41:20,010 --> 02:41:24,180
and a plate reader just
donated by biotech,

3324
02:41:24,180 --> 02:41:27,450
which is a local local company

3325
02:41:27,450 --> 02:41:28,950
we have some connections with.

3326
02:41:50,232 --> 02:41:53,430
In the back here you'll see a sec.

3327
02:41:53,430 --> 02:41:56,583
Our ski test, ski safety testing lab.

3328
02:42:02,040 --> 02:42:05,970
So the equipment in there was
designed by some UVM grads

3329
02:42:05,970 --> 02:42:09,750
who started a company locally

3330
02:42:09,750 --> 02:42:11,610
and then they have since retired

3331
02:42:11,610 --> 02:42:13,710
and re donated the equipment back to UVM.

3332
02:42:13,710 --> 02:42:18,710
So that tests ski binding
releasing and ski flexer.

3333
02:42:18,870 --> 02:42:20,700
So there's a senior design group in there

3334
02:42:20,700 --> 02:42:23,430
working on getting some of
the equipment running again

3335
02:42:23,430 --> 02:42:27,993
and some more modern DAQ involved with it.

3336
02:42:29,378 --> 02:42:32,066
Look into to Dr. Doiron's lab.

3337
02:42:32,066 --> 02:42:35,430
She is a researcher in
biomedical engineering

3338
02:42:35,430 --> 02:42:37,083
working in nanoparticles.

3339
02:42:38,610 --> 02:42:41,460
One of her grad students is
working in the lab right now.

3340
02:42:45,150 --> 02:42:46,413
So one of these labs,

3341
02:42:47,940 --> 02:42:50,490
they're a dedicated labs
but they're connected

3342
02:42:50,490 --> 02:42:51,630
and so there's a lot of collaboration

3343
02:42:51,630 --> 02:42:53,730
even though there's mechanical,

3344
02:42:53,730 --> 02:42:56,580
environmental and biomedical engineering

3345
02:42:56,580 --> 02:42:58,920
all working closely together.

3346
02:42:58,920 --> 02:43:00,537
They're collaborating on research projects

3347
02:43:00,537 --> 02:43:02,487
and their students work together a lot.

3348
02:43:14,220 --> 02:43:17,250
Look into to Matt Scarper's lab.

3349
02:43:17,250 --> 02:43:21,723
Matt is a (indistinct)
environmental engineering.

3350
02:43:25,200 --> 02:43:26,038
Hello.

3351
02:43:26,038 --> 02:43:27,688
We're giving a tour (indistinct).

3352
02:43:30,960 --> 02:43:35,290
Matt does worked with biodigesters

3353
02:43:36,153 --> 02:43:40,470
and what we could harvest from our waste.

3354
02:43:40,470 --> 02:43:42,720
So there's back.

3355
02:43:42,720 --> 02:43:46,800
Here we have a couple of
his anerobic digesters.

3356
02:43:46,800 --> 02:43:50,067
So we feed them different effluent

3357
02:43:50,067 --> 02:43:53,163
and then he observes the
processes and what comes out.

3358
02:43:54,065 --> 02:43:57,817
A lot of analytical in the lab.

3359
02:44:10,410 --> 02:44:11,403
Stairs this way.

3360
02:44:48,360 --> 02:44:49,500
The third floor now.

3361
02:44:49,500 --> 02:44:51,270
Third floor has majority

3362
02:44:51,270 --> 02:44:53,490
of our electrical
engineering teaching labs

3363
02:44:53,490 --> 02:44:55,413
along with some research labs.

3364
02:44:57,240 --> 02:45:02,240
So we have a VME lab
that's looking at EEG caps

3365
02:45:03,480 --> 02:45:05,191
and work on sensing in the brain

3366
02:45:05,191 --> 02:45:08,643
when you introduce
different stimuli to people.

3367
02:45:09,870 --> 02:45:12,270
Jeff Froelich's lab, he's an EE.

3368
02:45:12,270 --> 02:45:15,633
Works on radio frequencies
transmission a lot.

3369
02:45:18,700 --> 02:45:20,070
We have an open lab

3370
02:45:20,070 --> 02:45:22,020
which is going to be renovated this summer

3371
02:45:22,020 --> 02:45:24,774
for Dr.Bernstein who's in VME

3372
02:45:24,774 --> 02:45:27,524
and works with microbiomes a lot.

3373
02:45:28,780 --> 02:45:30,930
Doing a lot of computational work

3374
02:45:30,930 --> 02:45:34,613
and then validating that
work within his research lab.

3375
02:45:35,767 --> 02:45:39,870
Dr. Shaw does a lot of work
with high performance circuits

3376
02:45:39,870 --> 02:45:42,300
and semiconductors he's involved with.

3377
02:45:42,300 --> 02:45:46,793
We're developing a semiconductor
certificate program

3378
02:45:46,793 --> 02:45:47,723
in the new labs, he's just
been really involved in that.

3379
02:45:54,510 --> 02:45:55,730
One of EV labs.

3380
02:46:04,920 --> 02:46:08,223
It's kind of a standard undergraduate lab.

3381
02:46:09,750 --> 02:46:13,479
Yeah, a lot of undergraduate
classes go through here

3382
02:46:13,479 --> 02:46:18,479
and a lot of EE grad students
are TAs for these classes.

3383
02:46:19,047 --> 02:46:21,360
So we have oscilloscopes, power supplies

3384
02:46:21,360 --> 02:46:24,393
and that kind of stuff for
basic circuit testing I guess.

3385
02:46:41,820 --> 02:46:44,153
That is the majority of the tour of Votey.

3386
02:46:46,016 --> 02:46:47,235
If anybody has any specific questions

3387
02:46:47,235 --> 02:46:51,600
about any of our facilities,
we gonna ask them.

3388
02:47:03,385 --> 02:47:04,533
(indistinct) off to.

3389
02:47:11,996 --> 02:47:15,140
[Jane] So this would be
kind of the last time

3390
02:47:15,140 --> 02:47:18,840
to ask some questions directly of Jamie,

3391
02:47:18,840 --> 02:47:20,670
our lab manager here

3392
02:47:20,670 --> 02:47:25,440
in the engineering part
of the building in Votey.

3393
02:47:25,440 --> 02:47:29,253
I don't see any questions coming through.

3394
02:47:33,810 --> 02:47:36,963
Okay, well then I think we'll pass it off.

3395
02:47:38,010 --> 02:47:39,123
Thank you very much.

3396
02:47:41,425 --> 02:47:42,258
Thank you.

3397
02:47:44,904 --> 02:47:45,987
Thanks a lot.

3398
02:47:47,400 --> 02:47:52,400
So we are next going to be
walking to our STEM complex,

3399
02:47:54,270 --> 02:47:58,620
which is two fairly new
and large buildings.

3400
02:47:58,620 --> 02:48:00,566
One is called Discovery,

3401
02:48:00,566 --> 02:48:02,790
the other is called Innovation

3402
02:48:02,790 --> 02:48:06,333
where we have math, stats,

3403
02:48:07,200 --> 02:48:11,730
complex systems, computer science,

3404
02:48:11,730 --> 02:48:15,090
physics and some of the chemistry

3405
02:48:15,090 --> 02:48:19,360
and biology and biochemistry
kinds of labs, lab spaces,

3406
02:48:22,200 --> 02:48:27,200
workspaces, faculty rooms,
classrooms, meeting rooms.

3407
02:48:27,780 --> 02:48:30,420
And I'm showing you
we're on sort of a bridge

3408
02:48:30,420 --> 02:48:34,203
from the third floor of Votey.

3409
02:48:36,360 --> 02:48:38,370
You're looking out ne right next to Votey,

3410
02:48:38,370 --> 02:48:41,460
which is, as I said, the
engineering building.

3411
02:48:41,460 --> 02:48:43,710
We are next to the business school

3412
02:48:43,710 --> 02:48:48,090
and directly across the
green, which is not green,

3413
02:48:48,090 --> 02:48:50,040
it's covered with snow right now

3414
02:48:50,040 --> 02:48:53,050
but is the Lerner College of Medicine

3415
02:48:53,999 --> 02:48:57,900
and some hospital facilities and things.

3416
02:48:57,900 --> 02:49:01,920
Somebody had asked a
question earlier in the day

3417
02:49:01,920 --> 02:49:04,950
about how close some of
the academic buildings are.

3418
02:49:04,950 --> 02:49:08,190
And you can see there's housing

3419
02:49:08,190 --> 02:49:12,513
which is an undergraduate
dorm which is fairly new,

3420
02:49:13,500 --> 02:49:15,570
is kind of right in the
middle of some things too.

3421
02:49:15,570 --> 02:49:18,256
But that's another building
that you're seeing.

3422
02:49:18,256 --> 02:49:23,256
I'm gonna go across on the
other side of the bridge here

3423
02:49:24,463 --> 02:49:29,250
and I can actually see down
to the lake, Lake Champlain

3424
02:49:29,250 --> 02:49:33,690
which is probably about a little
bit less than a mile away.

3425
02:49:33,690 --> 02:49:36,420
A downhill, we're at the top of the hill

3426
02:49:36,420 --> 02:49:39,118
but you see some of the old buildings

3427
02:49:39,118 --> 02:49:40,920
that UVM has on on campus

3428
02:49:40,920 --> 02:49:43,287
'cause we've been here
since I think it's 1791.

3429
02:49:45,193 --> 02:49:49,110
So you see a little bit of our Waterman

3430
02:49:49,110 --> 02:49:51,093
which is our administrative building.

3431
02:49:52,440 --> 02:49:54,361
And I'm meeting, you've already met him

3432
02:49:54,361 --> 02:49:59,123
but your friend and mine, Avi Chawla

3433
02:49:59,123 --> 02:50:02,220
who's going to speak to.

3434
02:50:02,220 --> 02:50:07,220
I'm gonna hold the the
camera and laptop as he.

3435
02:50:13,620 --> 02:50:16,170
Let me know if there's
like a particular part

3436
02:50:16,170 --> 02:50:17,848
of this building that you wanna explore.

3437
02:50:17,848 --> 02:50:19,320
Like if you're are on a department like

3438
02:50:19,320 --> 02:50:21,070
hey what's my department look like?

3439
02:50:22,200 --> 02:50:24,923
Think the ideal would be.

3440
02:50:25,920 --> 02:50:26,850
[Jane] Yeah we can see your,

3441
02:50:26,850 --> 02:50:28,950
any questions in chat so feel free

3442
02:50:28,950 --> 02:50:32,490
to keep asking questions if you have any.

3443
02:50:32,490 --> 02:50:34,190
So this is a brand new building.

3444
02:50:36,390 --> 02:50:38,748
I'll also have you hold
anything if you want.

3445
02:50:38,748 --> 02:50:39,770
[Jane] Oh, thanks.

3446
02:50:39,770 --> 02:50:40,603
Okay.

3447
02:50:40,603 --> 02:50:41,436
[Jane] No worries.

3448
02:50:41,436 --> 02:50:44,160
Of course I'm live but let me
just check make sure it says.

3449
02:50:44,160 --> 02:50:44,993
Okay, there we go.

3450
02:50:44,993 --> 02:50:46,380
Sweet all right.

3451
02:50:46,380 --> 02:50:48,180
This is the brand new building,

3452
02:50:48,180 --> 02:50:49,800
this building is divided in two parts.

3453
02:50:49,800 --> 02:50:51,990
Innovation and Discovery.

3454
02:50:51,990 --> 02:50:53,327
I really don't look the
difference between the two

3455
02:50:53,327 --> 02:50:55,320
if I'm being honest with you

3456
02:50:55,320 --> 02:50:57,210
but I think some of the departments

3457
02:50:57,210 --> 02:50:58,620
are in the Discovery side

3458
02:50:58,620 --> 02:51:01,290
and some of the departments
are in the Innovation side.

3459
02:51:01,290 --> 02:51:02,970
And they have a different color scheme.

3460
02:51:02,970 --> 02:51:03,803
Super scheme.

3461
02:51:03,803 --> 02:51:06,210
[Jane] I will say the city of Burlington

3462
02:51:06,210 --> 02:51:07,500
considers it one building.

3463
02:51:07,500 --> 02:51:08,333
There you go.

3464
02:51:08,333 --> 02:51:09,690
[Jane] But we consider it two.

3465
02:51:09,690 --> 02:51:12,290
City of Burlington and I
consider it one building.

3466
02:51:13,770 --> 02:51:15,330
So this is the chemistry area.

3467
02:51:15,330 --> 02:51:18,810
So we've got labs on the left and right.

3468
02:51:18,810 --> 02:51:20,880
So if you are joining
the chemistry department,

3469
02:51:20,880 --> 02:51:23,230
this is most likely where
study your own thing.

3470
02:51:26,360 --> 02:51:28,171
One thing about this building

3471
02:51:28,171 --> 02:51:29,880
is it has a lot of lounge space.

3472
02:51:29,880 --> 02:51:32,950
So a lot of undergrad graduate student.

3473
02:51:37,509 --> 02:51:40,426
So like its like a simple hall way.

3474
02:51:41,400 --> 02:51:43,143
A lot of lounge space.

3475
02:51:46,590 --> 02:51:48,723
Enough for everyone to sit down onward.

3476
02:51:49,590 --> 02:51:52,080
So we are on the second floor right now.

3477
02:51:52,080 --> 02:51:54,600
My goal is to go down to the post door,

3478
02:51:54,600 --> 02:51:57,140
see the lounge space of the post door

3479
02:51:57,140 --> 02:51:59,103
and then go current forward.

3480
02:52:00,990 --> 02:52:02,340
I'm going bias you at the fourth

3481
02:52:02,340 --> 02:52:03,814
because that's where the
complex system is (indistinct).

3482
02:52:03,814 --> 02:52:06,231
(indistinct)

3483
02:52:08,880 --> 02:52:10,980
We have some boots there sometimes

3484
02:52:10,980 --> 02:52:13,534
like companies such as they come join us.

3485
02:52:13,534 --> 02:52:15,693
They wanted create some ceilings.

3486
02:52:20,520 --> 02:52:23,572
And the best part I feel
everyone possibly will be like

3487
02:52:23,572 --> 02:52:26,137
a lot of the (indistinct) around.

3488
02:52:26,137 --> 02:52:28,327
Like for example that little thing

3489
02:52:28,327 --> 02:52:30,780
that does way motion stuff

3490
02:52:30,780 --> 02:52:33,230
it's been a while since
I did physics so I don't.

3491
02:52:35,354 --> 02:52:38,280
[Jane] I'm seeing it,
there we go, a little.

3492
02:52:38,280 --> 02:52:39,360
I'm not great with the camera.

3493
02:52:39,360 --> 02:52:40,886
Everybody so sorry about that.

3494
02:52:40,886 --> 02:52:42,180
(Jane laughs)

3495
02:52:42,180 --> 02:52:43,753
Oh, yes, thank you Avi.

3496
02:52:43,753 --> 02:52:45,204
All right there you go, okay.

3497
02:52:45,204 --> 02:52:46,436
[Jane] Much better.

3498
02:52:46,436 --> 02:52:51,050
Awesome, yeah that's (indistinct).

3499
02:52:51,050 --> 02:52:54,070
So that's a Discovery
side on the patient side

3500
02:52:55,893 --> 02:52:59,970
and it's just like a lot of
big hallways and lounge around.

3501
02:52:59,970 --> 02:53:01,980
So let's now go to the third floor.

3502
02:53:01,980 --> 02:53:04,110
I'm gonna, let's take
the stairs over there.

3503
02:53:04,110 --> 02:53:06,393
There's multiple elevators here.

3504
02:53:07,395 --> 02:53:10,500
(indistinct) space.

3505
02:53:10,500 --> 02:53:13,676
For one thing is that the
elevators are too slow.

3506
02:53:13,676 --> 02:53:15,270
(Jane laughs)

3507
02:53:15,270 --> 02:53:17,970
And I was told that that's by design

3508
02:53:17,970 --> 02:53:19,920
'cause they want me to take the stairs.

3509
02:53:21,180 --> 02:53:23,433
It really works like it's incredibly slow.

3510
02:53:24,480 --> 02:53:29,326
You don't wanna be taking them.

3511
02:53:29,326 --> 02:53:30,870
Nothing exciting about the stairs.

3512
02:53:30,870 --> 02:53:33,101
(Jane laughs)

3513
02:53:33,101 --> 02:53:36,254
(indistinct) also I
think physics department

3514
02:53:36,254 --> 02:53:38,235
on the (indistinct) second floor.

3515
02:53:38,235 --> 02:53:41,305
(indistinct)

3516
02:53:41,305 --> 02:53:46,055
So if you like physics and want
to step in quickly let know.

3517
02:53:47,057 --> 02:53:50,254
[Jane] Avi is much faster
than I am going up the stairs.

3518
02:53:50,254 --> 02:53:51,289
(indistinct)

3519
02:53:51,289 --> 02:53:55,718
[Jane] No, no, I'm good, thank you.

3520
02:53:55,718 --> 02:54:00,718
So (indistinct) computer
science department.

3521
02:54:08,689 --> 02:54:12,588
(indistinct) lounging
around people are working.

3522
02:54:12,588 --> 02:54:13,680
(indistinct) get the new addition

3523
02:54:13,680 --> 02:54:16,119
I didn't know when they added that.

3524
02:54:16,119 --> 02:54:21,119
But yeah so that side
over there is Discovery.

3525
02:54:28,285 --> 02:54:33,285
Oh, check the offices, (indistinct).

3526
02:54:42,807 --> 02:54:45,753
This is like where the offices are.

3527
02:54:45,753 --> 02:54:46,932
(indistinct) by or is it good?

3528
02:54:46,932 --> 02:54:47,765
[Jane] It's good.

3529
02:54:47,765 --> 02:54:52,765
Okay, well our computers (indistinct) are.

3530
02:55:01,556 --> 02:55:03,750
And of course like people
like to work and collaborate.

3531
02:55:03,750 --> 02:55:06,900
So if you probably can
see like a bunch of notes

3532
02:55:06,900 --> 02:55:08,163
on the glass windows.

3533
02:55:10,530 --> 02:55:14,220
It's a testament to the
work we do and our insanity.

3534
02:55:14,220 --> 02:55:15,783
We cannot find the washroom.

3535
02:55:15,783 --> 02:55:18,360
(Jane laughs)

3536
02:55:18,360 --> 02:55:19,193
All right.

3537
02:55:19,193 --> 02:55:20,026
Thank you.

3538
02:55:20,026 --> 02:55:21,660
So now we go to my favorite floor,

3539
02:55:21,660 --> 02:55:23,010
the Complex Systems Center.

3540
02:55:29,370 --> 02:55:31,710
And here make it explore
like what the classes

3541
02:55:31,710 --> 02:55:33,510
also look like, what the rooms look like.

3542
02:55:33,510 --> 02:55:35,710
'Cause I have a much
better access to those.

3543
02:55:38,073 --> 02:55:40,080
So as soon as you open

3544
02:55:40,080 --> 02:55:43,710
you get to the Vermont Complex
Systems surveillance room .

3545
02:55:43,710 --> 02:55:47,670
We are big on branding and
in cool little stickers.

3546
02:55:47,670 --> 02:55:49,727
So like if you see these walls,

3547
02:55:49,727 --> 02:55:51,840
one of the illustrators
from our department,

3548
02:55:51,840 --> 02:55:55,263
so these are all the professor
complex system centers.

3549
02:55:56,820 --> 02:55:57,653
It's really cool.

3550
02:55:57,653 --> 02:55:59,202
We have all our little personas.

3551
02:56:00,090 --> 02:56:01,500
Recently we got some sketches done

3552
02:56:01,500 --> 02:56:03,690
for all the grad students as well.

3553
02:56:03,690 --> 02:56:05,273
So all of the students of grad.

3554
02:56:05,273 --> 02:56:09,093
We have a lot of cool stickers, few.

3555
02:56:11,010 --> 02:56:12,971
I'm really just starting to (indistinct).

3556
02:56:12,971 --> 02:56:14,670
(Jane laughs)

3557
02:56:14,670 --> 02:56:15,632
[Jane] Shamelessly.

3558
02:56:15,632 --> 02:56:16,466
Shamelessly.

3559
02:56:16,466 --> 02:56:18,199
Yeah, so this is where like

3560
02:56:18,199 --> 02:56:20,540
again, if you're in complex
center, computer science

3561
02:56:20,540 --> 02:56:21,717
this is where you be working from.

3562
02:56:21,717 --> 02:56:24,420
We have like a lot of
people already working.

3563
02:56:24,420 --> 02:56:26,070
I gonna show some of the offices.

3564
02:56:31,598 --> 02:56:33,419
(indistinct) the graduate student at UVM.

3565
02:56:33,419 --> 02:56:36,480
(indistinct) most of them
are assign a desk like this

3566
02:56:36,480 --> 02:56:37,313
and these are my friends.

3567
02:56:37,313 --> 02:56:38,728
That's my roommate over there.

3568
02:56:38,728 --> 02:56:39,561
(Jane laughs)

3569
02:56:39,561 --> 02:56:40,890
(indistinct)

3570
02:56:40,890 --> 02:56:42,747
So I'm not gonna disturb them anymore.

3571
02:56:42,747 --> 02:56:43,580
All right.

3572
02:56:44,667 --> 02:56:47,117
Again, a lot of notes on the board.

3573
02:56:47,117 --> 02:56:49,230
(indistinct) just like people working

3574
02:56:49,230 --> 02:56:50,763
a great collaborative space.

3575
02:56:52,890 --> 02:56:55,023
I love this black paint work .

3576
02:56:56,587 --> 02:56:58,740
MassMutua center of excellence,

3577
02:56:58,740 --> 02:57:01,110
contact systems and data science.

3578
02:57:01,110 --> 02:57:02,387
So I think this (indistinct).

3579
02:57:04,998 --> 02:57:08,149
[Jane] Yes we don't have.

3580
02:57:08,149 --> 02:57:09,180
Let's how classes look like.

3581
02:57:09,180 --> 02:57:10,770
We have some office equipment.

3582
02:57:10,770 --> 02:57:11,850
Again the kitchen.

3583
02:57:11,850 --> 02:57:14,223
When the floor plan is exactly the same,

3584
02:57:15,090 --> 02:57:17,727
it's just we have different
people (indistinct).

3585
02:57:18,630 --> 02:57:21,213
That's my office over there.

3586
02:57:24,570 --> 02:57:25,710
Which is a little bit different.

3587
02:57:25,710 --> 02:57:27,240
So there we had different kind of chairs,

3588
02:57:27,240 --> 02:57:30,150
but I sit all the way in the back,

3589
02:57:30,150 --> 02:57:31,830
that's my friend over there

3590
02:57:31,830 --> 02:57:33,930
who's working with (indistinct)

3591
02:57:33,930 --> 02:57:36,033
doing science, saving humanity.

3592
02:57:38,130 --> 02:57:41,823
All right, so this is really
the innovation in discovery.

3593
02:57:43,350 --> 02:57:45,270
It's really not about the building as much

3594
02:57:45,270 --> 02:57:48,460
is the people to work here,
which is pretty exciting.

3595
02:57:48,460 --> 02:57:51,930
Great friends, great professors, and yeah.

3596
02:57:51,930 --> 02:57:53,490
Is there anything else there?

3597
02:57:53,490 --> 02:57:55,530
[Jane] No, I think we're good.

3598
02:57:55,530 --> 02:57:57,320
I mean, it gives us a good flavor.

3599
02:57:57,320 --> 02:58:00,660
Perfect all right, thank you so much.

3600
02:58:00,660 --> 02:58:02,640
[Jane] Thank you Avi,
really appreciate it.

3601
02:58:02,640 --> 02:58:03,484
I'm gonna see you later.

3602
02:58:03,484 --> 02:58:05,011
-[Jane] Have a good day.
-[Aviral] Okay, good.

3603
02:58:05,011 --> 02:58:07,380
So, hi everybody.

3604
02:58:07,380 --> 02:58:09,120
I'm turning the camera on myself

3605
02:58:09,120 --> 02:58:11,320
and this is really unusual for me

3606
02:58:12,600 --> 02:58:14,730
trying to be a little quiet
'cause I'm in a public space

3607
02:58:14,730 --> 02:58:17,040
and I'm far away from my office.

3608
02:58:17,040 --> 02:58:21,003
Now, so it'd be hard
to kind of end things.

3609
02:58:24,450 --> 02:58:29,070
The kind of day together
is really completed.

3610
02:58:29,070 --> 02:58:31,890
I wanna thank you all
for being a part of this.

3611
02:58:31,890 --> 02:58:34,680
I'm sorry the light is not good here.

3612
02:58:34,680 --> 02:58:36,993
I see that I'm kind of a shadow,

3613
02:58:38,070 --> 02:58:40,950
but I do want to just thank you all.

3614
02:58:40,950 --> 02:58:43,620
I will send a complete
recording to everybody

3615
02:58:43,620 --> 02:58:46,050
so that if there were any
technical difficulties,

3616
02:58:46,050 --> 02:58:48,933
you don't have to worry
that you've missed anything.

3617
02:58:50,850 --> 02:58:53,340
Please do feel free to reach out to me

3618
02:58:53,340 --> 02:58:55,740
if there's anything that I can do for you,

3619
02:58:55,740 --> 02:58:58,620
any information you want clarification on

3620
02:58:58,620 --> 02:59:02,583
to learn more about, be very
happy to help you do that.

3621
02:59:03,750 --> 02:59:06,030
On behalf of the College of Engineering

3622
02:59:06,030 --> 02:59:09,660
and Mathematical Sciences,
I just wanna say thanks

3623
02:59:09,660 --> 02:59:14,550
and I really hope to meet
you in person very soon.

3624
02:59:14,550 --> 02:59:16,620
So thank you again.

3625
02:59:16,620 --> 02:59:20,430
And if you have meetings
with your advisors

3626
02:59:20,430 --> 02:59:23,640
or the graduate program
directors leader today,

3627
02:59:23,640 --> 02:59:26,880
you will have set those up individually.

3628
02:59:26,880 --> 02:59:30,120
And so you'll be able to have links

3629
02:59:30,120 --> 02:59:32,040
to get to those as needed.

3630
02:59:32,040 --> 02:59:35,520
And again, don't panic if you
need to connect with somebody

3631
02:59:35,520 --> 02:59:40,260
because you can reach out and
find another time to meet,

3632
02:59:40,260 --> 02:59:43,680
today is not the only time this afternoon.

3633
02:59:43,680 --> 02:59:45,570
So again, I wanna thank you

3634
02:59:45,570 --> 02:59:49,470
and wish you a very happy
rest of your day or evening,

3635
02:59:49,470 --> 02:59:51,330
depending on where you are.

3636
02:59:51,330 --> 02:59:52,680
Take good care.

3637
02:59:52,680 --> 02:59:53,583
Bye-bye.