Prior Appointments
Prior to joining UVM, Dr. Grasso was Professor and Head of the Department in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He subsequently declined an offer to chair the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University to accept the position of Rosemary Bradford Hewlett Professor and Founding Director of the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, the first engineering program at a women's college in the United States. He has been a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, a NATO Fellow, and an Invited Technical Expert to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna Austria.
Professor Grasso served on a World Bank–funded international team of scholars that established the first environmental engineering program in Argentina. The Water Environment Federation named him a "Pioneer in Disinfection." He chaired a U.S. Congressional briefing entitled "Genomes & Nanotechnology: The Future of Environmental Research" and was invited to address the Congress of the Republic of Peru. Grasso was also co-founder along with Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman astronaut, of TOYChallenge — a national toy design challenge for 5th to 8th graders to excite them about science, engineering and the design process in a fun, creative and collaborative manner, relevant to everyday life.
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