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  • UVA Engineering Seeks Applicants for Talent Pipeline

    UVA Engineering is recruiting talent for its Rising Scholars program.

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  • How Advanced Math is Shaping the Future of Drug Development

    Alum Jose Tabora of Bristol Myers Squibb explained how advanced analytics and innovative tools streamline decision-making in drug development processes.

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  • Why Gulf Hurricanes Threaten Virginia, Southeast

    Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida, but has impacted thousand outside of the state. A UVA Engineering expert explains how and why this happens.

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  • If an Asteroid Heads Toward Earth, How Close to Harm's Way Will We Be?

    Joshua Handal, a 2012 UVA Engineering alumnus, explains why the best offense against meteors is the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

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  • UVA Biomedical Engineering Professor Receives Eugene M. Landis Award from the Microcirculatory Society

    Shayn Peirce-Cottler received a national career award for her work in microvascular research. 

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  • UVA Develops a ‘Google Earth’ View of Bone — With an Eye Toward Disease Prevention

    Toni Tang of the Center for Applied Biometrics has collaborated on a biological imaging and characterization approach that allows 3D imaging of bone across all relevant measures for the first time. 

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  • Watch as UVA Displays Its New High-Speed, Self-Correcting AI Algorithms

    What were the keys to UVA's impressive showing at this fall's Indy Autonomous Challenge? A mathematical tweak to the vehicle dynamics and a new car-detection algorithm that learns from its mistakes.

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  • UVA Awarded $8M DARPA Grant to Develop Next-Generation Optical Detectors

    UVA is leading a groundbreaking project to create highly sensitive optical detectors to advance technologies in healthcare, defense and communications.

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  • Autonomous Vehicles Can Be Imperfect — As Long as They’re Resilient

    Homa Alemzadeh and her colleagues aim to systematically find and fix safety vulnerabilities in autonomous vehicle systems.

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  • UVA Engineering Professor Awarded $1.6M EPA Grant to Reduce PFAS Accumulation in Crops

    Bryan Berger will investigate how PFAS accumulates on farms and develop strategies to reduce exposure. 

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  • 5 Ways We Are Elevating Postdoc Success

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  • Study and Research Don’t Check This Engineering Hoo’s Game

    Aerospace engineering undergraduate Jason Morefield is three for four in state chess championship during his time at UVA.

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