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Big Prizes on the Line for Six Pike Fellows Teams
University of Virginia students, pitching business ventures as varied as cybersecurity services, beach basketball and a medical device, vie for the $50,000 Pike Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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MIST Wins Top Awards at 2019 ACC InVenture Prize
MIST won the ACC InVenture Prize for its innovative technologies to improve treatment for childhood scoliosis, becoming the third UVA team in a row to win the top award and the...
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2018-2019 Pike Fellows to Compete for Prizes of $50,000 and $10,000
UVA Engineering will host its second Pike Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program showcase on Monday, April 22. Six student entrepreneur teams will compete for the $50,000...
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Pike Fellows Well Represented at American Evolution Innovators Cup
Members of three Pike Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program teams were among the 10 University of Virginia teams selected as finalists in the American Evolution Innovators...
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For the First Time, Two BME Majors are SEAS Outstanding Students of the Year
For every year there's been a Biomedical Engineering major, one of our students has won the Engineering School's top award for graduating students. But we've never...
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UVA’s Link Lab Teams with Smart Cville to Inspire Smart-city Innovation
The Link Lab at the University of Virginia and the local nonprofit Smart Cville have announced the launch of a free grassroots Internet of Things network in Charlottesville.
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Engineering and Society Historian Peter Norton Says Free Roads Don’t Exist
Associate professor of science, technology and society Peter Norton, commenting in a New York Times article, said roads have never been free for drivers; clever branding by special interests groups convinced us otherwise.
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Scooters Lost the Roadways to Cars a Century Ago but a New Revolution Could be Brewing, Says Technology Historian Peter Norton
Could scooters be a catalyst to help wrest dominion of the streets away from cars? Maybe, Engineering and Society historian Peter Norton tells Fast Company.
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UVA Engineering Taps MIST Team to Compete for 2019 ACC InVenture Prize
Company’s founders draw lessons from predecessors in pursuit of a trophy for fourth consecutive year
Alexander Singh and Rohit Rustagi, founders of Minimally Invasive Spinal Technology LLC, know that representing UVA at this year’s ACC InVenture Prize means filling big shoes.
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Company Founded by UVA Engineering Alumni Makes Pitch for Investment Group’s $250K Prize
AgroSpheres, a company founded by UVA Engineering graduates Payam Pourtaheri (nanomedicine engineering, 2016) and Ameer Shakeel (biomedical engineering, 2017), is one of eight agricultural technology startups to compete for $250,000 in the Radicle Challenge.