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UVA Engineering's faculty and students work to improve human health and create a sustainable and secure future.
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UVA Students Take Research Global With a Summer in Germany
Engineering undergraduates went abroad to expand their studies, researching sustainable plastics, energy systems and computer modeling.
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Trouble focusing? These UVA experts can help
One tip to staying focused, says UVA Engineering professor Leidy Klotz, is to match your surroundings with the mental tasks you need to get done.
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UVA Wins $16M DOE Award to Launch Simulation Center for Predictive Science
The SAGEST Center brings together advanced computing, data analytics and engineering to model extreme environments using hypersonic flight as a rigorous proving ground.
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Virginia Business Recognizes UVA BME Alumna as a Leader in Region’s Biotech Sector
UVA Engineering alumna and commerce professor and CvilleBioHub co-founder Nikki Hastings was named a “Women in Leadership” honoree by Virginia Business.
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New Stories Begin: Meet Two Members of UVA Engineering’s Incoming Class of 2029
These Wahoos bring to Grounds legacies to honor, passions to pursue and stories that embody what it means to be a Hoo.
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UVA Engineering Faculty Earn NSF CAREER Awards
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The Future of Home-Building Is Here. And We’re Behind.
UVA Engineering professor Andrés Clarens argues in the Washington Post that the U.S. should not abandon programs to commercialize construction materials innovations and risk ceding global leadership.
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UVA Engineering Welcomes New Faculty for 2025
The University of Virginia is proud to welcome these outstanding new faculty members to our Engineering community.
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CAREER Award Accelerates AI Testing — With Safety and Smarts
Assistant professor Shangtong Zhang develops efficient tools to help researchers trust AI systems without high-stakes testing.
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CAREER Award Fuels Iqbal’s Vision for More Capable, Context-Aware Helpers
This researcher earned a grant for proposing to help robots consistently understand variations on human commands.
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UVA BME’s Silvia Blemker Elected To Lead the American Society of Biomechanics
UVA biomechanics expert aims to build on the organization’s culture of collaboration to expand knowledge of the field and its impact.
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In Memoriam: John Lloyd Gainer
John Lloyd Gainer, emeritus professor of chemical engineering at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, died Monday, July 28, 2025.