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  • How One UVA Student’s Tech Made Parties Safer, Greener and More Fun

    UVA fourth-year business and computer science major David Roselle’s DoorList app is an affordable alternative to wristbands.

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  • With Governor’s Support, UVA-Born Company Announces New Charlottesville Plant

    UVA Engineering alumni Payam Pourtaheri (engineering science, nanomedicine) and Ameer Shakeel (biomedical engineering, bioengineering) and their company, AgroSpheres, are making a big investment in the local economy.

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  • Every Hoo Has a Story: ‘I’m Cavman’

    With his diploma within reach, fourth-year mechanical engineering student Dylan Moore confesses his secret identity.

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  • Retired UVA Professor Translates Holocaust-Era Journal

    Retired mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Gabriel Laufer volunteers his language skills to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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  • When Story and STEM Collide: Faculty Get Personal for 2 Podcast Series

    Dean Jennifer L. West joined other UVA faculty members in science, technology, engineering and math fields to share real-life dilemmas for two popular podcast series.

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  • New Biomechanical Models Close the Treatment Gender Gap and Advance Precision Medicine for All

    UVA Professor’s research leads to AI-powered software and a start-up company.

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  • Springbok Analytics Raises $3M Seed Round for Their AI-Powered Platform that Converts MRIs into 3D Analysis of Muscles

    A UVA Department of Biomedical Engineering-created company and partner of the NBA and NFL raised a $3 million seed round for their AI-powered platform that converts MRIs into 3D analysis of muscles.

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  • Trailblazer Award Will Use Advanced AI to Improve Outcomes for Heart Patients

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  • This Alum’s Tech May Revolutionize Knee Joint Replacements

    Benjamin Holmes can pinpoint the exact moment he fell in love with the field of biomedical engineering. It was more than a decade ago, when he was a third-year student in mechanical engineering at the University of Virginia taking an introductory course taught by Professor Silvia Blemker

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  • Goldwater Scholarships Ease the Path to Science Careers for Students

    Deniz Guney Olgun, a neuroscience and computer science Echols Scholar, will use a prestigious scholarship to pursue his interest in investigating the human nervous system.

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  • UVA Engineering Applied Math Professor Receives University Teaching Award

    Putting students in position to succeed is one of many reasons Hui Ma is revered for her teaching.

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  • UVA for the (Cyber)defense: Hoos Net Regional Trophy

    UVA Engineering’s cyber defense team has qualified for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for the fifth time in six years.

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