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  • Q&A: Understanding the Rising Threat of Ransomware Attacks

    Donald E. Brown, W.S. Calcott Professor of engineering systems and environment, answers questions about ongoing threats from ransomware attacks.

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  • A Robotic Fish Tail and an Elegant Math Ratio Could Inform the Design of Next-Generation Underwater Drones

    University of Virginia School of Engineering researchers uncover the secrets of highly efficient swimming at varying speeds.

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  • UVA Engineering Link Lab Newsletter - Summer 2021

    Leidos sponsors career skills-building | Elder Research announces new partnership with Link Lab | Meet Spot | Indy Autonomous Challenge | Sensors for cleaner air | More

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  • Engineering Systems and Environment Professor Brian Park Named President of Professional Association

    Professor Brian Park shared his vision for leading the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association in a Q&A.

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  • Masters of Success

    This year, for the first time at the University of Virginia, graduate students were offered a chance to earn a certificate in one of the nation’s newest high-tech fields: cyber-physical systems. 

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  • World-Renowned Computational Scientist Geoffrey Fox Joins UVA Faculty

    Fox is known for his work in high-performance and parallel computing

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  • Four Ways To Use Subtraction That Could Make Life Better

    Engineering systems and environment professor Leidy Klotz’s book, “Subtract,” describes concrete examples, such as the invention of the modern cement block, and abstract challenges, such as racism and climate change, to illustrate the power of subtraction.

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  • Love & Basketball: Memory of Alumnus Who Died in 9/11 Lives on Through Scholarship

    Patrick Sean Murphy, a computer science major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, is remembered through scholarships for rising third- and fourth-year students who were affected by 9/11.

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  • UVA Has Exceptionally High Four-Year, Public Engineering School Grad Rate

    At UVA Engineering, 84 Percent of Students Earn Bachelor's Degrees in Four Years

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  • UVA Biocomplexity Institute Developing Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture

    Researchers at UVA Biocomplexity Institute are founding partners of a national research institute that will develop artificial intelligence-driven solutions for some of agriculture’s biggest problems.

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  • Teen Vogue Presents GLAAD's 20 Under 20 2021: The LGBTQ Youth Shaping the Future

    Austin Houck, a third-year computer science student at the University of Virginia, has been honored in Teen Vogue’s second-annual GLAAD 20 Under 20 list for outstanding LGBTQ youth.

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  • Energy Pipelines Are Controversial Now, but One of the First Big Ones Helped Win World War II

    W. Bernard Carlson, chair of the Department of Engineering and Society, puts today’s oil pipeline controversies in historical perspective in The Conversation.

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