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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 Chemical Engineering Program Grows Difference-Makers One Mentor and Mentee at a Time
Chris Holland’s professional career is just starting, but as early as high school he internalized a philosophy that’s hard to argue with: Everyone needs mentors.
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The Race to Win at Driving the Driverless Car
Madhur Behl, an assistant professor with joint appointments in UVA Engineering’s Department of Computer Science and Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, will lead the University of Virginia's autonomous racing team in the inaugural Indy Autonomous Challenge.
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CAREER Award: Opening Vistas for Materials Design
Bi-Cheng Zhou's New Thermodynamic Model Expands Widely Used Design Tool to Complex Concentrated Alloys
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Small Steps Have Outsized Impact
The Advanced Materials Synthesis Research Experience for Undergraduates site will immerse rising sophomores through seniors in authentic materials research projects.
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UVA Engineering Announces New Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Meara M. Habashi, Ph.D., Specializes in Creating Supportive Climates for All While Dismantling Systemic Bias
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Can Removing Highways Fix American Cities?
Engineering and society professor Peter Norton provides historical context for a New York Times article on proposals to undo the damage of building highways through urban communities.
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CAREER Award: Proof of Trust
David Wu Earns National Science Foundation Grant to Advance Zero-knowledge Proofs that will Build Trust in the Cloud
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When Cities Say No to New Transportation Technology
Department of Engineering and Society historian Peter Norton tells Bloomberg CityLab cities’ opposition to new transportation technology is complex and sometimes well-founded.
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The Power of Power
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering’s Link Lab are creating sustainable hardware to power sensor networks. Their work will help make a future trillion-device IoT possible.
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Joe Campbell's Photonics Research Can Lead to Safer Autonomous Vehicles
Joe Campbell, UVA Lucien Carr III professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Seth Bank, UT-Austin professor of electrical and computer engineering, created a first-of-its-kind light detecting device that gives autonomous vehicles a fuller picture of what's happening on the road.
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From Courses to Cooking Online, UVA's Award-Winning Teachers Connect with Students
Nathan Brunelle, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, received an All-University Teaching Award. Brunelle “kicked it up a notch” by using creative ways to engage students in the past, difficult year.
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New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix
Since 2018, an almost endless series of attacks broadly known as Spectre has kept Intel and AMD scrambling to develop defenses to mitigate vulnerabilities that allow malware to pluck passwords and other sensitive information directly out of silicon. Now, researchers say they’ve devised a new attack that breaks most—if not all—of those on-chip defenses.