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Kevin Skadron, Mircea Stan and Samira Khan formed UVa’s new Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory in January through a $27.5 million grant from the corporation to tackle the “memory wall” — a bottleneck in computers that cannot process massive modern datasets. As health care, science and technology systems grow more and more data-intensive and analytics become more sophisticated, current computer systems are unable to feed data to the processor fast enough, wasting time and energy. That gap between needed power and ability, first articulated by UVA professor emeritus William Wulf and graduate student Sally McKee, is often called the “memory wall.” The 20 faculty members on [the] team will investigate how to rebuild the entire computer processing system, from better memory chips and wiring to new software that can process complex and fragmented problems.

Researchers at UVA's Center for Applied Biomechanics are using computer models to learn how the brain responds to collisions. They will use the data to develop new tools that can evaluate the effectiveness of helmets, car restraints and other products designed to prevent traumatic brain injury.

The University of Virginia's newest pan-University institute will focus on the most complex organ in the human body: the brain.

Matthew Asper, a third-year aerospace engineering major at the University of Virginia, has been named among “Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties” by Aviation Week magazine, in collaboration with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Tackling Cancer Through Team Science.

Engineering doctoral students Michaela Rikard (BME) and Courtney Hill (CEE) have been working to make UVA a national hub for grad students seeking training and experiences in science policy.

Leon Yacoubian is a fourth-year student at the University of Virginia, but he’s already putting his education to use on the other side of the planet.

Mool Gupta wants to put balloons on Mars. Gupta, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Virginia, and his team of students are among five finalists in NASA’s BIG (breakthrough, innovative and game-changing) Ideas Challenge for 2018. “This is the kind of project that fuels the imagination, and a wonderful opportunity for our students to engage in grand-challenge space research.”

Congratulations, Dr. Saucerman!

For chemical engineers, roasting a turkey is a lesson in heat transfer. The larger the bird, the longer it takes to transfer enough heat into the bird to cook it. And then there’s the question of stuffing.