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The 2025 Pierre Galletti Award, the highest honor given by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), was given on March 30 to UVA Engineering Dean Jennifer L. West.

Jennifer L. West has been named the winner of the 2025 Pierre Galletti Award, the highest honor from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

UVA Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of notable catalysis researcher Ayman Karim as the new chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. 

Daniel Quinn, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has earned the 2024-2025 Hartfield Award, which recognizes faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

New research by a biomedical engineering Ph.D. student and her UVA team could lead to tailored nutritional programs designed for a person’s genetics.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering Ph.D. alumnus and current post-doc Carl H. White discusses the impact of his Tunabot Flex research in an interview with IOP Publishing.

UVA researchers’ new polymer strategy shifts a centuries-old engineering paradigm with a molecular design that doesn’t sacrifice stretchability for stiffness.

A professor’s annual classroom competition pits student programming of turtle-like robots in time trials, with penalty points added for imprecision as the ’bots maneuver through a carboard maze.

Large language models may need a more sophisticated way to test for potential leakiness of sensitive information.

Rescue divers still sometimes rely on rope signals to communicate with their surface guides. This expert diver — and UVA systems engineering Ph.D. student — has a better way.

Ph.D. student Md. Rafiqul Islam and a team of researchers unlock heat flow principles in ultra-thin metals, paving the way for faster, smaller, more efficient computer chips.