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  • UVA’s Cyber Defense Team Is No. 2 in the Country

    Mounting a cyber defense for a hypothetical biotech platform earns UVA Engineering renewed bragging rights.

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  • Engineering Hoos Win Hughes Award

    Find out who won this year’s Thomas Hughes Award for undergraduate research.

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  • Celebrating Excellence: 2025 UVA Engineering Outstanding Student Award Winners

    Learn who demonstrated exceptional achievement in academics, research, leadership and service.

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  • Good Counsel: Undergraduate Advisers Named Award Winners for Excellence in 2024-25

    Compassion and balance were themes among this year’s Undergraduate Advising Excellence Award winners.

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  • UVA Honors Its Top Teachers

    Daniel Lassiter of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering received a 2025 Graduate Student Teaching Award in the STEM disciplines category.

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  • UVA-Led Cybersecurity Internship Program Wins National Innovation Award for Election Work

    A UVA-led internship program trains students to strengthen election systems, earning national praise for advancing trust, transparency and resilience of our nation’s election infrastructure.

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  • Atomically Dispersed Catalysts Are Tough Puzzles To Solve, But Worth the Effort

    Assistant professor of chemical engineering Jason Bates wants deeper studies of new catalyst designs before declaring any one of them the next big thing.

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  • Students Develop Novel Plan for Low-Cost Hypersonic Research

    Capstone students will find out in August with a NASA rocket launch if their glider concept works.  

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  • In Photos: UVA Engineering Open House

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  • From Design to Completion, 6 Capstone Students Build Steel Bridge in Record Time

    Students build a 20-foot structurally sound steel bridge under heavy time constraints.

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  • UVERS ’25: Edge Computing on Everyday Devices Is Just One of This Year’s Winning Papers

    The prospect of running powerful machine learning models on everyday devices was just one of the exciting developments presented at UVA Engineering’s annual research paper and poster symposium.

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  • With New AI To Aid 5G Telecom, Cong Shen Heeds the Entrepreneurial Call

    With telecom systems moving toward a more open platform where vendors can collaborate on improvements, Cong Shen saw a business opportunity.

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