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  • When Snoring Goes from Annoying to Dangerous: Engineer Studies Sleep Apnea

    Haibo Dong, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, applies fluid dynamics concepts to his study of snoring and sleep apnea.

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  • This Lawn Room is a Launching Pad to Success

    Fourth-year mechanical and aerospace engineering major Julia Batts, the University of Virginia Honor Committee's vice chair for education, is the current resident of 37 West Lawn -- a room with a storied history.

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  • USA Today Op-Ed: Astrophysicist Barbie is perfect. That's not how you attract more girls to STEM careers.

    University of Virginia Biomedical Engineering Professor Silvia Blemker explains why cultural messages of perfection for girls are keeping them out of STEM work at the highest academic levels.

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  • Ready for Launch, NASA: UVA Space Satellite is A-OK

    Mission manager Erin Puckette (center), UVA aerospace engineering undergrad, leads the team of three universities as they integrate their nano-satellites, called CubeSats, into a NASA rocket in Houston. The rocket is scheduled to launch in April to the International Space Station. Photo credit: Batten College of Engineering and Technology, ODU

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  • EIM Newsletter - January 2019

    Engineering-powered medicine: more than 200 engineers and clinicians from over thirty divisions and departments across UVA are changing healthcare as we know it.

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  • Engineering Teams Aim for U-Hall to Survive in Virtual World After it Leaves the Real One

    As iconic University Hall’s demolition draws near, teams that include faculty and students from multiple UVA Engineering departments are preserving the building in digital form using 3-D data-acquisition methods and photography.

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  • First-Years Treat College Like a Full-Time Job

    First-Year Students: Treat College Like a Full-Time Job and You Will Be ‘Golden’

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education Ranks UVA among Top in the Country for Women in Engineering, Computer Science

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  • Company Founded by UVA Engineering Alumni Makes Pitch for Investment Group’s $250K Prize

    AgroSpheres, a company founded by UVA Engineering graduates Payam Pourtaheri (nanomedicine engineering, 2016) and Ameer Shakeel (biomedical engineering, 2017), is one of eight agricultural technology startups to compete for $250,000 in the Radicle Challenge.

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  • Breaking Ground — Again

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  • UVA Executive Vice President and Provost Thomas C. Katsouleas Named President of University of Connecticut

    Katsouleas, a leading plasma scientist and UVA Engineering faculty member with deep academic roots in teaching and research, will be UConn's 16th president.

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  • UVA Engineering Alumna Loria Yeadon Appointed CEO of YMCA of Greater Seattle

    Yeadon, a pro tempore advisor to the University of Virginia Engineering Foundation, will be the first woman as well as the first person of color to serve as CEO in the 143-year history of the YMCA of Greater Seattle.

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