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  • UVA Develops a ‘Google Earth’ View of Bone — With an Eye Toward Disease Prevention

    Toni Tang of the Center for Applied Biometrics has collaborated on a biological imaging and characterization approach that allows 3D imaging of bone across all relevant measures for the first time. 

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  • Watch as UVA Displays Its New High-Speed, Self-Correcting AI Algorithms

    What were the keys to UVA's impressive showing at this fall's Indy Autonomous Challenge? A mathematical tweak to the vehicle dynamics and a new car-detection algorithm that learns from its mistakes.

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  • UVA Awarded $8M DARPA Grant to Develop Next-Generation Optical Detectors

    UVA is leading a groundbreaking project to create highly sensitive optical detectors to advance technologies in healthcare, defense and communications.

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  • Autonomous Vehicles Can Be Imperfect — As Long as They’re Resilient

    Homa Alemzadeh and her colleagues aim to systematically find and fix safety vulnerabilities in autonomous vehicle systems.

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  • UVA Engineering Professor Awarded $1.6M EPA Grant to Reduce PFAS Accumulation in Crops

    Bryan Berger will investigate how PFAS accumulates on farms and develop strategies to reduce exposure. 

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  • 5 Ways We Are Elevating Postdoc Success

    The Department of Biomedical Engineering's chair is pioneering a supportive, transformative approach to postdoctoral success.

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  • Study and Research Don’t Check This Engineering Hoo’s Game

    Aerospace engineering undergraduate Jason Morefield is three for four in state chess championship during his time at UVA.

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  • Biomedical Engineering Hosts Third Annual Symposium for Emerging Leaders

    Biomedical engineering’s symposium draws talent from coast to coast to inform and inspire UVA graduate students.

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  • UVA Professor Receives OpenAI Grant to Inform Next-Generation AI Systems

    Assistant professor Yu Meng’s research on superintelligent systems looks to prepare researchers for the future of artificial intelligence. 

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  • Kimberly Kelly’s Newest Title: Editor-in-Chief

    Kim Kelly, a University of Virginia biomedical engineering professor and expert in bioinformatics, has been selected to serve as editor-in-chief of Molecular Imaging and Biology.

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  • Research Brief: $2 Million Award to Uncover Information Processing and Decision-Making Mechanisms of Human Cells

    The insights gained from this award could pave the way for improved precision medicine strategies.

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  • UVA Assistant Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award for Cybersecurity Research

    Wajih Ul Hassan will develop automated cybersecurity techniques to enhance enterprise security through data provenance and AI.

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