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  • UVA Plans New School of Data Science; $120 Million Gift is Largest in University History

    The University of Virginia announced plans to establish a School of Data Science, an effort made possible in part by the largest private gift in the institution’s 200-year history. The School of Data Science – UVA’s 12th school and the first established since 2007 – will position the University as a global leader in efforts to improve society through teaching and research based on the powerful, emerging field of data science.

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  • Here's How UVA Already Uses Data Science to Tackle Big Societal Problems

    Center for Engineering in Medicine researcher, Dr. Sana Syed, is part of the University of Virginia’s Data Science Institute. She is seeking to teach machines to read biopsy images and diagnose disease.

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  • UVA ChemE Postdoc Receives National Cancer Institute Individual Fellow Award for Cancer Research

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  • 2019 UVA Halsey Professor Passing on the Lessons of a Lifetime

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  • Inviting Applications for the Multi-Scale Systems Bioengineering REU at UVA

    Multi-Scale Systems Bioengineering REU at UVA

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  • Beckman Program’s Renewal Generates Unique Lab Opportunities for Undergrads

    The Beckman Scholars Program provides in-depth, sustained undergraduate research experiences for talented, full-time undergraduate students. Each scholar receives $21,000 in funding, including stipends, supplies and travel.

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  • Washington Post Op-Ed: How to Make Ford's Driverless Car Experiment Work

    T. Donna Chen, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment and an expert in sustainable transportation systems, offers insights on a future-focused transportation topic.

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  • Taking Lessons From RMS Titanic and her Twin, Olympic

    Historian’s latest Forbes column argues that the long, proud run of RMS Olympic shows a different side of her ill-fated twin, Titanic.

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  • This Coulter-funded Collaboration Takes Discovery From Lab to Patients – and May Save Limbs

    What started as an incidental discovery in a chemistry lab has turned into a project to help drug makers and doctors better heal foot wounds of diabetes patients.

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  • Historian Peter Norton Tells 'Marketplace' Why Pedestrian Deaths in NYC Buck Positive Trend

    Engineering and Society history professor Peter Norton says pedestrians are claiming their place on city's streets.

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  • CE Ph.D. Candidate Named Innovation Grant Recipient

    Courtney Hill is investigating water treatment technologies to prevent child-stunting caused by diarrheal diseases in South Africa.

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  • NMCF Electron Microscopy Instrumentation for High Resolution Imaging and Analysis

    Electron Microscopy for High Resolution Imaging

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