• UVA Alumnus Aims to Accelerate Breakthroughs in Critical and Emerging Technologies as Head of New NSF Directorate

    Alumnus Edwin Gianchandani intends to create stronger ties between research, manufacturing and the marketplace across the nation to develop and scale key technology areas.

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  • CAREER Award: Designing the Next Generation of Wireless Communications Systems

    Working in partnership with industry, Shen's machine-learning models can be prototyped, standardized and integrated into real systems.

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  • Saha Global: Empowering Women to Deliver Clean Water

    Aerospace engineering alumna Kate Cincotta founded the non-profit Saha Global, for which she is now executive director, and helps women learn to treat and sell clean, affordable water to their community.

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  • Rescuing the Endangered Telescope

    Read how UVA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory made Charlottesville a nexus for the world's radio astronomers.

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  • ‘No Girls on the Software Team’

    UVA Engineering Career Development Director's Novel Research Sheds Light on Decisions Women Make After College About Careers in Computer Science

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  • CAREER Award: Long-Lived Things for the Internet of Things

    For the internet of things to reach its maximal benefit, all those connected devices have to keep up with the times.

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  • In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Toby Berger

    Toby Berger, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, passed away on May 25, 2022. He was 81 years old.

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  • UVA Computer Science Ph.D. Student Earns $5,000 Reward from Google for Finding Bug

    Tamjid Al Rahat, a student in assistant professor Yuan Tian’s research group, found a high-severity flaw in Google’s OAuth client library for Java.

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  • Be Wary of Optimistic Forecasts for Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

    Peter D. Norton puts the brakes on expectations that autonomous vehicles can deliver better-than-human safety – and says history is on his side.

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  • World’s First Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center Will Be at UVA

    The $8 million investment will generate clinical trials and other research that will directly benefit patients.

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  • UVA Awards Outstanding Teachers, Citing Empathy, Technology and Collaboration

    Assistant professors Shannon Barker and Nada Basit have received All-University Teaching Awards. Barker and Basit are being honored for demonstrating exceptional creativity, passion and compassion, especially during a period when students still feel the aftershocks of the pandemic.

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  • Scientists Transform Beating Heart Stem Cells Into Brain Cells

    By turning off a single gene, University of Virginia researchers and their collaborators caused stem cells already becoming heart cells to change course and become future brain cells.

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