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UVA Engineering's faculty and students work to improve human health and create a sustainable and secure future.
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UVA Engineers Lead $4.3 Million, Multi-University DARPA Project to Strengthen Navy Ships and Defense Systems
Team is designing coatings and new alloys that use material interfaces in an adaptive way to control corrosion.
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Subtraction as a Solution
Subtraction can be overlooked as an effective solution even when the space it creates can help us solve problems faster. Civil engineering professor Leidy Klotz spoke with The Atlantic about his resea
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A Sponge that Could Give Wounded Soldiers a Fighting Chance
UVA professor George Christ teams with UC Berkeley professor Kevin Edward Healy to develop a hydrogel material that can be placed directly in wounds to make up for missing muscle mass.
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UVA Alumna Contributes to Successful DART Mission
Mallory DeCoster worked with NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to change the orbit of an asteroid.
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University of Virginia Engineering Researchers Strive to Match Artistry of Biological Tissues
Assistant Professor Liheng Cai and his Ph.D. student Jinchang Zhu were invited to share their latest research in a special issue of Acta Biomaterialia.
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$7.7 Million ‘Driving Change’ Investments at UVA Give STEM Students Vital Support
The University is partnering with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to strengthen the study and teaching of science, technology, engineering and math.
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New Training Grant Matches Computation and Modeling to Experimental Design
When Remziye Erdogan learned about the new Systems and Biomolecular Data Science Training Program designed to immerse students in the techniques of systems biology, she jumped at the chance to apply.
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UVA Creates Shining ‘KSTAR’ to Guide Cancer Treatments
Kinase inhibitors are the most common cancer drugs approved by the FDA. They can be hugely effective, but they don’t work for everyone. UVA’s new algorithm offers a new and better way to pinpoint patients who will benefit – an important step forward in precision medicine tailored to the individual.
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Tech Industry Innovator Brings Expertise to UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Assistant Professor Wins Prestigious IEEE Early Career Award
Yue Cheng is one of three 2022 recipients of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on High-Performance Computing Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High-Performance Computing.
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UVA Joins U.S. Network Preparing for Infectious Disease Threats
The UVA Biocomplexity Institute, the School of Medicine and partner institutions have been selected to establish a national pathogen genomics surveillance network center in Virginia.
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Richard W. Kent Appointed Chair of UVA’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Kent is an expert in injury biomechanics with more than 20 years with the department.