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  • Ph.D. Student Will Use NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Investigate Difficult-to-Treat Bacteria

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  • CAREER Award: Helping More People Benefit from Less-Invasive Robotic Surgery

    Alemzadeh’s research will enable better training for surgeons, providing feedback in context of their work with patients.

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  • UVA No. 1 in Software Engineering, Topping Standard Bearers Stanford, UC Berkeley

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  • For Women Struggling with Obesity or Diabetes, UVA Discovery May Help

    Based on their new discovery, the UVA team was able to change whether female lab mice’s bodies stored fat subcutaneously (under the skin) or viscerally (wrapped around the organs). Visceral fat can be particularly harmful to good health.

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  • Historian Suggests We Can Learn From Long-Ago Responses to Pedestrian Deaths

    Peter D. Norton recalls society used to defend pedestrians’ rights – and argues we still should.

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  • National Academy of Engineering Elects UVA Engineering Alumnus to Governing Board

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  • CAREER Award: Playing Catch-up with Data Storage

    UVA Researcher to Develop New Models and Algorithms for Efficient and Accurate Data Compression and Analysis

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  • UVA Alumnus Aims to Accelerate Breakthroughs 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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