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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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Class of 2021: Water Runs Through Engineering Student’s Plans
Zavier Richards’ first job will take him back to his New York City base, but he’s got an eye on his parents’ homeland of Guyana.
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New Attacks Slaughter All Spectre Defenses
The 3+ years computer scientists spent concocting ways to defend against these supply-chain attacks against chip architecture? It’s bound for the dustbin.
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New Spectre Exploits Beat All Mitigations: Fixes to Severely Degrade Performance
Researchers from two universities have discovered several new variants of Spectre exploits that affect all modern processors from AMD and Intel with micro-op caches. Existing Spectre mitigations do not protect the CPUs against potential attacks that use these vulnerabilities
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Reflections from Members of UVA's Clark Scholars Program
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Defenseless: UVA Engineering Computer Scientists Discover Vulnerability Affecting Computers Globally
Computing experts thought they developed adequate security patches after the 2018 worldwide Spectre flaw, but UVA’s discovery shows processors are open to hackers again.
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The Science of Cooking
David L. Green and Liheng Cai help readers of the Washington Post Voraciously column choose between an enameled or traditional cast iron pan. Green and Cai shared their expertise with food columnist Becky Krystal, drawing on curriculum they developed for their Science of Cooking course.
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Quest for New Cancer Treatment Crosses Milestone
A cancer therapy invented at Rice University has crossed a milestone in clinical trials, a major development in a decadeslong quest to develop a treatment that destroys tumors without the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy, invasive surgery and radiation.
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Jennifer L. West Named Dean of Engineering
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Successful Research Development Approach Helps Cancer Patients Using Mobile Tech
Research Sustainability at the UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine
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A Research Hat Trick
When an athlete scores three times in a single game, it's called a hat trick. If scientific research had hat tricks, Janes would have fans screaming in the stands.
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For Good: Using Science to Inform Activism
Linnea Saby, Ph.D. Candidate, Civil Engineering
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Casteen Awards Go to Engineering, Nursing, UVA-Wise Community Leaders
Darius Carter, a Ph.D. candidate in UVA Engineering’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received the John T. Casteen III Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Leadership Award.