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  • Devin K. Harris Named Chair of the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment

    Harris is an expert in infrastructure systems and leader in research that aims to improve built environments

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  • UVA’s Exploration of New Frontier in Cancer Research Nets $12M Award

    New research center, funded by the NIH's National Cancer Institute, to leverage UVA's expertise in cancer systems biology and biomedical data sciences.

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  • Leading Tissue Regeneration Expert to Chair UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Her research focuses on tiny blood vessels that are one-tenth the diameter of a human hair, needed to regenerate tissues damaged by injury or disease. 

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  • How Henrico's Roads Can Keep Cyclists Safer

    Assistant professor of civil engineering Donna Chen was part of a research team that surveyed nearly 700 Virginia cyclists to better understand road safety.

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  • Two UVA Engineering Alumnae Elected to the National Academy of Construction

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  • Mool Gupta and Partners Seek Traces of Life on the Moon and Other Planets

    Mool Gupta's laser research group will construct an optical probe for an autonomous mini-rover to analyze rocks, ice and other ground samples at the microscopic level to obtain biological and elemental signatures.

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  • A Lifetime of Computing and Problem Solving

    Q&A with Scott Acton, New Chair of UVA's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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  • For Good: Beverly Miller

    People become engineers because they have a passion for creating knowledge and technologies that serve society.

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  • Celebrating the Start of Fall Semester

    UVA Engineering has been filled with activity, excitement and anticipation for the first day of classes Aug. 23. Beautiful weather crowned school-wide celebrations that included popcorn, snow cones, student organization displays and new friends for a memorable start of the 2022-2023 academic year.

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  • Running With the Right Crowd

    Rachel Letteri is chemical engineering’s second early-career faculty member to earn the NIH Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award.

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  • A UVA Post-Doc Wants to Teach the Immune System How to Regenerate Tissue

    First, He Needs to Catalog All the Fibroblasts

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  • On the Promise of Interdisciplinarity in Research and Education and a Strong, Inclusive Community

    Q&A with Sandhya Dwarkadas, New Chair of UVA's Department of Computer Science

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