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  • UVA Engineering and Education Researchers Leverage AI to Improve Classroom Teaching

    ECE chair Scott Acton’s AI-powered video analysis technology can help teachers improve performance.

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  • Sherri Sullivan, MSE’s Financial Wizard, Is a 2024 Sandridge Outstanding Contributor

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering senior financial generalist Sherri Sullivan has earned the highest individual employee honor given by the University of Virginia.

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  • Low-Cost Dust Explosion Tube Offers More Bang for the Buck

    For a laboratory experiment meant to train engineers to manage risks of catastrophic workplace accidents, this dust explosion tube is just the thing.

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  • Charlottesville High School Students Pair With UVA Ph.D. Students for Mentorship

    Graduate students in UVA’s Link Lab mentored local high school students on projects designed to benefit society. NBC29 covered the story.

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  • UVA Engineering Achievement Award Recipients Honored at Thornton Society Dinner

    This year’s UVA Engineering Achievement Awards ceremony took place on November 22 at the 2024 Thornton Society Dinner. 

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  • Professors, To Improve Your Teaching Game, Consider These Tested Formulas

    UVA Engineering professors take a research-and-development approach to refining their instruction, as evidenced by the recent chem-e “teaching triangles.” 

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  • UVA Researcher’s Tool Identifies California Communities Most Vulnerable to Power Outages

    Somayeh Asadi studies how communities can better prepare for outages and disasters by using a data-driven social vulnerability index.

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  • UVA Teams Shine at ASC Construction Competition

    UVA’s Cavalier Construction teams earned first and second place at the ASC competition, showcasing talent and teamwork.

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  • UVA Alums’ ‘Micro-Farm’ Has Darden School Seeing Greens

    Darden School dining is reaping the rewards of engineering alumni’s entrepreneurship as a Babylon Micro-Farms customer.

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  • In Photos: Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone Projects

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  • WIRED: Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros

    Associate Professor Coleen Carrigan discusses how coalitions between feminist movements, minorities and labor activists will help keep the Silicon Valley moguls in check.

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  • Silvia Blemker Recognized by NAI for Advancing Muscle Health Through Innovation

    Blemker has been inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. 

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