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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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George Wilkes Earns National Institute of Aerospace Best Student Paper Award
Novel Fabrication Process Leads to Efficient and Flexible Perovskite Solar Cell
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UVA Professor Named Dean of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Nanoscale Materials Characterization Facility Harmonizes Efforts to Improve Materials' Performance
Research Conducted at the NMCF Advances Sustainable Development and Human Health
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The University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute Lends Expertise to National COVID-19 Response
Researchers create sophisticated information biology computer models that offer pandemic responders vital information.
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Digital Coronavirus Maps Helping Public Understand the Pandemic Better
University of Virginia's Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative develops COVID-19 dashboard to help people deal with the coronavirus pandemic through historical data and up-to-date figures.
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HooHacks 2020 Goes Virtual
Hoohacks 2020 was a virtual hackathon with over 900 participants from more than 100 schools. The winners will be announced in April.
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Biocomplexity Institute Wins $10M Grant to Thwart Future Pandemics
Researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute have won a new $10 million, five-year “Expeditions in Computing” grant from the National Science Foundation to use innovative technological and scientific advancements to plan for, and respond to, epidemics and pandemics, including outbreaks of deadly novel viruses.
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First-Year Lab Experience Gave This Student the Confidence to Aim for a Ph.D.
A University of Virginia biomedical engineering student is trying to tackle the world’s No. 1 cause of death on a genetic level.
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Scientist Working with the Center for Engineering in Medicine Helps Develop New COVID-19 Test
Amy Mathers, who is working on a ground-breaking research project as part of her seed grant from the Center for Engineering in Medicine, was also instrumental in developing the new COVID-19 tests that are now being administered.
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AI Platform Aims to Help Policy Makers Calibrate Virus Response
Computer science professor Madhav Marathe, a division director at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, leads a team to develop a no cost system that can project not just how many infections or deaths might result from the new coronavirus but also show how many intensive-care-unit beds or ventilators could be needed in a specific city.
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CAREER Award: Developing Trust
Lu Feng Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant to Create Formal Methods that Increase the Safety and Reliability of Human-Cyber-Physical Systems
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Uva Engineering Joins New Center Seeking To Protect Connecting Systems
The University of Virginia School of Engineering is a founding partner of a new national research center that is addressing these urgent challenges. The Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, known as CHEST, earned a prestigious designation as a National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center as of Oct. 1.