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UVA Engineering's faculty and students work to improve human health and create a sustainable and secure future.

  • Announcing the Open BME Seminar Series

    A Collaborative Seminar Series

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  • J-Term Classes, Including ‘Pandemics Beyond the Headlines: COVID-19,’ Drew Hundreds

    Chemical engineering professor Roseanne Ford and professor of politics David Leblang had 500 students in their course designed to help understand viruses, politics of regulation and individual dimensions of pandemic disease.

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  • Big Questions Led Engineering Systems and Environment Ph.D. Student to Look to the Skies for Answers

    Hyunglok Kim is using an American Geophysical Union grant to link satellite network data to measure soil moisture and predict natural disasters.

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  • The Puzzle-Solvers: Introducing the Team Behind UVA's COVID Tracker

    Glenn Wasson received his Ph.D. in computer science from UVA Engineering. Now, as administrator of analytics and performance management at UVA Health, he leads the team that created the University’s COVID tracker. From late August to early November, the site received nearly 600,000 hits.

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  • UVA IDs Genes That Influence Our Risk for Deadly Coronary Artery Disease

    In addition to identifying gene variants that influence risk for coronary artery disease, researchers in Mete Civelek's group have found that one gene in particular appears to have a protective effect.

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  • iTHRIV Grant to Help Improve Pediatric Heart Transplant Outcomes

    Engineering Systems and Environment associate professor Michael Porter and UVA Children’s Hospital pediatric cardiologist Michael McCulloch will analyze data on donor characteristics to increase the odds of successful transplants.

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  • Alumna Explains How Engineering Systems and Environment Is Breaking Paradigms for the Better

    In Forbes magazine, double Hoo and Jacobs senior vice president Heather Wishart-Smith revisits the creation of Engineering Systems and Environment, home to civil, systems and environmental engineering at UVA.

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  • UVA-Led Team Expands Power Grid Planning to Improve System Resilience

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  • Is a Peloton Bike Worth it? An Engineering Professor Weighs In on the Craze

    Associate Professor Gavin Garner weighs in on the Peloton bike craze from an engineering perspective, including fascinating commentary about resistance, magnets and leveling the playing field.

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  • UVA Engineering Team Competes in NASA's BIG Idea Virtual Forum

    Team Engages in NASA's Artemis Program Mission

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  • Runners in the Race to a Vaccine

    UVA Chemical Engineering's COVID-19 Contributions Demonstrate Potency of People + Science

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  • An Abstract Idea and a Lost Drone Converge

    How Researchers in UVA Engineering's Department of Engineering Systems and Environment Developed a Unique Concept to Protect our Digital World

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