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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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Prasanna Balachandran Assists Multi-University Effort to Prevent Tooth Decay
Computational Modeling Speeds Researchers' Discovery in the Building Blocks of Human Enamel
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Matthew Diasio Shares His Passion for Communicating Science
Diasio will serve as a Congressional Science & Engineering Fellow beginning in the fall of 2020, to see firsthand how senators and representatives get advice and incorporate it into legislation.
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When Students’ Summer Plans Changed, UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center Said it Could Use the Help
With summer internships and jobs lost to COVID-19, engineering majors were among more than two dozen UVA students to work instead on the Virginia Clean Energy Project.
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Smarter Engineering Could Help Recovery from Major Disasters
Engineering Systems and Environment associate professor Osman Ozbulut argues investing in advanced building technologies is a good buy for state and federal governments.
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Cong Shen Earns Grant to Autonomously Configure 5G and Beyond Wireless Networks Using Machine Learning
Joint Research with Penn State University Innovates Expert-Based Wireless Network Management Systems
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UVA Chemist Wins Cottrell Scholar Award for Work with Giant Molecules
UVA Engineering associate professor David Green provides experimental support to test polymer research findings that could lead to targeted drug delivery.
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New Bulk Data Transfer Method Achieves High Performance with Less Complexity
Research Team's Store-and-Forward Scheduling Method Earns Top Paper Award
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Updated Story: UVA Leads National Effort to Broaden Access to Research on Protected Data
UVA and UVA-Wise Awarded National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program Grant
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Computer Science Students Develop Contact Tracing App
Two undergraduate computer science students at the University of Virginia, with another student at the University of Notre Dame, have developed a Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contact tracing app called TraceX.
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A Heart Issue: How One UVA Family is Handling Recent Events
Sanford Williams, who earned a law degree from UVA, writes about himself and his family during recent events, “We need to be authentic, vulnerable and honest with ourselves. We have to be honest about race, even when it is uncomfortable. If we don’t do that, we are not going to be able to solve these problems.”
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What Technology Has Accidentally Killed the Most People?
How does the combustion engine kill? Science and technology historian Peter D. Norton counts the ways.
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How to Sustain Your Activism Beyond this Moment: Empathy
Engineering Systems and Environment Ph.D. student Bethany Gordon explains how a more nuanced understanding of empathy might allow us to use it more effectively for racial justice.