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  • UVA Researchers Fast-Track Cancer Care with Patient-Specific Tumor Models

    Engineering and medical research team’s new method could help oncologists predict which therapies will work best for individual patients with a common form of breast cancer.

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  • 3D-Printed Implant Could Revolutionize Wrist Replacement Options

    The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation has awarded a grant to commercialize materials science and engineering assistant professor Ji Ma’s novel wrist replacement technology.

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  • Unlocking Secrets of the Heart: Simple Scan Could Identify Patients at Risk

    UVA biomedical engineering researchers have developed an MRI technique to analyze the fat surrounding a patient’s heart, potentially enabling earlier cardiac disease interventions.

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  • NSF CAREER Grant Supports UVA Researcher’s Vision for a More Reliable Cloud Future

    Innovative tools detect hidden cloud failures, reducing downtime, financial losses and disruptions in critical industries like healthcare and e-commerce.

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  • UVA Cyber Defenders Ready for Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Competition To Qualify for Nationals

    The Hoos are perennial contenders in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Can they win it all in 2025?

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  • Two UVA Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Named IEEE Distinguished Lecturers

    Two of UVA Engineering’s image analysis stars have been tapped by IEEE’s Signal Processing Society to share their expertise and insights with their society colleagues.

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  • Q&A: What Should You Know About the Forever Chemicals We All Ingest?

    Most Americans are unknowingly exposed to harmful substances every day. UVA chemical engineering professor Bryan Berger investigates how to reduce our exposure.

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  • PECASE Winners: 3 UVA Engineering Professors Receive Presidential Early Career Awards

    The White House announced Tuesday that three professors and two alumni had received the nation’s top honor for up-and-coming scientists and engineers.

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  • UVA Research Opens Door to Far More Targeted Antibiotics

    UVA Engineering researchers may have found a way to reduce the need for broad-spectrum antibiotics, which could slow the growth of antibiotic resistance.

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  • Wet Years Followed by Drought Turned California’s Flora Into Tinder

    UVA Engineering hydrology experts say two years of plentiful rain contributed to the devastating fires in California.

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  • UVA Receives DURIP Grant for Cutting-Edge Ceramic Research System

    UVA’s proposed new system for studying ultra-high-temperature ceramics will empower researchers to gather high-precision data that was previously out of reach.

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  • Influential Robotics Journal Picks UVA Paper as Best of 2024

    Science Robotics chose a UVA paper describing praying mantis-inspired artificial eyes as their most outstanding of the year.

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