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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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  • UVA Study Uncovers Key Heart Responses to Viral Infection

    New insights could change the game for treating viral heart infections and preventing heart failure.

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  • UVA Model Advances Rational Design of More Effective Maternal Vaccines for Newborns

    Assistant professor Sepideh Dolatshahi and Ph.D. student Remziye Wessel lead research on vaccines that may help save more lives. 

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  • UVA Researchers Simplify Signal Classification with Smarter, Faster Tech

    UVA develops Python-based tool using CDT for faster, accurate signal classification, enabling robust AI applications in healthcare and engineering.

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  • Picture This: Dozens Gather for the Graduate Engineering Student Council’s Popular International Food Friday

    A tradition started as a community-building project is going strong a couple of years later. UVA Engineering’s monthly International Food Friday draws dozens for dinner, laughs and fellowship.

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  • UVA Engineering Alum’s Paper on Bio-Inspired ‘Tunabot’ Is Among Publisher’s Most Cited

    Mechanical and aerospace engineering Ph.D. alumnus and current post-doc Carl H. White discusses the impact of his Tunabot Flex research in an interview with IOP Publishing.

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  • In Major Materials Breakthrough, UVA Team Solves a Nearly 200-Year-Old Challenge in Polymers

    UVA researchers’ new polymer strategy shifts a centuries-old engineering paradigm with a molecular design that doesn’t sacrifice stretchability for stiffness.

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  • Autonomous Vehicle Safety: A Driverless Car’s Brain Trains on Sensors. But What if They Need Replacing?

    A recent UVA Engineering doctoral graduate, now a postdoctoral researcher and UVA Coppenhaver Fellow, has created a new way to fix a known problem on autonomous vehicles sensors.

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  • Turkey With a South Asian Twist Wins Chemical Engineers’ Cook-Off

    Third- and fourth-year students battled it out in the annual turkey-cooking competition, a rite of fall for ChemE majors.

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  • Whose Robot Conquered the Cardboard Course, Taking Home the Coveted Golden Duckies?

    A professor’s annual classroom competition pits student programming of turtle-like robots in time trials, with penalty points added for imprecision as the ’bots maneuver through a carboard maze.

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  • UVA Ph.D. Student Uncovers COVID-19 Transmission Patterns

    Islam’s research offers fresh insights into how understanding transmission dynamics can transform public health strategies.

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  • What's an 'Estimathon'? It's About What You Would Logically Guess

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