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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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Seven Undergraduates in UVA Engineering Earn Funding for Faculty-Mentored Research
Despite a challenging year, seven UVA Engineers received a coveted Harrison Undergraduate Research Award to make original contributions to a field of research.
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UVA Engineering Student Teams Land Four New ‘Double Hoo’ Awards
Four engineering departments are represented in the University’s Double Hoo program, which funds research collaborations between undergraduate and graduate student pairs.
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Jill Ferguson Named Stanford University Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Ferguson (MSE, B.S. '17) will pursue a Ph.D. in environment and resources at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. "All who interacted with Jill deeply appreciated her zeal to make the world a better place," said John Scully, UVA MSE department chair.
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UVA Engineering Executive Dean Pamela M. Norris Named New Editor in Chief of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering
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Hoos Building Bridges: Awards Celebrate Extraordinary Effort in an Extraordinary Year
Blake Calhoun, director of undergraduate success at UVA Engineering, is named a Hoos Building Bridges Award winner.
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CDC projects a 'sharp decline' in Covid cases in the U.S. by July
Computer science faculty are leading the UVA research team, one of six independent research teams, that are contributing to projections about the impact of vaccine and other prevention measures on the pandemic.
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Class of 2021: Water Runs Through Engineering Student’s Plans
Zavier Richards’ first job will take him back to his New York City base, but he’s got an eye on his parents’ homeland of Guyana.
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New Attacks Slaughter All Spectre Defenses
The 3+ years computer scientists spent concocting ways to defend against these supply-chain attacks against chip architecture? It’s bound for the dustbin.
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New Spectre Exploits Beat All Mitigations: Fixes to Severely Degrade Performance
Researchers from two universities have discovered several new variants of Spectre exploits that affect all modern processors from AMD and Intel with micro-op caches. Existing Spectre mitigations do not protect the CPUs against potential attacks that use these vulnerabilities
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Reflections from Members of UVA's Clark Scholars Program
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Defenseless: UVA Engineering Computer Scientists Discover Vulnerability Affecting Computers Globally
Computing experts thought they developed adequate security patches after the 2018 worldwide Spectre flaw, but UVA’s discovery shows processors are open to hackers again.
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The Science of Cooking
David L. Green and Liheng Cai help readers of the Washington Post Voraciously column choose between an enameled or traditional cast iron pan. Green and Cai shared their expertise with food columnist Becky Krystal, drawing on curriculum they developed for their Science of Cooking course.