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  • Keeping Airplanes in Service Without Bolts and Rivets: Research Points Toward More Efficient and Cost-Effective Safety Certification of Repairs

    Unique Instrument Assesses Bonding Strength of Composite Materials Used to Join Aerospace Vehicle Parts

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  • New Norms

    A. James Clark Scholars Program Revamps Integral Summer Program to Welcome Its Third Cohort of Students to UVA Engineering

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  • Virtual Bridge to UVA

    UVA Engineering's Longstanding Bridge Program is Virtually Helping Incoming Students Transition to the Rigors of Academia in This Post-COVID-19 World

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  • #WeAreUVAEngineers Keeping Our Community Safe

    Faculty, Staff, and Students Talk About Safely Returning to Grounds

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  • UVA Researchers test drive new virus-killing robot prototype at Daily Planet Health Services in Richmond

    Meet Dingo, the robot designed to safely decontaminate COVID-19. This weekend, University of Virginia robotics professor Tomonari Furukawa and fellow researchers conducted a real-world test drive of a semiautonomous robot.

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  • UVA Backs Student Groups, Seeking to Research Solve Real-World Problems

    Rawan Osman, a rising third-year computer engineering major, and Hania Abboud, a rising third-year engineering systems and environment major, have been awarded a Community-Based Undergraduate Research Grant.

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  • Ivy Foundation Backs 14 Covid Translational Research Projects

    Projects range from development of biosensors, artificial intelligence for testing, vaccine development, novel treatment options, and better data analytics to predict the spread of the virus.

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  • Pioneers in Autonomous Racing

    UVA to Compete in Inaugural Indy Autonomous Challenge

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  • Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing Appoints New President and CEO

    John Milton-Benoit's experience leading research and innovation will help the center continue expanding in size and impact.

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  • Autonomous Vehicles to Race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

    Madhur Behl, assistant professor of computer science and engineering systems and environment, speaks with The Wall Street Journal about UVA's Cavalier Autonomous Racing Club. UVA will compete against more than three dozen universities from around the world in the Indy Autonomous Challenge.

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  • WIRED.com: The Rocket Motor of the Future Breathes Air Like a Jet Engine

    UVA’s Aerospace Lab director and professor Chris Goyne weighs in with other experts about new rocket tech.

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  • ASEE Awards Best Paper for Engineering Professor’s Work on a Nationally Normed Learning Assessment Tool

    Engineering and society and mechanical and aerospace engineering assistant professor Ann Reimers earned an American Society for Engineering Education 2020 Best Paper Award for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research.

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