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  • Kyusang Lee Innovates Process to Fabricate Materials for Free-Standing Semiconductor Film

    Platform Enhances Functional Properties and Affordability of Materials for Next-Gen Devices

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  • Fighting Traffic in the Time of COVID-19

    Associate professor Peter D. Norton of the Department of Engineering and Society discussed how the pandemic is changing our perception of urban outdoor spaces with historical context.

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  • Business Venture Shifts Course in Response to Pandemic

    Assistant professor Gaurav Giri was developing air filtration technology to protect people from air pollution. Now the focus of Hava Inc., his business venture with Batten School professor Bala Mulloth, is COVID-19.

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  • Educational Experiment in Virtual Labs

    COVID-19 has Initiated Creativity and Resourcefulness by UVA Engineering Faculty to Give Students a “Hands-on-like” Educational Experience from Miles Away

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  • Class of 2020: Shifting from Medicine to Engineering, Student Finds He Enjoys Teaching

    Daniel Ayoub who will graduate in May with a dual major in electrical engineering and computer engineering, with a minor in mathematics, designed his own one-credit course as an introduction to engineering and has kept it going as the University has shifted over to online classes.

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  • Everything You Need to Know About Your Smartphone's New COVID-19 Tracker

    Computer science professor Madhav Marathe, one of the leaders of the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, answers questions about the Google and Apple tracking technology that has been developed to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

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  • UVA Offers Free Online Programs for Anxiety

    Laura Barnes, associate professor in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, and Hongning Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, are collaborating with other University of Virginia faculty on The MindTrails Project.

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  • Meet UVA's 2020 Beckman Scholars

    Investigating cell signaling in the context of the enteric nervous system and creating an agent-based model of pattern formation in tumors.

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  • UVA’s Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Leadership Award Goes to Three Recipients

    BME Graduate student Samantha Perez is one of three being recognized for her efforts contributing to diversity, equity and inclusion in several fields related to health care.

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  • Governor Northam, University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute, RAND Corporation Present Infectious Disease Modeling on Impact of COVID-19 Mitigations in Virginia

    Modeling suggests social distancing efforts have slowed the spread of the virus in the Commonwealth

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  • UVA Science and Engineering Faculty Win Eight NSF CAREER Awards

    Four UVA Engineering faculty are among the eight University of Virginia faculty to received National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

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  • NASA Selects UVA Engineering for 2020 Breakthrough, Innovative Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge

    Team Proposes Beaming of Energy via Laser for Lunar Exploration (BELLE) of Permanently Shadowed Craters

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