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  • 2020 Year in Review

    Celebrating the Contributions of UVA Engineers to Making the World a Better Place

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  • Virtual Agents of Change: How Computers are Mapping COVID-19’s Future

    Computer science professors Madhav Marathe and Christopher L. Barrett, also UVA Biocomplexity Institute leaders, talk about 21st century approaches to disease forecasting and how agent-based modeling informed COVID-19 mitigations in Virginia.

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  • UVA Engineering Awarded Public Interest Technology University Network Challenge Grant

    Link Lab Partners with the Center for Civic Innovation to Support Citizen Innovators

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  • Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy Funds UVA-led Team to Develop New Coating for Turbine Engine Materials

    Team's HERO Coating Will Increase Materials' Temperature Tolerance by 200 Degrees Celsius

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  • Stretching Possibilities

    Liheng Cai aims to design soft polymers capable of new feats, such as 3D printing materials for use in tissue engineering, optical devices or stretchable fabrics with embedded electronics.

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  • Research Roadmap: Computing for preparedness and resilience for the next pandemic

    UVA's Biocomplexity Institute is leading The Pandemic Research for Preparedness and Resilience, or PREPARE. Researchers are invited to attend PREPARE's virtual kickoff workshop on Dec.15-16. Discussion will center around the response to COVID-19 and its impacts on the research community.

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  • Google.org Selects the UVA Biocomplexity Institute to Support through Social Good Covid-19 Fund

    Computer Science professors Madhav Marathe and Anil Vullikanti, researchers at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute, were selected to receive funding as part of the company’s efforts to support projects using innovative Al and data analytics to help understand COVID-19 and address its impacts.

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  • Q&A: A Pandemic Modeler Looks Back and Forward

    Madhav Marathe, a professor of computer science and biocomplexity, and a division director at the Biocomplexity Institute, provides perspective on COVID-19.

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  • Out with the Old, In with the New

    UVA Engineering Discovery Challenges Heat Transfer Paradigm That Guides Electronic and Photonic Device Design

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  • Alumni Co-Founders of Agrospheres Named to Forbes Under 30 List

    Pourtaheri and Shakeel started their biotech company, AgroSpheres, as undergraduates at UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, when they set out to create bio-based solutions for crop control that could replace harmful pesticides.

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  • Two Related Discoveries Advance Basic and Applied Additive Manufacturing Research

    Beautiful Physics Governs Complex Energy-matter Interactions

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  • STAT Honors ‘Wunderkind’ for Pioneering Work on Focused Ultrasound, Cancer

    Health news site STAT has honored Natasha Sheybani, PhD, as one of the next generation of scientific superstars for her work in focused ultrasound, cancer immunology and nuclear medicine.

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