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  • Alumna Explains How Engineering Systems and Environment Is Breaking Paradigms for the Better

    In Forbes magazine, double Hoo and Jacobs senior vice president Heather Wishart-Smith revisits the creation of Engineering Systems and Environment, home to civil, systems and environmental engineering at UVA.

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  • UVA-Led Team Expands Power Grid Planning to Improve System Resilience

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  • Is a Peloton Bike Worth it? An Engineering Professor Weighs In on the Craze

    Associate Professor Gavin Garner weighs in on the Peloton bike craze from an engineering perspective, including fascinating commentary about resistance, magnets and leveling the playing field.

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  • UVA Engineering Team Competes in NASA's BIG Idea Virtual Forum

    Team Engages in NASA's Artemis Program Mission

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  • Runners in the Race to a Vaccine

    UVA Chemical Engineering's COVID-19 Contributions Demonstrate Potency of People + Science

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  • An Abstract Idea and a Lost Drone Converge

    How Researchers in UVA Engineering's Department of Engineering Systems and Environment Developed a Unique Concept to Protect our Digital World

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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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