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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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UVA Engineering's Ph.D. Enrollment Growth is Top in the United States
Total Graduate Enrollment Surges, Quality and Diversity Increase
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These Giant Wind Turbines, Inspired by Palm Trees, May Be the Future of Renewable Energy
See how University of Virginia MAE researchers, inspired by the structure and resilience of palm trees, are revolutionizing the design of wind turbines to provide more renewable energy in the U.S. and, eventually, around the world.
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Students Tell Their 2019 Summer Education Abroad Stories
Fourth-year mechanical engineering majors Emily Davenport and David Xiao are taking part in an internship with Rolls Royce in the United Kingdom.
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UVA Undergrads to Study in Kenya, Spain as Gilman Scholars
Monica Sandoval-Vasquez, a rising second-year computer science major, will study engineering at Valencia Polytechnic University in Spain.
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McGirr Will Use NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Investigate Better Treatments for Pancreatic Cancer
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Civil Engineering Alumnus Walks his Way Onto the Silver Screen
Matt Green left an engineering career and set off to explore the country and New York’s urban landscape from a whole new perspective. His NYC trek is captured in a film documentary.
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UVA Engineering Earns National Recognition for Focus on Diversity
The award was peer-reviewed by engineering college deans
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A Colleague Remembers what Made Richard Jennings a Great Teacher and Engineer
In his latest column for Forbes, W. Bernard Carlson, Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities and chair of the Department of Engineering and Society, wrote movingly about a revered former colleague.
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Origins of Innovation: AgroSpheres
Payam Pourtaheri and Ameer Shakeel met in their final year as biomedical engineering students at the University of Virginia (UVA), looking for one last research project that could help propel them into medical school. Three year later (and no medical school), their company AgroSpheres is transforming crop protection with its revolutionary pesticide delivery platform, the AgriCell.
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Math Saves Lives: Pioneering Research Could Pave Way for Microbe ‘Microbreweries’ Across State
Greg Medlock is pioneering the bulk production of probiotics with the help of a $100,000 award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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How a Budding Undergraduate Scientist Found Her Calling in a Biomedical Lab
After her first week as a University of Virginia student, Catherine Henry knew she wanted to be a researcher.
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Q&A: Aerospace Engineer Discusses Apollo and the Future of Space
Chris Goyne, a University of Virginia professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who specializes in hypersonic and supersonic propulsion systems and aerodynamics, teaches his students about the inspiring Apollo program that engineered that giant leap for mankind.