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  • UVA Reveals How Genetic Differences in Fat Shape Men and Women’s Health Risks

    New findings about our body fat help explain the differing health risks men and women face – and set the stage for better, more targeted treatments.

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  • The Microbiome: Tiny Bacteria, Lifelong Impact

    UVA researchers, including BME Professor Jason Papin, have made critically important discoveries linking gut bacteria to everything from babies’ brain development to risks of metastatic breast cancer or depression.

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  • Three UVA Engineering Professors Earn Coveted DARPA Young Faculty Awards

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  • Additive Manufacturing Feedstocks: Waste Not Want Not

    Materials Science Addresses Need to Recycle and Re-Use Metal Powders

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  • UVA Engineering Students Refurbish N95 Masks

    Student Volunteers Repair Masks with New Elastic Bands

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  • A Data Science Student’s Algorithm Has the NFL’s Full Attention

    Alex Stern, who graduated in May with degrees in quantitative statistics and computer science, was a finalist at the Big Data Bowl, a National Football League-sponsored analytics competition for students.

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  • Shortcutting the Search for Multi-functional Materials

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  • Link Lab Director John A. Stankovic Participates in National Science Foundation Grant to Promote Equitable Smart Systems in Newark, N.J.

    Stankovic will collaborate with a multi-university team to ensure citizens receive equal service from citywide smart systems.

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  • Prasanna Balachandran Shortcuts Search for Multi-functional Materials

    Material Properties Are Couched in the Language of Artificial Intelligence

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  • Improving Intelligence

    UVA Engineering's Hongning Wang Creates AI-powered Technologies Ready to Reduce Stress

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  • Petra Reinke Aids Search for Corrosion-Resistant Metals

    Experiments in the Oxidation of Super Alloys Explain Corrosion Resistance

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  • Jon Ihlefeld Earns Young Faculty Award to Design Insulators for High-Temperature Electronics

    Research Aims to Grow and Test a Pure, Smooth and Widely Applicable Thin Film for Future Semiconductors

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