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Going to Extremes
Ambitious UVA-Led Wind Energy Team, Powered by $6.1 Million in Grants, Partners with GE Global Research Center on Giant Wind Turbines
If successful, the revolutionary extreme-scale wind turbine would provide 25 MW of energy — five times the energy output of a conventional turbine — and not only make offshore...
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Shayn Peirce-Cottler Makes Advances in Biomedical Research Through Cross-Grounds Collaboration
It's hard to find a disease that Peirce-Cottler's research hasn't impacted. She is a professor of biomedical engineering, co-director of the Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing, and a faculty member in the Center for Engineering in Medicine.
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Engineering Professor Selected for Defense Advisory Group
Patrick Hopkins, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, has been selected for the U.S. Defense Science Study Group, a program bringing together top American scientists and engineers to address national security challenges.
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How Does Information Encoded in Your DNA Increase the Risk of Heart Disease and Diabetes?
Bioinformatics Applied to Gene Expression
With the help of three new grants, Mete Civelek is employing the tools of biomedical data science to connect the dots between genes and cardiometabolic disease.
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Q&A with the Chair of the Department's First All-Female Faculty Search Committee
The Tenure Track Gender Gap
In this Q&A, Blemker shares her perspectives on why women students may be discouraged from considering faculty careers and what she is doing to change the conversation.
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Manufacturing Perfection
A UVA Engineering Team is Designing a New 3-D Printing System that Detects and Automatically Fixes Tiny Flaws, with Potential for Massive Savings for the Additive Manufacturing Industry
Virginia School of Engineering Ph.D. students develop sensors and computer code that could revolutionize additive manufacturing.
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Supercomputing and Big Data Tackle Flu Season
Researchers with UVA Engineering’s Biocomplexity Institute are using computer modeling to reduce the severity of flu outbreaks.
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NIH Grants UVA Researchers $2.7M that Could Lead to Precision Treatment for Deadly Heart Plaque
Engineering and medicine team up to develop a new diagnostic tool
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2.7 million grant to scientists from the University of Virginia to study a genetic variation associated with coronary heart...
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Rolls-Royce University Technology Center Invests in Engineering Talent
Partnership Advances Mission to Engineer Materials of the Future
As one of only three Rolls-Royce University Technology centers in the country, UVA Engineering is engaged in world-class, collaborative research and development programs in...
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Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering Combats Environmental Cracking of Littoral Combat Ships
R&D Partnerships Accelerate Use of New Coating
U.S. Navy turns to UVA's Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering to protect littoral combat ships from pervasive threat of corrosion.