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  • UVA-Designed COVID-19 Swab to Support High-Priority Testing Across Virginia

    A total of 75,000 swabs are slated for production each week, with 15,000 swabs remaining at UVA Health to support testing at the health system.

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  • Creative at Heart

    UVA Engineering Ph.D. student helps cardiovascular surgeon create a lifeline to better treatment for heart failure patients

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  • Prepping for Return

    UVA Facilities Management employees, staff and faculty have been busy preparing buildings, labs and classrooms for student arrival.

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  • Rasmussen, Orebaugh Honored with SCPS Adelle Robertson Award

    Angela Orebaugh, computer science adjunct lecturer, receives the Adelle F. Robertson Award from UVA's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

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  • Learning in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Researchers, Clinicians Weigh In

    Madhav Marathe, computer science professor, Distinguished Professor of Biocomplexity and a director at UVA's Biocomplexity Institute shares insights on the importance of modeling in response to a pandemic.

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  • New Research Partnership Explores Wireless Spectrum Sharing

    Researchers Envision a Vibrant Future Wireless Environment Compatible with Commercial Applications and Scientific Research

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  • This Student’s Summer Internship Put Him on the Front Lines of Vaccine Production

    ChemE with experience in Matt Lazzara’s cell signaling lab loses a summer job to COVID-19 only to find another helping to defeat the virus.

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  • Keeping Airplanes in Service Without Bolts and Rivets: Research Points Toward More Efficient and Cost-Effective Safety Certification of Repairs

    Unique Instrument Assesses Bonding Strength of Composite Materials Used to Join Aerospace Vehicle Parts

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  • New Norms

    A. James Clark Scholars Program Revamps Integral Summer Program to Welcome Its Third Cohort of Students to UVA Engineering

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  • Virtual Bridge to UVA

    UVA Engineering's Longstanding Bridge Program is Virtually Helping Incoming Students Transition to the Rigors of Academia in This Post-COVID-19 World

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  • #WeAreUVAEngineers Keeping Our Community Safe

    Faculty, Staff, and Students Talk About Safely Returning to Grounds

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  • UVA Researchers test drive new virus-killing robot prototype at Daily Planet Health Services in Richmond

    Meet Dingo, the robot designed to safely decontaminate COVID-19. This weekend, University of Virginia robotics professor Tomonari Furukawa and fellow researchers conducted a real-world test drive of a semiautonomous robot.

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