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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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Saha Global: Empowering Women to Deliver Clean Water
Aerospace engineering alumna Kate Cincotta founded the non-profit Saha Global, for which she is now executive director, and helps women learn to treat and sell clean, affordable water to their community.
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Rescuing the Endangered Telescope
Read how UVA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory made Charlottesville a nexus for the world's radio astronomers.
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‘No Girls on the Software Team’
UVA Engineering Career Development Director's Novel Research Sheds Light on Decisions Women Make After College About Careers in Computer Science
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CAREER Award: Long-Lived Things for the Internet of Things
For the internet of things to reach its maximal benefit, all those connected devices have to keep up with the times.
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In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Toby Berger
Toby Berger, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, passed away on May 25, 2022. He was 81 years old.
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UVA Computer Science Ph.D. Student Earns $5,000 Reward from Google for Finding Bug
Tamjid Al Rahat, a student in assistant professor Yuan Tian’s research group, found a high-severity flaw in Google’s OAuth client library for Java.
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Be Wary of Optimistic Forecasts for Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Peter D. Norton puts the brakes on expectations that autonomous vehicles can deliver better-than-human safety – and says history is on his side.
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World’s First Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center Will Be at UVA
The $8 million investment will generate clinical trials and other research that will directly benefit patients.
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UVA Awards Outstanding Teachers, Citing Empathy, Technology and Collaboration
Assistant professors Shannon Barker and Nada Basit have received All-University Teaching Awards. Barker and Basit are being honored for demonstrating exceptional creativity, passion and compassion, especially during a period when students still feel the aftershocks of the pandemic.
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Scientists Transform Beating Heart Stem Cells Into Brain Cells
By turning off a single gene, University of Virginia researchers and their collaborators caused stem cells already becoming heart cells to change course and become future brain cells.
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CAREER Award: Teaching Machines the Art of Human Decision-Making
Li’s models will generate deeper insights into observational data to help people make better decisions.
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Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Student Wins UVA’s Inaugural Bhakta Rath Research Award
Tori Vigil is the first recipient of a new University award recognizing excellence in public impact research in areas anticipating future needs of the nation.