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  • UVA Engineering's Graduate Enrollment Continues Sharp Upward Climb

    UVA Engineering’s graduate program has grown significantly, while the quality of its incoming students has remained as high as ever.

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  • Virginia Is Seeing More Frequent and Intense Rainfall

    Engineering Systems and Environment’s Jon Goodall, an expert in hydroinformatics, presented on changing rainfall patterns to a joint commission of the Virginia General Assembly.

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  • Can a Heartburn Drug Help Doctors Treat COVID-19?

    Philip E. Bourne, professor of biomedical engineering and founding dean for the School of Data Science, is part of a team of UVA researchers who have made a discovery about a commonly used heartburn drug and COVID-19 outcomes.

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  • Q&A: Understanding the Rising Threat of Ransomware Attacks

    Donald E. Brown, W.S. Calcott Professor of engineering systems and environment, answers questions about ongoing threats from ransomware attacks.

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  • A Robotic Fish Tail and an Elegant Math Ratio Could Inform the Design of Next-Generation Underwater Drones

    University of Virginia School of Engineering researchers uncover the secrets of highly efficient swimming at varying speeds.

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  • UVA Engineering Link Lab Newsletter - Summer 2021

    Leidos sponsors career skills-building | Elder Research announces new partnership with Link Lab | Meet Spot | Indy Autonomous Challenge | Sensors for cleaner air | More

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  • Engineering Systems and Environment Professor Brian Park Named President of Professional Association

    Professor Brian Park shared his vision for leading the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association in a Q&A.

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  • Masters of Success

    This year, for the first time at the University of Virginia, graduate students were offered a chance to earn a certificate in one of the nation’s newest high-tech fields: cyber-physical systems. 

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  • World-Renowned Computational Scientist Geoffrey Fox Joins UVA Faculty

    Fox is known for his work in high-performance and parallel computing

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  • Four Ways To Use Subtraction That Could Make Life Better

    Engineering systems and environment professor Leidy Klotz’s book, “Subtract,” describes concrete examples, such as the invention of the modern cement block, and abstract challenges, such as racism and climate change, to illustrate the power of subtraction.

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  • Love & Basketball: Memory of Alumnus Who Died in 9/11 Lives on Through Scholarship

    Patrick Sean Murphy, a computer science major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, is remembered through scholarships for rising third- and fourth-year students who were affected by 9/11.

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  • UVA Has Exceptionally High Four-Year, Public Engineering School Grad Rate

    At UVA Engineering, 84 Percent of Students Earn Bachelor's Degrees in Four Years

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