• CAREER Award: Designing the Next Generation of Wireless Communications Systems

    Working in partnership with industry, Shen's machine-learning models can be prototyped, standardized and integrated into real systems.

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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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