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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.

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  • Washington Post: The Power of Opportunity

    Chenelle Williams, a fourth-year computer science student, mentors transfer students and has already lined up an internship with Amazon. Williams, on track to graduate in December 2022, is earning her bachelor's at UVA after transferring from a community college.

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  • UVA Engineering Professor earns John T. Casteen III Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Leadership Award

    Garrick Louis, an associate professor in the departments of Engineering Systems and Environment and Engineering & Society, was recognized for his work on Grounds and in the community.

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  • Class of 2022: Caton Gayle

    Gayle Has Earned a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering with a Concentration in Data Analytics

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  • Groups Honor UVA Faculty Members, Student for Outstanding Contributions

    Assistant professors George Prpich of chemical engineering and Shannon Barker of biomedical engineering earned this year’s Hartfield Excellence in Teaching Award, presented to UVA Engineering faculty.

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  • Class of 2022: Kristen Fread

    Fread Has Earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering

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  • Class of 2022: Garrett Johannsen

    Johannsen wants to work on technologies to treat Type 1 diabetes.

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  • Class of 2022: Will Ashe

    Ashe Has Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

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