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  • McIntire Announces Pan-UVA Center for Real Estate and the Built Environment

    Engineering Systems and Environment’s construction engineering and management concentration will strengthen relationship with McIntire through a new University center.

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  • Company with UVA Engineering Roots, Silivhere Technologies, Receives Competitive NSF Small Business Grant

    Grant will support the development of a next-generation MadiDrop+ for household water purification

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  • In Memoriam: Yacov Haimes, Expert in Mitigating Risk in Complex Systems

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  • Medicine Meets Big Data: Clinicians Look to AI for Disease Prediction and Prevention

    Donald E. Brown, W.S. Calcott Professor in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, and Dr. Sana Syed, a UVA Health pediatric gastroenterologist, are using deep learning methods in their quest to improve patient outcomes.

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  • The Drive to Collect Data Could Lead Automakers Down a Dangerous Path

    Engineering and society technology historian Peter Norton cautions that automating vehicles won’t make cars safer or cleaner if the real point is to make people drive more – and drive more dangerously.

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  • Computer Science Alum at Forefront of Startup

    Nazer Hasanian, who received his bachelor’s in computer science in 2020, helped launch Traba, a company aiming to address the labor shortage.

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  • Chemical Engineering Alumnus Paul Mensah Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

    Paul Mensah, a key member of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine team, has received one of the engineering profession’s highest distinctions.

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  • UVA ChemE Alumna at Center of COVID-19 Response as Leader of Moderna’s Vaccine Program

    In July 2021, Anne Aunins became program leader for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine program, joining more than a dozen UVA chemical engineering alumni in the race to defeat COVID-19 through vaccines.

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  • UVA MAE Alumni Come Back To Give Back

    Still devoted to their alma mater, many alums have returned to the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering to pass on their unique knowledge, skills and insights.

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  • Scott T. Acton Appointed Chair of UVA’s Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Acton is passionate about opening doors for students traditionally underrepresented in engineering.

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  • Discovery Unravels How Atomic Vibrations Emerge in Nanomaterials

    Advances in Microscopy Reveal Source of Phonons' Puzzling Behavior

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  • NSF Grant Sparks Third Iteration of UVA-Developed Water Treatment Tablets

    Jim Smith, Henry L. Kinnier Professor of Civil Engineering, is working with chemical engineering assistant professor Rachel Letteri on the next-generation MadiDrop+, a water-treatment technology Smith co-invented for use in the developing world.

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