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  • Airman Magazine: Hypersonics

    Associate Professor Christopher P. Goyne is featured in Airman Magazine. His lab is providing valuable data to help develop technologies for the extreme environment of hypersonic flight.

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  • Engineering New Tools for New Hearts: Helping Children on the Transplant Waitlist

    Almost 20% of pediatric patients on the U.S. wait list for heart transplants die before they receive a heart. A UVA engineering-medicine research team is dedicated to changing that.

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  • Building Flood Resilience

    A new UVA initiative will provide expertise to Virginia localities using support from the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund.

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  • Chair of Biomedical Engineering Named UVA Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research

    Frederick H. Epstein’s appointment follows his highly successful decade leading growth and transformation in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He started his new role March 1.

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  • UVA Alum Shares His Experience in Cybersecurity During the 2020 Election

    Former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency talks about his work during 2020 election and cyber warfare in Ukraine.

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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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