
UVA Engineering Achievement Award Recipients Honored at Thornton Society Dinner
This year’s UVA Engineering Achievement Awards ceremony took place on November 22 at the 2024 Thornton Society Dinner.

Professors, To Improve Your Teaching Game, Consider These Tested Formulas
UVA Engineering professors take a research-and-development approach to refining their instruction, as evidenced by the recent chem-e “teaching triangles.”

UVA Researcher’s Tool Identifies California Communities Most Vulnerable to Power Outages
Somayeh Asadi studies how communities can better prepare for outages and disasters by using a data-driven social vulnerability index.

UVA Teams Shine at ASC Construction Competition
UVA’s Cavalier Construction teams earned first and second place at the ASC competition, showcasing talent and teamwork.

WIRED: Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros
Associate Professor Coleen Carrigan discusses how coalitions between feminist movements, minorities and labor activists will help keep the Silicon Valley moguls in check.

Silvia Blemker Recognized by NAI for Advancing Muscle Health Through Innovation
Blemker has been inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

UVA Study Uncovers Key Heart Responses to Viral Infection
New insights could change the game for treating viral heart infections and preventing heart failure.

UVA Model Advances Rational Design of More Effective Maternal Vaccines for Newborns
Assistant professor Sepideh Dolatshahi and Ph.D. student Remziye Wessel lead research on vaccines that may help save more lives.

Picture This: Dozens Gather for the Graduate Engineering Student Council’s Popular International Food Friday
A tradition started as a community-building project is going strong a couple of years later. UVA Engineering’s monthly International Food Friday draws dozens for dinner, laughs and fellowship.

UVA Engineering Alum’s Paper on Bio-Inspired ‘Tunabot’ Is Among Publisher’s Most Cited
Mechanical and aerospace engineering Ph.D. alumnus and current post-doc Carl H. White discusses the impact of his Tunabot Flex research in an interview with IOP Publishing.