• Caring About Catalysis: Can UVA Make Wastewater Gas Fully Renewable?

    Wastewater may be gross, but it has the beautiful potential to be reused as industrial methane. UVA Engineering is collaborating on a fully renewable natural gas feasibility study. 

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  • A UVA Engineering Alumna and Summer Intern Dig Into UVA’s Geoexchange Heating Project

    A 2019 mechanical engineering alumna and DPR Construction project engineer is helping to build UVA’s next-gen heating plant at Fontaine site while mentoring a rising third-year ME major.

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  • UVA Engineering Professor Lands $1.9 Million NIH Award To Maximize Biomedical Research

    Assistant professor Liheng Cai aspires to mimic the structure and functions of living tissue. The National Institutes of Health signaled their support for the research with a prestigious MIRA grant.

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  • Researchers Put Finger on Why Men and Women Feel Touch Differently

    With new experimental techniques, University of Virginia engineers identified what gives us a great sense of touch, which could make modern technologies a touch better.

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  • VDOE Names UVA Among Nation’s Best-in-Class Nuclear Engineering Programs

    UVA's Department of Materials Science and Engineering poised to help Gov. Youngkin implement nuclear power in Virginia, America's first commercial small modular reactor.

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  • Podcast: Silvia Blemker on Modeling Muscles with MRI and AI for Personalized Musculoskeletal Health Care

    Professor of biomedical engineering Silvia Blemker discusses how her innovative approach weaves together advanced imaging, hands-on experimentation and sophisticated computational methods.

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  • Organs on Demand? UVA Prints Its First Voxel Building Blocks

    UVA’s Soft Biomatter Lab is bioprinting 3D structures with a material that is a close match for human tissue, paving the way for true biomanufacturing.

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