Engineering for Environmental and Energy Applications

John Scully has been at the forefront of disseminating information on corrosion, and received the prestigious T. J. Hull Award for outstanding contributions.

A ceramic water purification tablet developed at the University of Virginia and used by tens of thousands of people in 40 countries is now four times better than before, thanks to recent innovations in its manufacturing process developed through research at UVA.

Robert Davis, UVA's Earnest Jackson Oglesby Professor of Chemical Engineering, won the prestigious AIChE R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering.

UVA ChE students have been busy in the laboratories this spring, and those efforts have developed into several internal research awards.

UVA SUMR Wind research is featured in the New York Times.

"Aerospace engineering encompasses more than what public opinion might think. It goes beyond airplanes, spacecrafts and satellites; aerospace engineering is even present in...

Grant will support development of advanced membranes for desalination and recovery of nutrients and rare metals from water

The National Science Foundation's five-year, $548,898 award will support the development of advanced polymer membranes for desalination and recovery of nutrients and rare...

Mool Gupta wants to put balloons on Mars. Gupta, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Virginia, and his team of students are among five finalists in NASA’s BIG (breakthrough, innovative and game-changing) Ideas Challenge for 2018. “This is the kind of project that fuels the...

Benson Named Among Nation’s Top Inventors for His Natural Approach to Environmental Challenges

Benson will go down in history as the engineer who developed a brilliant way to use natural processes to prevent landfills from leaking pollutants into groundwater.

Sewage PD brings home the gold!

For their design and research of “Sewage PD," UVa was nominated for Best Environmental Project and for Best BioBrick Part.