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Chemical Engineering Professor’s Visit to Native Nepal Leads to Enterprise and Social Good
Gaurav Giri had a hunch the materials he is researching in the lab could help a lot of people breathe easier. He and Bala Mulloth, a Batten School public policy professor, are putting his idea into action.
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Improving Nuclear Waste Storage
National Science Foundation Awards Demarest a Prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship
Ph.D. student Charles Demarest, a former nuclear submarine electrician, is convinced nuclear power can be valuable if long-term storage concerns are addressed.
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John Scully Honored for Ensuring the Public Understands Its Risks from Corrosion
John Scully has been at the forefront of disseminating information on corrosion, and received the prestigious T. J. Hull Award for outstanding contributions.
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UVA Engineers Quadruple Performance of Their Water Purification Tablet
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.
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Prof. Bob Davis: R.H. Wilhelm Award Winner
Robert Davis, UVA's Earnest Jackson Oglesby Professor of Chemical Engineering, won the prestigious AIChE R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering.
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ChE Students Win University and Department Research Awards
UVA ChE students have been busy in the laboratories this spring, and those efforts have developed into several internal research awards.
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Kelp Farms and Mammoth Windmills Are Just Two of the Government’s Long-Shot Energy Bets
UVA SUMR Wind research is featured in the New York Times.
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Student Spotlight - Vanessa Awaté (AE '18)
"Aerospace engineering encompasses more than what public opinion might think. It goes beyond airplanes, spacecrafts and satellites; aerospace engineering is even present in...
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UVA Chemical Engineering Professor Geoff Geise Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Grant
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...
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Balloons on Mars? UVA Engineering Team Among Finalists in NASA Competition
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...