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  • Pike Fellows Program Alumni Land Substantial Funding for Startup

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  • Chemical Engineering Welcomes Promising Ph.D. Students Thanks to New Fellowships

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  • Breaking the Ultrasound Barrier to Fight Disease

    When WebMD wanted to know more about the promise of Focused Ultrasound, they called BME Professor Rich Price, research director of the UVA Focused Ultrasound Center.

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  • Riding the Wave of Sound

    One way to get drugs through the blood-brain barrier: smuggle them across using sound waves. BME Professor Richard Price talks in Protomag about his lab's pioneering work using focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and brain tumors.

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  • Mete Civelek's latest grant uncovers the biologic networks that underlie coronary artery disease

    Mete Civelek's new award from the American Heart Association

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  • What Is Multi-Scale Modeling? How Can It Help Your Health?

    In an op-ed in Forbes, Dr. Bruce Lee of Johns Hopkins cites the work of BME Professors Shayn Peirce-Cottler and Silvia Blemker. He says their work is an example of how multi-scale modeling promises to fundamentally shift how health and medical research are approached.

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  • Eric Loth Op-Ed: Offshore Wind Will Drive America’s Future in Energy Technology and Manufacturing

    "If we can drive this technology forward and showcase the economic benefits of offshore wind, we can coalesce the public viewpoint around a common strength and vision for the future of energy technology and manufacturing." - Eric Loth

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  • Five Days in January

    Students crank out stellar math paper in international modeling contest, beating 11,243 other teams

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  • Health Care in Your Pocket

    How digital technology can improve mental health treatment

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  • Using Data Science to Determine Why One Job Candidate Beats Out Another

    Three UVA Ph.D. students are using new data science tools to better understand what makes a job interview successful for candidates and recruiters – and how companies can mitigate bias.

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  • Building an Office That Works With You

    Link Lab researchers envision intuitive buildings adusting to workers' needs

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  • UVA Engineering's National Academy of Engineering Meeting Offers Glimpse of Cutting-Edge Research in Cyber-Physical Systems

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