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Student Satellite Designers Prepare to Party
Read NowAfter celebrating a big win in basketball, some students at UVA are preparing for another party as the satellites they designed are launched into space. About a hundred students from UVA, and another 50 from Virginia Tech, ODU and Hampton will be watching when a rocket blasts off late Wednesday afternoon with three little satellites on board.
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Podcast: UVA Launches CubeSats into Space
Read NowUniversity of Virginia Prof., Christopher Goyne, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, discusses the CubeSat Program, its importance, and its advantages with Les Sinclair. At 4:46 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, a spacecraft called Libertas CubeSat, designed and built by UVA undergraduate students, will blast off to the International Space Station aboard an Antares rocket from Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore.
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Big Prizes on the Line for Six Pike Fellows Teams
Read NowUniversity of Virginia students, pitching business ventures as varied as cybersecurity services, beach basketball and a medical device, vie for the $50,000 Pike Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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MMI Retreat Brings New Collaboration
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ChemE Ph.D. and Undergraduate Students Seek to Catalyze Better Ways to Convert Methane
Read NowMethane could be valuable as a fuel; instead it’s a huge source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Chemical engineering researchers at UVA want to flip that narrative.
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Through Thick and Thin: Neutrons Track Lithium Ions in Battery Electrodes
Read NowChemical Engineering Researchers Publish Work in Journal of Power Sources
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MIST Takes ACC InVenture Prize, Becoming Third UVA Engineering Team to Win in Consecutive Years
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Mete Civelek is Named Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor
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Pairs of Students Pursue Scientific, Social Research with ’Double Hoo’ Awards
Read NowThey will be backed by “Double Hoo” research awards, which fund pairings of undergraduate and graduate students who collaborate on research projects. UVA Engineers are 3 of 15 new projects and 3 of 5 grant renewals.
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Pike Fellows Well Represented at American Evolution Innovators Cup Competition
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X-Ray Characterization
Read NowElectron Microscopy for High Resolution Imaging
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Black Hole Discovery: Photons Traveled 55 Million Years to Get to Earth. Their First Encounters Were Detectors Developed at UVA Engineering.
Read NowA real black hole has been brought to light, thanks in part to decades of research at UVA.