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Class of 2018 - Three Years in Honduras Led Christina Cabrera to Her Mission
Read NowChristina Cabrera's time in Honduras helped her realize that she wanted a career that would allow her to "“do meaningful work that will help people.”
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UVA Entrepreneurship Team Wins ACC Competition
Read NowFor the second straight year, a University of Virginia student entrepreneurship team is at the top of the heap in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Meet UVA's 2018 Beckman Scholars
Read NowInvestigating the impact of anti-cancer drugs on the heart and pursuing treatments for multiple sclerosis.
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Hartwell Foundation Names UVA a Top 10 Center of Biomedical Research -- Again
Read NowThe other institutions named by the foundation as top 10 centers this year are: Case Western Reserve University; Cornell University; Duke University; Johns Hopkins University; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; University of California, Davis; University of California, San, Diego; the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Undergraduate Duo Nab Major Science Research Awards
Read NowThe University is one of a handful schools nationwide participating in the Beckman Scholars program, largely because of its commitment to quality undergraduate research. BME third year Monica Grabowska in Saucerman Lab is researching the cardiovascular effects of a widely used class of anti-cancer drugs, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, using a computational model of the cardiac hypertrophy signaling network.
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Undergraduate Duo Nab Major Science Research Awards
Read NowThe University is one of a handful schools nationwide participating in the Beckman Scholars program, largely because of its commitment to quality undergraduate research. BME third year Monica Grabowska in Saucerman Lab is researching the cardiovascular effects of a widely used class of anti-cancer drugs, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, using a computational model of the cardiac hypertrophy signaling network.
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This Gene Affects How Some Women Store Fat – and Increases Their Risk for Diabetes
Read NowSome women who store fat in their bellies and hips may be at increased risk for Type 2 diabetes, due to a natural variation of the gene KLF14.
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Finite Element Models Used to Improve Football Helmet Safety
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Robert J. Davis: R.H. Wilhelm Award Winner
Read NowThe prestigious AIChE R.H. Wilhelm Award recognizes researchers who have most influenced the field of chemical reaction engineering.
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Koenig Wins Hartfield Excellence in Teaching Award
Read NowProf. Gary Koenig was recently awarded the 2018 Hartfield Excellence in Teaching Award - congratulations! Since 2010, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation has recognized faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Science with an annual award. Recipients demonstrate that communicating knowledge and inspiring students are as important to the education process as scholarship, and they exemplify the highest standards and practices of teaching.
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Prasanna Balachandran Joins UVA Darpa Memory Team
Read NowUVA multidisciplinary team will work to shrink computing memory bits.
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Shawn Russell - Faculty Spotlight
Read NowThe whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Assistant professor Shawn Russell combines biomechanics and orthopaedics--the outcome is life-changing for patients AND students.