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The 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.

During the past year, Dr. Johnathan Black has increasingly relied on the MAE 3-D Printing Lab to make skulls that help him prepare for surgery on some of his most serious cases.

The students are studying the trash, not just for a civil engineering course, “Solid Waste Management,” but also to contribute to the University’s materials and waste action plan.

Madeline Morales studies the high-temperature oxidation of ceramic matrix composites for use in aircraft engine components.

Assistant Professor Cody Fleming, a University of Virginia systems engineer, is contributing to a solution that promises genuine relief for travelers: the Next-Generation Air Transportation System.

Kevin Skadron, Mircea Stan and Samira Khan formed UVa’s new Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory in January through a $27.5 million grant from the corporation to tackle the “memory wall” — a bottleneck in computers that cannot process massive modern datasets. As health care, science and technology systems grow more and more data-intensive and analytics become more sophisticated, current computer systems are unable to feed data to the processor fast enough, wasting time and energy. That gap between needed power and ability, first articulated by UVA professor emeritus William Wulf and graduate student Sally McKee, is often called the “memory wall.” The 20 faculty members on [the] team will investigate how to rebuild the entire computer processing system, from better memory chips and wiring to new software that can process complex and fragmented problems.

Researchers at UVA's Center for Applied Biomechanics are using computer models to learn how the brain responds to collisions. They will use the data to develop new tools that can evaluate the effectiveness of helmets, car restraints and other products designed to prevent traumatic brain injury.

The University of Virginia's newest pan-University institute will focus on the most complex organ in the human body: the brain.

Matthew Asper, a third-year aerospace engineering major at the University of Virginia, has been named among “Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties” by Aviation Week magazine, in collaboration with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.