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  • Dogfighting at Hypersonic Speeds: UVA MAE Pilots New $4.5M ‘Top Gun’ Contract

    The latest UVA-led collaboration for the Department of Defense will involve multiple partners and hands-on experience for students.

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  • UVA Joins $15 Million NSF-Funded ‘Innovation Hub’

    The goal of the new research consortium is to accelerate the translation of discoveries into solutions that benefit society.

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  • Alum Helps Administer New Act Putting U.S. Science and Tech at Forefront

    Erwin Gianchandani, a UVA graduate and assistant director at the National Science Foundation, will help administer about $450 million in new federal funding aimed at pushing technological development.

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  • UVA Discovery Could Ease Jet Lag, Improve Chemotherapy, Among Other Benefits

    Miniature “guts in a dish” and advanced computer modeling to reveal how microscopic organisms that naturally live in our guts direct the timing of daily activities of the cells lining our intestines.

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  • UVA Health Awarded $15 Million to Better Understand Artery Hardening

    The Leducq Foundation, which is dedicated to battling cardiovascular disease and stroke, has funded four projects worldwide for 2022. Two of those involve researchers here at UVA.

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  • Devin K. Harris Named Chair of the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment

    Harris is an expert in infrastructure systems and leader in research that aims to improve built environments

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  • UVA's Exploration of New Frontier in Cancer Research Nets $12M Award

    New research center, funded by the NIH's National Cancer Institute, to leverage UVA's expertise in cancer systems biology and biomedical data sciences.

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  • Leading Tissue Regeneration Expert to Chair UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Her research focuses on tiny blood vessels that are one-tenth the diameter of a human hair, needed to regenerate tissues damaged by injury or disease. 

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  • How Henrico's Roads Can Keep Cyclists Safer

    Assistant professor of civil engineering Donna Chen was part of a research team that surveyed nearly 700 Virginia cyclists to better understand road safety.

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  • Two UVA Engineering Alumnae Elected to the National Academy of Construction

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  • Mool Gupta and Partners Seek Traces of Life on the Moon and Other Planets

    Mool Gupta's laser research group will construct an optical probe for an autonomous mini-rover to analyze rocks, ice and other ground samples at the microscopic level to obtain biological and elemental signatures.

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  • A Lifetime of Computing and Problem Solving

    Q&A with Scott Acton, New Chair of UVA's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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