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  • UVA Team Wins Third Consecutive Cybersecurity Championship

    Maggie Gates, Jake Smith and Roman Bohuk, the computer science students and team leaders of UVA's Cyber Defense Team, talk to WVIR news about UVA’s third consecutive National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition victory.

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  • Engineers Develop Device to Automate Tissue Manufacturing for Muscle Repair

    Imagine if muscle stem cells could be harvested from the patient, cultured, and then 3-D printed onto a biocompatible substrate, where they would be stretched and exercised to grow and mature to produce a foldable tissue patch that would then be implanted at the muscle wound site.

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  • Virginia could peak at more than 5,000 new COVID-19 cases a day this summer, UVA model projects

    University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative has developed infectious disease modeling being used by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to monitor the impact of COVID-19 in Virginia.

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  • Viewing One’s Car as a Safety Zone Is Natural Inclination for Some, Says Technology Historian

    The New York Times writes that cars let life in quarantine go on; Engineering and Society’s Peter D. Norton notes we’ve thought of our vehicles as personal protective equipment before.

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  • There’s Something That Makes These Graduate Instructors Special

    Three of the graduate teachers who emerged as the University's best are UVA Engineers: Kristen Fread and Laura Dunphy in Biomedical Engineering and Sarah Gustitus-Graham in Engineering Systems and Environment.

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  • Focused Ultrasound Opening Brain to Previously Impossible Treatments

    Richard J. Price, who holds joint faculty appointments in UVA’s schools of Medicine and Engineering, is using focused soundwaves to overcome the natural “blood-brain barrier,” which protects the brain

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  • ‘Be a Builder’

    UVA Engineering Ph.D. Student Applies Electrical Engineering Skills to Make Robotic Surgery More Intuitive

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  • Leave No Building Behind

    In a world that shakes daily, UVA Engineering professor Osman Ozbulut and his team are researching smart metals for resilient buildings.

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  • Avalanche Photodiode from UVA and UT-Austin Breaks Performance Record for LiDAR Receivers

    Team's Fabrication Process Achieves Long-Wavelength Sensitivity, Ultra-Low Noise and Design Flexibility

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  • The Professor Who Helped Bring BME Instruction Online is Recognized for Teaching and Service

    Brian Helmke's Nomination Cited Effectiveness, Forward-Thinking and Enduring Impact

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  • For Good: Creating Accessible Medical Technology For All

    Lucy Fitzgerald, Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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  • If Bacteria Jitterbug, to What Song do They Dance?

    Exploring the Potential of Mapping Data to Sound

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