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Fast Company: How Hemp Plants Can Clean Up ‘Forever Chemicals’
Chemical engineering’s Bryan Berger hopes his $1.6 million Environmental Protection Agency grant will eventually lead to a DIY protocol for removing toxic chemicals from farmland.
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UVA Engineering Seeks Applicants for Talent Pipeline
UVA Engineering is recruiting talent for its Rising Scholars program.
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How Advanced Math is Shaping the Future of Drug Development
Alum Dr. Tabora of Bristol Myers Squibb explained how advanced analytics and innovative tools streamline decision-making in drug development processes.
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UVA Engineering Professor Awarded $1.6M EPA Grant to Reduce PFAS Accumulation in Crops
Bryan Berger will investigate how PFAS accumulates on farms and develop strategies to reduce exposure.
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UVA and NCI-Funded SASCO Center Marks Milestones in Cancer Cell Organelles Research
UVA’s Center for Systems Analysis of Stress-adapted Cancer Organelles (SASCO) recently hosted its first annual symposium.
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UVA Engineers Design Lookalike Drug Carrier To Evade Lung’s Lines of Defense
Managing hard-to-treat respiratory illnesses like asthma and pulmonary fibrosis just got easier if a new drug-carrying molecule is as sneaky as its inventors think.
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Dean’s Fellows Experience Summer of Discovery
Here’s what four of 38 UVA Engineering undergraduate students doing research in labs across several departments have been up to this summer as Dean’s Fellows.
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Caring About Catalysis: Can UVA Make Wastewater Gas Fully Renewable?
Wastewater may be gross, but it has the beautiful potential to be reused as industrial methane. UVA Engineering is collaborating on a fully renewable natural gas feasibility study.
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UVA Engineering Professor Lands $1.9 Million NIH Award To Maximize Biomedical Research
Assistant professor Liheng Cai aspires to mimic the structure and functions of living tissue. The National Institutes of Health signaled their support for the research with a prestigious MIRA grant.
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Bonding Over Bacteria: Doctoral Student and Undergrad Pore Over ‘Double Hoo’ Research
Ph.D. candidate Rhea Braun and undergraduate student Eliza Mills team up through UVA’s Double Hoo program to study bacterial movement.
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An Engineer Explains: What Is Catalysis — And Why Should You Care?
You may not know it, but catalysis touches almost every aspect of our lives. From industry to the environment, here are five things everyone should know about catalysts.
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Caring About Catalysis: UVA Researchers on Quest for Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Commercial aviation is a major contributor to climate change. UVA is working with the Department of Energy on its $1 billion Grand Challenge.