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  • For this Founder and Investor, It All Started with Systems Engineering

    UVA alumna Dayna Grayson’s first startup experience at UVA’s ERICA project sparked her passion for transformative technology and venture capital.

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  • Biomedical Engineering Professor Receives $3.1M NIH Grant to Improve Heart Attack Outcomes

    Jeff Saucerman will collaborate with researchers at the School of Medicine to study the role of lipoprotein receptors in heart failure. 

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  • UVA Professor Receives $690,000 DOE Grant to Boost Energy Efficiency in Semiconductors

    Patrick E. Hopkins teams with NREL Center on Sustainability project. 

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  • UVA Co-Leads $2.9 Million NIH Investigation Into Where Systems May Fail People with Disabilities

    Rupa Valdez has combined efforts with a Johns Hopkins University researcher and others to understand how systems affect the care of people with disabilities.

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  • Podcast: Madhur Behl on CAVCAR’s Record-Breaking Victory and Beyond

    Hoos in STEM podcast host Ken Ono asks Cavalier Autonomous Racing’s Madhur Behl and Amar Kulkarni what’s next after becoming the first American team to win the Indy Autonomous Challenge.

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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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  • Why Gulf Hurricanes Threaten Virginia, Southeast

    Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida, but has impacted thousand outside of the state. A UVA Engineering expert explains how and why this happens.

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  • If an Asteroid Heads Toward Earth, How Close to Harm's Way Will We Be?

    Joshua Handal, a 2012 UVA Engineering alumnus, explains why the best offense against meteors is the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

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  • UVA Biomedical Engineering Professor Receives Eugene M. Landis Award from the Microcirculatory Society

    Shayn Peirce-Cottler received a national career award for her work in microvascular research. 

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  • UVA Develops a ‘Google Earth’ View of Bone — With an Eye Toward Disease Prevention

    Toni Tang of the Center for Applied Biometrics has collaborated on a biological imaging and characterization approach that allows 3D imaging of bone across all relevant measures for the first time. 

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  • Watch as UVA Displays Its New High-Speed, Self-Correcting AI Algorithms

    What were the keys to UVA's impressive showing at this fall's Indy Autonomous Challenge? A mathematical tweak to the vehicle dynamics and a new car-detection algorithm that learns from its mistakes.

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