Natural gas is abundant and burns more cleanly than gasoline. But it burns hot. A UVA engineer is developing metals to withstand the heat.
The new technique allows researchers to more easily sort genes’ immediate effects from the complex chain reactions that follow. One possible application: more effective testing for new drugs.
Potter directs UVA’s National Security Policy Center, which is quickly developing a reputation as a valuable resource for policymakers inside the Beltway.
Alumnus Greg Olsen credits his materials science and engineering faculty mentor, William A. Jesser, for launching his career and inspiring his $25 million contribution.
The findings improve doctors’ understanding of abnormal, often deadly thickening of the heart and could help them predict patients’ risk of sudden cardiac death and heart failure.
The Darden School of Business shines in the latest Bloomberg Businessweek ranking of full-time MBA programs, and the School of Law leads the nation in the Princeton Review’s 2020 annual law school rankings.
As an accomplished clinician, educator and administrator, White will continue to be a strong voice advancing health policy through this new position.
Haiti’s importance to modern democracy is pretty widely understood among academics, but most Americans only know a single – negative – perspective and little of its rich history.