Recent Articles by
Michelle Koidin Jaffee
September 04, 2015
Daniel Naveed Tavakol is seeking insights into how diabetes affects blood vessel growth inside the eye.
July 02, 2015
Edward McDonnell said business and engineering students have much to learn from one another. By combining different students’ skills and knowledge in business and technology, they can form interdisciplinary teams and work to start new companies.
June 10, 2015
The program’s goal is to shape engineers who not only have deep knowledge in one discipline, but broad knowledge across the board.
June 04, 2015
Combining his interests in telecommunications and health care, Najib Ben Brahim works on monitoring improvements for a mobile artificial pancreas designed for Type I diabetes patients.
April 10, 2015
Life experiences have guided the direction of chemical engineering student Joanna Adadevoh’s career as she works to find new ways to purify polluted water.
April 07, 2015
Engineers are working on developing materials similar to bone, skin and organs in labs. Kyle Lampe is taking the challenge to a new level: he wants to regenerate nervous system tissues.
April 01, 2015
Engineering Professor John Lach is leading a research team that is seeking to use wireless technology to monitor dementia patients and de-escalate agitation episodes before they reach a crisis level.
January 30, 2015
The tech giant values U.Va. engineering students for hitting the ground running and fitting well into its corporate culture.
October 29, 2014
Computer science professor Kamin Whitehouse is working on home-monitoring technology that can automatically sense who is where in a home and adjust systems such as temperature controls and water heaters accordingly.
August 11, 2014
Patrick Hopkins’ research involves working at the nanoscale level to make materials more energy efficient.