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December 2007
	Bush Signs Energy Efficiency Bill Engineering Authors: Students Collaborate on ecoMOD Book University of Virginia Students Migrate South Kaine seeks $1.65 billion in bonds for colleges / Renovations to UVa's New Cabell on list Students Use Engineering Skills to Benefit South African Communities Cell tracking may speed up the drug discovery process Gov. Kaine joins students at the ribbon cutting of UVa's ecoMOD3 Governor hails area projects Kaine to Visit Charlottesville Monday The EcoMod Experiment ‘Inside the Box’ Drama Project Requires Innovative Thinking for Young Engineers Virginia Governor Kaine Praises ecoMOD3’s Focus on Affordable Housing and Sustainability Engineering Faculty Market Their Solution to Cell-Tracking Riddle Journey into space began on gridiron Former UVa Grad Headed For Space Virginian ready for shuttle Atlantis' trip to space station Former football player on way to outer space Former NFL player gears up for spaceflight Engineering takes the stage Cell-tracking software speeds drug development
November 2007
	U.Va. Graduate Student Honored for Research Designed to Make Computing Environment Safer Time of your life: Former University professor Randy Pausch, who suffers from terminal cancer, shares his advice on time management to a University audience Civil Engineering Seminar Examines Regulation of Port-Related Trade Testing Drug Components Early University of Virginia device offers pharmaceutical makers a fast, cheap and safe way to screen potential drug compounds Working at Their Crafts: Engineering Students’ Competition is Serious Fun Randy Pausch Delivers Lecture on Time Management at UVA, Draws Crowd of Hundreds Professor with terminal cancer: There's less time than you think Prognosis Prompts Professor's Tour Lecture of a Lifetime: U.Va.'s School of Engineering and Applied Science Hosts Talk by Randy Pausch Former UVa Prof Giving His Last Lectures Aerojet Continues to Fuel the Hy-V Program at U.Va.'s Engineering School Author's Last Words Dying Prof's Final Lecture a Potential Best-seller Rolls-Royce Partnership Boosts Engineering and Business at U.Va. Old Schools, New Approach / Elite Colleges Reach Out to Low-Income Prospects U.Va. Scholar Traces Voting Technology Controversy to the 1890s Device Offers Pharmaceutical Makers A Fast, Cheap and Safe Way to Screen Potential Drug Compounds Out of This World, On to the Next Vienna Company Provides Space Travel Services U.Va.’s School of Engineering and Applied Science Hosts Talk by Randy Pausch Science and Sport Combine at FIRST Tech Challenge Championship Tournament at U.Va.’s Engineering School U.Va. Device Offers Pharmaceutical Makers A Fast, Cheap and Safe Way to Screen Potential Drug Compounds Area Firm Making Next Generation of Military Armor Tommy Jr. Knocked Out of the Race New Plant to Add 170 Jobs / Va., Local Officials Hope Factory Boosts Region UVa Joins Colleges in Partnership with Rolls-Royce / Plan Brings Plant to Prince George, Many Benefits to University The FIRST Tech Challenge will take place this Saturday Engineering Professor Evangelizes ‘Higher Ed 2.0’ Approach to Teaching New device for screening potential new drug compounds Turbine-maker Rolls-Royce to Open Plant in Virginia Hyperion wins auction for The Last Lecture
October 2007
	Beyond the Corner: International Programs Thriving at U.Va. U.Va. Profiles: Legendary ‘Dean Jean’ Remains a Touchstone for Engineering Grads Professor taking tech into classroom 'Nanospikes' Add To Solar, Biomedical, Microelectronics Applications Samantha Rowell 5 Ways to Grab Your Doctor by the Lapels of His Lab Coat U.Va. Engineering Goes Global: New International Programs Office to Enrich and Globalize Engineering Education
September 2007
	First Bland Award Goes to Dr. Cato Laurencin Class project may save lives U.Va. Engineering School Launches Symposium to Tackle Global Energy Dilemma Virtual Lab (Video) Vinu Ilakkuvan, Science and Technology Policy Intern “Notable” Column Acknowledges Awards and Achievements of Faculty and Staff SEAS Students and Serendipity Work to Bring Water to Wum She grew up around Navy, now may help it leap ahead Breaking New Ground: U.Va.-led Team Paves Way for All-Electronic Navy Students to plan African rail line Self-driving car serves as vehicle for engineers’ success Engineers Lawless, Pilkey Leave Lasting Legacy WebCAT: Online Crime Database (Video) UVa group engineers human tissues New U.Va. Partnership Encourages Exchange of Ideas in South Africa Crisp, With a Hint of Calculus DoD Robocar Race To the Rescue Blame 19th-century Britons for dogfights The Michael Vicks of Yore
August 2007
	Success Continues for the Science and Technology Policy Internship Program Project To Build Affordable, Green Homes Thornton Hall Flags Honor Engineering School’s Diversity After time at national level, Wulf returns to U.Va. faculty / Offers unique perspective on technology, policy ecoMOD3 Expands Modular, Sustainable, Affordable Housing Research U.Va. Engineers’ Self-Driving Car to Hit the City Streets in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge SEAS MURI Award Paves Way for All-Electronic Navy Team Jefferson Commercially Viable Semifinalist in DARPA Urban Challenge Mool Gupta’s ‘Nanospikes’ Add New Dimension to Research George Cahen on Team Jefferson: Radio The ground truth: Storefront sensors measure success of retail displays and other factors influencing consumer behavior. U.Va. To Host Supercomputing ‘Bootcamp’ for Faculty - Campus Technology \| GRIDtoday VDOT Says Local Bridges are Safe Are our bridges safe? On the right track: Robots draw kids to science Driverless ‘Tommy Jr.’ Car Shows Robotics Camp What Lego Robots Can Lead To
July 2007
	U.Va.—Va. Tech. High-Performance Computing Boot Camp to Educate Faculty, Researchers about Computational Science New Tool Makes Ultrasound Images Clearer Parallel Computing Speeds up Cancer Diagnosis Wahoos in Space Kids Prepare For the Future Using Legos A Robotics Camp at U.Va. Gives Middle Schoolers a Hands-on Experience (PDF) - Page 2 U.Va. Engineering Department Seeking Sustainability Niche An eye on downtown merchants? U.Va. Engineering School Announces Department’s New Research Focus and Name Enhancements, Parallelization Improves Beamforming Algorithm Summer Science Camp Develops the Minds of Young Einsteins An Eye on Downtown Merchants? Biomedical Engineer Obtains Coveted CAREER Grant Star-P Software Enables High-Definition Ultrasound Researchers Develop New Nanocomposite Material For EMI Shielding Engineering Honors Faculty Member, Student Summer Camp at U.Va. Gives Hands-on Lessons in Science, Math and Engineering Schools unite to push science Looking Back: The Civil Rights South Tour Three Months Later U.Va. Engineering School Researchers Develop Tool for Clearer Ultrasound Images U.Va. Engineering Students’ Ideas Take Flight Summer Science Camp Brings Former NASA Astronaut and Program Founder to U.Va. Breakthrough Polymer Is Lightweight, Conductive, Corrosion-Proof, Flexible U.Va. Heads Exchange Program To Increase Minority Tech Degrees What’s Next In Medical Imaging: High-Def Ultrasounds: Digg \| Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News \| MedicExchange.com \| RedOrbit \| SuperComputing Online Dr. Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp (PDF) Determined to Reinspire a Culture of Innovation Alliance aims to attract minorities to sciences What's Next In Medical Imaging: High-Def Ultrasounds Polymer is lightweight, conductive, corrosion-proof, flexible Historically black, majority white schools unite for science Carbon Nanotubes Unite Metals and Plastics to Form Ultra Lightweight Composite Historically Black, Majority White Schools Unite for Science Lego Maniacs Where's Your Computer's Hotspot? Polymer is lightweight, conductive, corrosion-proof, flexible Historically black, white schools unite Bernard Harris Science Camp Grooming the Engineers of Tomorrow Transforming the Way We See Things with Sound: New Advanced Imaging Algorithm
June 2007
	Team Jefferson steers Tommy Jr. toward robotics challenge - Daily Progress article \| Video Researchers Develop New Method To Control Complex Systems A UVA Professor is Honored for Her Work with the Defense Department U.Va. Astronaut Patrick Forrester Spacewalks on June 13 to Work on Space Station U.Va.-Coulter Research Partnership Enters New Stage FEST Award Promotes Inventive Heart Research - ResearchNews \| UVA Today Engineering Classes Offered $5 Million National Science Foundation Grant: U.Va. to Create Eight-School Alliance with Goal of Doubling Number of Minority Science and Engineering Graduates Team Jefferson Steers Tommy Jr. Toward Robotics Challenge - Richmond Times-Dispatch \| Daily Progress \| Video (Daily Progress) U.Va. Engineering ‘Rising Star’ Honored by Women in Technology Biomedical Engineer Obtains Coveted CAREER Grant - ResearchNews \| UVA Today Researchers Develop New Method to Control Complex Systems Engineering Students Go Global Small Molecules to the Rescue Researchers Find a New Way to Engineer Complex Systems Creating Complex Dynamics from Simple Rhythms ‘Engineering a Legacy’: Engineering Development Forum to Take Place at U.Va. U.Va. Astronaut and Jamestown Artifact Aboard Space Shuttle Mission UVA Laboratory Develops New Drug for Hypoxia A hardware-software symbiosis Promises Kept: Wounded Army veteran battles back A hardware-software symbiosis Systems and Information Engineering Student Team wins Third Place in the FAA Airport Design Competition (PDF)
May 2007
	IIE Publishes New Study Abroad White Paper (SEAS, page nine) U.Va. Engineering School’s Science and Technology Policy Internship Program Expands to Paris NAE President William A. Wulf Urges Reforms to Aid U.S. "Innovation Ecology" New Programs Selected to Fuel Search for Next Logic Device by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and National Science Foundation FEST Winner’s Research May Revolutionize Computer Design No Stopping Him: War Wound Can’t Derail Vet’s Drive for Second Degree Being Uncomfortable Is the Best Way to Grow U.Va.’s Engineering School Offers Science Camp Solution to Summertime Blues U.Va. Students’ Work Assesses Mental Health Resources Engineer who led investigation into collapse of World Trade Center among 6 honored by AAES U.Va. Biomedical Engineering Department to Lead Global Network for Innovation U.Va.’s Learning Barge Project Wins $75,000 EPA P3 Award for Sustainable Design New Mental Health Program U.Va. Students 'Engineer a New Path to Study Abroad:' New Curricular Design Tool Allows U.Va. Engineering Students to More Easily Study Overseas U.Va. Biomedical Engineering Department to Lead Global Network for Innovation U.Va. Professors Wulf and Diamond Elected to American Philosophical Society Four U.Va. Innovators Secure FEST Funding Forty-seven U.Va. Students Receive Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards Small Molecules to the Rescue A Model Microvasculature $11.2 Million for Hydrogen/Nanoscale Catalysts Research from DOE SEAS Undergraduate Research & Design Symposium 2007 Northrop Grumman Names Winners in First Annual Central Florida Engineering Scholars Competition NAE President William A. Wulf Urges Reforms to Aid U.S. "Innovation Ecology" New Programs Selected to Fuel Search for Next Logic Device SRC and NSF U.Va. Biomedical Engineering Department to Lead Global Network for Innovation U.Va.'s Learning Barge Project Wins $75,000 EPA P3 Award for Sustainable Design
April 2007
	All-University Teaching Awards: Edward J. Berger of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering honored Mental Health Forum University Teams Earn Sustainable Design Prizes / Biomethane Car and Learning Barge Among the Projects on National Mall Engineer Tapped for U.Va. Women's Center Distinguished Alumna Award - Cavalier Daily \| UVA Today Two U.Va. Engineering Students Receive 2007 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships - Cavalier Daily \| ResearchNews \| UVA Today Berne turns to fiction Three Goldwaters: U.Va. students win national scholarship (PDF) University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science Hosts Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium U.Va. Engineering Professors Receive $415,000 NASA Award for ‘First Principles Calculations’ Project Engineering Students Wei Le and Isabella Stanton receive Google Scholarships Virtual Lab an Actual Reality at U.Va. - ResearchNews \| UVA Today
March 2007
	Goldwater award goes to students MSC.Software Global University Program to Help Educators Meet Business Demand for Enterprise Simulation U.Va. Engineering School Secures Three MURI Grants from Department of Defense - ResearchNews \| UVA Today E-School Responds to Competition in Global Field Systems Engineer Finds New Meaning in Moving Patterns - ResearchNews \| UVA Today University of Virginia Engineering Professor Wins ‘Rising Star’ Grant - ResearchNews \| UVA Today Innovative Morphogenesis Research Nets $500,000 Grant Professor John Dorning Elected to National Academy of Engineering U.Va.’s William Wulf Delivers Address at Engineering School’s Industry Day - ResearchNews \| UVA Today Restoring Damaged Knees: A team of researchers has bioengineered a synthetic scaffold that effectively regenerates tissue in torn knee ligaments. Hooked on Science Systems Engineering Finds Meaning in Moving Patterns Professor Ed Berger Introduces Higher Ed 2.0 Web Tools for Blogging, Podcasting and Wikis Knee Aid May Be on Way / A Laboratory-created Replacement Would Be Absorbed in Healing. Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Partnership to Help Engineering Students Get Degree from UVA AREVA, Schools Join Forces Engineering School Partnership Will Allow Students to Complete Four-Year Engineering Program in Lynchburg E-School Announces Partnership with CVCC CVCC Students Will Study for U.Va. entry E-School Responds to Competition in Global Field Engineering School Professor Brings Tablet PCs, New Enthusiasm to Computer Engineering Course U.Va. Chemical Engineer Acquires Esteemed CAREER Award Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Anita K. Jones Anita Jones U.Va. Adjunct Professor One of Those Killed at Va. Tech Shooting Victim Had Ties to UVA Two U.Va. Engineering Students Receive 2007 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships
February 2007
	Diversity March at U.Va. Honors African-Americans in Engineering Engineering Prof. Joins NAE U.Va. Professor John Dorning Elected to National Academy of Engineering Dean Aylor Podcast (on Coy Barefoot) Coffee and Chemistry Quantum Computers U.Va. Named Site for NLM Informatics Training U.Va. Engineering Professor Emeritus Receives ASME Medal - ResearchNews \| UVA Today Engineering School’s McIntosh Earns Prestigious NSF Grant - ResearchNews \| UVA Today U.Va. Engineering Teaching Kits Aim to Keep Middle School Students Excited about Careers in Technology U.Va. Engineering Open House Set for Feb. 24 Computer Science Professor John Knight Honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Technology in World History: WMRA program, 2/5/07 That Little Voice Telling You To Skip I-95? It's Your Car Former Astronaut Challenges Springdale Educators to Inspire Students, Create Future Explorers Former Astronaut Visits Teachers, Students Bioengineered ACL Could Help Injured Knees-Cato Laurencin UVa Students Work On Super-Fast Engine Nanotechnology Promises to Improve Biomechanics Care Class Project Puts University of Virginia Students in National Finals of ‘Ecomagination Challenge’
January 2007
	Engineering Professor Selected as Finalist in NASA contest Engineering Professor Selected as Member of NASA Team SEAS Graduate Students Take Second Place in System-on-Chip Design Challenge Software Spots Crime Early Charlottesville-Right Now: UVa's Dean of Engineering and Applied Science Jim Aylor SEAS Graduate Students Take Second Place in System-on-Chip Design Challenge U.Va. Professor Honored by North American Catalysis Society Computer Science Professor Anita Jones Awarded IEEE Founders Medal Professor Robert Kelly’s Rust Research Proves Valuable to Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Robert Davis Honored by North American Catalysis Society Cars, People and the Word That Changed A Nation. Assistant Prof. Peter Norton. WMRA interview. 1/8/07 U.Va. Project Helps Police Spot Trends, Stop Crime Fresh Spin On Logic: MIT Team Paves Way For a Spintronics Microprocessor

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