In September 2016, Samsung issued a massive recall of the Galaxy Note 7 phone after a manufacturing defect caused the phones’ batteries to generate excessive heat and catch fire. The exploding phone PR nightmare gave everyone who carries a cell phone...
While UVA Engineering Professor Jim Smith refines the MadiDrop+ technology in the lab, LVG works to launch the new venture Silivhere Technologies that will bring this water purification product to those who need it most. Civil and environmental engi...
By: Bernie Carlson It is tempting to apply the old saying, “East is East, West is West, but the twain shall never meet,” to science and entrepreneurship. In the popular imagination, scientists discover new knowledge while entrepreneurs build compani...
By Josh Barney(UVA Today) Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects one in 3,500 boys, stealing their ability to walk by age 12 and typically killing them by their mid-20s. Doctors know what causes the muscle-wasting disease, but, frustratingly, experiment...
By Matt Kelly (UVA Today) Let there be light. And let there be information. A University of Virginia engineering professor and her former graduate student have refined an alternative to Wi-Fi, and they have formed a company to market the concept. T...
UVA Today By: Sophie Zunz, zunzs@darden.virginia.edu The University of Virginia’s hometown continues to draw plaudits for its entrepreneurial ecosystem, with Entrepreneur magazine naming the Charlottesville area No. 4 on its list of the 50 best citie...
UVA Today Two faculty members are the first from the University of Virginia to be named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, an accolade created in 2010 to recognize those who invent or facilitate significant patents issued by the United Sta...
By Morgan EstabrookUVA Today Business ventures with research-and-development ties to the University of Virginia have created more than 850 jobs and pumped millions of dollars into the regional and state economies, according to a new report by U.Va. I...
By Morgan Estabrook (UVA Today) U.Va. Innovation launched the University of Virginia’s first crowdfunding website this week, enabling alumni and others to make targeted, tax-deductible donations in support of specific research and development project...
Anselmo G. Canfora was looking to engage architecture students in a timely and relevant design–build project when disaster struck — literally. When Hurricane Katrina hit the American Gulf Coast in 2005, Canfora watched in dismay as the U.S. Federal E...