Access to clean drinking water is a basic human right, yet three billion people around the world today live without reliable water service and millions die each year from waterborne illnesses. UVA Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Jim ...
Wondering who to nominate for the 2019 Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year Award? Here are a few examples of UVA researchers and previous nominees who are working to make an impact with their research. Anyone can nominate an individual or team for...
Fraser currently holds three patents for the materials, their fabrication and imaging. Recently a major pharmaceutical company licensed the technology for use as a way to test the efficacy of new drugs under development for treating diabetic wounds....
"I am very grateful to the National Academy of Inventors for recognizing these contributions, and to our research sponsors, the UVA Licensing and Ventures Group, and our licensee companies for their strong ongoing commitments to seeing these inventio...
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 148 renowned academic inventors to NAI Fellow status. The 2018 class of Fellows represent 125 research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes worldwide and are named inventor...
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...