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Discovery & Innovation

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Discovery & Innovation
Loneliness Is Epidemic. This UVA Professor Is Searching for a Cure
Among the questions Adrienne Wood is seeking to answer: Is it better to have a few close friends, or a wider network of more casual friends?
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Discovery & Innovation
UVA Working Hard to ‘Bee’ Pollinator Friendly
Two graduate students are working with the University to promote biodiversity on Grounds, thus encouraging more pollinators.
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Discovery & Innovation
Off-the-Shelf Blood Sugar Monitors Prove Accurate for Dialysis Patients
The findings suggest that factory-calibrated blood glucose monitors could offer an important tool for patients on dialysis and those suffering end-stage renal disease.
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Discovery & Innovation
UVA Astrochemist Helps Explore the Chemistry of Outer Space
Rob Garrod collaborated with an international group of astrophysicists to discover the existence of iso-propanol in a star-forming region of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Discovery & Innovation
UVA Neuroscientist Thinks Her AI for Brain Bleeds Can Beat Human Assessments
Successful in an early, limited study, Dr. Natasha Ironside’s measurement tool for brain bleeds and swelling is being put to a more rigorous test in a multi-institutional study.
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Discovery & Innovation
Go-With-the-Flow Wind Turbine, Conceived by UVA Prof, Completes Successful Demo
Eric Loth’s wind turbine, perhaps the largest design in the world, may be the future answer to maximizing wind energy as a resource.
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Discovery & Innovation
This Professor’s Invention is Helping Make Your Fruits and Vegetables Safer to Eat
Chemical engineering professor Bryan Berger created a sustainable and safer alternative to pesticides and disinfectants that reduces waste and improves food safety and human health.
Left: Headshot of Kiumars Aryana right: Thermal detectors
Discovery & Innovation
UVA Engineers Identify Material That Can Both Insulate and Cool as Needed
UVA engineers prove that a single material can be both a thermal conductor and an insulator on demand.

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