Quests & Answers
UVA R&D projects reach across disciplines, schools and the world
From workplace productivity to global health, from cybersecurity to yogurt serenity, UVA researchers reached across disciplines, schools and the world.
Galaxy Quest
UVA team’s discovery of elusive dwarf galaxies provides critical support for a theory of creations
Sandy Liss (Grad ’14, ’19), Sabrina Stierwalt and Chris Wiens’ (Col ’17) findings could give astronomers new data about how galaxies formed.
Sensors & Sensibility
UVA engineer explores the human side of wearables
At what point do wearable health sensors dehumanize patients? Learn about the abilities and limitations of these advanced detection methods through the eyes of science and sociology.
An immune system molecule makes you more social. Wait, what?
Research might lead to more understanding of how immune cells affect the brain
Current UVA Medical School research on mice may lead to a greater understanding of how immune cells affect the brain.
What Can Voles Tell Us About Ourselves?
Behavioral epigenetics research shows how trauma can permanently change the way your genes function
Behavioral epigenetics is the study of how emotional trauma can affect the genes passed down to the next generation, and the study of prairie voles can shed some light on this phenomenon in humans.
Human Computer
As a teenager, Caroyl Beddow Gooch measured the stars on Mount Jefferson
Caroyl Beddow Gooch's careful calculations of astronomical measurements helped McCormick Observatory become one of the world's top observatories in the mid-20th century.
Objects May Be Closer than They Appear
Cognitive science lab studies the factors that affect how we perceive what we see
Beauty is not the only thing in the eye of the beholder. Height. Distance. Effort. Cognitive psychologist Dennis Proffitt studies how we see the world around us.
Print Shop
Dots and Lines of 3-D Bioprinters Help UVA Scientists, Step by Tiny Step
UVA has two of the most precise bioprinters in the nation. What can they do? How do they do it?
The Sounds of the City
Architecture professor records sounds of New York
Architecture professor Karen Van Lengen launches a virtual library of New York City sounds.
Galactic Bones
A UVA undergraduate’s research is helping to reveal the Milky Way’s “skeleton.”
Catherine Zucker (Col '15) conducts research that is helping to reveal the Milky Way’s “skeleton.”
Sexual Assault and UVA
An overview of how the University is responding to this issue.
An overview of how the University is responding to this issue.
Weird Is Wonderful
How workplaces can benefit from eccentric employees
Darden professor Martin Davidson discusses "weirdness" and explains how weird people may be our greatest resource.
A World of Change
UVA professors study regions far and near to understand the changing climate
To find out exactly how a changing climate affects us, UVA professors have undertaken studies that span the globe—from Virginia to the Arctic and beyond.
Two Thumbs Up
UVA hand surgeon constructs two thumbs for a boy born without them
Connor Woodle was born without thumbs. A procedure performed by Dr. Bobby Chhabra at the UVA Hand Center changed his life.
Difference Maker: Lauranett Lee
Alumna works tirelessly to bring the names of Virginia’s slaves out from the shadows
Alumna searches for references to enslaved people to add them to “Unknown No Longer,” a public database of enslaved Virginians who appear in inventories, bills of sale, wills and other records.
