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| Researchers Strive to Emulate Efficiency of the Brain | Implicit Bias Links Males More Than Females with Science | Researcher Named a 2009 Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences |
| Researchers have struggled for more than 50 years to build machines that work like the human brain. But even the most advanced supercomputers don’t come close to the brain in terms of computational efficiency. Now an interdisciplinary U.Va. research team is tackling this elusive challenge. | Implicit stereotypes – thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have – may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study. | Kevin Janes, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia, is one of 17 researchers to be selected as a 2009 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts. |
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University of Virginia Scientist Brian P. Helmke, Ph.D., Receives Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
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Brian P. Helmke, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering at UVA, hopes to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in children by using fluid propulsion technology to engineer the surface of the tube so that it mimics the natural surface of the trachea. Helmke is the recipient of a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award for his project "Ciliated Pediatric Endotracheal Tube for Active Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia." -
U.Va. Receives Grant to Study Effect of Federal Stimulus on Science and Engineering Jobs
U.Va. Today
The University of Virginia has received a National Science Foundation grant to research the impact of federal stimulus dollars on hiring in science and engineering. -
Archeology Under Way at U.Va.'s Morven Farm
U.Va. Today
Seven University of Virginia archeology students are taking the first steps to unearth 12,000 years of human history, including two little-studied aspects of that history – the story of American Indians following contact with European settlers, and the life of "middling class" tenant farmers in the 18th and early 19th centuries. -
Music Major Creates Award-Winning Computer Composition Based on DNA
U.Va. Today
How does DNA sound? That was a question University of Virginia music professor Judith Shatin posed to her spring computer composition class, inspired by the “re-new” international digital arts competition. -
Low Level Light Therapy Shows Promise for Improving Neuronal Function In Parkinson's Disease Patients
U.Va. Health System
Low level light therapy (LLLT) holds potential for improving neuronal cell function in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD), according to a new study from the University of Virginia Health System. -
Book Series Launches With a Look at Early Childhood Education
U.Va. Today
A national center at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education has launched a book series focusing on the latest early childhood education research. -
U.Va. Opens $70.7 Million Facility for Cancer Research
Richmond Times Dispatch
The Carter-Harrison Research Building will allow University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers in fields such as immunology to translate their discoveries in the lab to improvements in immune therapy for cancer.
