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Could scooters be a catalyst to help wrest dominion of the streets away from cars? Maybe, Engineering and Society historian Peter Norton tells Fast Company.

Company’s founders draw lessons from predecessors in pursuit of a trophy for fourth consecutive year

Alexander Singh and Rohit Rustagi, founders of Minimally Invasive Spinal Technology LLC, know that representing UVA at this year’s ACC InVenture Prize means filling big shoes.

AgroSpheres, a company founded by UVA Engineering graduates Payam Pourtaheri (nanomedicine engineering, 2016) and Ameer Shakeel (biomedical engineering, 2017), is one of eight agricultural technology startups to compete for $250,000 in the Radicle Challenge.

Led by Engineering and Society professors Sharon Ku and Sean Ferguson, the team excelled in strategy, collaboration and, ultimately, nailing their objective.

Historian’s latest Forbes column argues that the long, proud run of RMS Olympic shows a different side of her ill-fated twin, Titanic.

Engineering and Society history professor Peter Norton says pedestrians are claiming their place on city's streets.

UVA engineering and society historian Peter Norton describes for the Washington Post’s Power Up column how the auto industry retooled for WWII.

This fall, Engineering and Society opened its entrepreneurial community to Nadia Jean Charles, a Haitian engineer and entrepreneur who came to Charlottesville as a fellow in the...

Teams receive funding, mentoring and training to launch innovative ventures and compete for $50,000

Six teams of student entrepreneurs working on promising entrepreneurial ventures have been named Pike Fellows.

Victory signals new focus on standardization education

Julia Suozzi (computer engineering ’18) is the national winner of the American National Standards Institute’s seventh annual student paper competition.