Josephine Lamp came to the University of Virginia School of Engineering to earn her Ph.D., armed with a passion for using technology to solve complex medical problems. It was that same drive for solutions that led Lamp to computer science as a teenager. “I was a dancer in high school, and I wanted to find a way to build a light-up tutu that dynamically changed colors to music,†Lamp said. Her computer science teacher taught her how to write code and solder to create the engineering wonder. “The tutu was pretty cool when it was finished, but I think the biggest thing I took away was how awesome computer science was as a tool,†she said.