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UVA Engineering alumna Adrienne Porter Felt was named to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review’s list of 35 top innovators under age 35 for her work on web security.

Third-year systems engineering major Matthew Wajsgras wanted to get the lay of the land at the University of Virginia before transferring from Virginia Tech, so he created ’Hoos Mobile, an app with everything from maps to class descriptions.

The University of Virginia hosted a daylong community conversation around the coming driverless car age’s impacts on Charlottesville and other small to mid-sized cities around the country.

UVA is one of seven universities working with the U.S. Army to develop crash test dummies that can closely predict how the human body would behave during an under-body blast – the type of blast generated when land mines or improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, explode beneath a vehicle.

Dr. Cornel West opened UVA Engineering's 2017-2018 Excellence Through Diversity Distinguished Learning Series with a speech that touched on spiritual malaise, neo-fascism and the plight of the poor.

UVA Engineering graduate student Bethany Gordon believes that virtual reality could inspire engineers to help solve humanitarian crises taking place thousands of miles away.

Fourth-year aerospace engineering and astronomy major Paul Hughes was part of a UVA team that traveled the globe to pinpoint the location of a object at the edge of our solar system.

UVA Engineering Associate Professor Rosalyn Berne, a bioethicist, explores some of the ethical and technical issues brought to the fore by the emergence of implantable technology.

Since the space age began, spacecraft and their crews have been communicating with ground stations via radio. Now, University of Virginia engineering students are about to join that tradition with their own ground station for tracking a small spacecraft of their own design.