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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.

Jill Ferguson has a passion for solar energy and public service leadership.

UVA Engineering graduate Lia Cattaneo, who participated in the Policy Internship Program, is interested in energy innovation.

Each year, the program seeks to educate policymakers in science and technology issues and give students an opportunity to understand policies that will drive the technology they create.