• Computer Science Students Develop Contact Tracing App

    Two undergraduate computer science students at the University of Virginia, with another student at the University of Notre Dame, have developed a Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contact tracing app called TraceX.

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  • A Heart Issue: How One UVA Family is Handling Recent Events

    Sanford Williams, who earned a law degree from UVA, writes about himself and his family during recent events, “We need to be authentic, vulnerable and honest with ourselves. We have to be honest about race, even when it is uncomfortable. If we don’t do that, we are not going to be able to solve these problems.”

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  • What Technology Has Accidentally Killed the Most People?

    How does the combustion engine kill? Science and technology historian Peter D. Norton counts the ways.

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  • How to Sustain Your Activism Beyond this Moment: Empathy

    Engineering Systems and Environment Ph.D. student Bethany Gordon explains how a more nuanced understanding of empathy might allow us to use it more effectively for racial justice.

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  • UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine Newsletter June 2020

    A Q&A with mechanical engineer and medical doctor Mark Sochor about COVID-19 in the ER, recently funded projects, center researchers in the news and more.

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  • Rapid Responders

    UVA Chemical Engineering Lab Helps Defeat COVID-19 with Science Funded by CARES Act

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  • Engineering Systems and Environment Professor Jim Smith Serving as Assistant Dean for Graduate Education

  • Mechanical Engineers Develop Coronavirus Decontamination Robot

    Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor and Link Lab member Tomonari Furukawa leads the design of a coronavirus decontamination robot.

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  • Getting in on the Action

    Undergrads Roll Up their Lab Coat Sleeves

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  • Astronaut Scholarship Will Help Chemical Engineering Student Soar

    Karl Westendorff relishes meshing science and engineering, where minute phenomena can be applied for big impact.

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  • Newly Endowed Fund Taps UVA Matching Program

  • Wahoo Winning Streak

    UVA Engineering's Cyber Defense Team sailed through the National Collegiate Cyber Defense championships, held May 22-23, winning the top spot for a third time in a row.

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