High-achieving students, a dedicated staff member, and a former rector who led by example earned recognition for service at this year’s valediction.

With the Internet in our pockets, are we more inclined to be inattentive to other tasks? A new study indicates that the answer is yes.

Put together a student who loves flight, a flight simulator and an aerospace engineering degree, and what do you get? A flying engineer.

One biology professor raves that Bethany Bruno “is an exceptional student, and one of the most decent, caring individuals I have known.”

Student engineers are designing and will build and operate a three-pound, softball-size satellite that will orbit the Earth for two months, conducting experiments on atmospheric densities.

A chemist and a neuroscientist each have won $300,000 grants from the Hartwell Foundation to conduct research on diseases affecting children’s health. Their work focuses on battling pediatric cancer and autism.

UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Max Planck Society to advance research on new, renewable, environmentally friendly and economical energy sources.

UVA psychology Ph.D. candidate Kelly Hoffman’s study finds that medical students and residents who held false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites were less likely to effectively manage the pain of black patients.

A neuroscience graduate student has found that college football players experience a disruption in brain function during the course of a season.

A long-term study of a plant and its pathogen is growing researchers and yielding evolutionary insights.