Alex Stern, currently pursuing his master’s degree from the School of Data Science and interning for the UVA football team, wrote an algorithm that got the NFL’s attention earlier this year.
UVA Engineering students salvaged a season of lost internships and travel by working with engineering faculty to solve a complex problem for UVA Health physicians at the University’s Fontaine Research Park.
The decision was made after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said door-to-door trick-or-treating is a high risk activity during the pandemic.
So far, University leaders remain hopeful that the real-time monitoring for the virus markers in dormitory sewage, among other measures, will help UVA avoid the fate of other universities that have had to send students home.
Ahead of Virginia’s voter registration deadline Tuesday, UVA students are helping their peers register to vote, volunteer as poll workers and make a plan to get to the polls.
Alumnus Tom Cooke is president of a startup company that is hoping to revolutionize the footwear and plastics industry through a new, plant-based, biodegradable material they have developed.