Recent Articles by
Elizabeth Thiel Mather
June 05, 2018
The survey found that 83 percent of students who enroll in UVA’s Engineering School earn their undergraduate degrees in four years. So what’s the secret?
April 16, 2018
UVA’s student Cyber Defense Team – in its first taste of national competition – beat talented teams from nine other universities to earn the championship title at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
March 23, 2018
The team of computer science students will head to a national cybersecurity competition in April after successfully fending off a two-day onslaught of mock cyberattacks to qualify.
February 21, 2018
In the future, most of the physical objects people use in their everyday lives will be connected to the internet and will be able to help us live more comfortably, effectively and efficiently. UVA Engineering’s new Link Lab will develop and deploy them.
January 12, 2018
The $27.5 million investment will fund research to eliminate barriers to mining “big data” for breakthroughs in medicine, smart technologies and many other areas.
December 12, 2017
Craig Benson, who created an innovative way to keep contaminated water from leaking out of landfills and polluting groundwater, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
May 04, 2017
When he was a middle-schooler captivated by hands-on math and science, Darius Carter could only dream of how far an engineering degree would take him.
March 07, 2017
UVA researchers have joined the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, which will seek to develop scalable manufacturing processes for engineered tissues and organs.
March 03, 2017
The Board of Visitors, through its Strategic Investment Fund, is financing an initiative to create more energy-efficient materials, devices and systems with new functionality to drive modern life.
February 08, 2017
After having a epiphany about computer coding on a train, then-University of Virginia computer science engineering Ph.D. candidate Kevin Scott shifted his career onto a path that eventually led to becoming the chief technology officer at Microsoft.