The Association of Computing Machinery has given its Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award to Wm. Wulf, who received U.Va.’s first Ph.D. in computer science and went on to become a national leader in the field.

The national security, health and engineering solutions company is supporting U.Va.’s Data Science Institute, which focuses on large-scale, complex data analysis.

Unmanned aerial systems collect, process, store and disseminate a wide array of data, and technology developed at the University of Virginia can help keep that data in the correct hands.

The new agreement strengthens the decade-long affiliation between U.Va. and the aerospace technology giant.

A team from the School of Engineering and Applied Science will represent the mid-Atlantic region in the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Competition, to be held in June in Russia.

A student-led spacecraft design team, based in the U.Va. Engineering School, was selected by NASA to design, build and fly a science experiment aboard a NASA flight vehicle.

The new building, shared with Facilities Management, promotes hands-on learning activities deemed vital for today’s engineers.

Fifty-two area middle-school students are using the summer break to sharpen their math and science skills during the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at the University of Virginia.

A team of graduate and undergraduate engineering students will use some of their prize money to send their creation to a Turkish man who suggested the project, and refund the rest to United Cerebral Palsy.

Horn, whose institute advocates for blending traditional and online learning models, will speak on “Disrupting Mr. Jefferson’s University: Online Learning and the Future of U.Va.”