Did you get involved in volunteer activities while you were a student at U.Va.? What did you learn and how did it impact your professional life?
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Jim Aylor, Dean
Hilary Bart-Smith has an aquarium in her laboratory, but it’s not decorative. And the fish that moves gracefully from one end of the tank to the other isn’t even real. But that’s the whole point. It’s a mechanical manta ray that she and her colleagues from U.Va., Princeton, UCLA and West Chester University have reverse-engineered. (More)
Engineering students who volunteer learn practical applications of the technical skills they are learning, as well as project management and teamwork skills that are essential to a working engineer. But most say that the true joy of volunteering is in seeing the impact they can have on people and communities. (More)
Professor John Stankovic’s research on cyber-physical systems has earned him an invitation to serve a three-year term on the National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, the operating unit within the National Research Council that works with technical and public policy issues related to computing and communications. (More)
In a dinner held in the Dome Room of the Rotunda on January 28, the Trigon Society awarded the seventh annual Thomas E. Hutchinson Faculty Award to Professor Diana D. Morris. The society yearly honors leading engineering professors who have demonstrated a love of teaching, genuine outreach to students and significant contributions to the Engineering School. The student-nominated award was established in honor of Thomas E. Hutchinson. (More)
Diffusion Pharmaceuticals, co-founded by Emeritus Professor John Gainer, has opened enrollment for clinical trials of its product, trans sodium crocetinate, as a first-line treatment for newly diagnosed primary brain cancer. Michael Weber, M.D., director of the U.Va. Cancer Center, described the work at Diffusions Pharmaceuticals and at Tau Therapeutics as “the tip of the iceberg” in breaking through a divide that’s unnecessarily separated university research from private development of potentially lifesaving medicines and treatments. (More)
A newly minted assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Wei Le (CS ’05, ’10) credits her professor Mary Lou Soffa for providing her with encouragement and inspiration. “I was pretty lucky to work with her,” says Le. “She has the ability to grasp your limitations and to push you to move beyond them.” For her doctoral dissertation, Le developed an automated tool, called Marple, that can detect and diagnose faults in large software programs. (More)