Education

UVA professors and administrators secured a nearly $7.6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to detect broad-spectrum cyber threats almost immediately after they are launched.

UVA researchers founded Teachstone® to provide assessment and professional development for educators through the Classroom Assessment Scoring System® (CLASS®).

The College of Arts and Sciences created The New College Curriculum to help students flourish at UVA, in their chosen careers, and as active citizens.

The UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine promotes innovation by embedding engineering students into clinical environments and nursing and medical trainees into engineering laboratories.

UVA's Center for Applied Biomechanics is taking a leadership role in analyzing populations with heightened vulnerability to traffic-related injury or death, specifically women and obese passengers.

NSF funding will allow UVA Engineering’s Link Lab to develop a new program that will train graduate students to make discoveries and then translate that knowledge into new technologies, products and services.

EdPolicyWorks, a joint collaboration between the Curry and Batten Schools, brings together researchers from across UVA and the state to focus on important questions of educational policy and implications for the workforce.

Women engineers at UVA host high school women each year to promote STEM and engineering as an accessible career path.

The Virginia College Advising Corps (VCAC) has expanded by a third with 36 advisers in 40 school districts. Partnership with GEAR UP Virginia, a U.S.

UVA Professor Ben Castleman is kickstarting a new, five-year strategic initiative to increase the number of students completing college and landing better-paying jobs in Virginia and beyond.

UVA researcher Jennifer Chiu and colleagues at the Curry School of Education are working on methods for integrating technology-enhanced engineering design projects and STEM curricula into early education with school systems in Virginia and beyond.

UVA Engineering is responding to a need for engineers trained to solve the complex, global problems of the 21st century.