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May 2026
- Class of 2026 Final Exercises and Diploma Ceremony
- M.S. in Data Science Online Virtual Info Session
April 2026
- UVA Career Center BSDS Application Help Day
- Tour of the School of Data Science
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Capital One and UVA Engineering Announce Major Partnership to Advance AI Research and Education
Capital One and the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science today announced a transformative $4.5 million partnership to establish the Capital One AI Research Neighborhood and…
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AI Maps “Ghost Forests” From Maine to South Carolina | College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Associate Professor Xi Yang and Ph.D. researcher Henry Yeung used AI and satellite data to map nearly six million dead trees along the U.S. Atlantic coast — work featured in Science for its groundbrea…
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Reading Artificial Minds: Hudson Golino Brings Human Insight to Machine Intelligence
At the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, psychologist Hudson Golino is reshaping how researchers interpret artificial intelligence and how students learn to build it responsibly
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The Karsh Institute Building
Opening in 2027, the Karsh Institute’s new building will be a hub for research, collaboration, and public engagement around democracy.
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Featured Initiatives
Explore key Karsh Institute projects that study and strengthen democracy, from local journalism to global ideals and civic dialogue.
- From Lab to Launch: Bryan Berger, 2025 UVA Innovator of the Year
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Faculty Spotlight Video: Chang Lou
Chang Lou, assistant professor of computer science, discusses the importance of cloud reliability for modern financial, healthcare, and other systems.
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UVA Students Take Top Honors in National Hypersonic Design Competition
A team of aerospace engineering students collaborated on a prize-winning concept for an unpowered hypersonic aircraft capable of flying at speeds up to Mach 8, or about 6,000 mph.
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Reddit Co-Founder Steve Huffman Honored With UVA ‘Distinguished Alumni Engineering Award’
Steve Huffman took questions from students for over an hour about his experiences starting and running Reddit. Many were about artificial intelligence.
- How AI Is Changing the Way Humans Grieve
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Is Beauty in the Eye of the Biased Machine?
M.S. in Data Science students used their final project in an introductory machine learning course to explore the Golden Ratio and machine bias.
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UVA Extends Win Streak to Four in Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
UVA’s four-peat at the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition marks the event’s longest win streak and sends the team back to fight for a national title.
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New UVA Website Puts Climate Solutions in the Hands of Decision-Makers
The UVA Environmental Institute, co-led by civil and environmental professor Andrés Clarens, has launched a new digital hub to help Virginia get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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13 UVA Engineering Faculty Funded Under University’s Innovative 3Cavs Program
Engineering faculty form cross-University collaborations for outside-the-box science projects with seed funding from UVA program.
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Faculty Spotlight Video: Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton, associate professor of systems and information engineering, discusses his research into why engineered systems fail, and how to prevent failures.
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- UVA's Cancer-Data Science Alliance Sparks Discovery
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When Influencers Delegate Replies: How Social AI Agents Shape User Engagement
Steven Johnson, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, co-authored a new paper that he hopes will contribute to the emerging scholarship on the understanding of platform-enabled delegation of social relationship ma…
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A Better Burst
Mona Sloane, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, argues in a new co-authored pre-print, that today’s AI landscape looks a lot like past infrastructure booms—and that this moment is an opportunity to realign it w…
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FLiNG Report: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults' Financial Well-being
Lana Swartz, DTD Lab seed grant recipient, launched a new report revealing the emergence of a participatory, yet precarious ecosystem in which financial products are woven into everyday digital cultur…
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Context Collapse: Barriers to Adoption for Generative AI in Workplace Settings
A new pre-print, co-authored by Mona Sloane, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, shows how the more-is-better approach to hoarding context data in AI systems falls short for those who use AI tools in their areas…