Hongning Wang is UVA Engineering's new Copenhaver Associate Professor of Computer Science. Wang was nominated by the Department of Computer Science and appointed by the School of Engineering for a three-year period to the professorship, which is supported by the Copenhaver Faculty Excellence Fund for Student Research, established by a bequest from 1966 civil engineering alumnus Edwin Copenhaver III. The fund supports Copenhaver Associate Professors in their work with graduate students.