The first wave of wireless technologies led to ubiquitous information. The second wave offers intelligence in radios and networks, promising the creation of electronics that can think and problem-solve. At Wireless@VT, the largest academic communications network in the nation, researchers have been shaping these waves for decades—and the best is yet to come.

When evidence began to mount that Washington, D.C., residents were suffering because of lead in the drinking water, civil engineering professor Marc Edwards began a one-man investigation into the issue—using his own time, money, and resources in a search for the truth.

Nancy Perry Graham (psychology, Spanish '77), editor-in-chief and vice president of AARP The Magazine, seeks to "move the needle on [the] image of aging," challenging her readers while walking a tightrope of hot-button issues.