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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">Ben Matthews, UIF is a University Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015cohort.</span></span></span>

Systems Engineer<span style="font-family:arial, helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">He is in his second-year at the University of Virginia ‘17, majoring in systems engineering with a focus in financial systems and a minor in engineering business.&nbsp;</span></span>

Ben <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">He serves as treasurer of Engineering Students without Borders.&nbsp; ESWB is a second-year student run organization aimed at providing engineers and students across the university the University of Virginia, majoring in systems engineering with a focus in financial systems and a minor in engineering businessopportunity to apply their technical skills to solve humanitarian problems.&nbsp;</span></span>

He serves as treasurer <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Ben also leads an undergraduate research team in Rosa Grande, Nicaragua.&nbsp; For the past five years, this continuing initiative has worked to solve the expressed needs of Engineering Students without Bordersthe community.&nbsp; ESWB The team’s community partner is planning to implement a student run organization aimed at providing engineers secondary water system in the growing community and students across the university team is investigating what technical and social infrastructure exists and how they will support the opportunity to apply their technical skills to solve humanitarian problemssystem.&nbsp;</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Ben also leads an undergraduate research team in Rosa Grande, Nicaragua.&nbsp; For the past five years, this continuing initiative has worked to solve serves on the expressed needs of selection committee for the communityGreen Initiative Funding Tomorrow (GIFT) grant.&nbsp; The team’s community partner is planning to implement a secondary water system in the growing This grant provides university community and the team is investigating what technical and social infrastructure exists and how they will support the systemmembers funding for sustainability related initiatives on grounds.&nbsp;</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Ben also serves on is passionate about increasing interest in the selection committee for the Green Initiative Funding Tomorrow (GIFT) grantSTEM fields.&nbsp; This grant provides university community members funding As a teaching assistant for sustainability related initiatives on groundsan introductory computer science course he shares the value of programming with students who have had little exposure to the science, technology and engineering fields.&nbsp;</span></span>

Ben is passionate about increasing interest in the STEM fields.&nbsp<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger; As a teaching assistant for an introductory computer science course he shares the value of programming with students who have had little exposure to the science, technology and engineering fields. ">In his spare time he enjoys running, Ultimate Frisbee, and dabbling in photography.</span></span>