This talk offers a survey of teaching, research and outreach activities in mathematics at the University of Virginia aimed at supporting student engagement in this field. Such activities include creating a mentoring network involving faculty, graduate, undergraduate, high school and middle school students interested in mathematics; building research collaborations with undergraduate and graduate students; developing awareness of job opportunities and possible career paths for mathematics majors; supporting the interest of women in the field especially through critical transition points in their careers; creating the larger sense of a national and international community through accessible mathematics lectures given by famous guest mathematicians from institutions all over the world, through the involvement of students in national and international mathematics competitions and through curricular innovations focused on developing a coherent body of techniques about the use of technology in research type activities in mathematics at the undergraduate level.

Since mathematical and technology related skills are a necessity today for our students to have an edge in a very competitive post graduate environment, the goals of these initiatives are to strengthen our students' abilities to be more efficient researchers, to become more marketable and overall to become more well rounded professionals, to provide students with mathematical experiences that will stay with them for the rest of their professional lives, to develop awareness for the usefulness and beauty of mathematics within the undergraduate community, and to broaden the participation of women and underrepresented groups in mathematical sciences at the University of Virginia.

Based on the Institutional Assessment and Studies list for the academic year 2005-2006, the University of Virginia graduated 60 mathematics majors and awarded 2386 bachelor degrees in the College of Arts and Sciences. This results in a 2.51% mathematics ratio which compares very favorably with the corresponding 2005-2006 national mathematics average ratio of 1.1% in the United States. This is a testament to the dedication and success of the University of Virginia in supporting student engagement in mathematics.