June 10, 2021 EMPOWER STEM Program Creates Student Pathways to Jobs in National Labs Funded by $748,000 from the Office of Naval Research, EMPOWER STEM aims to provide a route to government research jobs, particularly for students from diverse backgrounds.
June 1, 2021 UArizona Engineers Demonstrate a Quantum Advantage Researchers in the College of Engineering and James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences have demonstrated how quantum resources can improve technology today.
May 27, 2021 UArizona, Diné College to Train Next Generation of Navajo Water Scientists A $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help UArizona and Diné College prepare Navajo Nation college students for careers in STEM.
April 15, 2021 ABOR Confirms 6 New Regents Professors at UArizona The Arizona Board of Regents confirmed the appointments of UArizona faculty members Steven Archer, Sonia Colina, Marwan Krunz, Dante Lauretta, Sallie Marston and Ian Pepper as Regents Professors.
March 30, 2021 Engineers Use Confetti-Sized Device to Change Songbird Pitch, Improve Understanding of Human Speech Researchers are hoping to learn more about human speech by studying songbirds, one of the few species that share humans' ability to learn new vocalizations.
March 29, 2021 Investigating Boundary Layers in Hypersonic Flight The UArizona the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering received more than $3 million in funding in support of their hypersonics research on objects that move faster than the speed of sound.
March 8, 2021 Engineers Propose Solar-Powered Lunar Ark as 'Global Insurance Policy' Inspired by Noah's Ark, the ambitious project aims to preserve humankind – and animal-kind, plant-kind and fungi-kind – in the event of a global crisis.
Jan. 29, 2021 UArizona Researchers Develop Smartphone-Based COVID-19 Test The test uses a smartphone microscope to analyze saliva samples and deliver results in about 10 minutes.
Jan. 27, 2021 Startup Licenses Sustainability Technology for Mining Industry Auxilium Technologies has brought together multiple UArizona inventions that offer sustainable, energy-efficient and cost-effective solutions to improve the output of mines while reducing their environmental impact.
Dec. 21, 2020 Two UArizona Researchers Receive $1M Grants to Advance Cyberinfrastructure and Quantum Sensing Hydrology and engineering professors receive Convergence Accelerator awards from the National Science Foundation. The new program aims to support interdisciplinary efforts to solve real-world problems in the near future.
