Feb. 25, 2022 UArizona-founded consortium gets Helios Foundation award to advance Hispanic student success The Arizona HSI Consortium was awarded $100,000 to establish an action plan and priorities, to produce recommendations for Arizona leaders, and to launch an inaugural summit, among other things.
Feb. 23, 2022 UArizona will increase support for Hispanic and low-income STEM students with $5M grant A grant from the Department of Education will allow students to get earlier access to hands-on research and learning communities, and will provide support for faculty to redesign courses.
Feb. 15, 2022 UArizona center awarded $1.5M for borderlands research and education The grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry will go toward activities that bolster the stories and experiences of underrepresented groups in the borderlands.
Nov. 2, 2021 UArizona Ranks No. 1 for Doctoral Degrees Awarded to Native Americans UArizona ranks among the nation's leaders in the number of doctoral degrees awarded to Native American and Hispanic students, according to data from the National Science Foundation.
Oct. 27, 2021 UArizona Named 2021 Fulbright HSI Leader The university is among 35 Hispanic-Serving Institutions to receive the new designation, which recognizes HSIs that are highly engaged with the Fulbright international educational exchange program.
Oct. 13, 2021 UArizona Shares in $5M Grant to Support Latino Humanities Studies The "Crossing Latinidades: Emerging Scholars and New Comparative Directions" project centers on research and training initiatives that will expand opportunities for a growing population of Latinx students and support a national cohort of doctoral students in Latinx humanities studies.
Sept. 7, 2021 Researchers Enlist Robot Swarms to Mine Lunar Resources As scientists begin to more seriously consider constructing bases on celestial bodies such as the moon, the idea of space mining is growing in popularity. With $500,000 in NASA funding, UArizona engineers are working to advance space-mining methods that use swarms of autonomous robots.
Jan. 27, 2021 UArizona Researcher Investigates Untold Stories of Blaxploitation Film Blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s are, to many, as problematic as they are influential. With a new award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Derrais Carter will write a book about the history of blaxploitation film.
Jan. 7, 2021 UArizona Will Lead NASA Space Telescope Mission to Reveal Unseen, Dynamic Lives of Galaxies NASA has selected Carlos Vargas, a UArizona postdoctoral researcher, to lead a $20 million mission to build a space telescope that will map vast regions of star-forming gas that have eluded observation for decades.
Nov. 18, 2020 Analyzing Migration Patterns From Central America With a new grant from the Department of Defense's Army Research Office, researchers will use natural language processing and machine learning to analyze migration patterns from Central America.
