June 29, 2018 UA College of Medicine – Tucson Names Interim Executive Dean Dr. Irving L. Kron joins the University of Arizona Health Sciences senior leadership team from the University of Virginia, where he was chairman of the department of surgery.
June 28, 2018 International Scholar Named as Dean of College of Fine Arts Andrew Schulz comes to the UA from Penn State, where he raised the profile of research and creative practice in the arts and established the Arts and Design Research Incubator.
June 27, 2018 Unique Student Program Leads to Careers UA students employed at Tech.Global earn more than just a paycheck. "There's nothing like it on campus," says Hazza Alkaabi, a computer science major. The program creates a 100% Engagement student experience while expanding the UA's research capacity. With UANews video.
June 26, 2018 Study: UA Tech Park Has $2B Economic Impact The UA Tech Park, a center for high-wage jobs, remains one of the largest employment hubs in southern Arizona, hosting 52 companies and organizations that employ 5,870 skilled workers.
June 26, 2018 UA-Related Firms Receive First Local Venture Capital Investments Tucson's newest early-stage capital fund, UA Venture Capital Fund LLC, has announced that its first three investments will include UA-connected companies Codelucida and Regulonix.
June 26, 2018 Patient-Ordered Tests Indicate Valley Fever Uptick in State Data show a second seasonal surge, says Dr. John Galgiani, director of the Valley Fever Center for Excellence. This gets ahead of statistics in a year when big numbers already were predicted.
June 26, 2018 UA Offers Two New Undergraduate Food Programs The new B.A. in Food Studies and B.S. in Nutrition and Food Systems will offer UA students additional opportunities to explore the interdisciplinary nature of food.
June 25, 2018 Engineers Bring Life Source to San Carlos Apache Community Last year, a team of UA researchers helped design and create a solar-powered water-purification bus for the Navajo Nation. This year, a different reservation's needs are in focus.
June 25, 2018 'Lung on a Leaf' Model to Study Pulmonary Diseases UA College of Medicine – Phoenix scientists, including "organ on a chip" pioneer Frederic Zenhausern, are using plant biology, medicine and engineering to create a novel platform.
June 20, 2018 UA Genetics Research Verifies Purity of the Mexican Wolf Research conducted in Melanie Culver's lab used the latest in genomic technologies to determine whether the endangered Mexican wolf had hybridized with domestic dogs.
