May 8, 2019 UA to Confer About 6,700 Degrees About 4,500 graduates and 40,000 guests are expected to attend Commencement. Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first woman of color to travel into outer space, will be the keynote speaker.
May 8, 2019 Truman Scholar Sees Bigger Questions to Be Answered UA junior Abhijay Murugesan was among 62 recently named Truman Scholars. Murugesan is chief of UA Emergency Medical Services and plans to attend medical school after completing his undergraduate degree.
May 7, 2019 UA Students Help Nonprofits Evaluate Performance Students in the UA's Program Planning and Evaluation course worked with the Tucson-based Beads of Courage to help the nonprofit organization develop a self-evaluation.
May 6, 2019 Journalism Students Develop Accessibility App, Health Site for Local Newspaper Four students partnered with the Arizona Daily Star to create a two news apps: one for people with physical disabilities and a bilingual mobile website with resources for Latinx families.
May 1, 2019 UA Sophomore Named Student Regent Anthony Rusk, a double major studying neuroscience and philosophy, politics, economics and law, has been appointed as a student regent to the Arizona Board of Regents.
May 1, 2019 UA Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in STEM disciplines.
May 1, 2019 $36,250 in Prizes Awarded at Engineering Design Day The top team won the $5,000 grand prize for designing a system to help lost hikers find their way home using a mesh network of solar-powered beacons and a cellphone app.
May 1, 2019 Education Majors Learn Global Lessons from Student-Teaching Internationally The UA College of Education's International Student Teaching Program places elementary education majors in classrooms in China, Norway and Mexico.
April 25, 2019 Tolbert Receives Poetry Fellowship T.C. Tolbert, a UA alumnus and lecturer in the Department of English, has been named a fellow of the Academy of American Poets Laureate.
April 24, 2019 Creating Cultural Understanding, One Word at a Time After working to mend U.S.-Afghan relations through language and compassion, UA student Felisa Hervey had a stroke that inhibited her ability to speak before finishing her dissertation.
