Aug. 16, 2019 Q&A: The Value of Sports Psychologists on College Campuses Student-athletes face unique pressures, and sports psychologists can help them navigate their identities as students, athletes and emerging adults.
July 31, 2019 Future Doctors Receive First White Coats at UA New medical students received and donned their first white coats, a ceremonial symbol of their acceptance into medical school at the University of Arizona, at events in Tucson and Phoenix.
July 24, 2019 From Invention to Impact: Illustrative Mathematics In 2014, UA professor Bill McCallum started a company to transform mathematics education. Today, more than 2,000 teachers use Illustrative Mathematics products.
July 17, 2019 Inaugural UA Micro-Campus Class Graduates Seventy-seven students celebrated commencement in June at Ocean University of China, the first four-year micro-campus cohort to graduate from the UA and a partner university.
July 17, 2019 $3M in NASA Funding to Help Students Build CubeSats Thanks to $3 million in NASA funding, underrepresented students will have the opportunity to build miniature satellites to help scientists study the surface of asteroids.
July 12, 2019 A 20-year-old Dream Comes True The International Society of Chinese Health Practices will facilitate research of the benefits of Chinese health practices and the complementary use of Eastern and Western medicine on a global scale.
July 2, 2019 Alumnus Leaves $8.8M to College of Medicine – Tucson The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson has received an $8.8 million gift from the estate of Dr. Ronald K. Baker, a 1975 alumnus of the college.
July 2, 2019 Chemist Creates Program to Support Vets in STEM Assistant professor Michael Marty is developing a program to support veteran students who are pursuing STEM degrees and bring their skills to research labs at the University of Arizona.
June 28, 2019 Four Questions: Celebrating OSIRIS-REx on Asteroid Day When she’s not in class or training to qualify for next year’s Boston Marathon, you can find undergraduate Stephanie Stewart hard at work with her teammates on OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission.
June 24, 2019 Mapping the Borderlands, Where Languages and Cultures Coexist A collaborative digital humanities project unites UA students studying Russian and French with their counterparts in Canada and Kazakhstan.