University of Arizona in the News

The Arizona Commerce Authority has awarded the University of Arizona College of Engineering $35.5 million in funding to expand a facility that supports manufacturing and research efforts involving semiconductors, computer chips, optical devices and quantum computing systems.

In May, Fort Gordon in Georgia became Fort Eisenhower to honor Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President who, as an Army general, led the allied invasion of Europe in World War II, and to complete the process of renaming nine U.S. Army bases originally dedicated to Confederate generals. "Learning history is always the practice of making choices, choices of what we pay attention to," said University of Arizona professor of history Susan Crane. "What we think is more significant or less significant, what we think is more important or not. So it becomes a big ethical, moral question. What are we choosing to pay attention to, and how does that reflect our values?"

The James Webb Space Telescope this summer discovered evidence that a surprising number early galaxies, which to observers appear as red specks in the darkness, possessed supermassive black holes similar to the one at the heart of the Milky Way. That finding is both expected – Webb was designed to find such ancient objects – and perplexing, because few astronomers expected to find so many of them forming so soon after the Big Bang. "Everybody is talking about these little red dots," said University of Arizona professor of astronomy Xiaohui Fan.

The University of Arizona announced the public phase of its $3 billion fundraising campaign, Fuel Wonder. The launch, coinciding with Homecoming celebrations, included the announcement of $118.65 million in gifts that will ignite the aspirations and goals of students, faculty and staff. Collectively, these gifts bring the overall total raised so far to more than $2 billion.