March 6, 2018 Tucson Festival of Books to Celebrate 10th Anniversary Attendance for the event on the UA campus, which benefits literacy programs, now exceeds 100,000, and the presenters are a who's who from literature, science and pop culture.
Feb. 28, 2018 Strategic Planning Session Set for UA's Phoenix Campus The session next Tuesday will be modeled after one that was held on the Tucson campus on Jan. 29. In addition, a series of 10 meetups will be conducted in March.
Feb. 27, 2018 Big Data Is Only What We Make of It In the concluding talk of the College of Science series, the UA's Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. explains how big data will impact society — and how higher education can leverage it.
Feb. 14, 2018 UA Strategic Plan Draws Wide Interest on Campus Discussion groups at a well-attended kickoff event tackled the question: What impact will the University have on students, society and the community in 10 years?
Feb. 13, 2018 Humans Help Solve Problems Computers Can't Luis von Ahn, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the inventor of CAPTCHAs, was the fourth speaker in the College of Science lecture series.
Feb. 8, 2018 UA Research Activity Tops $622M in Fiscal 2017 Research and development expenditures surpassed the previous year's total by more than $18 million and exceeded the target set by the Arizona Board of Regents by more than $11 million.
Feb. 6, 2018 Machines as Co-Workers: A New Era Is Upon Us It's still a long way to get from data to wisdom, said Nirav Merchant, director of the UA's Data Science Institute, in his lecture on "Working Alongside Thinking Machines."
Feb. 6, 2018 Students Get Rare Glimpse Into Microsoft Executive's Style UA alumnus Kurt DelBene's secrets to successful leadership include staying "deep in the weeds" of engineering while always operating from a business perspective.
Feb. 1, 2018 Applications Open for Tillman Scholars Program The UA is one of 15 institutions partnering with the Pat Tillman Foundation, and the deadline is March 1 for eligible active-duty service members, veterans and military spouses.
Jan. 22, 2018 Robbins Introduces UA Science Series The UA president's focus on the convergence of the physical, digital and biological worlds will be addressed by "Humans, Data and Machines," which launched Monday night with a lecture on algorithms and artificial intelligence by UA professor Stephen Kobourov.
