Feb. 26, 2019 Tucson Festival of Books to Transform UA Campus into Literary Wonderland The 11th annual Tucson Festival of Books, believed to be the third-largest celebration of literature in the U.S., takes place March 2-3 on the UA campus in Tucson.
Feb. 20, 2019 UA Awarded AAU Grant to Further Active Learning The UA is one of 12 AAU-member institutions to receive funding to further existing efforts to improve undergraduate education as part of the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative.
Feb. 6, 2019 UA Scores 'Most-Improved' Win in Zero-Waste Challenge A campuswide sustainability effort diverted more than 45 percent of waste from landfills during the Wildcats' "Zero-Waste" football game, more than doubling the UA's amount of waste diversion in 2017.
Feb. 6, 2019 FIRE Recognizes UA for Commitment to Free Speech The UA is one of 45 institutions to receive a green light from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which rates more than 400 of the nation’s top colleges and universities.
Feb. 5, 2019 New UA-affiliated Corporation Targets Defense Research The University of Arizona Applied Research Corp. will focus the UA's research strengths in several diverse areas on solving national security issues.
Jan. 30, 2019 UA Named a 'Best Value' by Princeton Review The UA is among 200 colleges and universities featured in the 2019 edition of The Princeton Review's "The Best Value Colleges."
Jan. 25, 2019 $1.5M Gift Will Fund Endowed Chair in Food Safety Education at UA Margarethe Cooper, an assistant professor of practice in animal and comparative biomedical sciences, is the inaugural holder of the Victor P. Smith Endowed Chair in Food Safety Education.
Jan. 25, 2019 Interdisciplinary UA Researchers Get Tangled Up in Quantum Computing UA researchers are building a quantum hub known as Inquire, which will be the world's first shared research and training instrument to help researchers in diverse fields benefit from quantum resources.
Jan. 15, 2019 Arizona Online Soars in Latest US News Rankings In only its fourth year of operation and third year of rankings eligibility, the University of Arizona has established itself as a leader in online education, vaulting into the top 10 percent of all online bachelor's programs in the U.S.
Jan. 7, 2019 International Research Park Executive To Lead Tech Parks Arizona Carol Stewart, former CEO of the Association of University Research Parks, has joined the UA to oversee Tech Parks Arizona, which includes the UA Tech Park at Rita Road, the Arizona Center for Innovation, and the future UA Tech Park at The Bridges.
