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UA Campus Health Service has been working to expand suicide prevention efforts, especially since receiving a three-year Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grant. Since 2011, more than 1,100 people on campus have been trained in suicide prevention, and additional trainings forthcoming.
Ever dropped your smartphone and cringed as it fell to the floor? UA alumnus Kurt Ludwigsen and his collaborators have launched a fundraising campaign to mass produce their custom-made, aluminum frame smartphone case. How sturdy is it? Driving a Dodge Ram, Ludwigsen drove over an encased smartphone - and the phone didn't falter.
The UA's Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs attract nationally and internationally known and competitive students and scholars. The programs raise the institution's visibility and notoriety, said Andrew Carnie, the UA Graduate College dean and GIDP faculty director. In this Q&A, Carnie answers questions about what makes the UA's GIDPs unique.