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UA anthropology major Magda Mankel has investigated the experiences of immigrants traveling along the U.S.-Mexico border from a sociocultural and archaeological perspectives. Mankel hopes that studying peoples' discarded and deserted artifacts will better inform sociopolitical conditions and the broader human experience.
UA students have presented their Engineering Design Day projects, many of which are close to being ready for the consumer market or industry use. In addition to UA faculty and clubs support, industry representatives sponsored the projects, which include a life-like robotic fish, a lightweight mammal GPS tracker and a competitive autonomous underwater vehicle.
An international group of scholars will convene at the UA to explore, from a pre-modern perspective, whether links exist between genius and madness, health and faith and between spirituality and physical well-being. The International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies connects mental illness researchers and spirituality scholars to lay the foundation for studies on how to improve human life today.