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The grant from the Mellon Foundation will support undergraduate research and provide a fellowship program for university faculty to learn digital and archival methods from library experts.
UArizona Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives has launched Project LISTO to introduce Hispanic students to STEM majors and opportunities and provide a framework for other Hispanic-Serving Institutions to do the same.
The University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine awarded 106 degrees to its first graduating class during the college's inaugural graduation ceremony, held Aug. 24 inside The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall at the Tucson Convention Center.
At 16, Tadeusz Borowski is one of the youngest first-year students to start at UArizona this fall, after graduating from high school two years early. His studies in medicine, he hopes, will shed light on how gifted minds develop.
Arianna Adams knew by the time she was 8 years old that she wanted to become a veterinarian. She is one of about 100 students in the College of Veterinary Medicine inaugural class, set to graduate on Aug 24.
The University of Arizona has welcomed its largest and most diverse class in university history, which also includes a record number of students from Arizona. About 9,300 first-year students, representing all 50 U.S. states and 45 countries, started classes this week.
President Robert C. Robbins will confer 106 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees at the inaugural College of Veterinary Medicine Commencement on Aug. 24. Nearly half of the three-year program's graduates have already accepted job offers and internships.
One of the most rewarding things about a career in veterinary medicine is "seeing how animals affect people's lives," says Jeremy Bessett, who will be among the first students to graduate from the UArizona College of Veterinary Medicine.
Twins Elizabeth and Andrew Ghartey weren't set on attending the same university, but they're glad they landed at UArizona together. The first-year engineering students are both interested in careers in medicine.
Alexander Hilser, a student at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson, was one of 60 people honored this year by the Pat Tillman Foundation. Hilser served in the Air Force as a pararescueman.
