New Student Orientation, which will be held in various sessions throughout the summer, is a time for incoming students and their families to not only prepare for the fall semester, but to also learn about Wildcat life and network with one another. (Photo credit: Patrick McArdle/UANews)
UA Orientation Primes Wildcats for Life At the UA, New Student Orientation has gradually evolved from a simple, functional event to one full of interactive and engaging activities designed to introduce students to Wildcat life. Orientation today involves a continuation of contact and an experience that, in many cases, begins during a student's high school years. New Student Orientation is under way on the UA campus.
Mining engineering students train at the UA San Xavier Mining Laboratory Training Center. (Photo by Norma Jean Gargasz/UANews)
The New Face of Mining: Women Carving Out a Place in Surging Industry For years, women have been making a place for themselves in an industry where their exclusion is as old as the profession itself - but where their inclusion today is critical to meeting a shortage of skilled workers. The UA is helping to fill the mining industry pipeline, and this includes educating and guiding female engineers. This is the first story in a series about women in mining.
Students will spend three weeks in Verona, Italy.
Italy-Bound Students to Learn Cooking the Mediterranean Way Several UA students are headed to Verona, Italy to study the Mediterranean diet and its health benefits through the University's new Mediterranean Diet and Health study abroad program. While in Verona, they will visit an olive oil processing plant, a cheese factory and a pasta factory and will practice cooking with the pros as they learn about the diet's role in disease prevention.
Three UA Students Named Tillman Military Scholars In advance of Memorial Day, the Pat Tillman Foundation has named its new class of Tillman Military Scholars. The program helps servicemembers earn higher education degrees. Of the 60 students across the nation to receive the honor, three are UA students: Felisa (Hervey) Dyrud, Adam Ratesic and Jose Cervantes. All three recipients served in the U.S. Air Force.
Two UA students have been named Udall Scholars, individuals who commit to serving in careers centered on the environment, Native American health care or tribal public policy.
UA Students Earn 2013 Udall Foundation Awards Competing with hundreds of students across the nation, four UA students have earned Udall Foundation awards. Undergraduates Leah Edwards and Carol Seanez were named named Udall Fellows, and Cara V. Wallace and Thomas E. Jones, both graduate students, were named Native American Congressional Interns.
New Student Orientation, which will be held in various sessions throughout the summer, is a time for incoming students and their families to not only prepare for the fall semester, but to also learn about Wildcat life and network with one another. (Photo credit: Patrick McArdle/UANews)
Mining engineering students train at the UA San Xavier Mining Laboratory Training Center. (Photo by Norma Jean Gargasz/UANews)
Students will spend three weeks in Verona, Italy.
Two UA students have been named Udall Scholars, individuals who commit to serving in careers centered on the environment, Native American health care or tribal public policy.

Student EMTs Give Rapid Response to Campus Emergencies

  • UANews
  • May 21, 2013
Whether it's a bicycle collision or difficulty breathing, the UA community can count on quick help from students trained and certified as EMTs. The UA Student Emergency Medical Services group has been operational for three semesters and provides assistance in medical emergencies. Its leaders emphasize thorough training and certification.

High School Students Devise More Accurate Climate Modeling Method

  • Popular Science
  • May 20, 2013
High school students have co-authored a scientific paper with their UA graduate student instructor that could have a serious impact on the reliability of climate models. Their work details the impact of shrinkage on dried, fossilized leaves, which often is unaccounted for in climate models. By better accounting for this change in leaf size, researchers can significantly improve the accuracy of their climate models.

UA Regents’ Professors Named in College of Science, Eller College of Management

  • UANews
  • May 17, 2013
Three UA faculty members have been named Regents' Professors by the Arizona Board of Regents: Neal R. Armstrong in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, Hsinchun Chen in the Eller College of Management, and Xiaohui Fan in the department of astronomy. The title recognizes achievements of national or international distinction.

UA Ranks Second in U.S. for Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows

  • UANews
  • May 16, 2013
In addition to being one of the nation's top producers of Peace Corps volunteers, the UA also has the second highest number of Paul D. Coverdell Fellows. Today, 52 returned Peace Corps volunteers are enrolled in the UA's Coverdell Fellows program, which enables them to pursue their master's degrees.

Sprinkled with Smarts

  • Los Angeles Times
  • May 15, 2013
Sprinkles Cupcakes launched in 2005 with six workers, including founders Candace and Charles Nelson, a UA alumnus. The company has since expanded to 400 employees in 14 U.S. stores, two of which focus on ice cream instead of cupcakes. Sprinkles has hordes of celebrity fans, including Oprah Winfrey and Blake Lively.

East Asia's Miracle Economies Have Cruel Social Impacts

  • UANews
  • May 15, 2013
Countries in East Asia have long been thought of as economic powerhouses capable of pulling up the global economy. But a UA researcher and his colleagues studying such economies and the peoples' day-to-day realities say it likely isn't so and that the social impacts of neoliberal polices and practices have, in some cases, been devastating.

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