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.
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.
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.
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.
Mining engineering students train at the UA San Xavier Mining Laboratory Training Center. (Photo by Norma Jean Gargasz/UANews)
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)
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.
Students will spend three weeks in Verona, Italy.

UA Engineering Students Work with GE, Continental in Mexico

  • UANews
  • January 22, 2013
Two UA engineering senior design teams, as part of the UA Engineering Senior Capstone Design Program, are working with manufacturing facilities in Mexico to design solutions to real-world engineering problems. This is the first time the students have collaborated with companies that have facilities in Nogales, Sonora.

Two UA Journalism Students to Cover Presidential Inauguration

  • UANews
  • January 16, 2013
When Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term as president of the United States on Jan. 21, two UA journalism students will be there covering the historic occasion. Amer Taleb, an intern with the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, and Sami-Jo Roth, taking part in a political journalism program through the Fund for American Studies, will write stories and blog about the event.

International Student Services Helps Students Transition to UA Campus

  • Arizona Daily Wildcat
  • January 14, 2013
The UA's International Student Services continually guides new students through their transition, from before they come to the U.S. until they graduate from the UA. Orientation provides essential information for students regarding schedules, advising, housing, financial costs, health insurance and legal services through a part of orientation called, “Succeeding at UA.”

Students Improving Scientific Knowledge to Present Work

  • UANews
  • January 14, 2013
Research-based inquiries today should lead to answers for tomorrow. To that end, 125 high school and undergraduate researchers connected through the UA's Undergraduate Biology Research Program will present their research during an annual conference on Jan. 19.

UA Club Unites Aspiring Entrepreneurs

  • UANews
  • January 11, 2013
The UA's Retail Entrepreneurship Club is recruiting students from all majors who are interested in one day starting their own businesses. The club is in the midst of planning its first Think Big retail development conference for aspiring entrepreneurs and local business owners, slated for April 20 on the UA campus.

Chinese Music, Martial Arts Among New Course Offerings

  • UANews
  • January 10, 2013
The UA Confucius Institute is offering new community courses in tai chi, martial arts and Chinese music and language that will be taught by visiting scholars from China. The institute, one of 80 of its kind in the United States, promotes Chinese language and culture.

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