UA students often compete for Goldwater Scholarships and, each year, UA student recipients are named. (Photo credit: Beatriz Verdugo/UANews)
Two UA Students Earn Goldwater Scholarships Two UA students, Eric Hansen and Daniel Patrick Fried, have earned the 2013 Goldwater Scholarship. The nationwide scholarship, provided by the Goldwater Foundation, is the premier undergraduate award for those studying mathematics, science and engineering.
For the Walatowa High Charter School students, benefits of the recent UA excursion were manifold: Students were introduced to Arizona state universities, informed about UA fire ecology research around their home communities and learned about fire ecology from a scientific and cultural perspective in ways meant to inform their future studies and professional careers.
UA Fostering a New Type of Outreach A new movement is under way to shift the way in which the UA engages its community partners in outreach initiatives funded by research grants. Where academics of the past sometimes limited their outreach projects, the move today is toward tailored, multi-year culturally responsive initiatives that serve a range of people throughout Arizona and beyond.
UA student Jill Hamilton works at the Maricopa County Extension's Outdoor Water Conservation Demonstration area to improve irrigation efficiency.
Externships to Give UA Students Hands-On Experience This summer, students will work with Arizona Cooperative Extension on sustainability projects throughout the state - providing them valuable on-the-job experience and allowing them to contribute to the UA's land-grant mission of bettering the community. Said the UA's Mark Apel: "It really helps them to get ready for the job market, to understand sustainability and get some real-world working experience."
This weekend, 5,728 undergraduate degrees, 908 master's degrees, four educational specialist degrees and 255 doctoral degrees will be awarded at the UA.
UA Offers Continued Career Support for New Grads Entering Workforce More than 5,700 undergraduates just earned UA degrees, and while the job market is starting to look up, it remains competitive. For those still looking for jobs, a variety of UA Career Services resources continue to be available, including online job postings, career fairs, seminars, career counseling and more.
UA College of Medicine-Phoenix Holds Third Graduation Fifty UA College of Medicine-Phoenix students were conferred with their medical degrees at ceremonies on May 8 in the third graduation for the downtown Phoenix medical school. The college, which has graduated 114 physicians in three years toward addressing Arizona's doctor shortage, opened in 2007.
UA students often compete for Goldwater Scholarships and, each year, UA student recipients are named. (Photo credit: Beatriz Verdugo/UANews)
For the Walatowa High Charter School students, benefits of the recent UA excursion were manifold: Students were introduced to Arizona state universities, informed about UA fire ecology research around their home communities and learned about fire ecology from a scientific and cultural perspective in ways meant to inform their future studies and professional careers.
UA student Jill Hamilton works at the Maricopa County Extension's Outdoor Water Conservation Demonstration area to improve irrigation efficiency.
This weekend, 5,728 undergraduate degrees, 908 master's degrees, four educational specialist degrees and 255 doctoral degrees will be awarded at the UA.

The Beginnings of ZonaZoo: a Look at its History

  • Arizona Daily Wildcat
  • November 9, 2012
In 10 years, ZonaZoo - now the largest student cheering section in the Pac-12 conference - has grown from a T-shirt to the huge student organization and brand that it is today. At the end of October, there were 10,154 ZonaZoo members, a number that is expected to grow with the start of basketball season.

Those Who Came Before: How Alumni Shape the UA

  • UANews
  • November 8, 2012
Through connections, mentoring and contributions, UA alumni play important roles in shaping life on campus by helping students succeed and contributing to the UA’s mission as a land-grant institution. The UA Alumni Association offers many ways for UA graduates to stay involved with their alma mater.

100 Years of Arizona 4-H

  • Arizona.edu
  • November 6, 2012
The UA 4-H Youth Development Program has nearly 185,000 participants between the ages of 5 and 18 and more than 7,000 adult and youth volunteers across the state, with representation in every county and on five reservations. Nationwide, 4-H has more than 6.5 million members, 3,500 staff members, 538,000 volunteers and upwards of 60 million alumni.

Advancing the Digital Humanities

  • UANews
  • November 1, 2012
Bryan Carter, a UA assistant professor of Africana studies, is among a number of faculty members in the UA College of Humanities advancing work around the digital humanities. Their aim is to more readily employ consumer-based technologies in a way that is educational, creative, interdisciplinary and engaging.

Illustrating the UApresents Season

  • UANews
  • November 1, 2012
UA art professor Jackson Boelts and UApresents staff have involved art students in a competition to design marketing materials for the arts organization's season. Students will make a formal pitch to the UApresents executive director and staff on Nov. 2, and a winner will be named at a later date. This is the third UANews.org feature in a series about UApresents.

UA Prepares High School Students for Research

  • UANews
  • November 1, 2012
Since 2007, the UA KEYS program has involved 140 high school students in biomedical research at the University. Many students then choose to study at the UA, where they continue their involvement in the program. The goal is for participants to actively contribute to scientific knowledge.

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