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.

Cambodian Roots Inspire Graduating Senior's Psychology Focus

  • UANews
  • April 30, 2013
Graduating senior Meardey Kong immigrated to the U.S. at age 10 after her parents survived the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. At the UA, research for her honors thesis brought her back to Cambodia, where she witnessed how psychological trauma from the genocide continues to affect the country today. This experience fueled her ambitions to study the field of psychology.

UA Student Pharmacists Move Closer to Professional Goal

  • UANews
  • April 30, 2013
During a recent ceremony, 95 students in the UA College of Pharmacy donned white coats representing the profession they will enter after one more year as students. The annual White Coat Ceremony signifies the beginning of a year of clinical training in which each student completes at least seven six-week rotations.

I'm Free, But Are Ufree?

  • UANews
  • April 29, 2013
The Ufree mobile application, created by UA student Stephen Ost and his collaborators, represents the next-generation of collaborative scheduling. Set to launch this summer, users will be able to submit their schedules and receive notifications when their friends are free to meet up.

UA Faculty Use Twitter to Get Students Focused In and Out of Class

  • UANews
  • April 26, 2013
Forget the stereotype of the long-winded professor. At the UA, professors and instructors are embracing Twitter – with its famously brief 140-character posts – to connect with their students, engage them in discussions, foster new interactions and help them leverage social media for successful careers.

Getting the Greatest Cultural Experience in Tucson

  • Arizona Public Media
  • April 26, 2013
For the past 20 years, International Friends has welcomed international students to the UA and provided them with friends and a family-like support system. Students come from all over the world to study in Tucson, and by joining this campus-affiliated club, they get a fuller cultural experience beyond the boundaries of campus.

UA to Host Statewide STEM Competition

  • UANews
  • April 24, 2013
Hundreds of MESA after-school program students from across Arizona will compete for awards in a series of engineering and design competitions at the UA. One contest asks that students design a prosthetic arm for a fictional college-bound student, an exercise indicative of the program's goals to cultivate critical thinking while demonstrating how engineering and science are "helping" professions.

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