UA Med Students to Meet Their 'Match'

  • UANews
  • March 14, 2013
Students in the UA College of Medicine in Tucson and Phoenix will learn where they will do their residencies during Match Day on March 15. Most of the graduates are expected to remain in Arizona as resident-physicians. Residency programs vary in length from three years for general medicine/family practice specialties to eight years for the most specialized of surgeons.

Tucson Doctor Returns to Roots, Inspires Kids to Dream Big

  • KMSB-TV
  • March 11, 2013
Dare to dream. That's what Dr. Bernadette Quihuis-Alvarez did, growing up on Tucson's west side - and now she's living her dream. Quihuis-Alvarez, a UA alumna, achieved her goal of becoming a doctor. Now, she sees patients at St. Mary's Hospital. She also shares her success story with Tucson children, inspiring them to pursue their dreams.

Google Awards Grant for UA-Developed Online Chemistry Course

  • UANews
  • March 7, 2013
Google, Inc. has granted a UA chemistry professor $50,000 to develop a free online course to teach chemistry to potentially hundreds of thousands of students. Katrina Miranda is creating a massive open online course, aiming to explain higher-level and abstract chemistry concepts that build on the science's fundamentals to students worldwide.

Project Offers Path to College for Intellectually Disabled

  • Arizona Public Media
  • March 7, 2013
Project FOCUS is a partnership between the Tucson Unified School District and the UA College of Education, funded by a U.S. Department of Education grant of $2.5 million over five years. Its goal is to ease the transition between high school and college for students with intellectual disabilities, which can include autism, Down syndrome and a number of other conditions.

New App Lets Med Students Study Real Human Heart on iPad

  • UANews
  • March 6, 2013
A new app allows UA medical students to interact with a real human heart on their iPads. The Heart Anatomy Explorer I app, developed at the University, uses images of a real human heart to teach students about the organ's structures. College of Medicine faculty members plan to expand the app to include more organs in the future.

Tucson Tech: Storm-Tracking Craft Tests Waters Here

  • Arizona Daily Star
  • March 1, 2013
From a little lagoon in Tucson to raging seas, a tiny unmanned watercraft developed by a Sahuarita company is on course to provide new hurricane-tracking data. Hydronalix Inc., a company headed by UA engineering alumnus Tony Mulligan, is conducting pre-delivery testing of 10 unmanned, autonomous boats for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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