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UA Engineers Lead $70M Project to Turn Desert Shrub Into Rubber

University of Arizona researchers are teaming up with Bridgestone Americas Inc. to develop a new variety of natural rubber from a source that is more sustainable and can be grown in the forbidding conditions of the arid Southwest.

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Anti-Snoring Project Excites at Design Day 2023

 

 

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Building Pathways Project Paves the Way for Future Civil Engineers

Ilianna Juarez chose civil engineering because she wants to change the world.

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$10.8M Initiative Unites Engineering and Health Researchers to Improve Cancer Treatments

Eradicating cancer is a complex goal because of the environment in which the disease grows – the human body.

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Engineer Awarded $4.5M to Develop AI-Powered Hypersonic Guidance and Navigation Systems

Roberto Furfaro, a University of Arizona professor of systems and industrial engineering, has been awarded $4.5 million to lead the development of improved guidance, navigation an

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Battery-Free, Light-Powered Pacemaker May Improve Quality of Life for Heart Disease Patients

Atrial fibrillation – a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia – leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year.

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$1.4M Effort Develops Reusable Sponges to Soak up Harmful Chemicals From Water

University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University researchers are developing specialized, reusable sponges to remove a group of chemicals known as PFAS from water.

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