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2017

Science Builds Bridges, Not Walls, Diplomacy Experts Tell UA Audience

Speakers at a recent University of Arizona conference -- including a Nobel laureate, ambassadors and advisers to secretaries of state -- know firsthand how science can build trust where politics cannot.

Alumna Takes Lettuce Growing to Big-City Rooftops, Bigtime

Using skills she attained in the UA’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, Jenn Frymark, co-founder of Gotham Greens, grows 10 million heads of lettuce and other greens year-round, without soil, inside greenhouses in New York and Chicago.

UA Engineering’s Student-Run Career Fair Showcases Full Spectrum of Employers, Jobs

Multinational giants, local firms and the military promote jobs from working on the world’s biggest laser to designing sutures for the tiniest blood vessels.
UA-invented sustainable building material

Mining Engineer Turns Waste into Concrete Substitute

Lighter, stronger and less expensive than concrete, Acrete -- brainchild of Jinhong Zhang, associate professor of UA mining and geological engineering -- uses three times as much waste and converts it into useful building material.
NOAA satellite map

U.S. Policies Trouble Scientists Bound for Global Summit at the UA

Researchers and diplomats from around the world converging on the University of Arizona for a conference on science diplomacy and policy share concerns about the new administration.
Bane Vasic, UA professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his Codelucia team

UA Startup Codelucida Secures $700K in Angel Funding

Company launched by UA College of Engineering faculty is commercializing its error-correction technology for data storage and communications.

UA Licenses Tunable Laser Technology to Startup

A new laser invented by UA optical engineers, which emits spectrally tunable light from ultraviolet to far infrared, is being commercialized.
Jianqiang Cheng, expert on network and energy system risk analysis

UA Researchers Win Four of Five State Bisgrove Scholar Awards

Four University scientists have received this year’s highly competitive Bisgrove Scholar Awards in support of their excellence in research. Each will receive $200,000 in funding.

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