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Faculty News - March 2019

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UA Engineers Use $1.2M Grant to Make Drinking Water Safer

U.S. Department of Defense funding will allow a team of researchers led by chemical and environmental engineering professor Reyes Sierra to advance groundwater purification methods.
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Tech On Tap: UA Inventors Address World Water Woes

UA researchers have developed a number of promising solutions and inventions that are ready for companies to adopt and take out into the world.
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UA Student-Led CatSat Mission Selected by NASA

UA students will get hands-on spacecraft hardware development experience thanks to NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, which recently selected CatSat to fly as auxiliary payload aboard future space missions.
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Virtual Reality: Health Care’s New Frontier

UA researcher co-chairs third annual conference on immersive technology in medicine.
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UA Alumna and Professor Makes Her Mark in Mining

Rosa Maria Rojas is first Peruvian recipient of the Outstanding Young Professional award from SME’s mining and exploration division.
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Building Bridges Between Students and Industry

Construction engineering management program primes students for jobs in construction.