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March 2020

UA Team to 3D-Print Medical Masks

Engineering and health sciences researchers are teaming up to address the shortage of personal protective equipment in Tucson health care facilities.
Salter Lab opening

College Celebrates Industry-Grade Medical Device Lab for Students

Supporters tour the Peter and Nancy Salter Medical Device Design Lab and thank the donors who made it possible.
Baja Wildcat Racing

Start Your Engines: Design-Build Clubs Drive UA Students Toward Career Goals

Three engineering student clubs allow present and future Wildcats to apply STEM principles taught in the classroom to designing and building vehicles.
Traffic jam

UA Engineers Collaborate on $3.5M DOE Traffic-Flow Project

Researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Arizona, among other institutions, plan to move automated vehicles out of the lab and onto roadways for fuel savings.
Marissa Lopez-Pier

BME Students Share Work at Research Expo

Students present research on disease detection, heart health and devices to improve surgical processes at the 8th Annual Biomedical Engineering Research Expo.
Illustration of power, lighting and roving concepts operating in a lunar crater. (Photo courtesy of NASA)

Lunar Lasers and Cosmic Crops: NASA Funds UA Space Exploration Missions

NASA funding will support UA teams working on ways to harvest water and produce crops in space.
Gregory Ditzler explains a concept at a whiteboard.

Electrical Engineer Trains Computers to Distinguish Between Friend and Foe

NSF CAREER Award winner Gregory Ditzler is making sure machine learning technologies like autonomous vehicles and facial recognition stay secure.