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Faculty News - 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.
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.
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.