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May 2023

Gabriel Geffen sits at a traffic simulator

New Civil Engineering Grad Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Gabriel Geffen will continue his traffic studies at the UA.
head shots of awardees

Four Engineering Faculty Earn UA Awards of Distinction

Kelly Simmons-Potter, Wolfgang Fink, Alex Craig and Judith Su have made local, national and global impacts.
The ECE building on the UA campus, with a STEAM FORGE sign

Nurturing the Business Ecosystem

A new STEAM FORGE location and startup partnerships are part of a ‘renewed push’ for experiential business education.
Nima Toosizadeh

NSF CAREER Awardee Develops a 1-Minute Frailty Testing Platform

A University of Arizona professor is developing a quick and accurate way to screen patients for frailty, and better inform physicians’ care decisions. In tandem, he’s helping students at the crossroads of and engineering and medicine choose their...
Judith Su in her lab with FLOWER. The lab is dark and lit with blue and purple lighting.

The Nose Knows: CAREER Awardee Developing Bioinspired Optical Sniffer Sensor

With a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation, a biomedical engineering and optical sciences researcher is creating a device that can sniff out diseases, dangerous chemicals and other substances with the sensitivity of a bloodhound.
Wolfgang Fink poses with a planetary rover

From Microelectronics to Mars

The Edward & Maria Keonjian Endowed Chair Supports Discoveries Big and Small.
Three people pose on the steps of Old Main at the University of Arizona

Mechanical Engineering Student Graduates With His Family

Doing it together is ‘so big.’
Kim Ogden holds a guayule plant

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

Guayule is a sustainable crop with the potential to provide a reliable domestic rubber source.

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