April 3, 2017 High-Tech Camera Gets Into the Weeds in Farm Country UA Cooperative Extension expert Mark Siemens is integrating advanced technology with farming to help improve productivity for those who are feeding people throughout the state and region.
Feb. 23, 2017 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.
Sept. 12, 2016 Cuello Elected to Philippines National Academy of Science and Technology Joel Cuello, professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, was elected to the National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines for his significant contributions in sustainable biological and agricultural engineering systems.
Aug. 29, 2016 Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Alumna Wins National Prize in Mexico Tania Eulalia Martínez Cruz, who earned her master’s degree from the University of Arizona in 2012, received the 2016 National Youth Prize for academic achievement from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Aug. 12.
June 30, 2016 UA, Saudi Universities Partner on Farming The institutions are advancing social agriculture to help farmers achieve economic profitability while promoting environmental sustainability.
March 24, 2011 Focus on Fuels: Developing Sustainable Biofuel Crops Fuels developed from biomass such as sugar or grain crops or algae could be used more widely in the future to power automobiles, homes, industrial manufacturing facilities and airplane engines.
July 19, 2010 ‘Lab on a Chip’ Detects Human, Agricultural Contaminants The UA's Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli in water and vegetables and to monitor disease in livestock.
