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The University of Arizona Yuma Receives USDA Grant to Build the Next Generation of Agriculture Workers
The University of Arizona Yuma and three partner colleges have been awarded a USDA grant to equip the next generation of highly skilled agricultural workers and reduce barriers for Hispanic students seeking a bachelor's degree in the career areas of agriculture.
Totsoni Willeto: A Student Researcher's Expedition into Colonial Documents
Totsoni Willeto preserves Colonial Era Spanish documents through his work with the Arizona State Museum's Office of Ethnohistorical Research, gaining valuable real-world skills in the process.
On Student Success, This Astronomer Walks the Walk
Gurtina Besla, a UArizona assistant professor of astronomy, wants today’s students to have what she didn’t: community, paid internships, and clear paths to fulfilling careers—for which they’re actually prepared.
Q&A: Oscar Mendez's Parasite Research is the Cat's Meow
Get to know Oscar Mendez, a Ph.D. candidate who is studying how the parasite common in cat feces affects neurons in the brain.
Q&A: Stephanie Stewart Crunches Data from an Asteroid in Orbit
Get to know Stephanie Stewart, an undergraduate student whose contributions to NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission will help ensure a flawless 5-second operation to capture dust from the surface of the asteroid Bennu.
Undergraduate Students Build Telescopes to Track Space Junk
Using less than a third of the money it’d take to buy them off the shelf, five UA undergraduates built two telescopes for satellite observation—one of which will live in a once abandoned observatory.
Q&A: Lizard-Loving PhD Student Earyn McGee
Earyn McGee is a PhD student who studies the effects of stream drying on lizard communities.
Q&A: Thomas Moon, Postdoc at the Molecular Level
Thomas Moon, a postdoctoral scholar who studies how enzymes function and interact with each other, talks about the process of research and getting out of one's comfort zone.
Q&A: Ayumi Pottenger's Got Research on the Brain
Ayumi Pottenger is an undergraduate student studying molecular and cellular biology in the hopes of developing treatments for those with Parkinson’s disease while elucidating some of the mysteries of the brain.