On May 17-18th 2022, the University of Arizona, the Global Resilience Partnership, and the United States Agency for International Development convened a group of experts and development practitioners at the UArizona Washington, D.C. Center with aim to advance resilience measurement.
Through the inaugural Women of Impact Awards, the university will embrace and empower women who through their work are addressing society's most pressing challenges.
As a direct result of surveys detecting methane emissions from oil and gas, waste, and agricultural sites using innovative remote-sensing technology, 44 individual California facilities voluntarily took corrective actions between 2017 and 2021, preventing the equivalent of 1.2 million metric tons of CO2 from escaping into the atmosphere.
At the UArizona Washington DC Center for Outreach & Collaboration, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy in partnership with the Udall Foundation, hosted the first ever workshop in the United States focused on federal agency use of geospatial online tools for public participation.
Carol Stewart, Associate Vice President of Tech Parks Arizona for UArizona, has been appointed the new International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation North America Division President on the International Board of Directors.
After more than a decade-long tenure at the United States Agency for International Development, Greg Collins joins the University of Arizona as its new associate vice president of resilience and international development.
The University of Arizona’s ASEMS program was recently recognized by a prominent diversity and inclusion publication for its commitment to facilitating the recruitment and retention of women and underrepresented students into STEM fields.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Cantwell, senior vice president for research and innovation, talks about why she enthusiastically supports the use of illustration to communicate science. "I grew up reading science fiction and comic books, and I'm still a huge fan," she says. "I love how a good illustration can rev up your imagination and send it charging off to explore new worlds and ideas."
It’s important to recognize women’s work, vision, and potential. To start, here is a list of five women in STEM who contribute greatly to the University of Arizona and our Southern Arizona communities.
Giant clams write a “diary” of their lives in their shells. Dan Killam, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona, studies these amazing bivalves at the university’s Biosphere 2.
Ph.D. student Allie Bernett studies the movements of bobcats, coyotes and javelina around Tucson; gathering data which can be used to inform policy and management decisions affecting the well-being of human and animal populations.
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