Raytheon's $2M gift commitment fuels student leadership in engineering at U of A

March 6, 2025

Dean Papajohn, Lily Trenkamp, Lauren Johnson, Reuel Florendo, Kenadee Carruthers and Macie Balkan celebrate a win on an expo stage

The gift will fund a new 100,000-square-foot Student Design and Innovation Center, which will include collaborative classrooms, an advising center, makerspaces for designing and constructing projects and more.

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James Webb Space Telescope reveals unexpected complex chemistry in primordial galaxy

U of A astronomers are learning more about a galaxy that existed when the universe was just 2% of its current age. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the astronomers revealed something unexpected in the galaxy: significant amounts of oxygen.

U of A ranked a top-50 research university, No. 1 in entomology by EduRank

The University of Arizona has the world's top entomology program and is a leading research university in nearly 200 different fields of study, according to EduRank's Best Universities in the World rankings.

Santa Cruz River moves closer to national designation with guidance from U of A experts

U of A ecologists, landscape architects and other experts are working with community partners to help designate part of the Santa Cruz River an urban national wildlife refuge.