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Arizona’s public universities graduate over 35,000 over the weekend.
May 2024 – Arizona’s three public universities give diplomas to almost 35,000 graduates Graduation by the numbers: 20,700 – ASU 8,000 – UArizona 5,700 – NAU Diving deeper into commencement and enrollment: ASU College of Health Solutions: TEEN earns PhD from ASU College of Health Solutions – Focuses on STEAM program for underserved populations around…
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Bhattacharya named inaugural executive director of CAMI
PHOENIX, AZ – The University of Arizona Health Sciences announced today that Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, will take the helm as inaugural executive director of the Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies, effective July 1. Bhattacharya is a professor at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Immunobiology and currently serves on the CAMI Advisory Council, a group…
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ASU Nursing earns No. 6 ranking for gerontology concentration while overall DNP leaps 30 spots
PHOENIX, AZ – Arizona State University’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation achieved a new and well-deserved recognition from U.S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Schools: Doctor of Nursing Practice rankings. The college’s Doctor of Nursing Practice gerontology concentration was ranked for the first time, and in the top 10 — earning the No. 6…
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New BIOSECURE bill “reinforces the national security imperative of the biotechnology industry”
AZ BIO Friday May 10 House lawmakers today unveiled a new draft of the BIOSECURE Act. Shortly after, BIO President and CEO, John F. Crowley, made the following statement: “The BIOSECURE bill released in the House today reinforces the national security imperative of the biotechnology industry as a critical strategic asset of the United States…
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Taking a closer look at pulmonary fibrosis genetics
PHOENIX, AZ — Regulators of gene expression are thought to play an outsized role in disorders from cancers to heart disease. But how exactly do variations in gene regulation translate into a disease’s biology? A team of scientists led by researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, together with investigators at…
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ASU researchers develop special microphone to verify human speech
By TJ Triolo | May 03, 2024 ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmail Deepfakes have become a large societal concern with the advent of video and audio content generated by artificial intelligence, or AI. A deepfake is a convincing imitation that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. They can cause trouble in determining, for example, whether a politician actually made a troubling statement or…
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The where, why and how of water in space
Where does water come from? On Earth, there’s a graphic for that—a colorful picture of the water cycle that includes clouds and rain and rivers and groundwater. In space, it’s a bit more complicated. Laura Lee, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, is doing research to map water in the…
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9th Annual Research Conference Highlights Innovation and Discoveries from Across the Valley
Renowned investigators from across Arizona share advances in medical research that may improve patient outcomes Bringing together more than 190 attendees from around the world — both in-person and online via Whova — the 9th Annual Arizona Biomedical Research Centre (ABRC)-Flinn Research Conference showcased the breakthroughs made by grant awardees from the ABRC, Flinn Foundation and…
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College Hosts Inclusive Excellence Speaker Series to Share Message of Hope and Overcoming Adversity
Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds often must work incredibly hard to fight against those environments to pursue their dreams. One person who had to do just that was this year’s Inclusive Excellence Speaker Rameck Hunt, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and medical director of the Weight Management…
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TEDx UArizona – How immunotherapy could help us beat cancer
WATCH VIDEO HERE Our immune system locks down intrusive agents to fight disease. And it’s capable of learning through exposure to fight new agents. But it could be better at stopping disease that our body creates by itself through mutation. Like cancers. At TEDxUArizona, Dr. Deepta Bhattacharya asks, “What if we could use the programmable…
