Posts in Education and Research
Salpointe Catholic High School

Since opening in 1950, Salpointe Catholic High School has enjoyed a distinguished reputation for its strong curriculum, competitive athletics, highly‐acclaimed fine arts, faith‐strengthening religious program and spirited co‐curricular activities. Salpointe’s holistic, college‐preparatory curriculum offers a premier STEM program, award‐winning fine and performing arts, Humanities, theology, competitive athletics and wide‐ranging co‐curricular activities.

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University of Arizona, College of Engineering, Innovation Building

The Engineering Innovation Building (EIB) will help the College of Engineering attract the best students and faculty the world has to offer. Thousands of students on design teams and in engineering clubs will have a new home built for teamwork and success. World-renowned researchers will gain the space and equipment to advance groundbreaking technology while being provided with the infrastructure to move ideas to market quickly. Life-changing innovations - biomedical devices, sustainable energy and water sources, construction and transportation improvements - will become reality as students, faculty and industry leaders work side by side on some of the world's most pressing and complex issues.

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STEMAZing Teacher Leader Program

he STEMAZing Project at the Office of the Pima County School Superintendent began at the end of October 2013 when the first STEMAZing Newsletter was sent out to PreK-12 educators. Since then, The STEMAZing Project has developed three main foci for positively impacting STEM education in Southern Arizona and beyond – The STEMAZing and iSTEM 4 ECE Newsletters, STEMAZing Professional Development, and STEMAZing Community Outreach.

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Cooper Center for Environmental Learning

The Cooper Center for Environmental Learning is a campus that inspires participants to preserve the Sonoran Desert and live more lightly on the earth, offers extended programs in earth education, provides classes and workshops to help prepare teachers, interns, and graduate students in environmental learning, and encourages doctoral students to conduct research on outdoor learning and sustainable practices.

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UA Community and School Garden Program

The University of Arizona’s Community and School Garden Program (CSGP) is aimed at connecting Tucson educators with university students eager to participate in the school garden movement occurring throughout the country.  The CSGP matches university student interns with Tucson community organizations and schools to support the installation, development and maintenance of a garden program.

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Arizona Assurance Program

Arizona Assurance (AZA) is a program that was created to increase the number of low-income, Arizona residents attending and graduating from the University of Arizona. AZA provides both financial aid and support services; both work together to retain and graduate students. This is achieved through first-year transition programming, mentoring, leadership building, career development, graduate/professional school preparation, and preparing for life after college.

 

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Center for Recruitment and Retention of Math Teachers (CRR)

The Center for Recruitment and Retention of Mathematics Teachers at the University of Arizona was created in August, 2001 to address the shortage of qualified mathematics teachers at the middle and high school levels.  Its goals are to retain mathematics teachers currently in the field and to attract mathematically talented college students to the teaching profession. Towards this end the Center coordinates several projects, including a program for new teachers (Induction Program), a Tutor Scholar Program to attract college students into mathematics education, teacher workshops, and an annual Mathematics Educator's Appreciation Day (MEAD) Conference for teachers, grades K-14. These and other projects are described in the pages linked in the menu above the photos.

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