The Thomas R. Brown Foundation awarded multiple scholarships to those recently accepted to the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Arizona.
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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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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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KEYS Research Internship Program, A unique summer opportunity for motivated Arizona high school students with a strong interest in bioscience, engineering, environmental health, or biostatistics to work side-by-side with top faculty in University of Arizona laboratories.
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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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Teachers in Industry integrates paid summer industry work experiences in local businesses across Arizona together with either a focused Master's of Artsin Teaching and Teacher Education or professional development credits. These activities are based in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines as well as teacher education & training.
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Students with an interest in undergraduate teaching, and especially in teaching first courses in the principles of economics, are eligible to become Thomas R. Brown Teaching Fellows.
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Thomas R. Brown Scholarships are awarded to National Scholar incoming freshmen who display excellence in academic and extracurricular endeavors.
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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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Thomas R. Brown Endowed Chairs at the University of Arizona.
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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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Through the CFSA, the Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation supports the MAPproject, Making Action Possible. MAP is a project of the Eller College of Management, in partnership with CFSA and the Southern Arizona Leadership Council (SALC). This project measures and monitors trends in Southern Arizona against a set of key performance indicators across six indicator areas.
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Generous donors and Arizona NOW co-chairs Sarah Smallhouse and Jeff Stevens served as champions for the campaign.
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Jonathan Overpeck, co-director of the UA's Institute of the Environment, will talk on "The Changing Earth: It's Not Just a New Normal," which will conclude the series.
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The entrepreneurship program in the UA Eller College of Management is long on multidisciplinary collaboration, and the diversity enhances the career readiness of participants.
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Dr. David G. Armstrong, a professor in the University of Arizona Department of Surgery and a member of the BIO5 Institute, is joining forces with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. National Security Council, NASA and other government agencies and industry leaders to create strategies to keep the world safe from medjacking. The UA is well-represented on the committee with the inclusion of Hsinchun Chen, a UA Regents' Professor and the Thomas R. Brown Chair of Management and Technology in the UA Eller College of Management, who also is director of the UA Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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