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.

For the second year, the University is hosting a cybersecurity camp for high school students through a program sponsored by the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation.

In addition to Huntsman, six others will receive honorary degrees: Betsy Bolding, a community volunteer; P. Andrew Groseta, an Arizona rancher; Peter W. Salter, founder and retired CEO of Salter Labs; Sarah Smallhouse, president of the Thomas R. Brown Foundations; Will Humble, division director for health policy and evaluation for the Center for Population Science and Discovery at the Arizona Health Sciences Center; and Brenda Milner, founder of the Montreal Neurological Institute.