The Thomas R. Brown Family Private Foundation has made a gift of $500,000 to the Wildcat Philanthropic Seed Fund, and has committed to a matching challenge for an additional $500,000.

New Senior Members include inventors from the agriculture and life sciences, chemistry and biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and optical sciences. Meet them!

As the BIO5 Institute director assumes her presidency of SPIE, she propels the international society for optics and photonics into new frontiers and underscores her role as a leader in cutting-edge research and innovation while representing UArizona.

The ranking is based on the patents for inventions that originated from university research that were issued in 2023. During that period, the university was issued 61 U.S. patents for inventions developed by faculty, researchers, staff, and students.

Retirement marks not only the end of an era but the start of a new one, and Tech Launch Arizona’s College of Science Senior Licensing Manager Laura Silva is getting ready to embrace this new journey.