For Women's History month, Tech Launch Arizona looked to two leading innovators – Dr. Joyce Schroeder and Dr. Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz – to talk about what it takes to do exemplary research that leads to better tomorrows.

TLA graduated its first Catalyzing Change I-Corps Cohort for Social Innovation. The initiative is part of the broader Social Innovation program which aims to amplify the impact of university innovation in all its forms, enhancing community trust in pursuing impact pathways and fostering positive change.

Every year, leaders from Tech Launch Arizona and the College of Engineering gather to award medallions to the researchers and professors recently granted patents for inventions that better the human condition. Attendees at this year’s Feb. 28 event celebrated Engineering’s inventors for improving health care and accelerating computing, among other achievements.

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.