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.

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.

An anonymous donor has made a $1 million gift to the philanthropic Wildcat Seed Fund – an early-stage fund designed to help fund startups launched to commercialize ideas and innovations stemming from the work of university faculty, staff, and students.

Dr. Marvin J. Slepian has been appointed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Public Advisory Committee. His three-year term started Dec. 1 and lasts until Dec. 1, 2026. A highly accomplished and productive inventor with over 60 patents to his name, is uniquely qualified for the post.

The National Academy of Inventors has elected Professors of Engineering Douglas Loy and Wolfgang Fink as Fellows, the organization's highest honor reserved for those who have made an impact on the quality of life and welfare of society.