Fall 2018

Responding to an interest from students in food-related careers, the University of Arizona is offering two new undergraduate degrees: a bachelor of arts in food studies and a bachelor of science in nutrition and food systems.

When it comes to life experience, Syndric Steptoe ’13 boasts more than most. His University of Arizona football career vaulted him into the NFL and four seasons with the Cleveland Browns. He later bought a restaurant franchise, earned a master’s degree, and eventually returned to UA Athletics, where he helped student-athletes navigate career and professional-development choices.

Since graduating from the University of Arizona, Anthony Orlando ’13 has dedicated his life to helping others. It’s a journey that has taken him across three continents in just five years, with stints in China, Malawi and Sierra Leone.

When new director Anne Breckenridge Barrett arrived on the job in January, the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography was in the middle of an exhibition pairing contemporary landscapes by Mark Klett with classic landscapes by Ansel Adams.

Two years ago, University of Arizona alumni David and Diana Freshwater attended a class that taught a different approach to working with challenging behavior from children, including symptoms that accompany behavioral diagnoses such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.

After an almost two-year journey through space, NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17 and began the final approach toward its target.