Spring 2018

Brenda Burman ’96 became the commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in November 2017. She is the first woman to lead the agency.

The University of Arizona’s new Center for Buddhist Studies in the College of Humanities will create a research hub to explore the religious, intellectual, social, cultural and textual traditions of the world’s fourth-largest faith.

Frankie Kolb ’99 does not shy away from a challenge. She has worked in a cancer clinic, built a Martian landscape, met with Middle Eastern dignitaries, managed a chaotic dean’s office, and mingled with a pool shark or two.

Over 200 Hopi baskets have joined more than 30,000 specimens in the Arizona State Museum’s unparalleled collection of American Indian woven items, known as the world’s largest, most comprehensive and best documented assemblage of its kind.

As the saying goes, it is often better to be lucky than good. Even better, though, is to be lucky and good. That is how Kevin Sumlin came to be the head football coach at the University of Arizona.

Now celebrating 35 years of success, Madden Media has become an industry leader in creating multimedia packages for more than 600 tourism offices across the country. Plenty of Wildcats are along for the ride, too, with more than 30 currently on staff.