Summer 2018

As twilight fell over the University of Arizona’s Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium on a May evening, Alyssa Palomino, who plays first base for the ’Cats, lay down on the grass at the edge of the field.

Michael D. Dake, M.D., an internationally recognized physician-scientist, health educator and innovative medical researcher, is the new senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Arizona. He also will hold an appointment as a professor of radiology.

The University of Arizona political philosophy program is ranked No. 1 in the 2018 Philosophical Gourmet Report.

University of Arizona alumni are full of stories. Some of them bring laughter, like cramming for tests in a malodorous basement.

The University of Arizona Health Sciences and Banner Health received a $9 million award from the National Institutes of Health in April for the All of Us Research Program, which may total as much as $60 million over five years, representing the largest NIH award in Arizona history.

Our aging brains, as Carol Barnes has discovered, are surprisingly resilient. They can adapt, rewire, even reshape their 100 billion cells and 100 trillion synapses.