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The Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program offers scientists and engineers from a wide variety of disciplines unique opportunities to conduct research in a wide range of topics relevant to the Intelligence Community. The research is conducted by the Postdocs, while working in partnership with a Research Advisor and collaborating with an advisor from the Intelligence Community.

Applications Accepted Jan. 6 - Feb. 28, 2020

The family study room in the Weaver Library, 4th floor, room 438, is now open to all UA student parents/guardians, faculty, postdocs, staff and their children. This project, an initiative of the Graduate & Professional Student Council (GPSC), the Office of the Provost, and the Libraries, has been in progress for several months.

This competition, inspired by the UArizona’s Grad Slam and UCSF’s Postdoc Slam, offers postdocs an opportunity to present their research to a diverse and non-specialist audience, receive feedback, and win prizes. Presentations must be 3 minutes or less and include no more than 6 slides.

The Office of Instruction and Assessment is offering three five-day mini-courses, January 6-10, 2020: Fine-Tuning Your Course as a Road Map for Learning, Course-Level Assessment, and Effective Online Discussions. 

Keaton's research is in the mathematical foundations of analyzing large-scale, high-dimensional data. Dimensionality of data can be described as the number of parameters used to describe it.  For instance, an image from our phones has over 10 million pixels, each of which has a red, green, and blue color value.

Dr. Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto is a postdoc at the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment.

Are you interested in winning a travel award, and in sharing your experiences as a postdoc to a large national postdoc survey? A newly published study has demonstrated the crucial role of postdocs in lab culture and in the training and mentorship experiences of graduate students, and we hope to capture your voice to draw attention to the unique needs of the postdoc population and reinforce the importance of training, policies, and compensation for postdocs.

Dr. Tiffany N. Jones is a postdoc at the Department of Mathematics.

The mission of the UA Campus Pantry is to alleviate hunger in the UA Wildcat community by providing food assistance to those in need. Postdocs are welcome to use or donate to the UA Campus Pantry.

Around 15,000 local, regional and national attendees are expected in downtown Tucson for the annual TENWEST Impact Festival, to be held Oct. 11-20. Approximately 250 speakers, including more than 50 from the University of Arizona, will discuss innovative solutions to social, environmental and economic issues.