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A Year Into the Pandemic, How Are First-Gen College Students Faring? COVID-19 has wrought not only financial insecurity for these scholars, but stress, pressure, and the loss of a dream. A student in a graduation cap and gown dons a mask with their stole during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo Credit: Gerald Herbert/ AP Images On the second Friday of the spring semester, I emailed Paola Noguera for an interview, and twelve minutes later, she wrote back saying she’d “gladly” participate. I ha...

UArizona Will Lead NASA Space Telescope Mission to Reveal Unseen, Dynamic Lives of Galaxies NASA has selected Carlos Vargas, a postdoctoral researcher in UArizonas Steward Observatory, to lead a $20 million mission to build a space telescope that will map vast regions of star-forming gas that have eluded observation for decades.   By Daniel Stolte, University of Arizona Jan. 7, 2021 Located 12 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, M82, or the "Cigar Galax...

NASA has selected Carlos Vargas, a UArizona postdoctoral researcher, to lead a $20 million mission to build a space telescope that will map vast regions of star-forming gas that have eluded observation for decades.

  Mariano Avila. Photo courtesy of Milwaukee PBS. MILWAUKEE; December 9, 2020 – Milwaukee PBS is pleased to announce the hiring of award-winning journalist Mariano Avila as its new bilingual reporter/producer starting January 11, 2021. “I’m delighted that Mariano Avila will contribute to Milwaukee PBS productions as well as MATC’s Hispanic-Serving Institution initiative,” said Bohdan Zachary, General Manager at Milwaukee PBS. “Mariano has shown the power of using public media to ...