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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 had never met Noguera—she is majoring in communications and I teach in the sociology department—an...

UArizona Will Lead NASA Space Telescope Mission to Reveal Unseen, Dynamic Lives of Galaxies NASA has selected Carlos Vargas, a postdoctoral researcher in UArizona's 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 Galaxy," is known for its intense rate of star formation. Vast regions of gas provide the fuel from whic...

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 reflect the voices and issues of diverse communities”. Avila will help Milwaukee PBS to extend its...