WILDCAT COUNTRY WONDERMAKES US SEE THE UNSEEN UNCOVERING CHASING BENNU’S SECRETS EINSTEIN’S Pg. 14 SHADOW Pg. 6 TECHNOLOGY & THE HUMAN CONDITION Pg. 17 FIGHTING FOR FIRST RESPONDERS Pg. 31 Photo credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration tudent success is integrated throughout of pride, as our students put on world-class artistic every pillar of our new strategic plan, performances, compete on the world stage in our Mission San Xavier del Bac and the University of Arizona has been athletics programs, and work side-by-side with the doubling down on how best to support world’s leading experts on innovative breakthroughs our students on their Wildcat Journey. like the Event Horizon Telescope project that SThis support ranges from advancing our scholarship captured the first image of a black hole. and financial aid options to redesigning the physical In the pages that follow, you will find just a few spaces where they learn stories about the incredible work that our students and the curriculum our are doing and why everyone here at the University Welcome faculty use to engage of Arizona is so proud of what our students accom- them. Preparing our plish. I hope you take these stories as an invitation to Wildcat students for success is to learn more and to join us as we create a bold Country! the most important part future for our state. of our mission to serve Thank you, and Bear Down. our state. Admire the view in a place where history and culture intertwine Robert C. Robbins Learn more at VisitTucson.org We are developing problem-solvers capable of tackling our greatest challenges, and many of our President students already have a huge impact in our region University of Arizona and around the world. They are a tremendous source Table of Contents 4 Engineering Wildcat Back 16 Student Speaks Up 29 Street Medicine Phoenix Contributors on His Feet with Mentor’s Help for Veterans, Disabled Helps Homeless Stay Healthy Joel Badzinski, Jo Marie Barkley, 5 People with ALS May Benefit 17 Transforming the Humanities Softball: No. 5 (tie) at Alexis Blue, Rosemary Brandt, Alejandra from More Glucose through Technology Women’s College World Series Carnedas Cuestas, Anna Christensen, 6 Chasing Einstein’s Shadow: 19 Startup Seeks to Control 31 Medical Student Incorporates Gina Compitello, Emily Dieckman, First Photo of a Black Hole Dust in a Dry World Resiliency Training for EMTs Marian Frank, Jason Gelt, Danielle Hargett, George Humphrey, Teresa 7 Behind the Scenes: Building Community 32 Lab Provides Hands-On Wildcat Mentor Builds across the Border Experience for High School Jospeh, Gerri Kelly, Emily Litvack, Katie Ties to TV Career Students to Post-Docs Maas, Mikayla Mace, Kimberley Mathie, 22 Using Science Policy Erin Morton, Caroline Mosley, Andy 9 Student Researcher Studies to Advocate for Clean Water Making the Navajo Language How Common Antibiotics More Accessible through Ober, Stacy Pigott, Nick Prevenas, Jean 23 After the Fire: Firefighters Weaken Tendons Technology Spinelli, Jordyn Stinnett, Daniel Stolte, Battle more than Just Flames 10 Do Bigger Brains Equal 33 Keeping Preschool Gardens, Eric Swedlund, Ana Terrazas, Paul 25 Students in Arizona Law’s Smarter Dogs? Playgrounds Safe for Children Tumarkin and Tim Vanderpool IP Clinic Secure First Three 11 Combating Diabetes Patents for Clients 35 Parkinson’s Drug May through Food Security Treat Macular Degeneration Women’s Basketball: Enhancing Diabetes Education 2018 Women’s National 36 Student Street Designs for Native Populations Invitation Tournament Become Real-World Solutions Champions 13 Inaugural Microcampus Bike Ajo Program Is Model Class Graduates in China 26 Taking ‘Do No Harm’ to Heart for Rural Communities Women’s Golf: One-Day Job Shadow Leads 37 Inventions Help Legally 2018 National Champions to Full-Time Job Offer Blind to See 14 From a Glint of Light to 27 Tackling 21st Century Kennerly Archive a Miniature World, Bennu Sustainability Challenges Finds Home at Center Begins Revealing its Secrets on the Navajo Nation for Creative Photography Agrivoltaics Proves Mutually Inventions Help Legally 38 Seeking A Genetic Approach Beneficial for Food, Water, Energy Blind to See to Treating Glioblastoma Wildcat Country | 3 an Jackson was riding his motorcy- often facing amputation and traveled After a year of community college, Jackson “I feel like this is the best thing that ever happened to me,” cle from the University of Arizona from all over the country to see Latt. decided the biomedical engineering program he said. “The crash was an opportunity to really understand campus to his apartment a few “It made me realize he was doing at the University of Arizona was a good fit. what’s important in my life and the man I want to be.” blocks away when a car ran a stop Engineering something different,” Jackson said. He entered the Honors College with a Phi Steps Toward a Better Future sign and plowed into him, drag- “I just didn’t realize how important Theta Kappa transfer tuition scholarship. ging him 40 feet down the road. it would be for my life. I told him, He excelled Jackson has decided to hold off on going to medical school, His left leg was trapped under the Wildcat ‘I really believe you can fix it.’ Because After a severe vehicle accident left Ian as a Wildcat though he hasn’t eliminated it as an option. His experience vehicle for several minutes before he fixed impossible situations.” Jackson with several broken bones in his and medical gave him lots of ideas about how to make hospitals more foot, doctors were considering amputa- Ia group of nearby students lifted the car Dr. Lloyd Champagne, a plastic school was on comfortable for patients. He plans to build a specialized Back on His tion. His mentor, orthopaedic surgeon and design laboratory where he can bring his inventions to life. off him. It was Oct. 19, 2018, just four surgeon from the Arizona Center for biomedical engineering professor Dr. Daniel the horizon. “The feeling of hopelessness when you’re in the hospital days after his 22nd birthday. Hand to Shoulder Surgery in Phoenix, Latt, reconstructed Jackson’s foot over the But since the every day is honestly awful,” Jackson said. “If I could just Paramedics rushed Jackson, then Feet with used skin grafts to repair the outside course of two eight-hour surgeries. agony of the a biomedical engineering senior, to the of Jackson’s foot first. Then, Latt accident, the produce devices that make a person’s experience one degree Banner – University Medical Center used plates and screws to carefully humbling recovery process and a realization better, that’s worth it. If I wasn’t a biomedical engineering Tucson trauma program. There, doctors Mentor’s Help reconstruct the inside over the course of how difficult it is to understand others’ pain, major, I don’t think I would have even considered that uncovered one injury after another: of two eight-hour surgeries. he’s learned there is more to life. I might be able to change the industry to be patient-focused.” a broken femur, tibia and fibula; unstable Thanks to the efforts of these and fractures of several vertebrae; and a other doctors from Banner Health, mangled left foot with multiple broken Jackson is fully on his feet today. He’s bones and missing skin. Jackson was walking normally and relearning how rushed to the operating room, where to run and squat. The metal in his he underwent a spinal fusion, had rods foot has been removed, and Jackson ncreased glucose, transformed into energy, could give people with amyotrophic lateral placed in his thigh and his leg, and had reinstalled it on the foot model Latt sclerosis, or ALS, improved mobility and pins put in place to hold his foot together. brought on that first hospital visit. a longer life, according to new findings by His surgery lasted 10 hours. “Our goal was to get him a foot a University of Arizona-led research team. “When a doctor came out and started that was square to the ground that he Physicians have long known that people telling me all the things that were could walk on,” Latt said. “I expected Iwith ALS experience changes in their metabolism wrong, I was really shocked,” said Jack- it to be very stiff and likely somewhat that often lead to rapid weight loss in a process called hypermetabolism. According to the study’s son’s father, Kerry. “He painful. So this is pretty amazing.” lead author Ernesto Manzo, a doctoral student in University Arizona biomed- said if just one of these the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, ical engineering alumnus To Excel and Empathize injuries had occurred, hypermetabolism can be a relentless cycle. Ian Jackson walking down Jackson was back in class, in a wheel- it would be very serious. People with ALS use more energy while resting the front steps of the “Old chair, three weeks after the accident. than those without the disease, while simultane- And Ian has five of them, Engineering” building on his He finished his senior-year course- ously they often struggle to effectively make use so it’s very, very serious.” reconstructed left foot. of glucose, the precise ingredient a body needs Three days later, Dr. work over the summer, earning all People with ALS to make more energy. Experts have not known The researchers observed brain Daniel Latt, an associate professor A’s except for one B, which drives him crazy. exactly what happens in a patient’s cells to lobes of ALS-affected fruit flies May Benefit From LabZarnescu of orthopaedic surgery and biomedical cause this dysfunction or how to alleviate it.