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The National Science Foundation – as part of its Future of Semiconductors, or FuSe2, program – recently awarded $3.8 million for two projects involving U of A engineers developing solutions for the semiconductor energy dilemma. CSM Fellow Weigang Wang's work is highlighted.

CSM Leader and Wyant College of Optical Sciences Dean Thomas L. Koch will retire in June 2025, after serving as the dean since 2012.

On September 10, 2024, the University of Arizona signed a memorandum of understanding with Sahuarita Unified School District to develop and expand the Career and Technical Education - Semiconductor Manufacturing (CTE-SM) program to Sahuarita following the program’s pilot launch next fall.

Forty incoming high school students attended the inaugural “Chips and Wafers” semiconductor summer camp in Chandler, Arizona. The camp is a collaborative project sponsored by the UArizona Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing and hosted by Chandler Unified School District to introduce students to career paths in the booming semiconductor sector.

A popular summer camp is the latest in a series of collaborations and initiatives designed to increase semiconductor career training access.

UArizona joins 15 other higher education institutions across the country launching clinics this year thanks to a collaboration between Google and the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, an organization established in 2021 to train the next generation of cyber leaders and protect community organizations from online threats.

Ali Taha Habiboglu a PhD candidate majoring in physics/minoring in materials science and engineering, will pitch Fig Microchips: Lowering the cost of various magnetic sensor-based integrated circuits by replacing many sensors with one.

By combining highly specialized semiconductor materials and piezoelectric materials not typically used together, the researchers were able to generate giant nonlinear interactions between phonons. Together with previous innovations demonstrating amplifiers for phonons using the same materials, this opens up the possibility of making wireless devices such as smartphones or other data transmitters smaller, more efficient and more powerful.