Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs (GIDPs) at The University of Arizona

The GIDP Administration Office would like to announce the First Annual Spring Student Mixer that will be held Friday, April 20 at Himmel Park, between 3:30 and 5:30pm. The event will be a potluck so please bring a dish if you can. We'll also announce upcoming leadership positions for students who might be interested in participating.

Our Genetics GIDP faculty member Dr. Daniela Zarnescu was featured in the UA News this past week. Included in the article is an informative video on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) which features Genetics GIDP student Ernesto Manzo! We love to see our programs featured in the news!

Big Hunt for Small Molecule to Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases Late last year, University of Arizona colleagues Daniela Zarnescu and May Khanna sped west on Interstate 8 bound for a brain-research conference in San Diego. Khanna is a biochemist who works with small molecules. Zarnescu is a molecular and cellular biologist who works with flies.

We'd like to thank our students and faculty for a great semester! We have accomplished many things and have seen our students succeed over and over again. We are so proud of them. We'd also like to congratulate this year's graduates! We wish you all the best of luck in your future endeavors. Happy summer! 🏜️

Congratulations to Brittany Forte of the Cancer Biology GIDP and Cesar Medina of the Neuroscience GIDP for earning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Exceptional UA Students Earn NSF Fellowships

Grad Students!
If you plan to work on fellowship applications over the summer, consider applying to the Summer 2017 Fellowship Application Support Program. The deadline is 10 days away! Don't miss out on this great opportunity!

Summer 2017 Application Support Program | Office of Fellowships and Community Engagement The Summer 2017 Application Support Program serves to assist UA students in completing fellowship applications over the summer and to improve the quality of UA student fellowship applications.

Christian Ruvalcaba, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching GIDP Student, was featured in a UA News article this last week!

Christian's project was also mentioned earlier last month in another article about endangered language loss. This article also mentions GIDP Faculty Director Dr. Benedict Colombi and SLAT faculty member Dr. Ofelia Zepeda. Check out that article here: https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/endangered-language-loss-calls-preservation-revitalization

UA Student's Project Captures Tucson's Linguistic Diversity Inspired by Tucson's Nur Market on Speedway Boulevard, and by his doctoral coursework and his immigrant experience, UA second language acquisition and teaching student Christian Ruvalcaba launched the Language Capital Project and corresponding website to map where native speakers of non-national lan...

Congratulations to Joan Palmiter-Bajorek and Tim Frost (center) for making it to the Finals of the 2017 UA GradSlam! Joan presented “Pronunciation Technology: Clear Speech and Empowerment” and Tim presented "Accelerating drug discovery with microfluidic models" at the Semi-Finals. The Final Round will be held in Gallagher Theatre on April 4, 2017 at 5:30 PM.

Check this out! The GIDPS have been around for 52 years now. This is the timeline of the GIDPs still here today and those just recently made.

Good afternoon everyone!

We are currently in the final stages of editing the first batch of the 2016 Student Research Showcase videos! We will try to have these up in the next few weeks. We will make an announcement post here and on our Twitter. Stay tuned!

Welcome back students! We hope you all had a great winter vacation and are back and ready to go! Take care and good luck in your Spring semester!

Happy holidays from the GIDP Admin office and Graduate College! Be safe and have a wonderful break!

Good morning all! It's been a week since the Showcase and we are very happy with the outcome. Regarding poster presenter students and their presentations, we will be in contact with you by the end of the week. Good luck with your finals!