Peter Pilat walks from room to room in a massive “Food Factory” warehouse in Phoenix, overseeing as Maricopa County inmates assist guards in packaging peanut butter and washing fruit. The county’s roughly 8,000 inmates are no longer served meat, and they’re learning to adjust. As Food Service Commander, Pilat has managed a gradual switch to…
Want to quit smoking? There is an app for that. Made in Arizona. Researchers and entrepreneurs are developing apps to make Arizonans healthier, and they also are testing existing mobile health devices to see if they actually work. “We can now empower people to take their health into their own hands,” said Dr. David G….
Arizona holds a long list of powerful women who not only impacted their communities, but helped better the state and in some cases, the entire country. Here’s some influential women from the past and some today, all in celebrations of Women’s History Month. Louis Foucar Marshall Louis Foucar Marshall changed the college classroom for the…
PEARCE, Ariz. – Chances are, if you’ve enjoyed a chile pepper or any type of chile product recently, those peppers can trace their origins back to the 1500 acres that make up Ed Curry’s farm in the Sulfur Springs Valley, 80 miles southeast of Tucson. Curry Farms is, and has been, the center of chile…
SinfoniaRx is a software company that helps pharmacists prescribe prescription drugs that won’t have harmful interactions in patients. Metropia is an app improving the commutes of users by encouraging more efficient driving. Both of these companies started out as initiatives brought about by University of Arizona faculty through the school’s technology transfer program called Tech…
