Five students from the W.A. Franke Honors College were involved in significant research regarding global gender equality, as well as Environmental, Social, and Governance commitments (ESG) in the workplace. The outcome of the research showed that gender equality is a key catalyst for accelerating ESG within business structures and vice-versa, indicating that women’s equality in terms of economic opportunity, educational achievement, health, survival, and political empowerment could be achieved within our lifetime.

W.A. Franke Honors College Assistant Professor of Practice, Dr. Caitlyn Hall, is an environmental engineer with a passion for interdisciplinary thinking and community-focused science. She and her team of faculty and staff from across the University of Arizona were recently awarded the 2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries grant for their project, Community Stories of Sustainability and Resilience: Sonoran Desert and Baja Regions.

W.A. Franke Honors professor Caitlyn Hall published A Hydrologist's Guide to Open Science in the European Geosciences Union. 

The Center for Transformative Healthcare seeks to advance collaborative, innovative and transformative interprofessional initiatives across disciplines, learning institutions, health care systems, research centers and communities at-large. 

Last year, the book selected for this year’s Catalyst common reading initiative captured the Flint water crisis. Penned by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, What the Eyes Don’t See: A story of crisis, resistance, and hope in an American city, taps into her personal experience in sleuthing the source of the city’s water problems.

What’s circulating in the air? Embedded and active in the soil? A part of living creatures, great and small – including us? The answer is microbes, and they outnumber human cells in each person’s body by 10-to-1. The news is both good and bad as they are needed but can create havoc if left uncontested as potential allergens.

Dr. Armin Sorooshian, a 2003 Honors College graduate now serving as a College of Engineering faculty member, is restless as he sits at his desk, early winter sunlight pushing through narrow gaps in the window blinds.

While no objector to Starbuck’s coffee, Rob Lisak would rather explore a more ancient tradition in which liquid refreshment is but one of the outcomes. The creator of a short video reflecting his fascination with the meaning-rich Chinese tea ceremony, Lisak has put himself on a steep learning curve as an Honors College student.

Honors students in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona are rewriting the geologic history of the Grand Canyon. The traditional view of the sedimentary layers exposed in the canyon, as originally described by John Wesley Powell, is that they contain sediment shed from rocks exposed nearby. Honors students have been testing this interpretation by using new techniques of geochronology to determine the provenance of zircon crystals in various sedimentary layers.