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Arizona Faces The Citadel in Home Football Opener
Saturday's 7 p.m. (MST) kickoff will mark the first of four straight home games for the Wildcats at Arizona Stadium, where the UA is 12-3 in the last 15 games.
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Fighting Disease With Lasers, Light
The UA won an NSF grant to help fund a multiuser femtosecond laser facility. Understanding the behavior of sunlight the moment a photon hits the human body might, among other things, improve the early detection and treatment of disease, particularly cancer.
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Wildcat Walk New Game Day Tradition
Wildcat Walk will start at the corner of University Boulevard and Cherry Avenue two hours before kickoff. The team will head south on foot toward Arizona Stadium along with the marching band, cheerleaders and mascots.
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UA's Poetry Center, 50 Years and Counting
The UA's Poetry Center begins the commemoration of its 50-year history this month with events that include readings by a Pulitzer Prize winner, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, concerts, workshops, a book club series and other offerings.
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UA Telescope Pioneer to Receive Medal Minted Close to Home
Roger Angel, director of the UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, will receive the Kavli Prize during a ceremony in Norway on Sept. 7. The prize includes a medal struck from pure gold using an elaborate process.
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Verbal Snippets Offer Insights on Well-Being Amid Separation, Divorce
UA psychology doctoral student Ashley Mason's study of romantically separated people shows they offer clues to their emotional status in just a few seconds of conversation.
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Arizona Faces The Citadel in Home Football OpenerUANews | Saturday's 7 p.m. (MST) kickoff will mark the first of four straight home games for the Wildcats at Arizona Stadium, where the UA is 12-3 in the last 15 games.
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Vision of Hope For Kids
Arizona Daily Star | As a Sudanese war refugee, UA alumnus Abraham Deng Ater escaped from his home country and traveled halfway around the world for his education. He now has founded a nonprofit organization in hopes of building a school one day in his home country. -
Humanities Seminars Offer Lifelong LearningUANews | The UA Humanities Seminars program allows adult learners to study heroic poetry, French art, social movements and other topics without stressing about their grades.
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Fighting Disease With Lasers, LightUANews | The UA won an NSF grant to help fund a multiuser femtosecond laser facility. Understanding the behavior of sunlight the moment a photon hits the human body might, among other things, improve the early detection and treatment of disease, particularly cancer.
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UA Volunteers Begin Mentoring Arizona's Future LeadersUANews | More than 1,000 first-year Arizona Assurance scholars have met their UA mentors – 500 campus faculty and staff members who volunteer in hopes of increasing student retention and the state's university graduation rates.
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Wildcat Walk New Game Day TraditionUANews | Wildcat Walk will start at the corner of University Boulevard and Cherry Avenue two hours before kickoff. The team will head south on foot toward Arizona Stadium along with the marching band, cheerleaders and mascots.
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Undergrads Give Labs a Hand Arizona Daily Wildcat | Some undergraduate students analyze DNA, tumors or enzymes to earn their spending money. Undergrads can be found in labs throughout the UA's research centers, the BIO5 Institute and the College of Medicine.
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Scorpion Antivenin Tested in UA Study The Arizona Republic | UA researchers are testing the safety and effectiveness of an experimental scorpion antivenin. So far, findings show the medication quickly lessens the effects of venom, allowing patients to go home within about four hours, rather than having to stay overnight in a hospital intensive-care unit.
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UA Journalism Professor Honored for First Amendment WorkUANews | David Cuillier, an assistant professor of journalism, is one of three people who will be honored in October by the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87 The New York Times | Post-World War II American novelist Vance Bourjaily, who served as a UA faculty member, has died. Bourjaily, considered a socialite in literary circles, was widely known for his novels on American life.
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Arizona Public Media, UANews Receive Emmy NominationsUANews | Reporters with the Arizona Public Media and Will Holst, video communications manager for UANews, were each nominated in a range of categories. Winners will be announced Oct. 9 in Phoenix.
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UA to Provide Concierge Cycling Service Arizona Daily Wildcat | Beginning Sept. 7, students and employees will have access to a fenced-in area where they can park their bicycles. It will provide an alternative to traditional bike racks.
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Hope for Arthritis Patients in Fat TissueUANews | A recent discovery at the UA College of Medicine – that adult stem cells collected from fat tissue can be converted to cells that will grow cartilage tissue – has focused one Arizona Arthritis Center lab's research, promising new hope for osteoarthritis sufferers.
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UA's Poetry Center, 50 Years and CountingUANews | The UA's Poetry Center begins the commemoration of its 50-year history this month with events that include readings by a Pulitzer Prize winner, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, concerts, workshops, a book club series and other offerings.
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