Video Games Seek to Teach Smart Financial Strategies Can video games help people save money? SavingsQuest, an applied research project bringing together the UA and the Doorways to Dreams Fund under a Center for Financial Services Innovation grant, will test the theory in hopes of finding a mix of game features that will elicit smart savings behavior.
More than 100 UA law students will apply what they learned in class during their first year of law school to a summer job in the legal field.
First-Year Law Students Head to Summer Jobs Across U.S., Beyond About 96 percent of this year's first-year law students secured paid or for-credit work study and volunteer positions across Arizona, the United States and even internationally. The UA recognizes the importance of getting law students real-world experience as early as possible.
Marc L. Miller
Marc L. Miller Named Dean of James E. Rogers College of Law After an extensive national search, Arizona Law professor Marc L. Miller has been appointed dean of the UA James E. Rogers College of Law, effective immediately. Miller has been serving as interim dean since November. Miller is the 12th permanent dean to occupy the position since the law school was founded in 1915.
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Eller College to Bring MBA Program Online The UA Eller College of Management's internationally recognized MBA program will be available online beginning this fall. Applications for the program now are being accepted. With a focus on innovation, application and communication, the Eller MBA experience is designed to give graduates what they need to effectively lead in today's changing global marketplace.
Eugene Gerner (left) and Jeffrey Jacob in the lab. (Photo by Chris Mooney)
UA Spin-Off to Test Cancer-Preventing Drug Combination The UA spin-off company Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is building on systematic basic research by UA researchers that explored molecular mechanisms underlying tumor growth. The company is embarking on a clinical trial to prevent the occurrence of colorectal cancer or high-risk polyps in colon cancer survivors.
More than 100 UA law students will apply what they learned in class during their first year of law school to a summer job in the legal field.
Marc L. Miller
McClelland Hall
Eugene Gerner (left) and Jeffrey Jacob in the lab. (Photo by Chris Mooney)

UA Law Students Will See Tuition Decrease in 2013-14

  • UANews
  • April 4, 2013
The Arizona Board of Regents has approved the UA's tuition proposal for 2013-14, sharply reducing overall tuition for law students and modestly increasing base tuition for undergraduate, graduate and medical students. Tuition revenue will support key initiatives including the retention and graduation of students, seeding research and making engagement experiences possible for all students, among other priorities.

BIO5-TGen Collaboration Targets Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Arizona Business Magazine
  • April 3, 2013
BIO5 Oro Valley and the Translational Genomics Research Institute, or TGen, are collaborating to develop new therapies for the treatment of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Statistics from the National Institutes of Health indicate that 5.1 million older Americans - or one in eight - suffer from Alzheimer's, the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.

UA Innovator Awarded Thomas R. Brown Chair in Management and Technology

  • UANews
  • March 26, 2013
Hsinchun Chen, a professor of MIS at the UA Eller College of Management, has been named the new holder of the Thomas R. Brown Chair in Management and Technology. An imminent scholar in data mining and informatics, Chen is director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Eller College.

Startup Sees Role in Next-Gen 3-D Chips

  • Arizona Daily Star
  • March 20, 2013
nMode Solutions, a local tech startup involved in 3-D circuit design, launched successfully in 2010 as a tenant at the Arizona Center for Innovation, a high-tech business incubator at the UA Science and Technology Park. The company uses labs at the UA's Micro/Nano Fabrication Center for research.

Study Raises Doubts That Workplace Wellness Programs Save Companies Money

  • The Washington Post
  • March 19, 2013
Your bosses want you to eat your broccoli and hit the treadmill. But a new UA study raises doubts that workplace wellness programs save the company money. While hospitalizations for employees and family members dropped dramatically - by 41 percent overall for six major conditions - increased outpatient costs erased those savings, the study found.

UA Research Ties Insurance-Based Wellness Programs to Reduced Hospitalizations

  • UANews
  • March 6, 2013
Workplace wellness incentive programs may decrease hospitalizations, but not overall health claim costs, according to a new paper by professor of economics Gautam Gowrisankaran of the UA Eller College of Management, out now in Health Affairs. The paper's findings constitute the first rigorous evaluation of a comprehensive, insurance-based wellness program with financial incentives for participation.

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