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.
McClelland Hall
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)

How to Collaborate in the New Retail Environment

  • Forbes
  • October 10, 2012
With mobile, digital and social media each playing a significant role, retail marketers are faced with challenges to stand out from the competition. Said Martha Van Gelder, director of the UA Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing: “The most important fact about retailing today is the velocity of change that the industry is experiencing and the extent to which the customer is in charge."

New Era Launches for UA Technology-Transfer Team

  • Arizona Daily Star
  • October 1, 2012
The UA is remaking its technology transfer process - the way the school pulls inventions from the lab and gets them into the marketplace, for the benefit of the public and, to some degree, the University and faculty inventors. The University has hired a new head coach in David N. Allen, who recently started as executive director of the UA's Tech Launch Arizona.

Students, Community Share Business Ideas at 'Pitch McGuire'

  • UANews
  • September 25, 2012
The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship has launched a weekly program that invites community members to pitch their business ideas in front of a panel of experts. Pitch McGuire is intended to help UA students, employees and community members advance their ideas by offering them professional feedback in an informal setting.

UA Professor Co-Creates Tool to Measure Economic Development Success

  • UANews
  • September 21, 2012
Gary Pivo, UA professor of planning, has helped create a new online tool to help developers, funding agencies and members of the public measure the economic, environmental and social success of economic development projects. The Triple Bottom Line Tool, developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration, is available online now for free use.

Tucson Startup is 'Matchmaker' for Shippers

  • Inside Tucson Business
  • September 21, 2012
What started as a school project for two UA Eller College of Management alumni has turned into a Tucson startup called Post.Bid.Ship. The company aims to improve shipping industry inefficiencies by acting as a “matchmaker” for shippers with empty trucks and people with freight that needs hauling.

Experts to Review Recent Supreme Court Cases for Constitution Day

  • UANews
  • September 11, 2012
A panel of legal experts will review recent Supreme Court cases during the UA's 14th annual Constitution Day program. The event, which is free and open to the public, is being held in conjunction with nationwide commemorations of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. The event will be hosted by the William H. Rehnquist Center in the James E. Rogers College of Law.

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