Note to Dads: Good Parenting Makes a Difference

  • UANews
  • June 16, 2011
A new study by Bruce Ellis and his colleagues at the UA Norton School show that good parenting skills by dads reduces the incidence of risky sexual behavior by their daughters.

A Live View of Unconsciousness

  • Science 2.0
  • June 15, 2011
It's difficult to know what you're thinking – or what's happening in your brain – as you lose consciousness. Many research groups have studied the brain during its influence under anesthetic drugs, in particular Stuart Hameroff of the UA.

UMC Introduces Kids to Nursing Careers at ‘Camp Scrubs’

  • UANews
  • June 15, 2011
Twenty Tucson middle-school students are learning if they've got what it takes to be a registered nurse this week at University Medical Center's "Camp Scrubs." This is the eighth year UMC has offered the popular summer camp.

Grant to Fund UA Cardiovascular Disease Study

  • UANews
  • June 10, 2011
Elaine G. Jones, associate professor in the UA College of Nursing, received a two-year, $416,625 grant for a study that aims to decrease risk for cardiovascular disease among culturally deaf adults.

UA Trying to Keep Arsenic From Drinking Water

  • KNXV-TV
  • June 7, 2011
Scientists at the UA are researching the effects of arsenic in water with groundbreaking results. One study looks at how arsenic might cause bladder cancer and heart disease, and another project aims to reduce the amount of arsenic in well water.

Boys Who Bully May Grow Up to Be Abusive Men

  • U.S. News & World Report
  • June 7, 2011
A new study says that men who bully others during childhood are more likely to grow up and abuse their wives and girlfriends. Stephen T. Russell, director of the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth and Families at the UA, said the study provides more evidence that bullying isn't "just a fact of growing."

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