UA Formula Race Team Completes Grueling Endurance Race

  • UANews
  • July 1, 2011
Wildcat Racing, the UA's formula race team, competed recently in a race that tested the solid engineering underlying its car's construction. Each year, club members spend two semesters building a racecar from scratch.

Megafires May Change the Southwest Forever

  • Wired Science
  • July 1, 2011
Plants and animals of the southwestern U.S. are adapted to fire, but not to the super-sized, super-intense fires now raging in Arizona. UA fire ecologist Don Falk explains how fire has traditionally behaved: “We can use old tree ring analyses to see when fires started. We don’t see tens or hundreds of thousands of acres of high-severity burns."

Setting His Sights on Mars

  • UANews
  • June 30, 2011
Alfred McEwen, professor of planetary geology at the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and principal investigator of the HiRISE camera orbiting Mars, has received NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal.

Clocking Neptune's Spin

  • UANews
  • June 29, 2011
By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a UA planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet's rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets in our solar system except Jupiter.

Study: Happy Orangutans Live Longer

  • UPI
  • June 29, 2011
Happier orangutans live longer, University of Edinburgh and UA researchers say – a finding that could shed light on the evolution of happiness in humans. Scientists assessed happiness by asking zoo and animal park keepers who work with orangutans about the animals' moods and social interactions.

UA Alumnus, TV Host Named National Geographic Fellow

  • East Valley Tribune
  • June 29, 2011
Zeb Hogan, a UA alumnus and host of "Monster Fish" on the National Geographic Channel, has been named a National Geographic Fellow – one of just 15 people worldwide to receive the honor for his passion and area of research, which has taken him around the world.

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