At UA, Industry Enables Education

  • UANews
  • June 3, 2011
Tucson Embedded Systems played a key role in student efforts to resurrect two autonomous mine vehicles last semester in ENGR 450/550. The company donated an 8,000-square-foot lab space complete with vehicle hoist, and it provided racks, flat benches, power strips, cleaning agents and other supplies.

Arizona Caves: An Underground Archive of Climate Data

  • Green Valley News and Sun
  • June 2, 2011
Sarah Truebe, a UA graduate student, is looking for clues about past climates inside undeveloped caves. She works alongside UA professors who examine Earth's ancient past to understand how the planet reacts to periods of abnormal warming and cooling.

Drugstore Software Flaws Pose Health Risks

  • Arizona Republic
  • May 31, 2011
A newly published article by a University of Arizona team has found that some systems pharmacies in the state use to flag potentially dangerous drug combinations are flawed. Dan Malone, a UA professor of pharmacy professor, said: "These systems aren't doing as good a job as we hoped, and therefore, we need to be vigilant still."

Astronauts, Students Connect at UA Lunar and Planetary Lab

  • UANews
  • May 31, 2011
Students from Gridley Middle School in Tucson got a 30-minute window to ask questions about life in space.

NASAcronyms: How OSIRIS-REx Got Its Name

  • Space.com
  • May 27, 2011
Dante Lauretta, a UA associate professor and deputy principal investigator of the OSIRIS-REx team, came up with the idea to name the mission after Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld. The latter half of the mission's name, which references the Tyrannosaurus rex, was added later.

UA Awarded $2.95M to Study Monsoon Ecology

  • UANews
  • May 27, 2011
The National Science Foundation has awarded almost $3 million to better understand the highly complex processes by which the North American monsoon influences ecosystems and natural cycles.

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