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  • Model Mars Lander Part of NASA's 50th Anniversary Celebration | April 30, 2008
    A replica model of the Phoenix Mars Mission lander will be on display during the celebration this week. | General News | Science and Technology
  • May 5 Science Cafe Offers Background on Phoenix Mars Mission | April 29, 2008
    This month's Science Café is all about the upcoming Phoenix Mars Mission. | General News | Science and Technology
  • UA Team Ties for Micro Air Vehicle Win at Competition | April 29, 2008
    The UA's Micro Air Vehicle Team tied for first place in the most difficult and complex competition yet presented to the tiny spy planes. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Engineers Aid Search for Drug Combinations that Fight, Prevent Disease | April 28, 2008
    Engineering optimization strategies help researchers bring order to the chaos inherent in testing thousands of drug combinations. | Science and Technology
  • Students Compete for Cash During Engineering Design Day | April 28, 2008
    This year's engineering seniors will offer the results of their research this year, and vie for $6,000 in prizes. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Scientists and Engineers Use Autonomic Computing to Study the Secret Lives of Plants | April 28, 2008
    Computer intelligence, robotic sensors and experiments in the UA's Biosphere 2 combine to accelerate plant research. | Science and Technology
  • UA Astronomer Xiaohui Fan Wins Guggenheim Fellowship | April 25, 2008
    Fan is using the Large Binocular Telescope to find the oldest quasars. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Physicists Ready for Science with World's Most Powerful Accelerator | April 25, 2008
    New experiments might detect particles of dark matter, and even create short-lived, wimpy black holes. | Science and Technology
  • McGuire Entrepreneurship Team Beats the Pros | April 24, 2008
    LenSense, a startup venture established through the UA's McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, was the only university team among the 12 finalists in Nokia's "Mobile Rules!" Challenge. | Business and Law | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • UA Scientists and Colleagues Call for More Access to Biotech Crop Data | April 24, 2008
    A team of biologists that includes two UA entomology professors calls for making available detailed nationwide maps of the locations of biotech crops. | Health | Science and Technology
  • Agreement Connects UA, French Researchers | April 23, 2008
    The French National Research Center and The University of Arizona have agreed to share researchers on issues ranging from water and the environment to public policy. | Science and Technology
  • Materials Anthropology Class Transports Students Back in Time | April 23, 2008
    Along the way, they get hands-on experience with what were cutting-edge technologies hundreds, thousands and even millions of years ago. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • NSF Fellowship Goes to UA Computer Science Alumna | April 23, 2008
    Ekaterina Hristova Spriggs, who completed her undergraduate degree last year, has earned a grant that will provide $90,000 over a three-year period. | Campus News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Did a Significant Cool Spell Mark the Demise of Megafauna? | April 22, 2008
    Just as Earth began warming from the last ice age, a 1,000-year cooling spell signaled the demise of mammoths and other giant mammals that roamed North America. | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
  • Mars and Other Stories | April 18, 2008
    A tribute to Mars through the arts will be held at the Stevie Eller Dance Theater on April 26. | Arts and Humanities | Science and Technology
  • UA Researchers Create Self-Healing Computer Systems for Spacecraft | April 18, 2008
    The technology also could produce computer systems that statistically predict failures and reconfigure themselves to head off the failures before they occur. | Science and Technology
  • Public Invited to Celebrate Steward Observatory's 85th Anniversary | April 16, 2008
    The world-famous observatory built its first telescope dome on an ostrich farm in the small desert town of Tucson. | Science and Technology
  • Research Pushes Back Threshold of Early Cancer Detection | April 15, 2008
    An imaging technology called Optical Coherence Tomography can find cell abnormalities much smaller than 1 mm in diameter, leading to early detection of deadly cancers. | Health | Science and Technology
  • UA Optical Sciences Grad Wins Congressional Science Fellowship | April 15, 2008
    Elaine Ulrich will advise federal policymakers on scientific and technical issues. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • UA Wins 2008 Intel Robotics Challenge | April 14, 2008
    Aegis, the UA team robot, defeats a trio of ASU robots in the first-ever Intel Corp. Robotics Challenge. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Krider to be Honored at 20th International Lightning Detection Conference | April 14, 2008
    Lightning experts will honor the UA's E. Philip Krider for his role in developing the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Engineering Prof Builds Brains for Robotic Cars | April 11, 2008
    The best way to build control systems for robotic cars is by splitting the system into many small subsystems and designing a solid, robust solution for each one, a UA robotic intelligence expert says. | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Spacecraft Fine Tunes Course to Mars for May 25 Landing | April 10, 2008
    Engineers adjusted the lander's flight path to be on course for northern arctic Mars. | Science and Technology
  • UA Sophomore Presenting Research to Congressional Members | April 10, 2008
    Undergraduate researcher Kevin Keys will present his work in Washington, D.C., during a national conference aimed at promoting federal and state funding of student research. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • 'Astrobiology and the Sacred' Lectures Explore Possibility of Alien Life | April 9, 2008
    Astrobiologists urge humans to think about the possibility of meeting non-Earthly life. | General News | Science and Technology
  • HIRISE Sees Phobos in Color and Stereo | April 9, 2008
    UA-based HiRISE scientists have taken the best-ever images of the small Martian moon. | Science and Technology
  • John Hildebrand Named 'Einstein Scholar' by Chinese Academy of Sciences | April 8, 2008
    The Einstein Professor distinction is reserved for leaders in their respective fields with the potential to win Nobel and other international science awards. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Minton Wins 2008 Kuiper Award | April 8, 2008
    Planetary scientists cite the UA graduate student as one of their best and brightest. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • UA to Compete in Intel Corp's Robot Challenge | April 4, 2008
    The UA and ASU prepare for Intel's Arizona Robotics Challenge where each university's technological expertise will be put to the test. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Next Science Cafe Explores Tree-Ring Research | April 4, 2008
    Paul Sheppard from the UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research will discuss how tree-rings answer important questions in science. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Statewide Design Competition at the UA | April 3, 2008
    More than 600 Arizona teenagers will participate in a design competition at the UA this weekend for a chance to represent the state at nationals.  | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • UA to Pilot Sustainability Rating System for Higher Education | April 2, 2008
    The University of Arizona has joined colleges and universities across the country in the implementation of a rating system for sustainability in higher education. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • GeoDaze 2008 Features UA Student Research in the Earth Sciences | April 2, 2008
    The 36th annual student-organized symposium will be held on Thursday and Friday in the Memorial Student Union. | Campus News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Water Workshop to Inform Governors | April 1, 2008
    Information discussed during a two-day workshop on campus this week will result in a report that will be distributed at the Border Governors Conference. | Science and Technology
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