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  • Top Vatican Official Visits Vatican Astronomers at UA | February 27, 2009
    UANews | Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo accepted an invitation to visit the Vatican Observatory astronomers based at Steward Observatory. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Fractured Lavas Suggest Floods on Mars | February 27, 2009
    UANews | HiRISE has found fractured lavas before now seen only on Earth. | Science and Technology
  • Leading Astronomy Organization Honors Vatican Astronomer Active With UA | February 26, 2009
    UANews | American Astronomical Society honors George V. Coyne, S.J., as educator, scientist and theologian. | Science and Technology
  • Fine Arts to Join Colleges of Letters and Science | February 25, 2009
    UANews | The new partnership of colleges will now be titled The Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science.  | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology
  • UA Scientists Find Asteroids Are Missing, and Possibly Why | February 25, 2009
    UANews | The patterns of missing asteroids are like footprints of wandering giant planets preserved in the asteroid belt. | Science and Technology
  • Biosphere 2 Will Hold Two-Part 'Survival of the Sphere' Event on UA Campus | February 23, 2009
    UANews | Both the special seminar and the performance are free to the public. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • How Volvox Got Its Groove | February 20, 2009
    UANews | UA evolutionary biologists report that ancestors of Volvox algae made the transition from the solitary life of a single-celled organism to that of a multicellular colony much earlier than previously thought. | Science and Technology
  • Biosphere 2 to Host International Year of Astronomy Program Saturday | February 19, 2009
    UANews | An image being unveiled at the event has been described as "using your eyes, night vision goggles and X-ray vision all at the same time." | General News | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins 2009 Swigert Award for Space Exploration | February 19, 2009
    UANews | Receiving an award given in memory of an American space hero is "a tremendous honor," Peter Smith said. | Science and Technology
  • Honors College Student Researchers to Present their Work | February 19, 2009
    UANews | The Spirit of Inquiry is an annual symposium the UA Honors College hosts to showcase the research of its students. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Earthquake Engineering Research Aims to Save Lives, Billions of Dollars | February 17, 2009
    UANews | Research at the UA and two other schools is geared toward avoiding seismic damage like that of the 1989 Northridge Earthquake. | Business and Law | Science and Technology
  • Creating a Geological Map of World's Largest Mountain Range | February 16, 2009
    UANews | A UA-led team has received a National Science Foundation grant for work toward creating a timeline and geological map of the Tibetan Plateau – an intriguing and expansive terrain located in Central Asia. | Science and Technology
  • Spring 2009 Biosphere 2 'Let's Talk Science' Public Lectures | February 13, 2009
    UANews | Topics during spring lecture series at Biosphere 2 include solar energy, hunting hazardous space rocks, probing atoms. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Tucson Space Scientists Part of New National Geographic Special | February 12, 2009
    UANews | "Known Universe" premieres on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday. | Science and Technology
  • WRRC Conference Focuses on Stakeholders in Water Planning | February 11, 2009
    UANews | The annual conference sponsored by the UA Water Resources Research Center will focus on engaging stakeholders on water issues. | General News | Science and Technology
  • The War on Bugs | February 10, 2009
    UANews | The UA is helping to take Integrated Pest Management model nationally. | Health | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
  • Plants Take a Hike as Temperatures Rise | February 10, 2009
    UANews | A unique collaboration between two UA researchers and a local naturalist mined 20 years of data collected during the naturalist's 1,024 hikes along the Finger Rock and Pima Canyon trails in the Santa Catalina Mountains. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Are We All Martians? It's Possible, Blitzer Award Winner Says | February 10, 2009
    UANews | Life might have traveled between Mars and Earth within boulder-sized meteorites, UA planetary scientist Jay Melosh says. | Science and Technology
  • Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday to be Commemorated on Campus | February 10, 2009
    UANews | The celebration includes a look-alike contest, music, poetry readings and science displays. | Science and Technology
  • NSF to Fund Water and Environment Technology Center | February 9, 2009
    UANews | A grant from the National Science Foundation for a Water and Environmental Technology Center will include the UA's Water Quality Center. | Science and Technology
  • Science Cafe: Tumamoc Director to Discuss Reconciliation Ecology | February 6, 2009
    UANews | Michael Rosenzweig will explain how incorporating nature into the human landscape works better for both. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Astronomers Will Train MMT Telescope on Moon During 2009 Impact | February 6, 2009
    UANews | Astronomers will use the powerful UA/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater on the moon later this year. | Science and Technology
  • Nine Partners Officially Join Giant Magellan Telescope Project | February 6, 2009
    UANews | Astronomers from three continents commit to developing the next-generation telescope that will use UA optics. | Science and Technology
  • New UA Lab Will Mimic Behavior in Meandering Waterways | February 5, 2009
    UANews | Jennifer Duan will use a grant from the National Science Foundation to build a laboratory and computer models to mimic how sediments are deposited in meandering rivers. | Science and Technology
  • Research Symposium to Pull Together UA Experts in Science | February 5, 2009
    UANews | A symposium will be held on Monday to discuss translational environmental research efforts across the University campus. | General News | Science and Technology
  • UA Student Earns Howard Hughes Award | February 5, 2009
    UANews | Emily Ricq, a UA senior in the College of Science and also an Honors College student, earned the Science for Life Undergraduate Creativity Award. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Prof Recalls Geology Alum Who is Headed for Space Station This Month | February 4, 2009
    UANews | By the time Joseph M. Acaba completed his master's degree in geology from the UA in 1992, his academic adviser and thesis director knew that Acaba had "the right stuff." | Campus News | Science and Technology
  • New Cancer Prevention Company Has Ties to the UA | February 3, 2009
    UANews | The work of Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals may one day help prevent colon cancer in those at high risk for the disease. | Business and Law | Health | Science and Technology
  • UA Bringing Diversity to the U.S. Library System | February 2, 2009
    UANews | The UA School of Information Resources and Library Science is currently recruiting American Indian and Hispanic students for its Knowledge River program. | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
  • Renowned Researcher Dr. Fernando Martinez to Lead UA's BIO5 Institute | February 2, 2009
    UANews | Martinez is one of the most highly regarded researchers worldwide in childhood lung diseases. | Business and Law | General News | Health | Science and Technology
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