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  • The True Shape of Space | March 31, 2009
    UANews | Independent mathematician Jeffrey Weeks will present the second annual Daniel Bartlett Memorial Lecture. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Biosphere 2 Will Celebrate Earth Day With Music, Art and Science | March 31, 2009
    UANews | The UA's Biosphere 2 will combine music and art with science, technology and business at its first Earth Day Festival. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology
  • UA Astronomy Is Part of April 3 Worldwide Astronomy Marathon | March 30, 2009
    UANews | Visit advanced astronomical facilities that UA helped develop via "Around the World in 80 Telescopes." | Science and Technology
  • GeoDaze 2009 Features UA Student Research in the Earth Sciences | March 27, 2009
    UANews | GeoDaze is an annual showcase of earth sciences research by undergraduate and graduate students at the UA. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Researchers Honored at Innovation Day | March 26, 2009
    UANews | University researchers were honored for their work, ranging from vaccine development to global warming research, during the sixth annual Innovation Day at UA. | Campus News | Science and Technology
  • UA-Led Team Studying 'Baffling' Rock Formations | March 26, 2009
    UANews | UA geoscientist Paul Kapp and his research team are studying yardangs. The  rock formations have been observed in arid deserts on Earth but little is known about how they were formed. | Science and Technology
  • HiRISE Sees Signs of an Unearthly Spring | March 25, 2009
    UANews | Carbon dioxide gas under the thawing seasonal dry ice cap carries dust up from below, forming starburst spiders and other patterns in the terrain. | Science and Technology
  • Information, Disinformation in Knowledge Exchange | March 25, 2009
    UANews | The UA School of Information Resources and Library Science is hosting a roundtable that will delve into the issue of information ethics. | General News | Science and Technology
  • SkyCenter and Catalina Sky Survey Offer Asteroid Workshop on Mount Lemmon | March 20, 2009
    UANews | Amateurs can work with world pros on hunting potentially hazardous asteroids from atop Mount Lemmon April 2-4. | Science and Technology
  • Supporting Girls Through Science | March 20, 2009
    UANews | The "Expanding Your Horizons" conference will expose girls in middle school and high school to careers in science, technology and engineering. | Science and Technology
  • Some Species Could be Cushioned Against Climate Change | March 18, 2009
    UANews | Subjecting aphids to heat stress shows that complex ecosystem interactions coupled with rapid evolution may buffer some species against environmental change, according to new research. | Science and Technology
  • UA's Biosphere 2 Will Go Solar, Thanks to SOLON Corp. Gift | March 18, 2009
    UANews | Biosphere 2 and SOLON Corp. are collaborating to power much of the UA's Biosphere 2 campus with solar energy. | Science and Technology
  • Physicists Narrow Search for Higgs Boson | March 16, 2009
    UANews | UA particle physicist Erich Varnes is part of an experiment that just announced a new finding about the elusive Higgs boson. | Science and Technology
  • BIO5 Presents 3rd Annual Arizona K-12 Science Teacher Symposium | March 13, 2009
    UANews | Participants will make soda-bottle biospheres, perform DNA fingerprinting, and analyze the genetics of breast cancer. | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
  • Ecologist David D. Breshears Awarded Leopold Leadership Fellowship | March 12, 2009
    UANews | Breshears will receive training in communicating with policy makers, media and the public. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Professor to Testify Before Senate Committee Thursday | March 11, 2009
    UANews | A proposed new national climate service needs adequate funding to turn huge volumes of research data into useable information for local water managers, a UA researcher says. | Science and Technology
  • Biosphere 2 Short Course is First Class, Arizona Science, Math Teachers Say | March 11, 2009
    UANews | Teachers themselves design and drive Arizona Center for STEM Teachers programs at Biosphere 2. | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
  • UA Physicist's Work Could Help Predict Red Tides | March 11, 2009
    UANews | UA biological physicist John O. Kessler, together with two scientists from MIT, figured out how some types of ocean currents can concentrate billions of tiny swimming photosynthetic plankton. | Science and Technology
  • UA Planetary Scientist Awarded Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Award | March 11, 2009
    UANews | The award honors H. Jay Melosh for his research on meteorite impacts. | Campus News | Science and Technology
  • UA Co-Hosting Conference on Health Disparities | March 10, 2009
    UANews | Numerous UA medical and health center directors are slated to speak at a conference that the UA is hosting with the University of Iowa. | General News | Science and Technology
  • HiRISE Camera Captures Subtle Colors of Mars' Tiny Moon Deimos | March 9, 2009
    UANews | The UA's HiRISE team has produced new images that show subtle color differences across the moon's smooth surface. | Science and Technology
  • How Moths Key into the Scent of a Flower | March 9, 2009
    UANews | Although a flower's bouquet can be composed of hundreds of chemicals, a moth needs to smell just a handful to identify its favorite source of nectar, report UA researchers. | Science and Technology
  • Harvesting the Sun's Energy | March 6, 2009
    UANews | Ardeth Barnhart, AzRISE co-director, will speak with the public about solar energy research and applications, among other things, during the UA's next Science Café.  | General News | Science and Technology
  • UA Libraries, Regents' Professor Publish E-Journal | March 6, 2009
    UANews | The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, an electronic peer-reviewed journal, has been created out a collaboration with UA faculty and the UA Libraries. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology
  • UA Solar Race Car Returns to Energy Expo | March 5, 2009
    UANews | The Arizona Solar Racing Team will showcase one of its vehicles at The Sustainability and Energy EXP09 and the UA has a number of sustainability events planned. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Head of UA Lunar Lab Part of National Geographic Show | March 4, 2009
    UANews | Michael Drake discovered that some, or most, of Earth's ocean water came from dust grains that formed our planet.  | Science and Technology
  • Can a Computer Model Prevent a War? | March 3, 2009
    UANews | UA engineering is receiving $2M from the U.S. Army for research into computer models of unconventional warfare. | Science and Technology
  • Taking the Pulse of the Planet | March 3, 2009
    UANews | The USA-National Phenology Network, based at the UA, will ultimately link environmental scientists with tens of thousands of volunteer observers around the country. | Science and Technology
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