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Browse Science and Technology stories - May, 2009

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  • UA Scientist Warns Congressional Committee on Threats to Colorado River Basin |
    UANews | A "perfect storm" of growth, drought and climate change threaten the Colorado River Basin ecology systems and people. |
  • Say Goodbye to Hector Vector Star Projector |
    UANews | Flandrau: The UA Science Center will extend its hours of operation prior to its June 1 closure. | |
  • New Engineering School to Address Region's Sustainability Issues |
    UANews | Five departments in the College of Engineering are the basis for the new School of Sustainable Engineered Systems at the UA.  | |
  • Saving the World … Through Technology |
    UANews | UA Commencement speaker Dean Kamen will well-known for his inventions, but he is equally passionate about young people science and technology. | | |
  • MMTO Confirms Ultra-faint Object in Milky Way Halo is Dwarf Galaxy |
    UANews | The UA/Smithsonian telescope detects puny galaxies that contain perhaps as few as a thousand stars. |
  • UA's BIO5 Institute Hosting International RECOMB 2009 Conference |
    UANews | Dozens of scientists and industry leaders from around the world will be in Tucson to discuss advances in computational biology and medicine. | | |
  • Blind Student Success Central to New Grant-Funded Project |
    UANews | A team of UA researchers is figuring out ways to adapt computer software to help blind students studying math while also encouraging them to pursue studies in the STEM fields. | |
  • UA Hydrologist to Appear on History Channel Series |
    UANews | Kristine Uhlman from the UA Water Resources Research Center is among the scientists who will offer their expertise on the fate of the Phoenix metro area in the absense of humans. |
  • UA Research on Scorpion Antivenom to be Published |
    UANews | An article by three UA researchers will be published in the May 14 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. | | |
  • Phoenix Mars Mission Lands a Doctorate for Peter Smith |
    UANews | The UA scientist who led one of the best missions ever to land on Mars is getting his Ph.D. | |
  • Work Underway on Major Biosphere 2 Experiment Site |
    UANews | Biosphere 2 is in the process of building three hillslopes to be part of a new experiment to test and better understand how water, soil and vegetation interact. |
  • Angels & Demons: The Science of Antimatter and the Large Hadron Collider |
    UANews | UA physicist Erich Varnes will discuss the science behind the upcoming movie Angels & Demons | | | |
  • UA Surgeons Perform Arizona's First Intestine Transplant |
    UANews | The patient who received the first intestine transplant using a living donor in the entire Southwest is recuperating at University Medical Center. | | |
  • UA Faculty Member Confirmed as Indian Health Service Director |
    UANews | Yvette Roubideaux, assistant professor of family and community medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine, has been named director of the Indian Health Service. | | |
  • Giffords Announces Stimulus Funds for UA |
    UANews | U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced that $522,402 in economic recover funds would be provided to the UA for disease research. | |
  • U.S. Interior Department Honors UA Researchers |
    UANews | Interior Secretary Ken Salazar presented the department's "Partners in Conservation Award" to the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, department of agriculture and resource economics and the Arizona Water Institute at a ceremony in Washington on Thursday. | |
  • DOE to Establish Energy Frontier Research Center at UA |
    UANews | UA research could one day lead to solar collectors thin enough to buy by the roll at the local hardware store. | | |
  • Undergraduate Researchers to Present their Work |
    UANews | More than 50 UA student research projects will be presented Tuesday as part of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Annual Undergraduate Thesis Poster Session. | | |
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