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Browse Science and Technology stories - June, 2009
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | DecUANews | Students participating in the Math, Engineering, Science Achievement program, which is administered by the UA, placed at the top in a nationwide design competition.
UANews | The UA Mineral Museum will continue to be open to the public due to the generous financial assistance of the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation and an anonymous donor.
UANews | The weeklong BioME Summer Institute marked the beginning of a year-long partnership between Tucson teachers and UA graduate students.
UANews | Chemistry professor Mary J. Wirth is creating products that use technologies at the nano level that serve to improve early disease detection.
UANews | Southern Arizona students involved in a UA program are competing in a national engineering design competiion in Denver.
UANews | A plant virus that first attacked melon and squash crops in Arizona, California and Sonora, Mexico, in 2006 has now been identified in an expanded range of wild and cultivated host plants.
UANews | Frank J. Low devised instruments that opened the universe to infrared astronomers. His work revolutionized astronomy to include telescopes mounted on aircraft and satellites.
UANews | A $1 million training grant awarded to UA researcher will help prepare graduate students for careers that integrate math and biology.
UANews | Associate Professor Young-Jun Son and two of his systems and industrial engineering students won three awards at the 2009 Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial Engineers in Miami.
UANews | The nearly $1 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will allow the UA's School of Information Resources and Library Science to offer scholarships for its digital information graduate certificate program.
UANews | Evening star gazing events are part of the UA Sky Center's summer lineup.
UANews | UA engineering students and their micro air vehicle placed second in an international competition in Florida.
UANews | The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair has recognized a Tucson High Magnet School student for research conducted at The University of Arizona's BIO5 Institute.
UANews | The UA's Jonathan Overpeck is among the lead authors of the national report that details risks from warming, as well as ways to adapt to future conditions.
UANews | The UA's Arizona Center for Innovation held its first Investor Showcase, connecting inventors and startup company founders with the people needed to help take their ideas to market.
UANews | Thanks to a number of dedicated astronomy volunteers, Flandrau's telescope will remain open for public viewing.
UANews | UA biologist and amateur insect collector Bruce Walsh has published his discovery of a new species of moth. The moth has distinct bright pink wings, which prompted Walsh to name it after his wife.
UANews | Tucson residents are building better habitats for wildlife and people with help from the UA program Tumamoc: People and Habitats.
UANews | UA insect scientists are asking for help trapping kissing bugs in southern Arizona for a research study.
UANews | Summer visitors to the UA's Mount Lemmon SkyCenter will learn about more than just the heavens.
UANews | The program will run from June 8 to July 16 in various labs at the BIO5 Institute and the College of Pharmacy.