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  • UA Hosts Conference on Timing of Biological Events | September 30, 2009
    UANews | Recent research on the study of the seasonal cycles of plants and animals will be presented during an Oct. 2 symposium that is free and open to the public. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Project Sage Special Report: A Crowning Achievement in Green | September 30, 2009
    UANews | An extension on UA’s architecture building waters its own one-acre desert wetlands oasis. CALA East will soon be topped by a green roof of desert plants and house a wind-tunnel that occupants will use to improve the energy audits they prepare for Arizona residences and businesses. | Science and Technology
  • Project Sage Special Report: Model Houses at Bargain Prices | September 30, 2009
    UANews | UA architecture students and faculty are building energy-and-water efficient houses at costs that lower-income desert dwellers can afford. The modestly priced houses could be duplicated around Tucson.   | Science and Technology
  • Project Sage Special Report: New Designs for Smarter Buildings | September 30, 2009
    UANews | Desert dwellers can look to innovative UA architecture faculty and students for more energy-and-water efficient dwellings. | Science and Technology
  • Magnetic Tape Research Earns Award for UA Chemist | September 30, 2009
    UANews | Jeffrey Pyun has been developing nanostructured thin films that resist corrosion and store more data on magnetic tape. | Campus News | Science and Technology
  • UA Rodeo Club 70 Years Strong | September 29, 2009
    UANews | The UA's Rodeo Club raised $30,000 to build a practice arena and facility to aid in recruitment and improve the skills of its members. | General News | Science and Technology | Sports | Teaching and Students
  • UA Professor Helps Organize Major Meeting on Climate | September 28, 2009
    UANews | Diana Liverman, co-director of The University of Arizona's Institute of the Environment, helped organize "4 Degrees and Beyond," a conference currently meeting abroad. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Near-extinct Gorillas Offer Clues to Family Dynamics in Humans | September 28, 2009
    UANews | H. Dieter and Netzin Steklis have been studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda for 15 years, work that has drawn the attention of family studies researchers in the UA Norton School. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Researchers Discuss Chronic Pain in Scientific American Mind | September 28, 2009
    UANews | UA researchers Frank Porreca and Theodore Price, both UA pharmacology professors, have co-authored a newly published article about chronic pain. | General News | Health | Science and Technology
  • Scientists See Water Ice in Fresh Meteorite Craters on Mars | September 24, 2009
    UANews | The HiRISE camera orbiting Mars is seeing almost pure ice at the bottom of new impact craters. HiRISE is operated at the LPL. | Science and Technology
  • UA Awarded $4.35M to Study Earth's Critical Zone | September 23, 2009
    UANews | UA researchers will study the hydrologic cycle's "living filter," the zone from the top of trees to the bottom of the groundwater table. | Science and Technology
  • International Scientists Set Boundaries for Survival | September 23, 2009
    UANews | How much pressure can the Earth system take before it begins to crash? Scientists pose a framework to help answer the question. | Science and Technology
  • UA Awarded $5.45M for Network to Improve Weather Forecasting | September 22, 2009
    UANews | UA hydrologists and atmospheric scientists will use cosmic rays to analyze soil moisture in order to improve weather forecasting. | Science and Technology
  • Water Researchers, Managers Meet in Tucson This Week | September 21, 2009
    UANews | The ninth SAHRA Annual Meeting will be held this year Sept 23-24 at the Doubletree Hotel, 445 S. Alvernon Way in Tucson.  | General News | Science and Technology
  • UA Professor Helping Write National Math Standards | September 21, 2009
    UANews | A UA mathematics professor is aiding in a nationwide initiative working to set math standards, detail expectations for students, promote professional development for teachers and also evaluate education policy. | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities at the Click of a Mouse | September 18, 2009
    UANews | The Office of Undergraduate Research unveils a Web portal that will connect students with research opportunities on the UA campus and beyond. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Fall SkyNights, Discovery Days Are Special on Mount Lemmon | September 18, 2009
    UANews | Autumn is a unique time for science and stargazing on the sky island mountaintop. | Science and Technology
  • Biosphere 2 Opens Phoenix Mars Lander Exhibit | September 18, 2009
    UANews | A full-size model Phoenix Lander has landed at Biosphere 2 before it heads, ultimately, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. | Science and Technology
  • New Genetic Research Indicates Jewish Priesthood Has Multiple Lineages | September 16, 2009
    UANews | UA geneticist Michael Hammer and his colleagues report that their research shows a number of ancestors fueled the ancient Jewish priesthood that dates back more than three millenia. | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Mars Mission, HiRISE Images in Etherton Gallery Exhibit | September 15, 2009
    UANews | The gallery is showing a baker's dozen of favorite Phoenix and HiRISE images of Mars through Oct. 13. | Science and Technology
  • Tiny Bacteria Secret to Cicada's Success | September 14, 2009
    UANews | The nails-on-a-blackboard sound of cicadas is fueled by unusual bacteria that live inside the insects, say a team of UA researchers. | Science and Technology
  • Steward Observatory Lecture Series Begins Next Week | September 10, 2009
    UANews | The Steward Observatory will launch the 84th season of its speaker series with a talk on Monday. | Science and Technology
  • Cleveland 10th Graders Begin Research at Biosphere 2 | September 8, 2009
    UANews | Biosphere 2 is the research venue for 78 sophomores from a new and innovative Ohio high school. | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
  • Evening Lectures on Migrating Planets, Hazardous Asteroids Search | September 4, 2009
    UANews | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory scientists will talk about their latest research in the free public lecture series. | Science and Technology
  • Recent Arctic Warming Reverses Millennia-long Cooling Trend | September 3, 2009
    UANews | Warming from greenhouse gases has trumped the Arctic's millennia-long natural cooling cycle, suggests new research from a team that includes UA geoscientists. | Science and Technology
  • Transformation Initiatives to Support Environment, Translational Medicine | September 2, 2009
    UANews | The Office of the Provost has announced two major faculty hiring initiatives that will provide $12 million to support environmental science, engineering and policy and translational medicine. | General News | Health | Science and Technology
  • Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution | September 2, 2009
    UANews | The HiRISE team, led by Alfred McEwen at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has released thousands of new images of Mars. | Science and Technology
  • A Back-to-Basics Approach to Ecology | September 2, 2009
    UANews | Rafe Sagarin, an assistant research scientist with the UA's Institute of the Environment, advocates the use of observational methods and involving the public in research.  | Science and Technology
  • UA Team Evaluating Relationship Between Roadways, Restoration | September 1, 2009
    UANews | Kathleen Lohse has received an ADVANCE Project grant to evaluate watershed management and restoration. | Science and Technology
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