Yulex Pays Back UA with $3M Grant

  • Phoenix Business Journal
  • May 21, 2013
When Jeff Martin, founder, president and CEO of Phoenix-based Yulex Corp., wanted to thank the UA for all its support over the years, he didn’t bother with a hand-written note. He gave the university a $3 million grant. With it, the UA's Dennis Ray will lead an effort to produce guayule, an industrial crop of natural rubber that replaces petroleum-based synthetics.

High School Students Devise More Accurate Climate Modeling Method

  • Popular Science
  • May 20, 2013
High school students have co-authored a scientific paper with their UA graduate student instructor that could have a serious impact on the reliability of climate models. Their work details the impact of shrinkage on dried, fossilized leaves, which often is unaccounted for in climate models. By better accounting for this change in leaf size, researchers can significantly improve the accuracy of their climate models.

UA Regents’ Professors Named in College of Science, Eller College of Management

  • UANews
  • May 17, 2013
Three UA faculty members have been named Regents' Professors by the Arizona Board of Regents: Neal R. Armstrong in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, Hsinchun Chen in the Eller College of Management, and Xiaohui Fan in the department of astronomy. The title recognizes achievements of national or international distinction.

Dogs Experience a Runner’s High (But Ferrets Do Not)

  • Smithsonian.com
  • May 16, 2013
Many runners pursue the sport for the reward that comes at the end of a race or long jog: the runner’s high. Researchers suspect that other animals adapted to run, like dogs, may experience this neurobiological response after a round of exercise, too. UA researchers decided to test this hypothesis, publishing their results in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

UA-Led Asteroid Mission is a Go

  • UANews
  • May 16, 2013
NASA has granted final approval of the OSIRIS-REx sample return mission led by the UA. The target asteroid, uniquely interesting scientifically, is one of the most potentially hazardous objects known - it has a one-in-2,000 chance of colliding with Earth in the late 22nd century. The asteroid could hold clues to the origin of the solar system.

Storms on Uranus, Neptune Confined to Upper Atmosphere

  • UANews
  • May 16, 2013
Applying newly developed analysis techniques to data obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989, a team involving two UA planetary scientists discovered that weather phenomena on Uranus and Neptune are confined to the upper 680 miles of atmosphere instead of reaching deeper into the planets' interior as was previously thought.

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