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UA Astronomer Earns National Education Honors
Astronomy Camp, run by UA Steward Observatory's Don McCarthy, has introduced students and others to science for 25 years. The American Astronomical Society has recognized McCarthy and his efforts with its annual education award.
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The Blurred Line Between Science and Art
The UA School of Information: Science, Technology & Arts is hosting its first exhibition of artwork by UA students, faculty members and staff that is blurring the lines that connect art, research, technology and science.
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Blowing Up Stars
For his discoveries about the lives and deaths of stars, the exotic physics of black holes and the origin of chemical elements, UA Regents' Professor David Arnett has been honored with the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship by the American Astronomical Society.
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Blip in Night Sky Tells Story of Cosmic Catastrophe
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, taken by Adam Block of the UA’s Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, shows the aftermath of a stellar explosion that happened 25 million years ago in an odd-shaped galaxy that may have merged with a second galaxy.
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Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave
A 33,000-year-old dog skull unearthed in a Siberian mountain cave presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with an equally ancient find in a cave in Belgium, indicates that modern dogs may be descended from multiple ancestors.
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UA Makes Mirrors for World’s Largest Telescope
The second mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope was cast on Jan. 14 inside a rotating furnace at the UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab. Almost 27 feet across, the mirror is of the lightweight honeycomb structure exclusively made at the UA.
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Gem Show's Meteorites Give 'Rare' a Whole New Meaning
Arizona Daily Star | The UA-directed space mission, OSIRIS-REx, will send a spacecraft on a three-year journey to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid. For now, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show "is a chance for people to see things before they go to the museums and things the museums can only dream of having," said Marvin Kilgore, curator of the meteorite collection at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. -
Tumamoc's Walking Docent Training Starts SaturdayUANews | UA Science: Tumamoc is looking for people who are interested in science and want to share their excitement, knowledge and skills by volunteering to become "walking docents" at Tumamoc Hill. The training sessions are free, and the first one is Feb. 11 from 10 a.m. to noon.
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Diving Beetles Offer Clues About Sexual SelectionUANews | Biologists have discovered a bizarre and beautiful reproductive process in diving beetles. What they found challenges the paradigm that sexual selection is mostly driven by males competing against each other.
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Professor Credits UA Surgery/Cardio Team in Bypass Recovery UANews | UA professor Richard Michod is three months into his recovery from bypass surgery, and fresh from sailing in the Virgin Islands – a trip he was able to make thanks to a pioneering, minimally invasive, robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass graft procedure offered at The University of Arizona Medical Center.
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Winds of Mars Transform Sand Dunes Into Art SPACE.com | Mars may be a harsh and dusty world, but the Red Planet also doubles as a vast canvas for artful Martian winds, a new photo snapped by NASA's powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals. The high-resolution camera aboard the orbiter is operated by the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
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$4.5M Endowed Gift Supports UA Rangeland ResearchUANews | The Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation recognizes ranching's central importance to Arizona and has demonstrated its commitment to the state's rangelands – and the UA's research and extension efforts in this field – through a $4.5 million endowed gift.
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Bioscience a Bright Spot for Jobs in Arizona Arizona Daily Star | Arizona's biosciences sector is expanding, boosted in Southern Arizona by expansion at companies such as Ventana Medical Systems/Roche. Ventana, a UA technology spinoff that makes tissue-diagnostics instruments, now employs about 1,200 people in Arizona.
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UA Astronomer Earns National Education HonorsUANews | Astronomy Camp, run by UA Steward Observatory's Don McCarthy, has introduced students and others to science for 25 years. The American Astronomical Society has recognized McCarthy and his efforts with its annual education award.
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Science Teachers Discuss Living Beyond 100 Arizona Daily Star | The UA College of Science's popular spring lecture series, "Living Beyond 100," is under way. The next talk, "The Biology of Aging: Why Our Bodies Grow Old" by Janko Nikolich-Zugich, professor and department head of immunobiology, is tonight at 7 p.m. in Centennial Hall.
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Blowing Up StarsUANews | For his discoveries about the lives and deaths of stars, the exotic physics of black holes and the origin of chemical elements, UA Regents' Professor David Arnett has been honored with the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship by the American Astronomical Society.
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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Abound at UAUANews | The UA offers many opportunities for undergraduate students to get involved in cutting-edge scientific research. "Now is the time to apply for research during the summer," said Glenda Gentile, director of the UA College of Science's Office of Undergraduate Research.
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UA Tech Park Has Significant Impact on RegionUANews | In 2009, the UA Tech Park and its resident companies had an economic impact of $2.67 billion in Pima County. This included $1.81 billion in direct economic impacts such as wages paid and supplies and services purchased and $861 million in indirect and induced dollar impacts, finds a new study.
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Blip in Night Sky Tells Story of Cosmic CatastropheUANews | NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, taken by Adam Block of the UA’s Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, shows the aftermath of a stellar explosion that happened 25 million years ago in an odd-shaped galaxy that may have merged with a second galaxy.
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Tiny Life Thrives in Dark Depths of Kartchner Caverns Arizona Public Media | A team of scientists from the UA has been crawling through the depths of Kartchner Caverns, searching for the smallest keys to life: microbes. It seems they like the dark, moist environment of the cave. Researchers found that microbes in the cave were markedly different from ones found on the surface, above the cave.
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In Mackerel's Plunder, Hints of Epic Fish Collapse The New York Times | The UA's Mort Rosenblum, a professor of practice in the School of Journalism, traveled to Chile to report on the declining stocks of jack mackerel, whose fate may foretell the progressive collapse of fish supplies in oceans. His story was published on the front page of the International Herald Tribune, the overseas edition of The New York Times.
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Series Promotes Conversations Between Artists, ScientistsUANews | The UA School of Art's visiting artist and lecture series is designed to increase public understanding of the important role contemporary art holds in addressing critically important issues of the day.
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Hundreds of Meteorites Uncovered in Antarctica Fox News | A gang of heavily insulated scientists has wrapped up its Antarctic expedition, with its members thawing out from the experience and pleased to have bagged more than 300 space rocks. Tim Swindle, a UA planetary geochemist, took part in the second half of the season and is a veteran of several previous expeditions.
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$1.25M Project Could Make Mining, Construction SaferUANews | A UA engineering research program into new methods of determining rock strength could reduce hazardous working conditions that cause thousands of deaths every year in mining and construction. The program also will address the dwindling number of professionals who work in this area.
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Helios Education Foundation Supports 'Algebra Ready' ProjectUANews | To improve the math skills of students across Arizona, UA researchers are designing online workshops for teachers of fourth, fifth and sixth graders aimed at improving the teachers' understanding and knowledge about pre-algebra instruction.
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Renowned Science Writer to Open Climate Lecture SeriesUANews | Andrew Revkin, an award-winning science reporter and author, will speak at the UA on Jan. 26. The event begins the Clearing the Air: Arizona's Voice for Environmental Science lecture series, which includes talks by four renowned experts on communicating climate and environmental science.
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Professor's Research Helps Restore Sight to the BlindUANews | The UA's Wolfgang Fink has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Fink's research into artificial retinas helps restore some sight in blind patients with age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa.
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Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian CaveUANews | A 33,000-year-old dog skull unearthed in a Siberian mountain cave presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with an equally ancient find in a cave in Belgium, indicates that modern dogs may be descended from multiple ancestors.
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Statewide Water Experts Meet Tuesday at UAUANews | The Water Resources Research Center and ASU's Morrison Institute will discuss Arizona's future water issues and growth during a daylong symposium on Jan. 24. Much of the discussion will focus on reports from three separate agencies.
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UA Program Introduces Engineering to High School StudentsUANews | Students in 20 Arizona high schools are trying out their engineering skills just as high school athletes test their abilities before jumping into college sports. Engineering 102 gives math- and science-savvy students hands-on experience before they commit to a university engineering program.
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UBRP Students to Present Original ResearchUANews | The 23rd annual UBRP conference will be held this weekend, offering an opportunity for students to share their scientific research with the UA and Tucson communities.