UA News

UANews | A $1 million gift to the UA Foundation will fund the Alan and Janice Levin Family Endowed Chair for Excellence in Cancer Research at the Arizona Cancer Center.

UANews | This certification will greatly expand access to life-saving liver transplants at UMC for many patients in Arizona suffering from end-stage liver failure.

UANews | UA physicians and students spent seven days performing more than 40 hand, elbow and shoulder operations at a teaching hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

UANews | The Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center will be closed, possibly as soon as February, if a proposal before the Arizona Legislature is adopted.

UANews | The open house will showcase ALEC's research and the opportunities the new laboratory provides for multi-disciplinary research on water quality.

UANews | The UA's Residence Life unit has participated in RecycleMania since 2001. This will be the first year the entire campus community has been involved.

UANews | Serrine Lau, UA professor and toxicologist, will receive the 2009 Education Award from the Society of Toxicology in March.

UANews | The Arizona Student Unions has made new additions at both the Student Union Memorial Center and the Park Student Union.

UANews | UA speech-language pathologists pioneering new treatments are among the best in the nation.

UANews | UA psychology professor Lynn Nadel is leading an international effort to create standardized tests that will assess cognitive impairments in those with Down syndrome. The tests could be available to other researchers sometime this year.

UANews | The Arizona Arthritis Center's "Living With Arthritis 2009" program will include a presenation on artists with arthritis.

UANews | A test to detect inflammation in the arteries of the heart when combined with clinical assessment of wounds, may be more accurate in detecting bone infection than either test alone.