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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | DecUANews | Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo accepted an invitation to visit the Vatican Observatory astronomers based at Steward Observatory.
UANews | HiRISE has found fractured lavas before now seen only on Earth.
UANews | American Astronomical Society honors George V. Coyne, S.J., as educator, scientist and theologian.
UANews | The new partnership of colleges will now be titled The Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science.
UANews | The patterns of missing asteroids are like footprints of wandering giant planets preserved in the asteroid belt.
UANews | Both the special seminar and the performance are free to the public.
UANews | UA evolutionary biologists report that ancestors of Volvox algae made the transition from the solitary life of a single-celled organism to that of a multicellular colony much earlier than previously thought.
UANews | An image being unveiled at the event has been described as "using your eyes, night vision goggles and X-ray vision all at the same time."
UANews | Receiving an award given in memory of an American space hero is "a tremendous honor," Peter Smith said.
UANews | The Spirit of Inquiry is an annual symposium the UA Honors College hosts to showcase the research of its students.
UANews | Research at the UA and two other schools is geared toward avoiding seismic damage like that of the 1989 Northridge Earthquake.
UANews | A UA-led team has received a National Science Foundation grant for work toward creating a timeline and geological map of the Tibetan Plateau – an intriguing and expansive terrain located in Central Asia.
UANews | Topics during spring lecture series at Biosphere 2 include solar energy, hunting hazardous space rocks, probing atoms.
UANews | "Known Universe" premieres on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday.
UANews | The annual conference sponsored by the UA Water Resources Research Center will focus on engaging stakeholders on water issues.
UANews | The UA is helping to take Integrated Pest Management model nationally.
UANews | A unique collaboration between two UA researchers and a local naturalist mined 20 years of data collected during the naturalist's 1,024 hikes along the Finger Rock and Pima Canyon trails in the Santa Catalina Mountains.
UANews | Life might have traveled between Mars and Earth within boulder-sized meteorites, UA planetary scientist Jay Melosh says.
UANews | The celebration includes a look-alike contest, music, poetry readings and science displays.
UANews | A grant from the National Science Foundation for a Water and Environmental Technology Center will include the UA's Water Quality Center.
UANews | Michael Rosenzweig will explain how incorporating nature into the human landscape works better for both.
UANews | Astronomers will use the powerful UA/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater on the moon later this year.
UANews | Astronomers from three continents commit to developing the next-generation telescope that will use UA optics.
UANews | Jennifer Duan will use a grant from the National Science Foundation to build a laboratory and computer models to mimic how sediments are deposited in meandering rivers.
UANews | A symposium will be held on Monday to discuss translational environmental research efforts across the University campus.
UANews | Emily Ricq, a UA senior in the College of Science and also an Honors College student, earned the Science for Life Undergraduate Creativity Award.
UANews | By the time Joseph M. Acaba completed his master's degree in geology from the UA in 1992, his academic adviser and thesis director knew that Acaba had "the right stuff."
UANews | The work of Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals may one day help prevent colon cancer in those at high risk for the disease.
UANews | The UA School of Information Resources and Library Science is currently recruiting American Indian and Hispanic students for its Knowledge River program.
UANews | Martinez is one of the most highly regarded researchers worldwide in childhood lung diseases.