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Browse Science and Technology stories - March, 2009
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | DecUANews | Independent mathematician Jeffrey Weeks will present the second annual Daniel Bartlett Memorial Lecture.
UANews | The UA's Biosphere 2 will combine music and art with science, technology and business at its first Earth Day Festival.
UANews | Visit advanced astronomical facilities that UA helped develop via "Around the World in 80 Telescopes."
UANews | GeoDaze is an annual showcase of earth sciences research by undergraduate and graduate students at the UA.
UANews | University researchers were honored for their work, ranging from vaccine development to global warming research, during the sixth annual Innovation Day at UA.
UANews | UA geoscientist Paul Kapp and his research team are studying yardangs. The rock formations have been observed in arid deserts on Earth but little is known about how they were formed.
UANews | Carbon dioxide gas under the thawing seasonal dry ice cap carries dust up from below, forming starburst spiders and other patterns in the terrain.
UANews | The UA School of Information Resources and Library Science is hosting a roundtable that will delve into the issue of information ethics.
UANews | Amateurs can work with world pros on hunting potentially hazardous asteroids from atop Mount Lemmon April 2-4.
UANews | The "Expanding Your Horizons" conference will expose girls in middle school and high school to careers in science, technology and engineering.
UANews | Subjecting aphids to heat stress shows that complex ecosystem interactions coupled with rapid evolution may buffer some species against environmental change, according to new research.
UANews | Biosphere 2 and SOLON Corp. are collaborating to power much of the UA's Biosphere 2 campus with solar energy.
UANews | UA particle physicist Erich Varnes is part of an experiment that just announced a new finding about the elusive Higgs boson.
UANews | Participants will make soda-bottle biospheres, perform DNA fingerprinting, and analyze the genetics of breast cancer.
UANews | Breshears will receive training in communicating with policy makers, media and the public.
UANews | A proposed new national climate service needs adequate funding to turn huge volumes of research data into useable information for local water managers, a UA researcher says.
UANews | Teachers themselves design and drive Arizona Center for STEM Teachers programs at Biosphere 2.
UANews | UA biological physicist John O. Kessler, together with two scientists from MIT, figured out how some types of ocean currents can concentrate billions of tiny swimming photosynthetic plankton.
UANews | The award honors H. Jay Melosh for his research on meteorite impacts.
UANews | Numerous UA medical and health center directors are slated to speak at a conference that the UA is hosting with the University of Iowa.
UANews | The UA's HiRISE team has produced new images that show subtle color differences across the moon's smooth surface.
UANews | Although a flower's bouquet can be composed of hundreds of chemicals, a moth needs to smell just a handful to identify its favorite source of nectar, report UA researchers.
UANews | Ardeth Barnhart, AzRISE co-director, will speak with the public about solar energy research and applications, among other things, during the UA's next Science Café.
UANews | The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, an electronic peer-reviewed journal, has been created out a collaboration with UA faculty and the UA Libraries.
UANews | The Arizona Solar Racing Team will showcase one of its vehicles at The Sustainability and Energy EXP09 and the UA has a number of sustainability events planned.
UANews | Michael Drake discovered that some, or most, of Earth's ocean water came from dust grains that formed our planet.
UANews | UA engineering is receiving $2M from the U.S. Army for research into computer models of unconventional warfare.
UANews | The USA-National Phenology Network, based at the UA, will ultimately link environmental scientists with tens of thousands of volunteer observers around the country.