UA News

UANews | More than 50 senior capstone projects from the UA College of Engineering will be on display during the college's annual Design Day competition.

UANews | Students from the UA School of Natural Resources not only placed 6th overall in a recent competition, some landed jobs as well.  

UANews | The UA Office of Technology Transfer and The University Funds have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on research-based ventures.

UANews | The Arizona Cancer Center benefits Arizona and the world through its research, production of jobs and spin-off companies.

UANews | A $1.25 million estate gift in the names of Roy R. and Phyllis Hislop and also William J. and Rosina Ede. It has resulted in the creation of an endowed chair position in animal sciences at the UA.

UANews | Arizona Cancer Center physician and scientist Karen Weihs has received a grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate breast cancer survivors.

UANews | Thomas W. Swetnam, director of UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, is a co-author on today's report in the journal Science calling for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to incorporate fire better into future models and reports about climate change.

UANews | The statewide MESA Day 2009 Design Competition will be held on the UA campus on Saturday. 

UANews | Photovoltaic electricity panels, solar water heating units or a combination of both will be installed in May in a partnership with APS Energy Services to bring renewable energy to the UA campus.

UANews | A team of UA graduates earned $75,000 for their sustainable aquaculture system during the National Sustainable Design Expo in Washington, D.C.

UANews | APS Energy Services, UA to announce a partnership to bring solar energy to the University campus in the midst of day-long campus celebrations of Earth Day.

UANews | The UA Science and Technology Park is hosting the GenNext Career Day, which is meant to inform youth about ways that the math and science skills they are learning now can help them in careers as adults.

UANews | The UA's Biosphere 2 made the list, alongside other structures that include the Eiffel Tower, Sydney Opera House and the Hubble Space Telescope.

UANews | UA, Arizona State University and industry have joined in five new projects that focus on solar energy breakthroughs.

UANews | The Jim Himelic Memorial Golf Classic will be held Friday to raise money for Lou Gehrig's disease research. 

UANews | The UA, the Arizona Department of Health Services and the Arizona Game and Fish Department are collaborating to educate the public on rabies exposure prevention and bat conservation.

UANews | Arshed Al-Obeidi, a UA Honors College student, has been named a Goldwater Scholar by the federally endowed Goldwater Foundation named after the former U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, a UA alumnus.

UANews | UA graduate student Kyle VanderLugt and his University colleagues are traveling to Washington, D.C. this weekend to compete in the P3 Award competition.

UANews | Global warming may intensify the age-old pattern of recurring severe droughts.

UANews | David Buckland, who is known around the world for his work in the Arctic, will give a public lecture at the UA this month.

UANews | Engineering professor Roman Lysecky has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to develop high-performance customizable computer chips.

UANews | More frequent widespread piñon pine die-offs can be predicted because of higher temperature alone, without factoring in worsening drought, insect attack or other climate change effects.

UANews | The April 19 Science Caféwill feature two UA cancer specialists who will talk about DNA and its link to cancer.

UANews | The UA, joined by the city of Tucson, Pima County and local businesses, will host one of the biggest Earth Day celebrations ever held on campus.

UANews | The hour-long documentary celebrating four centuries of astral discoveries will air on KUAT6 and HD at 10 p.m. April 10.

UANews | NASA said that Young's appointment marks a major milestone for the airborne observatory.

UANews | Dendrochonologist Thomas Swetnam told members of Congress that place-based scientists can be an important part of managing climate change in America's national parks.

UANews | If planets exist around cool, low mass stars, they could be chemically different from planets in our solar system.

UANews | Hermann F. Fasel, a UA professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering since 1982, heads the Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

UANews | UA astronomers used their camera on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to help take a new portrait of Galaxy M33 in infrared light.

UANews | Researchers at The University of Arizona are predicting healing based on the shape of wounds.