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UANews | The UA student-run conference welcomes undergraduates from the southwest region to a unique scientific conference.

UANews | UA researchers are heading up a project incorporating entomology and ethnology with high resolution remote sensing and insect modeling to understand the likes and wants of mosquitoes to better understand ways to control the insect population. 

UANews | Diana Liverman's essay about how the arts and humanities can evoke human in ways to connect with the natural world has been included in a new publication.Diana Liverman's essay about how the arts and humanities can evoke human in ways to connect with the natural world has been included in a new publication.

UANews | A livable laboratory for developing and testing new sustainability technologies and techniques could become a learning opportunity for UA students.

UANews | Learning about sustainability goes outside the classroom activities for some UA students.

UANews | Student and faculty interest in sustainability courses is growing, helping to make the UA a hotbed for study and implementation.

UANews | Having led the College of Engineering through a major reorganization as interim dean, Jeff Goldberg has been promoted to the permanent deanship. Duing the past year, the college has established a new School for Sustainable Engineered Systems and a new department of biomedical engineering.

UANews | UA students with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers hosted the annual Advancement of Latinos in Engineering Day, which continues to grow each year.

UANews | To boost its bench-to-bedside science and position itself in a more competitive place to acquire translational research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the UA has formed a Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute to provide the groundwork for therapeutic advances that will directly advance medical care.

UANews | Originally mistaken for a Nebula, M88 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster some 50 million light-years away. This photograph, recently chosen by NASA as "Astronomy Picture of the Day," was taken with the 24-inch public telescope at the UA's Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter.

UANews | UA astronomers have helped solve a mystery surrounding the birth of stars in galaxies that has long puzzled scientists. Their results are published in the Feb. 11 issue of Nature. 

UANews | The six-part lecture series, "Mind and Brain," starts the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 23 and will explore how brains are built, how minds are made and how cognitive and neural science is changing the way we think.

UANews | In 2000, the UA started what would become one of the world's foremost powerhouses in water-related research.

UANews | UA's Flandrau Science Center and Mineral Museum highlight Bisbee's colorful mining town past through an exhibition of rarely seen minerals, period cothing and photographs.

UANews | The UA Astronomy Club will continue to host its monthly star parties at Sabino Canyon on the first Saturday of every month. These informal star parties include telescope viewing, constellation mapping and an introduction to the programs offered at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter.

UANews | The upcoming Science Café features Michael Shupe, a member of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.

UANews | In "Let's Talk Science: Extreme Water," a  lecture series hosted by Biosphere 2,   seven UA scientists and thinkers discuss pressing topics such as America's coming water crisis, Arizona river hydrology, the vulnerability of societies to climate change and the search for life in the Earth's driest environments.

UANews | Elluminate offers a host of functionalities for online-based learning and interaction. UA employees and students can use the software for free.

UANews | NPR host Neal Conan and Ensemble Galilei will perform at the UA's Centennial Hall this month.