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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | DecUANews | UA football strength coach Corey Edmond is as busy these days as he is during the regular season. More so, in fact. Why? The full football roster is on campus for voluntary summer workouts.
UANews | A new UA finding indicates what organic molecules might be found on Titan, the moon of Saturn that scientists think is a model for the chemistry of pre-life Earth. Titan's atmosphere may provide clues to the origins of life.
UANews | The Norton School's Take Charge America Institute and the Office of Economic Education have combined to address statewide high school economics and personal finance education mandates by training more teachers.
UANews | The UA's Center for Creative Photography recently acquired archives of the late Joe Deal. An exhibition of his work, focused on black and white landscapes, is on display at the center through Aug. 1.
UANews | Physicians in Arizona's rural communities this summer are volunteering to mentor medical students from the UA College of Medicine. The program encourages graduates to practice medicine in rural communities.
UANews | A new training program for charter school leaders is meant to help them become acquainted with laws and policies affecting the schools while also offering networking opportunities.
UANews | Sheila Pitt, a professor in the UA School of Art, had to quit working when she was paralyzed after a horseback riding accident in 2008. This year, Pitt began teaching again and also began relearning to walk.
UANews | The integration creates a two-hospital system that will expand patient care, train new physicians and other healthcare professionals, and continue advancing clinical science to diagnose and treat human disease.
UANews | Justine Schluntz, who is among the top swimmers in the country, now is a candidate for the NCAA Woman of the Year honor. She is headed to Oxford University this fall as one of 32 U.S. students awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
UANews | Scientists at the UA and Loma Linda University found that reusable grocery bags carry more than just groceries.
UANews | The strategy, detailed in the journal Science by the UA's Jonathan Overpeck and a colleague, prepares people for a hotter and drier Southwestern U.S. through water conservation and the continued development of ways to harness energy from the sun, wind and Earth.
UANews | Vicky Westover of the Jack and Vivian Hanson Arizona Film Institute has selected a series of archival films to screen as part of a collaboration with the Fox Tucson Theatre.
UANews | Funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has spurred new research and benefitted the University and the state in a number of ways, including supporting students and stimulating Arizona's economy through spending and economic development.
UANews | After finding MRSA bacteria on couches, class desks and commonly touched surfaces within Tucson firefighter offices, researchers developed a training program to help prevent contamination.
UANews | Live on the Web from the Hualapai Indian reservation in Peach Springs, Ariz., is a kid-run radio station that – in addition to music – promotes exercise and living a healthy lifestyle. The project is a collaboration between the UA and the Hualapai tribe.
UANews | Comet McNaught is quickly approaching the sun this week, but it is visible with binoculars or telescopes in the early hours before dawn. The best views are away from city lights, says UA senior research scientist Carl Hergenrother at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
UANews | The Pat Tillman Foundation named six UA student veterans Tillman scholars. The award provides educational scholarships for veterans and active service members and their direct dependents, helping cover costs beyond tuition and books.
UANews | UA graduate student Kathy Stoehr has spent years involving her students in international service work. She is taking a group of high schoolers to Chile for volunteer work in July.
UANews | The four-member UA design team took best in show during the ImagiNations Design Competition. Also, three earned internships with Disney.
UANews | The documentary, honoring the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, features vets from the Tucson area. This program will be the second from KUAT and Arizona Public Media to air to a national PBS audience.
UANews | Two UA studies have found that hoarding friends doesn't necessarily diminish forlorn feelings and that loneliness is a matter of perception. Superficial relationships, researchers say, can not only result in feelings of detachment, but also contribute to certain health-related problems.
UANews | In addition to working full time, raising children and pursuing advanced degrees - among a host of other commitments - UA faculty and staff members also carve out time to volunteer off campus.
UANews | A $1 million, three-year grant will fund research to determine whether medical treatment can help prevent the progression of early atherosclerotic disease in firefighters.
UANews | The UA is partnering with ASU to teach seventh, eighth and ninth-grade instructors innovative ways to use technology such as flip video cameras and YouTube to better teach and inspire students.
UANews | The critically acclaimed Studio Jazz Ensemble has been invited to play 10 concert dates in as many cities across China next month.
UANews | UA engineering students recently competed in the 32nd International Mining Games in Western Australia. The games aim to keep old-school mining techniques alive while forging bonds among mining students around the world.
UANews | Five of the 500 Standard & Poor's companies chief executive officers earned their degrees from the UA, making the institution one of the top producers of CEOs for the list of companies.
UANews | Peter H. Smith, William V. Boynton, Heather L. Enos and Christopher R. Shinohara received awards Tuesday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Phoenix mission confirmed and examined patches of underground water ice and identified a mineral called calcium carbonate that suggested occasional presence of thawed water.
UANews | The next generation of adaptive optics has arrived at the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, providing astronomers with a new level of image sharpness surpassing that of the Hubble Space Telescope.
UANews | The grant will fund the development and evaluation of a new program to train chiropractors, acupuncturists and massage therapists in effective ways to help their patients and clients quit tobacco.
UANews | UA economists Marshall Vest and Gerald Swanson said the worst recession in decades has bottomed out, but they caution that recovery is lined with pitfalls and will take time.
UANews | A new report led by UA researcher Gary Nabhan details the threat of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the unique agriculture of the Gulf Coast and the communities that depend on them.
UANews | The National Science Foundation has granted UA students funding for continued and new research projects in areas that include physics, geography, chemistry, ecology and astronomy.
UANews | Thousands of freshmen and their parents will participate in the UA's New Student Orientation during the summer. Also, the New Start Summer Program hosts students looking to successfully transition from high school to college.
UANews | Nearly three dozen meteorites will be on exhibit at the Foothills Mall. They range in size, shape and composition, and give a hint of what could be in store for a future UA mission.
UANews | The new company will expand patient care, train new physicians and other healthcare professionals, and continue advancing clinical science to diagnose and treat human disease.
UANews | Diana Archangeli, a UA linguistics professor, is heading up a team using ultrasound and other devices to create a technology that would enable the detection of words without auditory queues.
UANews | A team led by UA astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. The discoveries lay the groundwork for probing the formation of planets with the potential for life.
UANews | For its 30-year effort to promote diversity in high school journalism programs, the UA School of Journalism has been nationally recognized with the 2010 Robert P. Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award. The school is hosting its annual diversity workshop through Saturday.
UANews | Before the Internet, social activists got their contrarian opinions across through the social media of the day.
UANews | Three engineering programs offer distance learning degrees, which make graduate study easier for off-campus students.
UANews | More than 100 educators from around the country will be in Tucson next week to learn how to prepare students for the marketplace.
UANews | Faculty and staff members and graduate students are invited to serve as mentors for the expected 1,000 new Arizona Assurance scholars. The program serves Arizona residents from families with an annual gross income of up to $42,400.
UANews | Feminist Action Research and Rhetoric, a group comprised mostly of UA graduate students, was formed to promote feminist scholarship and improve community action and connection.
UANews | Arizona's softball team eliminated Tennessee in the second game of a doubleheader and advanced to the best-of-three championship round of the Women's College World Series against UCLA.
UANews | People who received an intervention – advice and assistance including nicotine patches or lozenges – were two to three times more likely to have quit smoking 7.5 months afterward than participants who received the usual care.
UANews | The School of Media Arts is offering a graduate certificate program in media education, designed primarily to incorporate computers, film, television and other digital mediums into K-12 classrooms.
UANews | The largest federal grant in the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences' history will benefit families dealing with frequent, long deployments.
UANews | With 57 students involved, the UA is second nationwide for its number of participants. The program aids students in their pursuit of graduate studies and promotes community outreach and service.
UANews | The application, called Twitscape, allows users to see what those nearby are tweeting. A team of UA students developed the new app, available now through the Apple App Store.
UANews | Ian Fasel, a UA assistant research professor, recently received two grants to fund research and design projects toward creating highly intelligent robots.
UANews | The 10th-seeded Arizona softball team, 5-0 in NCAA play after Regional and Super Regional rounds, will arrive in Oklahoma City Tuesday and continue preparations for its opening game of the Women's College World Series Thursday against Tennessee.
UANews | Pharmacist Paul Nolan had several roles in the surgery, including using medications to prevent blood clots from forming within the patient and the device.
UANews | The Student Optics Chapter has built a laser graffiti system intended to spark public interest in optical sciences.