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UANews | Many opportunities are available for undergraduates who want to try their hands at research – in the natural sciences as well as in arts, humanities and the social sciences.

UANews | The School of Information Sciences, Technology and Arts was introduced last year with an academic and research focus intended to train students in a broad range of disciplines in the art of computational thinking.

UANews | A partnership with Tucson Electric Power has helped the UA Tech Park become a bustling, solar-centric business zone that's advancing solar energy innovation and production.

UANews | Did you know that Southeastern Arizona is home to some of the most beautiful and spectacular beetles in the world? An event at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum will provide an opportunity to learn more about and interact with 30 different species – alive and crawling. 

UANews | Alon Efrat, a UA associate professor of computer science, is working with a team of researchers on a project intended to help prevent a telecommunications meltdown in the event of an attack or natural disaster.  

UANews | DiscoveryDay atop Mount Lemmon on Saturday offers a cool opportunity to learn about science. UA scientists and students will host a variety of activities at the summit of the Catalinas.

UANews | Steward Observatory has been recognized for outstanding dedication to safety and health practices in the workplace.

UANews | Erica Corral researches new materials for spacecraft coatings that can withstand the super hot environments encountered in space missions.

UANews | In a study involving the first-ever daily energy expenditure measurements in apes, an international team of researchers has determined that orangutans living in large indoor/outdoor habitats used less energy, relative to body mass, than nearly any placental mammal ever measured, including sedentary humans.

UANews | The Perseid meteor shower will be at its peak Thursday evening and Friday morning. The annual August light show is the result of Earth passing through the debris cloud left behind by comet Swift-Tuttle, last seen in 1992.

UANews | The UA is among a small group of institutions nationwide to receive a highly competitive, multi-million dollar federal grant to investigate the effects of highly specialized lasers on the atmosphere. 

UANews | A breakthrough in adaptive optics allows astronomers to switch off star twinkling to obtain space-telescope quality images over a wide field of view – here on Earth.

UANews | UA professor LouAnn Gerken has earned a grant to study the accuracy of a fairly new theory that explains how infants acquire knowledge.

UANews | Comparing the genomes of disease-causing and harmless bacteria, UA microbiologists found no clear genetic demarcation between the two groups. The bacteria have swapped genes in the past, suggesting they can switch roles fairly easily.

UANews | Brian Klug, a UA senior and Honors College student, was one of the first engineers to detect problems with the Apple iPhone 4 antenna. His work has generated nationwide news coverage as he continues to review other products.

UANews | The UA's High Resolution Stereo Color Imager was selected as one of five instruments for the first joint mission to Mars by NASA and the European Space Agency. HiSCI is designed to uncover interactions between the Red Planet's surface and atmosphere.