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UANews | Diana Liverman, who co-directs the UA's Institute of the Environment, served as an adviser for Fate of the World, a newly released video game that gives players the option to save or destroy the world in the face of adverse global climate change.  

UANews | A growing bounty of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the timing of new activity in one type of the enigmatic gullies on Mars implicates carbon dioxide frost, rather than water, as the agent causing fresh flows.

UANews | The UA is creating a non-profit corporation to better handle technology transfer functions and bring research-generated ideas to market. The goal is to more easily translate the UA's $600 million in annual research funding into economic and educational opportunities that will benefit Arizona.

UANews | George Gehrels' research focuses on the evolution of mountain belts and on developing methods of determining the age of rocks and minerals. George Davis has studied the formation of the Basin and Range region of the U.S., including the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona.

UANews | UA professors Jim Burge and Bob Parks and their colleagues are perfecting measurement techniques to make sure mirrors such as those in the Hubble Space Telescope produce clear images.

UANews | Barbara Cone, a professor in the UA's speech, language and hearing sciences department, is leading a team researching ways to improve diagnostic testing of  hearing loss in infants.

UANews | One company already has licensed the technology from the UA, and patents are pending to meet growing computer industry demand for the error-correction algorithm developed by Bane Vasić.

UANews | Featuring a primary mirror 32 inches in diameter, the new Schulman telescope forms the centerpiece of the SkyCenter's successful public outreach programs drawing visitors from all over the country to the clear skies atop Mt. Lemmon.

UANews | Henry Adams and Daniel Griffin, two UA students pursuing graduate degrees, have been named among 121 students in the nation to earn STAR fellowships from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

UANews | UANews asked scientist faculty members who also graduated from the UA about their memories of Homecoming, the differences from today and ideally how they would like to see the University celebrate.

UANews | Frozen water just inches below the moon’s surface has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including UA professor William Boynton.

UANews | Using infrared-triggered cameras, UA researchers captured photos of mountain lions roaming the Tucson Mountains. The study confirmed the presence of lions in at least two age groups – adults and almost-grown kittens – in addition to other wildlife including bobcats, deer, gray foxes and ringtails.

UANews | The Southwest Climate Science Center, fueled with a $3.1 million, five-year grant, will address the current and future effects of climate change on the region's natural and cultural resources. Jonathan Overpeck, co-director of the UA's Institute of the Environment, will be principal investigator of the new center.

UANews | Primate researchers Dieter and Netzin Steklis will discuss their work and offer details on a summer field school in rural Africa during a public lecture Friday, Oct. 22, as part of Homecoming week.

UANews | Relationships among organisms, or mutualisms, might be more important to global ecosystem health than previously thought, argues a research team involving UA professor Judith Bronstein.

UANews | UA astronomers have developed a way to see faint planets in faraway solar systems previously invisible to Earthly eyes.

UANews | The UA's Electron Microprobe Laboratory recently celebrated the arrival of a prestigious prize – a second electron microprobe. The device can help determine the origin of meteorites, find lost trade routes in the South Pacific and reconstruct movements of soldiers on 19th-century battlefields.

UANews | A collaboration between the UA College of Education and Sorenson Communications is working to advance sign-language interpreter education across the country.

UANews | The project's goal is to better understand how humans impact the environment in arid region stream corridors and to give stakeholders the knowledge they need to make decisions beneficial for their land and the environment.

UANews | Simulating possible chemical processes in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, a UA-led planetary research team found amino acids and nucleotide bases – the most important ingredients of life on Earth.

UANews | The UA's BIO5 Institute is helping K-12 science teachers keep up with the pace of research and innovation. More than 150 science teachers from 34 communities around the state attended a recent event to expand their teaching knowledge.  

UANews | Pak Kin Wong aims to discover the rules that govern how biological tissues are formed from individual cells. He is investigating how to grow new tissue to replace that destroyed by disease.

UANews | The Southwest Climate Change Network website now includes a blog and other features aimed at sparking more discussion and knowledge on climate in the Southwest.