Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience Recognizes Outstanding Contributions of UA’s Carol A. Barnes

Posted On Thursday, November 14, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience Recognizes Outstanding Contributions of UA's Carol A. Barnes Barnes will receive the Society for Neuroscience’s highest honor for her contributions to the field.The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has named Carol A. Barnes of the University of Arizona its Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience recipient. The prize will be awarded on Nov. 10 during Neuroscience 2013, SfN's annual ...

UA prof: We Can Design Places for Happiness and Health

Posted On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , ,   
Looking for happiness? A view of nature, whether it’s a backyard panorama of the Catalina Foothills or a workplace window overlooking a parking-lot mesquite, helps us feel happy. Likewise, smells like lavender improve our mood, and relaxing music lowers our heart rate. According to Dr. Esther Sternberg, in our everyday wonderings ...

Forget Google Glasses, Think UA Goggles

Posted On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , , ,   
  Hong Hua, a UA associate professor of optical sciences, is developing a variety of wearable head-mounted display systems that could potentially have many real-world applications. Think Google Glass — but with a bigger screen and more possibilities. Hua first began developing these systems in the early 1990s while working on her ...

2013 Tucson Pumpkin Toss Teaching Students Math Skills

Posted On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , ,   
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) - You might have seen the orange blobs flying across the sky on Sunday near the University of Arizona. Dozens of local students from middle and high schools built catapults to see who could launch pumpkins the farthest. Using math, physics and engineering skills, students also competed ...

Higher Education Leaders from Mexico Visit UA to Explore Partnership Opportunities

Posted On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , ,   
Leaders from 29 universities in Mexico visited the University of Arizona campus last week to learn about potential partnership opportunities with the UA. UA Global Initiatives hosted the delegation of university rectors, professors and other leaders in an effort to get members of both the UA community and the Mexican higher ...

Scientists call for more controlled burns in West’s forests

Posted On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , , , ,   
By Bettina Boxall Some of the West’s leading fire scientists are calling for the increased use of managed burns to reduce fuel levels in the region’s forests, warning that climate change is leaving them more vulnerable to large, high-severity wildfires. In a paper published Friday in the journal Science, seven fire and ...

UA Nurse Practitioner Finds Joy in Volunteering

Posted On Sunday, September 29, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , , ,   
Nurse practitioner Lisette LeCorgne began volunteering years ago, giving free health care to children in Baja, Mexico. Through her Flying Samaritans group, LeCorgne developed connections with the local chapter of Special Olympics, where she now volunteers her time providing free physicals for students who can't pay for doctor visits. "My concept was ...

Squinting At Saturn Through 17th Century Technology

Posted On Saturday, September 21, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , ,   
Squinting At Saturn Through 17th Century Technology (ISNS) -- A team of French researchers has shed light on an important moment of astronomical history by testing the old lenses used by astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini when he observed a minuscule gap between two of Saturn's rings in 1675. Questions have lingered over whether it was possible to see ...

Two UA Leaders Chosen for Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy

Posted On Friday, September 13, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , ,   
The academy, offered through the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership, aims to prepare and support Arizona's future civic leaders The Arizona Center for Civic Leadership has announced the 25 Arizonans selected for the sixth Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy. Among them are two University of Arizona leaders – Karen Francis-Begay, UA assistant ...

Enrollment Reaches New Heights at UA South, Stable at Cochise College

Posted On Friday, September 6, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , ,   
SIERRA VISTA — Cochise College enrollment remains stable after a post-recession bubble, while the University of Arizona South has more students than ever before, as college students settle into fall terms. One day after the last day to drop or add classes, the unduplicated headcount at Cochise College was 4,372, which is 1 ...

Mars Images to Go on Social Media Feeds in Latin

Posted On Thursday, August 29, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , ,   
Mars Images to Go on Social Media Feeds in Latin Pictures of the surface of Mars, taken from Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), are to be captioned in Latin on social media outlets as part of an outreach project. The Latin captions will be published from 28 August on Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook. The photography project is known as HiRise (High Resolution ...

University of Arizona Joins Push for Better Understanding of Photonics

Posted On Thursday, August 22, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , ,   
The “average person, or average congressman” doesn’t know much about photonics, according to a coalition of industry and academic groups pushing a National Photonics Initiative. Part of the problem could easily be the name, said Thomas Koch, dean of the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences, who hosted a push ...

Picture Password System Promises to Strengthen Online Security

Posted On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , , ,   
An Arizona State University computer scientist is working to strengthen the line of defense in online security with a password-protection system that potentially helps enhance security features of the Microsoft Windows 8 computer operating system. Gail-Joon Ahn is leading work on a system that veers from using common text passwords to ...

No Silver Bullet to Prevent Spread of Asian Citrus Psyllid

Posted On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , ,   
As tiny as the point of a pencil, the Asian citrus psyllid is creating havoc among American citrus growers. You'd never guess this common-looking insect, with mottled gray-brown wings, would be responsible for loss of one-third of Florida's citrus trees and quarantines of citrus in eleven states and several U.S. territories. Scientists ...

Young University of Arizona Professors Honored for Outside-the-box Ideas

Posted On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , ,   
Young University of Arizona Professors Honored for Outside-the-box Ideas Two University of Arizona professors have won early-career awards from the National Science Foundation for pairing cutting-edge research with novel teaching tools that involve younger students in science and engineering. Jonathan Sprinkle, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has a cool tool for luring students as early as high ...

Anne E. Cress Named Interim Director of UA Cancer Center

Posted On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Anne E. Cress, professor of cellular and molecular medicine and radiation oncology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, has been named interim director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center. The appointment was made by Dr. Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia, incoming UA senior vice president for health aciences, ...

Beloved University of Arizona literature professor C.F. Carroll dies at 76

Posted On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , , ,   
Christopher Franklin Carroll, a descendant of one of the founders of the University of Arizona who went on to become a beloved literary figure at the school, has died. Carroll, 76, died at home Monday, surrounded by loved ones at the historic Franklin House at 402 N. Main St., which has ...

UA Weather Science May Help Improve Firefighting Safety

Posted On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , ,   
Experts in the University of Arizona’s department of atmospheric sciences are combining climate research, software development and applied meteorology to make weather forecast models more accurate and reliable, which may help improve the safety of firefighters. University of Arizona meteorologists are using a sophisticated forecasting model, partially developed using UA research, ...
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