University of Arizona in the News

Business Wire March 2, 2010
Dr. Marvin Slepian Gives Keynote Speech

Dr. Marvin Slepian, a world-renowned interventional cardiologist and UA clinical professor of medicine, co-founded SynCardia Systems, Inc., which manufacturers artificial hearts.
Arizona Daily Star March 1, 2010
Business Partners Try to Get Women on Board

UA junior Brienne "Bri" Duvauchelle worked with local loan officer Gregg Foster to launch Vixen Boarding, a company that makes longboards specifically for a female clientele.
CNN March 1, 2010
911 None of Your Business?

David Cuillier, an assistant professor in the UA School of Journalism, served as a panelist discussing whether states should ban the release of emergency calls made to 911 dispatchers.
Arizona Daily Star March 1, 2010
Free Exercise for Your Brain

Leslie Tolbert, UA's vice president for research, graduate studies and economic development, will speak on Tuesday as part of the "Mind and Brain" lecture series, which is organized by the UA College of Science.
CollegeSwimming.com March 1, 2010
Arizona Tops Final CSCAA Poll

The UA men's swimming and diving team placed first in the final men's College Swimming Coaches Association/CollegeSwimming.com Division I Poll.    
Treehugger.com Feb. 26, 2010
A Warming Climate Favors Cold Loving Flowers in the Sonoran Desert

UA ecology and evolutionary biology researchers D. Lawrence Venable and Sarah Kimball have noted an unexpected response of desert plants to climate change, with the growing season starting at later and under colder temperatures.
Arizona Daily Wildcat Feb. 25, 2010
Ingredients for A Fortunate Life

Harold H. Jones, the founding director of the UA's Center For Creative Photography, reflects on his upbringing and training as a artist while also talking about how he came into the world of photogrpahy.
Arizona Daily Star Feb. 25, 2010
Park's Closing Threatens What's Left of Anasazi Village

Charles Adams, a UA anthropologist, is among those who are concerned about the risk of vandalism at Homolovi Ruins State Park given the impending closure of the park. 
Arizona Daily Star Feb. 25, 2010
Bioscience students network with top AZ companies

The UA's Student/Bioindustry Networking Event connects Unviersity students with some of the largest bioindustry companies in the state.
The Economist Feb. 25, 2010
Fired Up

Thomas Swetnam, a dendrochronologist who directs the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, said his studies of "fire scars" in certain trees indicates that historic variations in temperature happened about the same time of the medieval warm period.