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Soyeon Shim is starting her first fall semester as the official director of the School of Family and Consumer Sciences after serving as interim director for the past year.
The UA has been named as one of the nation's seven Development Centers within the Institute for Women and Technology Virtual Development Center. It aims to recruit more women into exciting, well-paying technical careers.
A Spacewatch astronomer and students have used the venerable 80-year-old, 36-inch Spacewatch telescope -- the oldest telescope on Kitt Peak -- to discover Centaurs and unique asteroids beyond Pluto.
Astronomers have discovered more than 40 planets outside our solar system. None resembles Earth. UA astronomers are working on new tools to find some.
Very little is known about how most bees select their host plants. UA doctoral candidate Margrit McIntosh has discovered that pollen is the key for cactus-specialist bees. But even specialists have individual pollen preferences, she adds.
Ants typically treat caterpillars like big, juicy bags of protein. They rip them apart and provision their ant colony with the remains. But ants treat lycaenid caterpillars far better.
Prescribed burns and livestock removal have done little during the past decade to control non-native lovegrass at the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona, UA ecologists report.
Astronomers with UA's Spacewatch and the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass. have discovered the first new moon of Jupiter in more than a 20 years.
In January 2000 a satellite called Terra turned on sensors that begin a 15-year program to collect information about Earth that will help scientists unravel the complexities of changing global environment. UA scientists are extensively involved.
Continued research and development of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) may provide such practical applications as fold up and take along television screens.
