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  • Seven Graduate Students Win Prestigious NASA Fellowships | July 31, 2008
    The fellowship award selection is a competitive process; this year NASA received a total of 244 research proposals and only 79 students were selected to receive the fellowship. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended | July 31, 2008
    Other Phoenix successes include a full landing panorama and plentiful polar weather data. | Science and Technology
  • Cassini Instrument Confirms Liquid Surface Lake on Titan | July 30, 2008
    UA's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on Cassini orbiter shows large hydrocarbon lake is truly wet. | Science and Technology
  • Close-up Images of Snow Queen Show Recent Cracks and Blemishes | July 29, 2008
    A patch of exposed hard layer under Phoenix began visibly changing 20 days after landing. | Science and Technology
  • National PBS Program Featuring the Phoenix Mission | July 29, 2008
    "NOVA scienceNOW" will air a segment about the mission during its July 30 program. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil | July 28, 2008
    The lander continues to explore its polar world, but it's somewhat tricky business. | Science and Technology
  • Tumamoc Hill to Close Briefly for Buffelgrass Eradication | July 28, 2008
    Experts will work to contain the grass in the popular hiking site, also the location of the UA’s Desert Laboratory. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample | July 27, 2008
    The revised plan shortens how long the rasp operates and lengthens how long the scoop vibrates. | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Lander Collects Icy Soil But Needs to Work on Delivery | July 26, 2008
    Phoenix scooped up a more than adequate amount of icy soil for baking in one of the lander’s ovens but will need to adjust how it delivers samples. | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Scoop Ready For Sampling | July 25, 2008
    NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm scoop is empty and waiting for its command to deliver icy soil to TEGA. | Science and Technology
  • Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by Phoenix Lander | July 25, 2008
    The lander groomed the bottom of a shallow trench where it will collect a sample of the hard subsurface layer. | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares for Next Sample Analysis | July 23, 2008
    The team plans to collect samples for the UA's TEGA at almost the coldest part of the day. | Science and Technology
  • UA Receives More Than $4M in Fellowships From Science Foundation Arizona | July 23, 2008
    Fifty top graduate researchers were recruited to the UA through Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship program. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Arizona Public Media Launches New Series | July 23, 2008
    "WaveLengths" is a new series exploring a number of research projects that are working to improve the lives of people in southern Arizona and around the world. | General News | Science and Technology
  • UA Solar Race Team Finishes Grueling 2,400-Mile Race | July 22, 2008
    The UA solar race team perseveres to finish in 10th place.    | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Arizona Governor Visits Phoenix Mars Team Working at UA | July 22, 2008
    The lander was working a 33-hour workshift on Mars when Gov. Napolitano visited its science operations center in Tucson. | General News | Science and Technology
  • SkyCenter Launching Summer Science Program on Mt. Lemmon | July 21, 2008
    The Mount Lemmon SkyCenter invites the public to DiscoveryDays to learn about the unique science taking place on the sky island. | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
  • Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night | July 21, 2008
    The lander is studying Mars' atmosphere and ground at the same time Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter does. | Science and Technology
  • Gov. Napolitano to Visit Phoenix Mission Operations Center | July 18, 2008
    Gov. Janet Napolitano will tour the Phoenix Mars Mission Science Operations Center with UA President Robert N. Shelton and receive a briefing from Phoenix Mission Principal Investigator Peter Smith. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp | July 18, 2008
    The Phoenix team will tell the lander to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground. | Science and Technology
  • 3-D Views Posted From Phoenix Mars Lander | July 17, 2008
    The Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. | Science and Technology
  • Desert Laboratory Director Honored by Ecological Society of America | July 17, 2008
    UA Desert Laboratory Director Michael Rosenzweig has been elected Eminent Ecologist of the Year by the Ecological Society of America. | Campus News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Phoenix Mars Lander Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample | July 16, 2008
    Phoenix's rasp and robotic arm scoop proved they can drill into frozen soil and collect the shavings for lander ovens. | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen Layer | July 15, 2008
    A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice. | Science and Technology
  • Solar Race Team Begins Second Stage in 2,400-Mile Race | July 15, 2008
    The UA's solar race team and its car, Drifter 2.0, is one of only 15 teams to qualify to race in the American Solar Challenge. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • UA Computers Really Fast, and Green | July 15, 2008
    UA research computing's newest high-performance computers are many times faster and more energy efficient than the less than four-year-old computers they replaced. | General News | Science and Technology
  • National Report: Unique Program Requires More Support | July 15, 2008
    A professional master's program that the UA introduced in 2000 is among those across the nation that the National Research Council says requires more support to make the U.S. more competitive. | Business and Law | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Phoenix Mars Lander Extending Trench | July 14, 2008
    Scientists want a larger patch of Mars' hard subsurface for taking samples of ice-rich soil.    | Science and Technology
  • New Book Examines Intersection of Fire Ecology and Humans | July 11, 2008
    "Living with Fire," co-authored by UA researcher Guy McPherson, addresses the dilemmas that living near fire-prone areas cause. | Science and Technology
  • Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe and Swiss Scope | July 10, 2008
    Phoenix has sent back the first atomic force microscope image taken on another planet. | Science and Technology
  • UA Researchers Engineer Self-Destructing Virus | July 10, 2008
    The research could improve the understanding of how viruses work as well as the ability to make plants and animals more virus-resistant. | Health | Science and Technology
  • Under New Management | July 9, 2008
    The University of Arizona is celebrating the completion of a tremendously successful first year of managing Biosphere 2. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Orbiting HiRISE Camera Saw Phoenix Heat Shield in Freefall | July 9, 2008
    Scientists have processed more details in an amazing image the camera captured as the Phoenix spacecraft descended through the Mars atmosphere. | Science and Technology
  • Sample-Collection Tests by Phoenix Lander Continue | July 8, 2008
    Scraping Mars' hard surface is like scraping a sidewalk. | Science and Technology
  • UA Student Leads Team to Zero Gravity | July 8, 2008
    NASA's Weightless Wonder, a modified McDonnell Douglas DC-9 jetliner, will take 3 UA students on 45-degree nosedives to simulate zero gravity. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample | July 7, 2008
    Phoenix used its robotic arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory. Test results will be compared to those from the first Martian soil sample analyzed two weeks ago. | Science and Technology
  • NSF Grant Helping UA to Transform Astronomy Education | July 7, 2008
    The Steward Observatory Center for Astronomy Education has received $2 million from the NSF to enhance astronomy education. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Top Tucson High School Students in UA Labs This Summer | July 3, 2008
    UA summer research program is enabling students to learn lab skills and participate in research projects. | Health | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Phoenix to Bake Ice-Rich Soil Next Week | July 2, 2008
    Scientists will carefully select and deliver the sample because it could be the last one baked. | Science and Technology
  • Solar Race Team Readies for 2,400-Mile Competition | July 1, 2008
    UA student team's Drifter 2.0 heads to Texas on July 4 for the American Solar Challenge. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for Analysis | July 1, 2008
    Samples hold clues to history of Martian water, climate and possible habitability. | Science and Technology
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