ASU, Scottsdale collaboration ready to begin
AZCentral.com – 01/10/2008, 19:18 pm
The first Arizona State University personnel are moving into SkySong, Scottsdale's high-tech collaboration with ASU intended as a global portal of innovation.
ASU, Scottsdale collaboration ready to begin The first Arizona State University personnel are moving into SkySong, Scottsdale's high-tech collaboration...

Cancer researcher on tap for UA breakfast in downtown Phoenix
The Business Journal Phoenix – 01/10/2008, 15:13 pm
A cancer researcher and former federal health adviser will be featured next week when The University of Arizona hold its 'Start the Day with the UA' breakfast in downtown Phoenix.
...researcher and former federal health adviser will be featured next week when The University of Arizona hold its 'Start the Day with the UA' breakfast...

Scottsdale postpones decision on Kerr Cultural Center
The Arizona Republic - 01/10/08 08:32 PM
SCOTTSDALE - Scottsdale's Historic Preservation Commission on Thursday reluctantly gave in to Arizona State University's request to postpone designating the Kerr Cultural Center as an historic property. On her death in 1977, composer and arts patron Louise Lincoln Kerr bequeathed her home and performance hall at 6110 N. Scottsdale Road to the university ...

Water consortium promotes innovation
Special for The Republic - 01/11/08 12:00 AM
This article is one in a series of articles contributed by Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability. The institute catalyzes and advances interdisciplinary research and education on environmental, economic and social sustainability. The Arizona Water Institute (AWI) is a consortium of Arizona's universities - Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona ...

$32 million apartment project stalls
The Arizona Republic - 01/11/08 12:00 AM
Plans to build 325 apartments at SkySong have run into delays. Scottsdale City Manager Jan Dolan said Monday that a deal between the Arizona State University Foundation and Mark-Taylor Inc. to build 325 apartments at the Innovation Center appears ....

Opinion: Don't strangle future
The Arizona Republic - 01/11/08 12:00 AM
Don't eat the seed corn. That should be the guiding principle for dealing with the big gap in this year's state budget. However tough times get, farmers know that they must spare enough seeds to plant for future harvests. The dynamics are the same for Arizona. Slashing investments that are critical for our long-term prosperity - universities, technology, preventive health care, children's programs ...

ASU staffers begin moving into SkySong
The Arizona Republic - 01/10/08 01:54 PM
The first Arizona State University personnel are moving into SkySong, Scottsdale's high-tech collaboration with ASU intended as a global portal of innovation. From a moving van sitting on SkySong Boulevard, workers are busily delivering stacks of packed boxes to ASU's space ...

Mesa moving ahead with downtown project, MCC site
East Valley Tribune - 01/11/08
Mesa took a step forward Thursday to redevelop a downtown parcel into a mixed-use development and a new Mesa Community College campus. City officials selected the Athena Group to do a market study and a preliminary design on a prime, 20-acre parcel of city real estate vacant for years. The Athena Group ...

Scottsdale panel delays Kerr center’s historic status
East Valley Tribune - 01/11/08
Plans to designate historic status to the Kerr Cultural Center in Scottsdale were temporarily stalled Thursday night over a legal technicality. Speaking at a public hearing before Scottsdale’s Historic Preservation Commission — a seven-member panel appointed by the City Council — a representative of Arizona State University, owner of the entertainment venue ...

Opinion: State must boost its investment in education
Arizona Daily Star- 01/11/08
Another year has passed and once again Arizona schools, students and teachers have wound up at the bottom of a major study evaluating educational performance in the United States. Tucson Unified School District Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer said he's not surprised by Arizona's embarrassingly low ranking in the 2008 Quality Counts report ...

UA gets $2.4M to expand Army project
Tucson Citizen - 01/11/08
The University of Arizona received an extra $2.4 million in federal funding for a software project that will help military commanders in the field. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Tucson, announced the award Thursday at a press conference in UA's electrical and computer engineering department. ATRAP - Asymmetric Threat Response and Analysis Project - is a joint venture between UA and the Army Battle Command Battle Laboratory at Fort Huachuca. ATRAP's focus is on developing software that can analyze volatile situations ...

No early agreement on how to fix budget shortfall
Tucson Citizen - 01/11/08
PHOENIX - Legislative budget-writers on Thursday finished an unusual round of pre-session budget meetings without an agreement on how to close a revenue shortfall to avoid having the state go broke before the fiscal year ends. During their three days of meetings, the House and Senate Appropriations committees reviewed dozens of proposals to close a deficit estimated at between $870 million and $970 million ...