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News Item forwarded from
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Big grant, big task for UA's scientists
Arizona Republic - Jan. 31, 2008 12:00 AM
A University of Arizona-based research team landed a $50 million federal grant
to develop a computer-based
center with ambitions to help scientists find
answers to major global challenges.
The National Science Foundation's
five-year grant is the largest ever such gift
from the federal agency to an Arizona university or institution. It might be
doubled to $100 million after five years ...
Los Arcos Crossing becomes 'center of life'
The Arizona Republic - Jan. 31, 2008 07:56 AM
Scottsdale developer PDG America wants to market the last vestige of Los Arcos
as the new "center of life" for south
Scottsdale. Rick Sodja, chief executive
officer of PDG America, christened the planned $150 million redevelopment
of the
faded Los Arcos Crossing shopping center as Scottsdale Centrovida.
....Centrovida would connect to next
door's SkySong, the high-tech collaboration
between Scottsdale and Arizona State University, via an east-west road
that also
would lead to Indian Bend Wash and Papago Park.
Domestic partner benefits plan gains support
AZCentral.com – 01/31/2008, 00:54 am
The Arizona Republic Public response has been widely supportive of a plan to
expand state benefits to domestic
partners of state employees, judging from
roughly 1,400 e-mails, letters and faxes received by the Arizona
Department of
Administration.
...Beverly Seckinger, a Tucson resident and faculty member at the University of
Arizona. 'We have exhaustively
explored the available options and...
Los Arcos project would have housing, retail
East Valley Tribune – 01/31/2008, 05:22 am
Scottsdale Centrovida is the new name of a proposed project scheduled to bring
apartments, town homes, shops,
restaurants and a new grocery to a site next to
SkySong.
...Scottsdale roads, the majority of which has been leased to the Arizona State
University Foundation for SkySong.
PDG also plans to ask the city...
UA gets $50M for global science center
Arizona Daily Star – 01/31/2008, 00:21 am
The University of Arizona's BIO5 Institute landed a five-year, $50 million
federal grant to design, build and run what
is to be the world's most powerful
tool for cracking plant biology's biggest questions.
UA gets $50M for global
science center The University of Arizona's BIO5
Institute landed a five-year, $50 million federal grant to design,
build...
$50M grant solidifies UA's bioscience position
Tucson Citizen – 01/31/2008
A $50 million National Science Foundation grant announced Wednesday offers
widespread benefits to the University
of Arizona and the state. The UA-led
iPlant Collaborative will develop a centralized database of research information
on plant biology and offer researchers the tools needed to solve the major
science problems they face. The five-year
project will identify the most
effective combination of computing and software platforms to find the computing
"sweet
spot" needed to best help researchers around the world solve the most
difficult scientific problems, ...
UA, Guadalajara school sign cooperation pact
Tucson Citizen - January 31, 2008
The University of Arizona and Universidad de Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico,
agreed Wednesday to work together on
global issues by sharing students and
faculty expertise. Carlos Briseño, the Guadalajara university's president, was
in Tucson to sign an agreement between the schools. UA President Robert N.
Shelton created UA's Office of Western
Hemispheric Programs last fall. This
collaboration between the schools was developed by that office. It will allow
students to attend either university. Tuition paid at one institution will be
honored by the other. The universities will
tackle global issues such as access
to health care, ...
Kimble: Legislators busy saving world
Tucson Citizen - January 31, 2008
Arizona state government is in a deep financial hole, with almost $1 billion in
cuts needed by June 30.
So the
Legislature is getting right to work - by calling for passage of the
Kyoto treaty on global warming. And by asking the
government of Turkey to "cease
its discrimination of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and work to uphold and
safeguard
religious and human rights without compromise."
Our Opinion: UA research cashes in again
Tucson Citizen - January 31, 2008
The University of Arizona continues to win acclaim for its topnotch research,
this time from the National Science
Foundation with a $50 million grant. The
UA-led iPlant Collaborative will use the five-year grant to develop a database
of information on plant biology, making it available to scientists, teachers and
students worldwide, likely hastening
progress in the field. This grant is one of
the largest ever to UA and more than triple the size of any previous NSF
grant
in Arizona. UA will get 79 percent of the money, and its partners - including
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in
New York, Arizona State University, ...
Facing zoning problems, nursing college entrance gets facelift
ASU Web Devil - January 31, 2008
ASU's Downtown Phoenix nursing college is getting a makeover — but the tools, so
far, are just pen and paper.
ASU began revising its vision for the
under-construction nursing college after the building's plan did not meet
zoning standards, said Ron McCoy, ...
Sun Devils could be packing heat under bill
ASU Web Devil – 01/31/2008, 06:39 am
Campuses like ASU may no longer be gun-free zones if a bill proposed in the
state legislature is passed into law
this session. Senate Bill 1214, currently
being debated in the Judiciary and Rules Committees, would allow any-
one with a
concealed weapons permit to carry a firearm on the campus of any state school,
college or university.
...that means arming everybody - faculty, professors - everybody.' The Arizona
Board of Regents, the state
universities' governing body, will rely...
Campbell to retire from ASU July 1
ASU News – 01/31/2008
Carol N. Campbell, ASU’s executive vice president and chief financial officer,
has announced that she will retire,
effective July 1, to devote more of her time
and energy to her family. However, at ASU President Michael Crow’s
urging, she
has agreed to continue serve the university as a part-time consultant after her
retirement. Among
Campbell’s many significant accomplishments at ASU, ...
Editorial: For sale by president?
ASU Daily Wildcat - January 31, 2008
Media consolidation is a touchy subject among journalists. Buyouts and
cost-cutting measures force the press
into the ugly realization that their duty
to serve the public is supported by a necessity to perform in the market-
place.
The ethical and personal difficulty of reporting on massive changes to one's own
livelihood is a challenge,
and journalists are defensive about their role as
public servants - see the clamor over Rupert Murdoch's acquisition
of The Wall
Street Journal last year, or last week's resignation of the Editor-in-Chief of
the Los Angeles Times ...
Opinion: Nanny State U.
Arizona Daily Wildcat - January 31, 2008
Eat your vegetables." "Don't forget to take out the trash." "Be back by eleven."
These commands and others like them
are staples of many childhoods. As of this
week, however, UA students can add another imperative to the list: "Make
sure
you have a safe password." College students are usually seen as adults, and by
just about every measure, they
are: in the eyes of government, in the eyes of
the law and in the eyes of their parents and peers. Yet not, it seems, in
the
eyes of the university; the UA disagrees that you are in fact a fully cognizant
individual responsible for yourself and
your actions. They think that you are
but a babe in the woods, ...
Lab chips in glasswork for telescope in Chile
Arizona Daily Wildcat - January 31, 2008
The UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory is hard at work with its share of
the construction on the Large Synoptic
Survey Telescope, which has been under
development since 2000 and still faces another six years of development.
Once
completed, the complex, high-powered telescope - whose parts are being built all
over the world - will sit atop
Cerro Pachon, a mountain in northern Chile, ...
UA nets first leg of $100M research grant to create global plant biology center
Phoenix Business Journal - January 30, 2008 - 10:52 AM MST
The University of Arizona pulled of quite a coup Wednesday, netting a $50
million grant from the National Science
Foundation to create a global center for
plant biology studies. The project is called the iPlant Collaborative and will
house scientists and computer experts with the mission of building a computer
cyber-infrastructure to improve
research efficiency. The grant is renewable for
a second year, putting the total at $100 million.
Community Colleges Are Key to Shoring Up the U.S. Economy, Report Says
Chronicle of Higher Education – 01/31/2008
Community-college students need more financial aid, the colleges themselves need
more money, and both need
to achieve higher standards of success. Meeting those
demands is key to improving the competitiveness of the
American work force in
today's global economy, says a report scheduled to be released by the College
Board today.
"We have to win the skills race, and we have to rely on the
nation's 1,200 community colleges to do that," said
Augustine P. Gallego, ...
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