TO CLIPS INDEX - Clips for March 19, 2008

Top honors for ASU school
The Arizona Republic - March 19, 2008 12:00 AM
Students win the status of 'Grand Champion' in international competition
Editor's note: This article was submitted by Stephen Des George, public-relations and marketing director at
Arizona State University at the West campus. Send your education news to lori.baker@arizonarepublic.com.
Students from Arizona State University's School of Global Management and Leadership have won top honors
in a worldwide online competition that featured 111 universities from 12 countries. This is the second
semester in a row the school has earned "Grand Champion" status in the Business Strategy Game "Best
Strategy Invitational."

Fair aims to promote science education
The Arizona Republic - March 19, 2008 12:00 AM
More than 950 students filled the Phoenix Convention Center on Tuesday to set up science exhibits for the
coming Arizona Science and Engineering Fair. Event director Phillip Huebner said it's a goal of the new fair
to foster greater science rigor at the school and district level around the state. He added only about 30 percent
of Arizona's schools have science fairs, while only about 10 percent of the state's high schools do. "We have a
five-year plan with this new fair and we want to see relevant research," said Huebner, who works with Arizona
State University's American Indian Programs, which has boosted science participation from
reservation schools.

Banner telemedicine center backs up ICU staff
The Arizona Republic - March 18, 2008 04:50 PM
Patients at Banner Health hospitals may want to take note: the eye in the sky is watching. Arizona's largest health
-care provider, Banner Health Systems, has installed cameras and monitoring devices that allow doctors and
nurses to remotely watch over the most critically ill patients at nine hospitals in Arizona and Colorado. Welcome
to health care, 21st-century style.

New geology graduates see gold
The Arizona Republic - March 19, 2008 12:00 AM
Global companies increase starting pay for skilled workers
TORONTO - Brittan Jones passed up a $100,000-a-year job at a mining company last December when he finished
his degree in geology. The 24-year-old Canadian said he's confident he'll get a better offer. "I'm lucky to have
graduated when metal prices are so high," said Jones, who has traveled to the Arctic Circle, British Columbia and
the U.S. on mining internships. "There's a lot you can do with this degree." Mining companies such as Barrick Gold
Corp., BHP Billiton Ltd. and Rio Tinto Group are paying geology grads 44 percent more than three years ago, giving
them higher salaries than the average Master of Business Administration in the U.S. Demand from developing
nations including China helped prices of copper, silver and platinum more than double in that time, and gold reached
a record $1,001 an ounce today in New York.

ASU reviewing safety in effort to prevent bloodshed
East Valley Tribune - March 18, 2008 - 10:51PM
For nearly a year, ASU officials have discussed worst-case scenarios. In particular, what can Arizona State University
do to prevent bloodshed on its four campuses? And if a safety emergency occurs, how can the university minimize,
or even prevent, serious injuries? Answers have been slow in coming.ASU President Michael Crow formed a
committee in October to study investigations of the massacre at Virginia Tech last April and recommend safety
upgrades for Arizona State.

Veterans set sights on education
Tucson Citizen - March 19, 2008
UA program eases their transition; college life a world apart from tours in Iraq, Afghanistan
"I cry myself to sleep sometimes," Ricky Tackett said a few days ago. Richard "Ricky" Tackett was a paramedic on
a middle-of-the-night rescue mission from Baghdad to Germany in October 2006 when he took the oxygen supply
from one injured serviceman and gave it to another who needed it more. The 27-year-old Air Force vet, who suffers
from post-traumatic stress disorder had helped transport 40,000 injured coalition troops to safety during his military
service. Now Tackett and four other local veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are scholarship students at
the University of Arizona.

Northwest, University medical centers in top 100
Tucson Citizen - March 19, 2008
University Medical Center and Northwest Medical Center have made a list of 100 Top Hospitals, published Monday in
the magazine Modern Healthcare. UMC was listed as one of 15 hospitals ranked as the nation's "Top Major Teaching
Hospitals." Northwest was listed with 14 other hospitals as one of the top "Large Community Hospitals." Other
categories included teaching hospitals, medium community hospitals and small community hospitals.

UA researcher files for patent for heart-failure treatment
Arizona Daily Star - March 19, 2008
A University of Arizona researcher has filed for a patent for a treatment that may help slow or even stop fatal heart
failure — and provides strong scientific evidence that cardiovascular health is a function of the immune system.
The patent was filed by Ronald Watson, a professor of public health and the interim director of the Division of
Health Promotion Sciences in the College of Public Health. He also is a professor of family and community
medicine at the College of Medicine and a member of the UA Sarver Heart Center.

Innovation Day Celebrates Technology and Research Achievements
University Communications - March 18, 2008
Events include an awards luncheon, a panel discussion and a student competition.
The University of Arizona's success in technology development and innovation will be celebrated during the fifth
annual Innovation Day, taking place Tuesday. As part of the event, research achievements by students, faculty and
staff will be highlighted. Innovation Day activities are scheduled from 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Student Union Memorial
Center. A panel discussion called “UA at the Leading Edge” will showcase prominent UA researchers who have
demonstrated excellence in the areas of technology and innovation, including:

U.S. DOE announces solar cell investment
Consulting-Specifying Engineer - March 19, 2008 8:15:00 AM
The U.S. DOE announced that it will invest up to $13.7 million over the next three years in 11 projects run by nine
universities that will develop advanced solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing processes and products. With a
minimum university and industry cost share, up to $17.4 million will be invested in these projects. The chosen
universities include Arizona State University, the California Institute of Technology, the Georgia Institute of
Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, Pennsylvania State
University, the University of Delaware, the University of Florida, and the University of Toledo. Each of the 11
universities will work with an industry partner that will help transition the discoveries to the marketplace.

$200M Campus Suites JV Begins With $75M Project
GlobeSt.com - March 19, 2008 09:21am
TEMPE, AZ-A $200-million joint venture between Campus Suites of Orlando and Chicago-based Harrison Street
Real Estate Capital has begun with the groundbreaking of the 960-unit, $75-million Campus on the Rail. The plan
is to build off-campus student housing at select universities in the US.Campus Suites on the Rail will be situated
on a seven-acre tract at 1890-1912 E. Apache Blvd. It is scheduled to deliver in 2009. The complex will have two-,
-three, and four-bedroom units, averaging 1,400 sf.

Giant optics gives telescope a wider view
Optics.org - March 19, 2008
The world's most powerful wide-angle survey telescope uses a huge two-in-one mirror to become the widest,
fastest and deepest eye of the new digital age. The casting of a giant two-in-one mirror will enable Arizona's Large
Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to capture the entire available night sky once every three days. The ground-based
telescope will provide time-lapse digital images that will allow astronomers to track moving objects such as planet-
approaching asteroids and comets.