University of Arizona News

Three U.S. graduate students arrested last month for suspected poaching and visa violations could be stranded in a remote corner of Brazil for months as their case goes through the courts, their lawyer says.

According to a study run by the University of Arizona , the average computer keyboard contains more bacteria - 400 times more - than the average toilet.

SourceGas LLC announced today that Manjit Cheema has joined SourceGas as Chief Financial Officer.

Middle East Studies Association of North America 1219 N Santa Rita Ave The University of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721 USA mesana@u.arizona.edu www.mesana.org June 30, 2009 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran c/o H.E. Mohammad Khazaee Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of ...

" The University of Arizona Foundation has hired Shaun O. Sommerer, PhD, to serve as Vice President for Arizona Health Sciences Development.

Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission that was operated from The University of Arizona.

A genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu has been discovered in Japan, the first such case in the country, the health ministry said.

With a fattened GI Bill covering full tuition and more, the number of veterans attending college this fall is expected to jump 30 percent from last year to nearly half a million.

Placement support - an example of "what is broken" By John N. Berry III, Editor-at-Large, jberry@reedbusiness.com -- Library Journal, 6/30/2009 Help with career planning and placement was high among the many things a group of students told me was missing from their LIS education.

Nathan Gann, a clean-cut honors student who attended the University of Arizona, was a self-described computer geek.

A Tucson woman admitted Monday to participating in a deadly robbery to raise bail money for her boyfriend, who was in jail on car-theft charges.

Toyota Motor Corp. today announced that its researchers have developed technology that will allow human brainwaves to steer an electric wheelchair.

Pledges at a University of Arizona fraternity were slapped, yelled at and made to drink beer until they vomited, according to a police investigation.

Howard Fischer's latest screed against self-defense. I've posted the article in the Star, plus my comment.

Astronomer Frank J. Low, the experimental genius who developed and distributed sensors for infrared astronomy and performed the first successful observations above the Earth's atmosphere, died June 11 in Tucson after a long illness, the University of Arizona announced.

Saying it will make people safer, state senators voted to let people with concealed weapons permits carry them onto college and university campuses where they are now forbidden.

Three U.S. researchers - including two University of Arizona graduate students - are free on bail in Brazil after being jailed on suspicion of illegally prospecting for minerals, federal police said Friday.

A summer camp that not only offered fun but a unique opportunity to gain valuable experience and skills came to Yuma for the first time this season thanks to the University of Arizona Pharmacy School.

PROFESSION/EMPLOYER: Salesman/Three Amigos Inc. He is a former television journalist.

CyraCom, the Tucson-based language services company, and The University of Arizonaa TMs National Center for Interpretation today announced a new collaboration to benefit local Spanish/English healthcare interpreters.