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• AMIT Consolidates with Arizona Technology Council; Combined Organizations Strengthen Arizona Technology Industry

  - 2008-05-29

  New Arizona Technology Council Tucson Office in University of Arizona Technology Park Offers Members Additional Resources with Plans to Expand Tucson Board from Two to Six PHOENIX -- The Arizona Technology Council today announced that the Aerospace, Manufacturing and Information Technology Cluster AMIT of Southern Arizona will consolidate under...

  Tags: Arizona, Council, Manufacturing, Strategy, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, University of Arizona

• Peruvian site yields a golden discovery

  - 2008-04-12

  Archaeologists may not be fashion divas, but they dig antique jewelry. Consider the discovery of 4,000-year-old gold and stone beads in southeastern Peru. These crafted items, the oldest examples of worked gold in the Americas by about 600 years, were strung together into a necklace, say Mark Aldenderfer of the...

  Tags: food, jewelry, Manufacturing, Peru, University of Arizona

• Examples for Integrating Venus Magellan Imagery into Geoscience Classes

  - 2008-03-01

  ABSTRACT Spacecraft-collected remotely sensed datasets provide an excellent vehicle for illustrating and conveying geologic principles and scientific reasoning to students. A particularly useful dataset includes synthetic aperture radar SAR imagery from NASA's Magellan mission to Venus. To help illustrate this dataset's usefulness in amplifying geoscience lessons, this paper serves as...

  Tags: editor, fracture, G., image, imagery, kilometer, Manufacturing, Phillips, radar, University of Arizona

• Defense contractor faces bribery trial

  - 2007-10-02

  Looking ahead Defense contractor faces bribery trial Pretrial motions are argued today in San Diego in the bribery case of defense contractor Brent Wilkes. Wilkes is facing 25 counts of bribery, fraud, money laundering and conspiracy in connection with his relationship with...

  Tags: Iraq, Maine, Manufacturing, University of Arizona

• Science Foundation Arizona issued University of Arizona associate professor of chemical engineering Anthony Muscat a $625,000 grant to find ways to cut water and other materials from electronics manufacturing

  - 2007-10-01

  Science Foundation Arizona issued University of Arizona associate professor of chemical engineering Anthony Muscat a $625,000 grant to find ways to cut water and other materials from electronics manufacturing. Matching funds will bring the total to more than $1.2 million in cash and other resources, according to reports. Muscat's idea...

  Tags: electronics, Manufacturing, professor, University of Arizona

• Experts provide insight into global water crisis, water conservation.(Industry News)

  - 2006-11-01

  Leading environmental and water conservation experts convened August 31, 2006 in Tucson, Ariz., to examine conservation initiatives and strategies relating to landscape irrigation at the third Intelligent Use of Water Summit IUOW. The event was hosted by Rain Bird Corporation, a manufacturer and provider of irrigation...

  Tags: conservation, Government, Leadership, Manufacturing, Strategy, University of Arizona

• A Look Back.(At Your Disposal)

  - 2006-05-08

  1987: The Garbage Project at the University of Arizona in Tucson begins excavating modern landfills as if they were ancient archaeological sites. Five years ago: The Los Angeles International Airport begins a six-month pilot project to recycle kitchen scraps and uneaten...

  Tags: landfill, Manufacturing, University of Arizona

• Sand dunes on Titan.(Brief article)

  - 2006-05-06

  In his novel "Dune", Frank Herbert imagined a planet covered largely by sand dunes. As so often with art, though, nature seems to have got there first. This picture, published in Science by Ralph Lorenz of the University of Arizona and his colleagues, is a radar ...

  Tags: Manufacturing, novel, radar, University of Arizona

• Survival of Ice Age Squirrel Depends on Computer Model

  - 2006-04-28

  TUCSON, Arizona ENS — --> Researchers from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England, working with scientists at the University of Arizona, have developed a computer model to identify the biggest threats to the rare Mount Graham Red Squirrel that has survived since the Ice Age. The Mount...

  Tags: Arizona, computer, Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Arizona

• Bacteria turns cane pulp into plastics.(ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES)

  - 2005-10-01

  A graduate student at the University of Arizona, USA, has found that a recently discovered marine bacterium called Saccharophagus degradans 2-40 (S degradans 2-40) can degrade a tough, fibrous waste product generated during tequila manufacturing to produce a biodegradable plastic, polyhydroxyalkanoate PHA. Luis...

  Tags: Manufacturing, Mexico, plastics, U.S., University of Arizona