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• 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...

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• Enrollment still open: the Washington Monthly presents a comprehensive guide to college courses of interest to the politically minded student

  - 2007-09-01

  UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING 501: WHY THINGS COLLAPSE Explore how seemingly strong structures fall apart. Guest lecturer: Senator John McCain. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK HISTORY 36: GREAT JOURNEYS IN JEWISH HISTORY From forty years in the desert, to the Diaspora, to Joe Lieberman's journey...

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• Work perfect: the day we strive for.(Jitamitra Desai is visiting Assistant Professor with Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering)(Interview)

  - 2007-03-01

  What is a perfect workday? I'm not exactly sure how to answer that question. A day in which my undergraduate students don't trouble me--that would be the perfect day, I think! In terms of teaching, it's extremely gratifying being able to spread knowledge, to...

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• Ripe for the sticking.(color changing stickers developed by a professor of University of Arizona )(Brief article)

  - 2006-11-01

  A University of Arizona professor has created stickers that turn from white to blue as a piece of fruit ripens. The stickers are sensitive to the ethylene gas released by ripening fruit. They should be available to growers next year and to shoppers within two or three...

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• Super tax reform faulted by Nobel prize winner.

  - 2006-05-30

  Byline: David Bassanese May 30, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A leading US economist has given his views on certain Australian Government policies. Professor Edward Prescott, of the University of Arizona, was joint winner of the Nobel prize...

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• Although bark beetles delivered the knockout punch

  - 2005-12-01

  Although bark beetles (which thrive on water-stressed trees) delivered the knockout punch, the high heat that accompanied last summer's drought was the underlying cause of death for millions of pinyon pines throughout the Southwest, points out David D. Breshears, professor of natural resources at the University of Arizona, Tucson. The...

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• California Lutheran University

  - 2005-03-14

  Somnath Basu was promoted to full professor of business at California Lutheran University. Basu holds a doctorate from the University of Arizona.

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• Presidential Early Career Award.(KUDOS CELEBRATING MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS)(Jionghua Jin)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-02-01

  Jionghua "Judy" Jin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of systems and industrial engineering at the University of Arizona, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering from the National Science Foundation. The award is in recognition of Jin's research and teaching of "A...

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• Member News

  - 2005-01-01

  PHI KAPPA PHI MEMBERS CHOSEN AS RHODES SCHOLARSPhi Kappa Phi members Michael D. April (U.S. Military Academy), Chauncy S. Harris, Jr. University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, and Trevor C. Thompson (U.S. Naval Academy) were among thirty-two American students to be named Rhodes Scholars. This distinction will enable them to...

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• Dianne Van Tasell.(appointments)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-10-19

  Dianne Van Tasell, as adjunct professor in the department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona. From 1977 to 1997 Van Tasell was a faculty member in the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Minnesota, where she attained the rank...

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