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• Editors' introduction: special issue on homeland security

  - 2007-01-01

  The events of September 11, 2001 will forever affect the lives of all those who observed their consequences. These events have changed the way in which people live and carry on their everyday affairs. These events also ignited the engineering community in general, and the industrial engineering community in particular,...

  Tags: allocation, Government, modeling, network, NETWORKING, SECURITY, University of Arizona

• Study: Valley Fever a Common Cause of Community-Acquired Pneumonia.

  - 2006-05-10

  Byline: University of Arizona TUCSON, Ariz., May 10 AScribe Newswire -- Arizona state statistics show that reported cases of valley fever are at record levels. As of the end of April, 2,305 cases of the infection were reported in Arizona, four times the five-year...

  Tags: Arizona, Dr., fever, infection, patient, SECURITY, University of Arizona

• SANIGUARD[TM] antimicrobial coating effective against Norovirus.(testing of antimicrobial coating)(Brief article)

  - 2006-03-01

  LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY Component Hardware Group has successfully tested its antimicrobial coating, SANIGUARD[TM], against Norovirus at The University of Arizona, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences. SANIGUARD[TM] can be applied to Component Hardware Group's plumbing and hardware on new orders. Many of these products ...

  Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, infection, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, University of Arizona

• From booze to breakthroughs: higher-education risks still include drinking problems and mental-health issues while universities also grapple with emerging risks from research and technology

  - 2005-09-01

  Allen Bova never expected to see his picture on the front page of Cornell University's student newspaper, let alone under the headline, "The Day the Music Died." But that's what happened when the risk management director cancelled the band for 1995's version of Slope Day, the traditional last-day-of-classes student drunken...

  Tags: director, FINANCE, Insurance, SECURITY, Strategy, University of Arizona

• HIV-AIDS did not come from oral polio vaccine

  - 2004-10-01

  HIV-AIDS did not come from oral polio vaccine contaminated with chimpanzee virus, reports a research team led by Michael Worobey, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Although scientists agree that HIV comes from a chimpanzee simian immunodeficiency virus SIV that infected...

  Tags: HEALTHCARE, SECURITY, University of Arizona, vaccine, virus

• Campus shooting triggers new procedures. (News and Trends).(Robert Flores kills 3 at University of Arizona)

  - 2003-06-01

  At the University of Arizona last October, many students watched as nursing student Robert Flores, toting five handguns and at least 200 rounds of ammunition, shot and killed two instructors in a classroom where midterm exams were taking place. Just minutes earlier, in the same building,...

  Tags: SECURITY, University of Arizona