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All content by Claire Conrad

Tuition rates set today

Claire Conrad
December 10, 2007

Students plea for tuition reprieve

Claire Conrad
December 2, 2007

Regents to hear students on tuition

Claire Conrad
November 28, 2007

Police Beat

Claire Conrad
November 26, 2007

Police Beat

Claire Conrad
November 21, 2007

Police Beat

Claire Conrad
November 20, 2007
A Thanksgiving dinner is served at the First United Methodist Church on Friday night. The diners included members of the International Students Association and church worshippers.

Students get first taste of Turkey Day

Claire Conrad
November 19, 2007

Forget the fliers: Classes still on

Claire Conrad
November 15, 2007

Harrison pre-trial pushed to Jan. 14

Claire Conrad
November 14, 2007

UA-based lending law takes hold in Guatemala

Claire Conrad
November 13, 2007

UA: Tuition must keep on rising for ’08

Claire Conrad
November 9, 2007

Non-traditional study-abroad spots offer unique living

Claire Conrad
November 8, 2007
UA President Shelton gives his first State of the University address yesterday afternoon in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center.

Shelton: ‘Future never brighter’

Claire Conrad
November 7, 2007

From politician to professor: Jim Kolbe

Claire Conrad
November 2, 2007

Nerdy McFly sheds light on total ‘coolness’

Claire Conrad
November 2, 2007

Sex offender arrested

Claire Conrad
November 2, 2007

ASUA revamps Election Code

Claire Conrad
November 1, 2007

Autopsy: student stabbed 21 times

Claire Conrad
November 1, 2007

“Need degree, will travel”

Claire Conrad
October 24, 2007
UA librarian Atifa Rawan trains faculty and staff at Afghanistan's Kabul University on the subject of library science. UA librarians hope to continue training Afghan faculty and staff to maintain digital library, a new spearhead on campus.

A new Afghani trove

Claire Conrad
October 23, 2007
Sol A. G

Turning the page

Claire Conrad
October 22, 2007
Kaleb Badger, a media arts sophomore, hides his clothes underneath his bedsheets before his parents come and visit. There is nothing parents like to see more than a clean room, so tidy up and hide what you don't want them to see.

Stash the bong and find your classrooms

Claire Conrad
October 18, 2007
Accounting juniors Diana Lee (right) and Marra Longo (center), along with accounting senior Eric Lauritsen (left), work together in figuring out how to use the presentation technology in a meeting room in the Integrated Learning Center.

Libraries face digital divide

Claire Conrad
October 16, 2007
Engineering physics sophomore, Tiffany Shucart, right, checks her card while Janne Star and Stella Virgin call numbers at Drag Bingo last night.

‘Drag bingo’ featured at Coming Out Week event

Claire Conrad
October 11, 2007

UA groups fight sexual assault

Claire Conrad
October 3, 2007

Fin. aid gets biggest hike in 63 years

Claire Conrad
October 1, 2007
Prabjit Virdee, left, a psychology senior and president of the ECOalition program on campus, and Kevin Burke, right, a chemical and environmental engineering graduate student, talk to a group of Campus Sustainability members about the Focus the Nation project. The national project is attempting bring attention to global warming issues in time for a Jan. 31 teach-in in schools across the U.S., including the UA.

UA joins global warming project

Claire Conrad
October 1, 2007
Rashed Al-Haroun, an environmental sciences sophomore, right, listens as Muriel Fisher teaches Scottish Gaelic 101 as part of the UA Critical Languages program.

Little-taught languages get student vehicles

Claire Conrad
September 28, 2007
A stall from the men's restroom on the 4th floor of the Student Union Memorial Center.

“Everybody Poops, Even at School”

Claire Conrad
September 27, 2007

Budget director mourned

Claire Conrad
September 25, 2007

Suspect in slaying pleads not guilty

Claire Conrad
September 23, 2007
UA student arraigned in stabbing case

UA student arraigned in stabbing case

Claire Conrad
September 20, 2007
One of the student minidorms sits on the corner of Park Avenue and Waverly Street The City of Tucson is looking into building more student housing in a two-mile radius around the UA campus.

Proposed program to regulate minidorms

Claire Conrad
September 17, 2007
John Adams, assistant director of facilities planning, explains the process of a new environment experiment, which UA researchers will conduct to understand the main behaviors between water and shrubs, grasses native to Arizona.

Researchers to sap climate effects from tree project

Claire Conrad
September 16, 2007
Who knew that Arizona would have an ocean? The University of Arizona Biosphere 2 has a mini-ocean and mimics the real thing, with palm trees, a white, sandy mini-beach, waves and cool temperatures.

Biosphere 2 offers world of possibility

Claire Conrad
September 13, 2007

UA reacts as details of slaying emerge

Claire Conrad
September 7, 2007
UAPD Chief Anthony Daykin gives a statement yesterday afternoon across the street from Graham-Greenlee Residence Hall, where a homicide took place early yesterday morning.

Student slain in residence hall

Claire Conrad
September 6, 2007
Shell President John Hofmeister speaks to a standing-room only crowd in the Student Union Memorial yesterday on the future of energy security and affordability in the United States.

Shell touts energy work

Claire Conrad
August 31, 2007

Online profiles perilous

Claire Conrad
August 30, 2007

“3,000 in line for Zone 1 parking permits”

Claire Conrad
August 23, 2007
Cars pass the Speedway Boulevard on ramp Monday afternoon. The Interstate 10, as well as other downtown areas like the Fourth Avenue underpass, will be under construction untill fall 2008

Road work no barrier to 4th Ave.

Claire Conrad
August 22, 2007

Study: Employees not feeling appreciated

Claire Conrad
August 22, 2007

Police Beat

Claire Conrad
August 21, 2007
UA mascot Wilbur T. Wildcat, right, rears back to throw a tortilla at the spring 2005 afternoon graduation ceremony. Campus administrators are still worried that tortillas could injure or offend students and their families at next week's commencement ceremony.

Tortilla toss a Tucson tradition

Claire Conrad
May 12, 2007
Steps are already being taken to organize a disability studies majors for UA students, which would focus on the experience and perspective of people with disabilities.

UA works to develop disability studies major

Claire Conrad
May 2, 2007

“After VT, campus safety in spotlight”

Claire Conrad
May 1, 2007
KNST producer Jessica Guitard, left, takes a photo while producer Jim Parisi checks his stopwatch during a Virginia Tech memorial event on the Alumni Plaza hill Friday.

UA honors Va. Tech dead with memorial

Claire Conrad
April 30, 2007

UA joins more than 800 colleges in book drive for African students

Claire Conrad
April 30, 2007

UA lecture cancelled after visas denied

Claire Conrad
April 26, 2007
Ian Upton

Cold cause of death for UA student

Claire Conrad
April 25, 2007
The telescope housed in the Steward Observatory was dedicated and renamed the Raymond E. White Jr. Reflector last night in honor of former astronomy professor Raymond E. White Jr., who retired from the university in 1999.

Telescope renamed for prof.

Claire Conrad
April 24, 2007

Student robbed Sunday

Claire Conrad
April 24, 2007

McClelland Park set for fall ’08 completion

Claire Conrad
April 20, 2007
From left, electrical engineering junior Tanuja Mouli, computer engineering senior Andy Yan, electrical engineering sophomore Michelle Ho, senior Alonso Montesinos and junior Denise Hernandez stand behind their mechanical 'mouse,' which won a competition Saturday in Las Vegas by navigating a labyrinth without a remote.

Engineering students win big in Vegas

Claire Conrad
April 18, 2007
Tim Harrison, a senior majoring in business management, dishes up a bowl of cereal for a customer in the new Cereal Boxx yesterday afternoon during the caf

“New cereal cafe targets students, early risers”

Claire Conrad
April 17, 2007
Melissa Vrabel, a senior majoring in health education and Spanish, checks text messages between classes April 9.

Text-messaging company explores options

Claire Conrad
April 16, 2007

Immigration reform focus of meeting

Claire Conrad
April 10, 2007

Panel reviews a changing world climate

Claire Conrad
April 9, 2007
Shelly Shanti fills her bag with a weekly supply of fresh lettuce and other locally grown vegetables at the Community Supported Agriculture Farmers' Market Tuesday evening.

Locally grown food sprouting in Tucson

Claire Conrad
April 5, 2007
The Wildcat Pow Wow Society will be holding its annual powwow April 13-14 on Bear Down Field. The event will feature traditional American Indian dancing, food and music.

UA powwow to celebrate American Indian community

Claire Conrad
April 4, 2007

Faculty assisted EPA case

Claire Conrad
April 3, 2007
Peter Likins

Tucson to walk to raise mental health awareness

Claire Conrad
March 31, 2007
Scott Zimmerman, an engineering freshman, left, and Brian Greenwald, a journalism freshman, attended an episode of 'The Price is Right' during spring break. On the show, Greenwald was selected as a contestant and won a Ford F-150 truck as well as other prizes.

Student wins big on ‘Price is Right’

Claire Conrad
March 30, 2007
Aaron Ohms, a business administration senior and general manager of AdVolution, explains to Eller Center Director Sherry Hoskinson how location-sensitive advertising works at the fourth annual UA Innovation Day. Innovation Day allows students to show off the research they have been working on.

Event highlights campus research

Claire Conrad
March 28, 2007
Tucson Magnet High School senior Margo Johnson has worked with UA faculty advisers to develop educational videos for children with autism.

Video teaches autistic kids

Claire Conrad
March 27, 2007
Mark Jankauski, an undeclared freshman, recycles his newspaper. Campuses across the nation, including Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, recently signed an environmental pact to create climate-neutral campuses; however, the UA did not sign it.

Cleaning up our campuses

Claire Conrad
March 22, 2007
Staff member Ramon Rorey feeds beef into a grinder in the UA Meat Science Lab at the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences on Monday.

“UA’s meat science lab connects students with research, education and community”

Claire Conrad
March 21, 2007

Police Beat

Claire Conrad
March 20, 2007
Ian Upton

UA student found dead in riverbed

Claire Conrad
March 19, 2007

Forum to discuss UA stance on Sudan crisis

Claire Conrad
March 7, 2007
Georgia Ehlers, director of the Peace Corps Fellows at the UA, left, and Carrie Jacobson, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, clean up trash most likely left by illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona-Mexico border on Saturday.

Volunteer teams tidy up desert

Claire Conrad
March 6, 2007

Minority-student retention programs successful so far

Claire Conrad
March 5, 2007

Multicultural greeks form new council

Claire Conrad
March 1, 2007
Research Specialist Marvin Landis stands in the virtual reality room in the Center for Computing and Information Technology building. Several departments at the UA have been using virtual reality technology to enhance their research.

Virtual reality helps with real research

Claire Conrad
February 28, 2007
Mauricio Farah, a Mexican Human Rights Commission inspector, lectures Friday afternoon in the Manuel T. Pacheco Integrated Learning Center about current Mexican immigration issues.

“Border policy needs reform, speaker says”

Claire Conrad
February 26, 2007

Speaker returns after ill-fated lecture

Claire Conrad
February 23, 2007
Tectonic fractures within the Candor Chasma region of Valles Marineris, Mars, retain ridge-like shapes as the surrounding bedrock erodes away. This points to past episodes of fluid alteration along the fractures and reveals clues into past fluid flow and geochemical conditions below the surface. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image on Dec. 2, 2006. The image is approximately 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) across. Illumination from the upper left.

UA scientists explore water on Mars

Claire Conrad
February 21, 2007
Gibran Ameer, a psychology freshman living in Graham-Greenlee Residence Hall, works on his desk. A new reality show would film students fixing up their living spaces.

Reality TV may hit UA

Claire Conrad
February 19, 2007
Sarah Garrett, an undeclared freshman from the Campus Crusade For Christ, prays inside the 24-hour prayer tent last week on the UA Mall.

Students pray nonstop

Claire Conrad
February 19, 2007
Pre-physiology freshman Kevin McCormick and international business freshman Alissa Burns cuddle on the couch while political science sophomore Brittany Kirk sits alone.

The other side of V-Day

Claire Conrad
February 14, 2007

Giffords gets climate class by UA team

Claire Conrad
February 12, 2007

Profs part of climate change report

Claire Conrad
February 9, 2007
Dongsheng Ma displays the chip at the heart of high-definition radio in his lab at the Electrical Engineering building yesterday. Ma is collaborating with Texas Instruments to help develop this higher quality over-the-air radio.

UA gives radio a high-definition makeover

Claire Conrad
February 7, 2007

“Vehicle strikes SafeRide van, no injuries”

Claire Conrad
February 6, 2007
Nathan Olivarez-Giles

Hispanic journalists’ group starts UA student chapter

Claire Conrad
February 5, 2007

Soldiers’ boots serve as memorial

Claire Conrad
February 2, 2007

Students to see anatomy exhibit

Claire Conrad
February 1, 2007
Blanca Estil of the Student Union Memorial Center's Operation Services takes a radio call during her break yesterday evening in the SUMC food court. ProjectConverse, a volunteer program that offers English-speaking classes to UA employees, may soon open to Facilities Management so workers like Estil can brush up on their speaking skills.

Project Converse seeking expansion

Claire Conrad
January 30, 2007
Dr. John Hughes

“Hughes voted new UMC chief of staff, starts two-year term”

Claire Conrad
January 26, 2007
Physiology sophomore Melissa Criscione receives help from her labteaching assistant Hui Wang in Organic Chemistry, located in the Henry Koffler building. Wang is a first-year organic chemistry major from China. He is one of many foreign students at the UA who come to learn and are also given opportunities to teach.

Int’l TAs must pass tough test

Claire Conrad
January 25, 2007
King Pong, Inc., a company owned by UA business graduates Adam Wasserman and Dan Schuman, markets beer pong tables similar to this one. Schuman and Wasserman have been promoting their tables by holding beer pong tournaments in bars on the West Coast.

UA alumni craft beer pong tables

Claire Conrad
January 23, 2007

“New section, seniors to graduate with rest of class”

Claire Conrad
January 23, 2007
Pre-business freshman Mike Lloyd plays video games with pre-business freshman Lauren Eibinder in his room yesterday. Coronado Residence Hall will be converting its single rooms into doubles for the fall 2007 semester.

Coronado to revert 137 rooms to doubles

Claire Conrad
January 16, 2007
Business freshman David Olson searches for a new album at Replay Entertainment in the Student Union Memorial Center. The store may be relocated to the bottom level of the bookstore at the Union because of low sales.

Slow sales may force Replay to relocate

Claire Conrad
January 12, 2007
Architecture senior Sarah Ingham shuffles through the books at the Student Union Memorial Center for her general education classes yesterday afternoon. Students have been buying books and supplies for the oncoming semester.

“5,000 expected to drop/add in next 2 weeks”

Claire Conrad
January 11, 2007
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