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Photo courtesy of Charles Mink Carissa Pastuch and Charles Mink, both Near Eastern Studies majors at the UA, married after serving together in Iraq.

UA students, Iraqi refugee reflect on Iraq war on 10th anniversary

Amer Taleb and Scripps Howard Foundation Wire
March 19, 2013
Courtesy of David Shellouff David Shellouff, left, talks with another man at a political rally last year in Benghazi, Libya. Former U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in the same city earlier this month.

UA experts weigh in on Middle Eastern conflicts in wake of anti-Islam video

Amer Taleb
September 25, 2012
Student visits home after war’s end

Student visits home after war’s end

Amer Taleb
April 17, 2012

Q&A: Protester reflects on revolution in Egypt

Amer Taleb
March 19, 2012
Amer Taleb/Daily Wildcat Matt Flannes, who teaches a class on the Arab Spring, listens to a student discuss foreign intervention in Libya. Later, the students debated whether or not the U.S. should intervene in Syria.

Syria strife hits home

Amer Taleb
February 28, 2012

Site aids cultural awareness

Amer Taleb
December 7, 2011

Blitz winner helping understand how pesticides get into farm worker homes

Amer Taleb
December 6, 2011
Q&A: Prof wins Carnegie state professor of the year award

Q&A: Prof wins Carnegie state professor of the year award

Amer Taleb
November 29, 2011

Cleaning increases with finals crowds

Amer Taleb
November 28, 2011
Alex Kulpinski/ Daily Wildcat Alyson Thibodeau, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geosciences at the UA is the winner of the 2011-2012 Florence C. and Robert H. Lister Fellowship.

UA student reconstructs history with turquoise

Amer Taleb
November 23, 2011

Small grants fund big goals

Amer Taleb
November 21, 2011
Photo courtesy of Eniko T. Enikov Illustration of Application of the New Tactile Tonometer

Researcher has eye on glaucoma tests

Amer Taleb
November 18, 2011
Kevin Brost / Daily Wildcat Bike safety awareness is raised as pedestrians and bicyclists increasingly share the same populus areas of the UA Mall on Wednesday.

UA plans on becoming more bicyclist/pedestrian friendly

Amer Taleb
November 17, 2011
Janice Biancavilla/ Daily Wildcat Unemployed chef and Occupy Tucson demonstrator Eric Williams, 48, tapes a $5 bill over his mouth as a form of protest. Tucson Police Officers gave protestors in Armory Park one-hour notice to leave the park beginning at 10:45 p.m.

UA professor says false perception of greed fuels Occupy Movement

Amer Taleb
November 8, 2011

US & Israel’s changing relationship, eight-hour symposium will examine the issue

Amer Taleb
November 8, 2011

UA study finds black holes may kill stars

Amer Taleb
November 7, 2011
Dirty touch screens, 65 percent in UA study had fecal bacteria

Dirty touch screens, 65 percent in UA study had fecal bacteria

Amer Taleb
November 4, 2011

UA team attempts to map Milky Way

Amer Taleb
November 3, 2011
This image of a Quaking Aspen tree leaf was stitched together from 127 photographs. It placed 18th in Nikon’s 2011 Small World Competition. (Photo courtesy of Benjamin Blonder)

Two place in photo contest

Amer Taleb
November 2, 2011
Kevin Brost / Arizona Daily Wildcat Michele Norin, Chief Information Officer & Executive Director of University Information Technology Services, speaks about cyber security and information technology at the Cyber Citizen Forum in Centennial Hall on October 27, 2011.

Forum promotes web protection

Amer Taleb
October 28, 2011

Students react to death of Gadhafi

Amer Taleb
October 21, 2011
Juni Nelson / Arizona Daily Wildcat Photo illustration by Juni Nelson

Online action, real reaction

Amer Taleb
October 21, 2011
Kevin Brost / Arizona Daily Wildcat Microbiology Sophomore Tyler Hoffman plays an Xbox 360 in the Park Student Union gaming center, Code, on October 16, 2011.

Virtual games cause very real problems

Amer Taleb
October 18, 2011
Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Wildcat (NAME HERE) jumps over a railing to avoid a constant stream of water from a burst pipe Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, in the Tyndall Avenue Garage. Record-low temperatures across the city have caused pipe problems, natural gas shortages and disrupted water service.

Preventative measures aim to keep pipes from bursting

Amer Taleb
October 17, 2011
Kevin Brost / Arizona Daily Wildcat Ken Boynton demonstrates how the routers and wireless service modules located in the Computer Sciences building help distribute wireless internet to nearly all of the University of Arizona on October 11, 2011.

Making a connection: UA WiFi closes gaps

Amer Taleb
October 14, 2011
Kevin Brost / Arizona Daily Wildcat Kevin Moynahan poses in front of a stack of medical class notes and an iPad 2, demonstrating the difference between the two options offered by the The College of Medicine on October 11, 2011.

Reducing the stacks

Amer Taleb
October 13, 2011
Kevin Brost / Arizona Daily WIldcat Somalian medical student Hussein Magale in front of The University of Arizona Medical Center on October 4, 2011.

Refugee finds refuge

Amer Taleb
October 6, 2011
Will Ferguson / Arizona Daily Wildcat Tom Smallwood demonstrates how to use the iDress for Weather app on Monday at the University Marriott. The application helps people with cognitive disabilities decide what they should wear based on the weather.

Student app development company continues to grow

Amer Taleb
September 30, 2011
Juni Nelson / Arizona Daily Wildcat Photo Illustration by Juni Nelson

Buying Essays: Easy Plagiarism

Amer Taleb
September 29, 2011
Kevin Brost / Arizona Daily Wildcat Valeria Monteros rents an iPad 2 from employee Monique Perez at the Integrated Learning Center Information Commons desk on September 14th, 2011.

iPad, UA: Main Library lends devices to students

Amer Taleb
September 16, 2011
Roberto Furfaro in the OSIRIS-REx facility on 13 Sept. 2011. Furfaro is an aerospace engineering professor working on the guidance system algorithms for Moon Express, a private company competing for the Google Lunar X Prize. Keith Hickman-Perfetti / Arizona Daily Wildcat

Updated: Fly me to the moon: Team seeks $30M interstellar accuracy prize from Google

Amer Taleb
September 14, 2011
Gordon Bates / Arizona Daily Wildcat U of A Computer Science Department's Biechuan Zhang shows the network hardware that he and four UA students are using for a recent internet technology project, Green Net. The project is developing a way for network servers to reduce the amount of work that they do by monitoring user traffic, and adjusting the activity of the server accordingly.

UA looks at lessening Internet energy usage

Amer Taleb
September 13, 2011

UA Muslims Speak Out

Amer Taleb
September 9, 2011
Deanna Mariner Simone Malkovich, an Arizona Students' Association volunteer and a junior studying political science and molecular and cellular biology, stands under a booth for the organization's textbook campaign. ASA was on the mall from Tuesday to Thursday last week and interacted with more than 500 students.

ASA: Lower book costs are a novel idea

Amer Taleb
September 7, 2011

Legislators sound off on free tickets

Amer Taleb
September 2, 2011
Kevin Brost / Arizona Daily WIldcat Libyan student Aman Tekbali standing at the Islamic Center of Tucson.

War Abroad Hits Home

Amer Taleb
August 30, 2011
Juni Nelson / Arizona Daily Wildcat Students line up to obtain refunds for their new textbooks. Lines grew throughout the day to obtain the extra money.

UA store matches prices on textbooks

Amer Taleb
August 29, 2011
Gordon Bates / Arizona Daily Wildcat Giancarlo Guevara, a senior in Mechanical Engineering, participates in a photo illustration to demonstrate the level of security associated with the UAWifi Public network on Thursday, Aug 25.

Security

Amer Taleb
August 26, 2011

Ethics gets new spin in Eller College

Amer Taleb
August 25, 2011

Profs consider Google Plus as teaching tool

Amer Taleb
August 24, 2011
Juni Nelson / Arizona Daily Wildcat Undecided freshman Natasha Moushegian moves heavy boxes with the assistence of her mom. Moushegian will be living in one of the newly constructed dorms this year.

Dorms welcome new Wildcats

Amer Taleb
August 22, 2011
Dozens of worshipers file out of the Islamic Center of Tucson following their weekly “jummuah,” or Friday prayer, which Muslims observe worldwide every week. About 600 people on average attend services.

Muslims promote tolerance through Ramadan fasting

Amer Taleb
August 13, 2011
Dozens of worshipers file out of the Islamic Center of Tucson following their weekly ?jummuah,? or Friday prayer, which Muslims observe worldwide every week. About 600 people on average attend services.

Muslims promote tolerance through Ramadan fasting

Amer Taleb
August 7, 2011
"Study finds link between woman's height, cancer risk"

“Study finds link between woman’s height, cancer risk”

Amer Taleb
August 2, 2011
Tom Gehrels, a late professor at the Lunar and Planetary Lab, worked at the UA for 50 years. During his time, he helped expand the reputations of the LPL and Steward Observatory.

Lunar and Planetary Lab loses a star

Amer Taleb
July 20, 2011

Powerful storm uproots risk

Amer Taleb
July 20, 2011
Experts say global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy raises many diplomatic, environmental and economic questions about the future of the Arctic.

Study: Warming oceans destroy ice sheets

Amer Taleb
July 13, 2011
The Autonomous Cooperative Underwater Robotic Vehicle, or A-CURV, takes a test dive in a swimming pool. Eduardo Moreno?s new brand of robot will be low-cost and could conceivably administer underwater services to the Navy, film crews, the Department of Homeland Security and rescue missions.

Student-developed robot making waves

Amer Taleb and Amer Taleb
July 6, 2011
A collection of medications housed at Roy P. Drachman Hall. Of the 64 different pharmacies examined by the UA College of Pharmacy, 72 percent had ?failing? computerized decision support systems.

Pharmacy systems may require major revamp

Amer Taleb
June 29, 2011
"Disturbing, not distressing"

“Disturbing, not distressing”

Amer Taleb
June 22, 2011

UA garners five grants from the Department of Defense

Amer Taleb and Amer Taleb
June 15, 2011

Handy fit for campus news

Amer Taleb
June 8, 2011

UA takes lead in asteroid research mission

Amer Taleb
June 8, 2011
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