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Gordon Bates / Arizona Daily Wildcat Crystal Lopez, an Animal Science Industry senior, harvests a sample of meat for bacteria screening particles during her work shift on Thursday, Dec. 1, at the UA Meat Science Laboratory. Lopez's job tasks include analyzing meat to determine the nutritional content and screening for bacterial presence.

Bacteria meets its match in the Meat Science Lab

Brenna Goth
December 7, 2011

Student fee helps support programs

Brenna Goth
December 7, 2011

Initiative formed to market UA tech

Brenna Goth
December 1, 2011
Juni Nelson/ Arizona Daily Wildcat Prop artisan Taryn Wintersteen from the prop shop creates a bed for an upcoming production. Artisans do various work on different props from reupholstering furniture to creating fake food for the stage.

Giving them Props

Brenna Goth
November 30, 2011
Kevin Brost/ Daily Wildcat Nathaniel Vrana tests shrimp and other sealife for viruses as part of his job at the UA Aquaculture Pathology lab on Wednesday, Nov. 16.

Dissecting the matter

Brenna Goth
November 23, 2011
More than just horsing around: Student works for love of animals

More than just horsing around: Student works for love of animals

Brenna Goth
November 16, 2011

Mishap causes power outage

Brenna Goth
November 14, 2011
Rebecca Rillos / Daily Wildcat Prof. Suzanne Cummins, a senior lecturer at the Eller College of Management, displays ten different versions of a test. Cummins and other faculty members are working toward preventing cheating (plug in a line from the story). Prof. Suzanne Cummins, a senior lecturer at the Eller College of Management, uses a tea cart to build relationships with the students.

Eller cheating down drastically

Brenna Goth
November 10, 2011

New initiatives target loan debt

Brenna Goth
November 7, 2011

ASA defends Pell Grant against chopping block

Brenna Goth
November 3, 2011
Professor meets with Dalai Lama

Professor meets with Dalai Lama

Brenna Goth
November 1, 2011
Kevin Brost / Arizona Daily Wildcat Linda Stapleton, assistant to the University of Arizona President for the past 19 years, discusses her career and accomplishments as she plans to retire in the Administration Building on October 24, 2011.

A UA presidential staple

Brenna Goth
October 27, 2011
BFA senior Nicholas Going relaxes outside of his Sam Hughes home on Thursday, October 18, 2011. Going lives with three other roommates at their mini-dorm style house inside the neighborhood. Zachary Vito / Arizona Daily Wildcat

Sam Hughes debates mini-dorms

Brenna Goth
October 24, 2011

Arrested development

Brenna Goth
October 20, 2011

Townhall meetings set for presidential search

Brenna Goth
October 12, 2011
Colin Prenger / Arizona Daily WIldcat Students from C.A.S. (Center for Academic Success) visited the Flandrau Center Friday, Oct. 7, to learn more about noble gases. The UA is striving to reach out to the Tucson community to educate students about science.

STEM center looks to grow new initiatives

Brenna Goth
October 10, 2011

Sony president, CEO visits UA

Brenna Goth
October 4, 2011

Q&A: New regent sees issues, opportunity

Brenna Goth
September 30, 2011
Zachary Vito / Arizona Daily Wildcat

Eller start-up chosen for conference

Brenna Goth
September 27, 2011
Michael Drake, head of LPL, dies at age 65

Michael Drake, head of LPL, dies at age 65

Brenna Goth
September 22, 2011
Photo illustration by Juni Nelson / Daily Wildcat Students use WriteCheck to check their papers for plagiarism.

Write or wrong

Brenna Goth
September 22, 2011
Zachary Vito/ Arizona Daily Wildcat ASA chariman Dan Fitzgibbon and freshman Ryan Weaver discuss ways to improve student voting on campus at an ASA meeting in Old main on Tuesday, Sept. 20.

ASA names aid, textbook prices among year’s goals

Brenna Goth
September 21, 2011

ASA kicks off year

Brenna Goth
September 20, 2011

UA ranks near bottom of Pac-12 in newst U.S. News and World Report college rankings

Brenna Goth
September 19, 2011
Marijuana nationwide: UA student maps prices

Marijuana nationwide: UA student maps prices

Brenna Goth
September 15, 2011

New buildings could spur research

Brenna Goth
September 14, 2011

Fire extinguished at Disability Resource Center

Brenna Goth
September 9, 2011

AZ-So, Likins tops in UAPD responses

Brenna Goth
September 8, 2011

Record enrollment for Hispanic students

Brenna Goth
September 2, 2011
Students say updated GRE is upped challenge

Students say updated GRE is upped challenge

Brenna Goth
August 30, 2011
Thomas L. Koch, director of the Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., has been chosen to serve as the second dean of the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences, formerly the Optical Sciences Center. He will replace founding dean James C. Wyant, who has served 13 years as both director and dean. (James C. Wyant pictured)

Optical Sciences chooses dean

Brenna Goth
August 26, 2011
VP of health affairs reflects on tenure

VP of health affairs reflects on tenure

Brenna Goth
August 24, 2011
Gordon Bates / Arizona Daily Wildcat Dr. Leslie Boyer, M.D., Director of the Venom Immunochemistry, Pharmacology, and Emergency Response Institute, has been involved in the clinical regulatory side of the 12 year development of an anti-venom developed in Mexico to combat the symptoms of scorpion bites. Dr. Boyer, VIPER Director, and has recruited hundreds of people to be involved in clinical research that is centralized at University Medical Center near University of Arizona.

UA research looks to take sting out of scorpion venom

Brenna Goth
August 23, 2011

Regents launch president search

Brenna Goth
August 22, 2011

Facilities consumed by enrollment

Brenna Goth
May 4, 2011

Student develops mini-dorm

Brenna Goth
May 3, 2011
Rebecca Rillos / Arizona Daily Wildcat *First guy* Freddy Eschrich, a visual communications and graphic design major, gives patrons a demonstration of the newly donated letterpress equipment at the Jack Sinclair Letterpress Studio. Fifteen tons of letterpress equipment was donated by Sinclair to open the studio. *Second guy* Robert Wilson, right, a graphic design sophomore, talks about the new letterpress to Tom and Marilyn Lindell. Fifteen tons of letterpress equipment was donated by Sinclair to open the studio.

Donation creates new letterpress studio

Brenna Goth
May 2, 2011
Valentina Martinelli / Arizona Daily Wildcat UA Professor Thomas Bever speaks about his experience at the UA in his office on Friday March 27, 2011. Professor Bever was recently named a regents professor.

Q&A;: Thomas Bever

Brenna Goth
May 2, 2011

Fields of dreams

Brenna Goth
April 28, 2011

Q&A;: Diana Liverman

Brenna Goth
April 28, 2011
Robert Alcaraz/ Arizona Daily Wildcat Dr. Thomas Insel accepts The Schorr Family Award at Centennial Hall on Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Insel, along with other mental health specialists, spoke about the tragedies that occurred on Jan. 8.

Forum shifts focus to Jan. 8 shooting

Brenna Goth
April 28, 2011

Forum to address mental health

Brenna Goth
April 27, 2011
Emily Fritze, seated left, and Danile Frost, 89, seated right, the oldest living former ASUA president, meet with other former ASUA presidents and president elect James Allen outside Pasco Kitchen & Lounge on University Boulevard Friday to welcome Allen as incoming president.

Past ASUA heads greet Allen

Brenna Goth
April 25, 2011
Janice Biancavilla / Arizona Daily Wildcat (Left to right) Kevin Lohmeier, Casey Odom, and Michael Ross examine a model airplane near the wind tunnel in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building. Highschool students from Sabino Canyon High School who are enrolled in Engineering 102 as students in the science technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM initiative, toured the building Tuesday.

High school to higher ed

Brenna Goth
April 21, 2011
Robert Alcaraz / Arizona Daily Wildcat Lee Ann Hamilton, the Assistant Director for Health Promotion & Preventive Services, talks about HPV on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Hamilton has run Sex Talk in the Daily Wildcat since 1995.

Oral sex linked to cancer

Brenna Goth
April 21, 2011

UA’s rainy-day fund will help curb costs next year

Brenna Goth
April 19, 2011
Rebecca Rillos / Arizona Daily Wildcat David Lynch, professor of mining engineering and material science and engineering, shows a photograph of a mine in Tacoma, Wash., from 1941 **I will text you with double-checked info**. Lynch received a patent last year related to the creation of silicon.

UA sets tech-licensing record

Brenna Goth
April 18, 2011
Regents soften dorm-rate hike

Regents soften dorm-rate hike

Brenna Goth
April 14, 2011
Governor appoints new student regent

Governor appoints new student regent

Brenna Goth
April 13, 2011

Regents increase housing rates

Brenna Goth
April 11, 2011

Partnership aims to aid Marana

Brenna Goth
April 11, 2011

Regents will set tuition today

Brenna Goth
April 7, 2011
Roy Ax, professor of animal sciences, died suddenly March 29, 2011 from a heart attack.

UA professor dies from heart attack

Brenna Goth
April 6, 2011
Professor salaries below average

Professor salaries below average

Brenna Goth
April 5, 2011
Ginny Polin / Arizona Daily Wildcat George Milan , a resident of Jefferson Park for 34 years, meets with other residents on January 20, 2011 to protest the building of min-dorms in the neighborhood. On March 14 the zoning administrator ruled that students living in mini-dorms violate the R-1 zoning.

City: Mini-dorms violate code

Brenna Goth
March 31, 2011
The mock border wall along the UA mall was vandalized during the weekend. The vandalism, including this mock corpse, was discovered Sunday, according to No More Deaths? website.

Mock border vandalized

Brenna Goth
March 31, 2011
Janice Biancavilla / Arizona Daily Wildcat Students speak about their concerns regarding tuition increase during the Arizona Board of Regents Meeting.

Students share impact of tuition hikes

Brenna Goth
March 29, 2011

Regents seek student input

Brenna Goth
March 28, 2011
Robert Alcaraz/Arizona Daily Wildcat Mikihiro Shimane, an international student from Japan, talks about how the catastrophic disasters have effected him on Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Shimane knows people that were directly hit by the tsunami.

UA to hold benefit for Japan relief

Brenna Goth
March 25, 2011
Will Ferguson/Arizona Daily Wildcat Protesters against a proposed tuition hike and state cuts to education gathered in front of the UA Administration building on Wednesday. The rally was led by members of the Arizona Students Association.

Students rally against cuts

Brenna Goth
March 24, 2011
Ginny Polin/Arizona Daily Wildcat Several social justice organzizations are creating a mock border on the mall to raise awareness about problems on the US/Mexico

Mock border wall blocks Mall

Brenna Goth
March 22, 2011

Students and leaders defend Pell Grants

Brenna Goth
March 11, 2011

Grants expand LGBT courses

Brenna Goth
March 10, 2011
Robert Alcaraz / Arizona Daily Wildcat Maritza Cardenas, a professor at the UA, lectures her class on film and fiction on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Cardenas focuses her class on how film reflects literature.

Jockeying for jobs

Brenna Goth
March 8, 2011
David Venezia/Arizona Daily Wildcat The members of Alpha Delta Pi gather outside their house to celebrate Sorority Badge Day.

Badge Day unites Greeks

Brenna Goth
March 8, 2011
Will Ferguson/ Arizona Daily Wildcat Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett spoke to the University of Arizona College Republicans on Tuesday evening in the Kiva room of the Student Union Memorial Center. His speech focused on the state's budget situation.

Secretary of State visits UA

Brenna Goth
March 2, 2011
On Monday, Tucson Police officers responded to a report of a robbery at the Bank of the West branch on 3175 N. Swan Rd, according to TPD media release. Officers received a call from the Great Western Bank at 2955 E. Grant Rd. only 40 minutes later, while investigators were still at the Bank of the West robbery scene, according to the release. The suspect, seen in this series of bank video stills, is described as a white male in his mid-50?s to mid-60?s and approximately 5?9? to 6 feet tall

Student teller robbed twice

Brenna Goth
March 1, 2011
Ginny Polin / Arizona Daily Wildcat Daniel Ference, a management information systems senior, business management and entrepreneurship. Ference was named a Federal Service Student Ambassador and now helps students get jobs in the federal government .

Q&A;: Daniel Ference

Brenna Goth
March 1, 2011

Ease of transfer

Brenna Goth
February 28, 2011

Employees donate extra vacation for those in need

Brenna Goth
February 25, 2011

Students engineer club week

Brenna Goth
February 22, 2011
Annie Marum / Arizona Daily Wildcat Robert Rosinski, one of the veterans working with ASA to get in-state tuition for all veterans, works on homework before one of his classes.

Tuition bill aims to help veterans

Brenna Goth
February 18, 2011
George Milan, who has lived in Jefferson Park for 34 years, met with other neighborhood members to protest the building of mini-dorms in the historic neighborhood on January 20, 2010.

Manual against mini-dorms approved

Brenna Goth
February 16, 2011
Mary DeCamp and Doctress Neutopia, along with the other Raging Grannies, performed a mock wedding Monday on the mall. The ceremony was presided over by the grim reaper as the women mocked getting married to Raytheon.

Raging Grannies say ‘I Do’

Brenna Goth
February 15, 2011
Professor Julie Feldman, Ph.D., uses YouTube in her INDV 101 Structure Mind and Behavior class on Tuesday. Feldman believes this is a great way to gets students to better relate to her lectures.

Faculty on Facebook

Brenna Goth
February 9, 2011
Management junior Karen Johnston helps run a raffle table for students yesterday at the Rec Center. The event was part of Sex Talk, a program designed to educate the student body on healthy sexual practices.

Campus Health talks sex as Valentine’s Day approaches

Brenna Goth
February 8, 2011

GRO shift to begin

Brenna Goth
February 7, 2011

New system reallocates financial aid

Brenna Goth
February 3, 2011

UA announces retirement buyouts

Brenna Goth
January 31, 2011
Updated: Pell Grant funds uncertain

Updated: Pell Grant funds uncertain

Brenna Goth
January 30, 2011
Leonard Jessup, a UA alum who earned his Ph.D. in Orgainzational Behavior and Management Information Systesms from the UA, according to Washington State University faculty site., will be the new dean of Eller College. Jessup will assume duties beginning in May, according to UANews.

New dean eyes privatization

Brenna Goth
January 28, 2011

Taking out the guesswork

Brenna Goth
January 25, 2011

Future of health-care reform in flux

Brenna Goth
January 23, 2011

Battle for Jefferson Park

Brenna Goth
January 21, 2011
The Roy Place building, located downtown on the corner of Stone Avenue and Pennington Street, has recently been leased by the UA for classroom use. The building is under rennovation, and is planned for use by College of Architecture students.

Headin’ downtown

Brenna Goth
January 19, 2011
Dr. Peter Rhee, medical director of the trauma center at the University Medical Center, answers questions during an interview in his office on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 in Tucson, Ariz. Rhee is one of the physicians attending Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as she recovers from a gunshot wound to her brain.

“Surgeon unfazed by life in spotlight “

Brenna Goth
January 19, 2011
Rep. Raul Grijalva speaks in front of Old Main before marching to Reid Park on Monday. This years Martin Luther King Jr. March paid tribute to the victims of the Tucson shooting.

‘Nonviolence is a way of life’

Brenna Goth
January 17, 2011

Community rallies against picketers

Brenna Goth
January 13, 2011
Trauma specialist Dr. Peter Rhee reports on the condition of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Sunday afternoon during a press conference. Giffords is in critical condition, but doctors are ?cautiously optimistic? for her recovery.

Trauma center helps victims

Brenna Goth
January 12, 2011

Tucson Memorial Project will attend funerals against the Westboro Baptist Church

Brenna Goth
January 12, 2011

Brewer addresses shooting

Brenna Goth
January 12, 2011

UMC promotes safe driving

Brenna Goth
December 6, 2010
Med students unwind with humanities program

Med students unwind with humanities program

Brenna Goth
December 3, 2010

Students celebrate Hanukkah’s first night

Brenna Goth
December 2, 2010
Valentina Martinelli/ Arizona Daily Wildcat David Salafsky, the director of Health Promotion and Preventive Services, talks about the new methods campus health is utilizing to promote alcohol safety. The fliers are placed in high traffic areas such as residence halls.

Binge drinking decreases; party school label ‘misleading’

Brenna Goth
December 1, 2010

Eating disorders a campus concern

Brenna Goth
November 29, 2010

Campus Health: Scale back on treats

Brenna Goth
November 24, 2010
Erich Healy / Arizona Daily Wildcat Second-year medical student, Randi Heller, left, gives Dr. William Firth MD, right, a tour of the UA College of Medicine after the College of Medicine Faculty Teaching Awards ceremony Friday, November 19th. Dr. Firth was named Rural Health Professions Preceptor for the College of Medicine's Rural Health Professions Program.

Medical profs honored

Brenna Goth
November 22, 2010
Ginny Polin / Arizona Daily Wildcat Elin Sulaymanov Consul general of Azerbaijan

Elin Suleymanov

Brenna Goth
November 18, 2010
Erich Healy / Arizona Daily Wildcat Adam Smith, Principal Planner, right, and Jim Mazzocco, Planning Administrator, left, for the City of Tucson Planning and Developing Services Department attend a meeting held discussing the Design Manual being proposed for the Jefferson Park Neighborhood. Proponents hope a design manual will preserve the neighborhood's architectural characteristics, opponents think the proposed manual unfairly targets developers who build structures marketed toward students.

Homeowners furiously argue about manual

Brenna Goth
November 18, 2010
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