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The astronomy professor has been awarded a Radcliffe Institute fellowship to explore the edges of known physics and exchange ideas with scientists, artists and filmmakers.
UA researcher Jennifer Barton, who is leading a $1 million project funded by the National Cancer Institute, is identifying biomarkers and creating optical imaging tools to screen for a form of cancer often called a “silent killer.”
The assistant professor of physics will use funds to expand our understanding of dark energy, the mysterious substance making up 70 percent of the universe's energy content.
Two images taken by Erich Karkoschka as part of UA research on the atmospheres of Jupiter and Uranus have been selected by the U.S. Postal Service for a set of special-edition stamps. The official release is Tuesday at the World Stamp Show.
"Puzzles, Proofs and Patterns," an exhibit on the UA campus, shows how many concepts learned in school about math are both interconnected and relevant.
The next stop will be the near-Earth asteroid Bennu for the spacecraft, which will undergo final testing and fueling at the Kennedy Space Center before its September launch.
The UA has signed an exclusive license agreement for a molecular imaging technology, beta emission tomography, to Lightpoint Medical of Chesham, England.
Even before the first horse in Arizona in seven years tested positive for rabies, a Cooperative Extension team was working on a document on disease prevention that is now available to the public.
Melissa Sevigny, author of "Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets," talks in a Q&A about the history of the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
The automated cleaner for industrial chillers imagined by Alan Wall, who was a UA staff technician, is an example of how innovation can spring from all parts of the University. With UANews video.