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Ray Umashankar reached the summit of the world's highest free-standing mountain in the early morning hours of Sept. 27. He climbed Africas Mt. Kilimanjaro to honor his son, who died in 1991, and to raise money for scholarships in his son's name. Umashankar is director of UA's Multicultural Engineering Program and assistant dean for industry relations in the College of Engineering and Mines.
U.S. university students and high school teachers will focus on paleoclimate research at Lake Tanganyika through 2007 under the University of Arizona's unique "Nyanza Project," thanks to a $1 million, 5-year renewal award from the National Science Foundation.
After five years of interplanetary travel, the Cassini spacecraft has finally sighted the ringed planet, looking distant, mysterious and serene.
UAs Aerial Robotics Club is working on a field-reconfigurable Robotic Aerial Vehicle and sub-vehicle surveillance rover for the International Aerial Robotics Competition in July 2003. The vehicles must navigate on their own, fly to the target, and enter buildings, while avoiding obstacles and understanding what to look for. This calls for robots that can act and think on their own, very much as humans would.
UA engineers have found biologically significant estrogenic activity in samples of Santa Cruz River water collected between Roger Road in Tucson and Trico Road in Marana.
Terry Triffet, former associate dean of engineering for research, and his wife, Middy, have established the Triffet Prize in the College of Engineering and Mines to encourage talented undergraduates from science and engineering to pursue graduate degrees in engineering.
Researchers in UAs ATLAS (Advanced Traffic and Logistics Algorithms and Systems) research center are developing ways to make traffic move faster and more efficiently by allowing traffic control systems to use real-time data for controlling traffic lights. Center researchers also are working on several other traffic-related projects, such as computer-controlled cars that will drive themselves and smart on-ramps for freeways.
The Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation of Tucson, Ariz. today announced a significant gift to the University of Arizona. The announcement was made at a joint meeting of Eller College of Business and Public Administration's National Board of Advisors and the College of Engineering and Mines' Industry Advisory Council.
UA optical scientists are pioneering a unique approach to probe data storage, a technology with potential to store terabits of information in miniature devices.
UA engineers have found biologically significant estrogenic activity in samples of Santa Cruz River water collected between Roger Road in Tucson and Trico Road in Marana. They used "in vitro" (cell free) bioassay techniques that measure effects caused by estrogenic chemicals, rather than directly measuring the hormones themselves. To date, UA engineers have only conducted one round of Santa Cruz River water and monitoring well sampling. Additional sampling should be done to validate initial sampling results and further evaluate the fate, transport and persistence of estrogenic chemicals in river water and ground water.