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Automobile airbags use a chemical compound that is so toxic that even small amounts can kill. Yet trucks loaded with hundreds of pounds of sodium azide routinely travel the nation's highways, and discarded airbags sit like environmental time bombs in the nation's auto junkyards, a University of Arizona scientist says.
The Wellness Council of American has recently designated the University of Arizona as a recipient of the Gold Well Workplace Award.
The Association of American Universities invites faculty, staff and students to view a webcast of its upcoming program titled "America's Universities: Leadership for the Twenty-First Century," on Monday, April 17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Rutgers anthropologist Lionel Tiger argues that the changing ratio of men to women at institutions of higher learning has lasting effects throughout society.
Mobile elements, bits of DNA popularly called 'jumping' genes, have been maligned as only 'junk' or 'selfish' genes. However, transposable elements occasionally play a useful role in evolution, including human evolution, says UA's Margaret G. Kidwell.
Scientists have 'shotgun' sequenced the whole genome of the geneticists' darling - the fruit fly. It will dramatically change the way many scientists study insects. And it bodes well for the on-going effort to sequence the human genome.
The Arizona Cancer Center is recruiting young women to participate in a confidential, short-term research study to test a new vaccine for HPV (Human papillomavirus).
The second annual Michael A. Cusanovich Fellowshiop Golf Tournament will be held Friday, March 31, at The Golf Club at Vistoso, 955 W. Vistoso Highlands Drive.
The vice president for research has made funds available to assist in supporting travel for faculty who present their work at international conferences.
Larry C. Clark, internationally known for his work in understanding the role of selenium in preventing cancer, died Monday, March 20, from complications related to prostate cancer. He was 51.