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TODAY'S LOCAL
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TODAY'S NATIONAL
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TODAY'S OPINIONS
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LOCAL HEADLINES
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'YC2NAU' keeps
college students
in Prescott
By Paula Rhoden.
Northern Arizona
University is
making it easier
for community
college students
to earn a
bachelor's
degree.
(Prescott Daily
Courier:
http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=76326)
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Master Gardner:
Doomsday
horticulture
By Dana Prom
Smith. Arizona
has a seed bank
cozily
sequestered
inside NAU's
Research
Greenhouses.
It's actually a
maximum,
industrial-sized,
stainless steel
refrigerator
kept at -10º F,
supervised by
Brad Blake and
Phil Patterson.
Saving seeds of
ponderosa pines
and several
other trees in
the Southwestern
mountains,
they're
preparing for
the next
catastrophic
wildfire or
parasitic
infestation.
(Arizona Daily
Sun:
http://www.azdailysun.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/article_c36c21e4-4e3c-551d-b5e9-6e77b12b838a.html)
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ASU West faces
declining
enrollment,
redirection
Fewer students
are enrolled
this semester at
Arizona State
University's
West campus. ASU
West Vice
President
Elizabeth
Langland said
the campus is
transition to a
more-traditional
small college.
(Daily News-Sun:
http://www.yourwestvalley.com/news/asu-11534-west-campus.html)
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UA's Jacobs gets
climate-change
post
By Tony Davis.
Kathy Jacobs, a
University of
Arizona
professor and a
former top state
water official,
is now the White
House Office of
Science and
Technology
Policy's
assistant
director for
climate
adaptation and
assessment.
(Arizona Daily
Star:
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/dailystar/323902.php)
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NASA hopes to
revive powerless
Phoenix Mars
Lander
By Anne Ryman.
"I'd like to
think there's a
high probability
(of reviving the
Mars lander),
but there
isn't," said
Peter Smith, the
mission's lead
scientist and a
University of
Arizona
professor.
(The Arizona
Republic:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/01/05/20100105marsmission0104.html)
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ASU scientist
ups ante in data
storage
By Patrick
O'Grady. Michael
Kozicki,
director of the
Center for
Applied
Nanoionics at
ASU, has created
a stackable
memory device
based on the
previous ionic
memory
technology his
center and
business
developed.
(Phoenix
Business
Journal:
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2010/01/04/daily8.html)
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On the hunt for
an
opportunistic,
hidden virus
By Joe Pangburn.
Felicia Goodrum,
associate
professor in the
department of
immunobiology
and molecular
and cellular
biology at the
University of
Arizona, has
spent the last
3½ years at the
Bio5 Institute
studying the
cytomegalovirus
virus to
understand it
better.
(Inside Tucson
Business:
http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2010/01/02/news/the_next_generation/doc4b3b8f92da71f642198137.txt)
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Infrared Camera
Seeks Hidden Art
Treasures
A scientist at
the University
of Arizona in
Tucson has
modified a
commercial
8-megapixel
digital camera
to see through
layers of paint
in artwork. It
can potentially
find treasures
under the
original canvas.
(KJZZ-Radio
91.5:
http://kjzz.rio.maricopa.edu/news/arizona/archives/201001/irartcamera)
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ASU journalism
students prepare
for a
multi-media
future
By Rebecca
Thomas. This
past summer,
students
participating in
the News 21
program at
Arizona State
University
learned
first-hand what
it means to be a
multi-media
journalist.
(KNXV-TV (ABC)
Ch. 15:
http://www.abc15.com:80/content/news/education/story/ASU-journalism-students-prepare-for-a-multi-media/7-z-1gMStki6KS-Et3Bckw.cspx)
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NATIONAL
HEADLINES
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New-Found
Galaxies May be
Farthest Back in
Time and Space
Yet
By Ron Cowen.
Other teams,
notably a group
that includes
Rogier Windhorst
of Arizona State
University in
Tempe and
Haojing Yan of
Ohio State
University in
Columbus, have
already claimed
to have found 20
galaxies at that
same high
redshift using
the same data
from the
refurbished
Hubble.
(US News & World
Report:
http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/04/new-found-galaxies-may-be-farthest-back-in-time-and-space-yet.html)
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American
Colleges Lag in
Meeting Labor
Needs
By Karin
Fischer. Despite
calls to more
closely link
higher education
with job needs
in the United
States, American
colleges are
only "moderately
responsive" to
changes in the
labor markets,
according to a
new working
paper by three
economists.
(The Chronicle
of Higher
Education:
http://feeds.chronicle.com/~r/chronicle/news/~3/ERrr9Fm4MMI/)
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Making Teaching
a Profession
By Jennifer
Epstein. More
than two dozen
teacher
educators and
education policy
leaders will
converge here
Wednesday and
Thursday for the
first meeting of
the National
Council for
Accreditation of
Teacher
Education’s
(NCATE) Panel on
Clinical
Preparation,
Partnerships and
Improved Student
Learning,
charged with
recommending
scalable ways to
improve
in-the-classroom
training and
strengthen
relationships
between school
districts and
the colleges and
universities
that prepare
their teachers.
The
recommendations,
in turn, would
probably form
the basis for
revisions to the
council’s
accreditation
standards.
(The Chronicle
of Higher
Education:
http://feeds.chronicle.com/~r/chronicle/news/~3/uJMowRZq7ng/)
(Inside Higher
Education:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/05/teachers)
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OPINIONS
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Do You Really
Need a Business
Degree?
[From CBS
Moneywatch]. By
Lynn
O'Shaughnessy.
Asked to
recommend
out-of-state
public
universities in
the West that
offer cheap
tuition to
California
residents,
O'Shaughnessy
suggested
Northern Arizona
State
University.
(KPHO-TV (CBS)
Ch. 5:
http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/college-solution/do-you-really-need-a-business-degree/1301/)
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