Category Archive for "Bioscience" |

Curtiss named

[Source: Julie Kurth, Arizona State University] — Roy Curtiss, III, PhD, of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, was named

UA first in arizona to install

[Source: Deborah Daun, Marketing & Communications, BIO5 Institute] — UA

Principal sees Phoenix Bioscience High as dream

[Source: Betty Reid, Arizona Republic] — Click here to download PDF of full article.

U.S. DOE awards $22.1M for 41 grants to recruit, prepare, and support new teachers

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $22.1 million for 41 grants through the Transition to Teaching program to increase the pool of qualified teachers in high-need schools in high-need districts by recruiting non-traditional teacher candidates, preparing them through alternative routes to certification, and increasing retention through strong mentoring programs, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret […]

[Source: Jared Hill, University of Arizona] — Not too many incoming eighth-grade students are familiar with optics concepts — such as reflection, infrared and ultraviolet light and the electromagnetic spectrum — but for a number of underserved middle school students in southern Arizona, they know these concepts as well as their locker combinations. The GEAR […]

Med school, SFAz highlighted in state budget

$10.6 billion budget signed by Governor Janet Napolitano on Monday includes a handful of bioscience-related line items, most notably major funding for the Phoenix Biomedical Campus and Science Foundation Arizona.

Biomarkers consortium launches website to accept proposals, provide funding updates

[Source: GenomeWeb staff reporter] — The Biomarkers Consortium today said it has launched a website that can be used to submit biomarker project concepts, to obtain funding information, as a contact point, and for updated news about the consortium

Former surgeon trades scrubs to build Mayo’s future

Several years ago, Dr. Victor Trastek gave up a rewarding surgical career to take the reins of Mayo Clinic in Arizona. For a passionate physician like Trastek, the transition to life outside the operating room was not an easy one. However, in the years since, Trastek has helped Mayo shape an ambitious plan for the future.

Arizona high school students win national engineering design competition

[Source: Abra McAndrew, University Communications, University of Arizona] — An Arizona team representing Tucson High School earned first place in the national Mathematics, Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) Engineering Design competition which took place in Maryland on June 22-24. The Tucson High team competed in the performance of their design of a modern version of the […]

University of Arizona BIO5 researchers feel the spring in RNA

[Source: Deborah Dawn, Bio5 Institute] — Researchers from the BIO5 Institute at The University of Arizona have used optical tweezers technology to observe the unraveling of molecular sized helices within individual molecules of messenger RNA. This important class of RNA molecules is the essential connection between the genomic information of the DNA double helix, and […]