Instrument provides opportunities and challenges

A student-built instrument launching with an upcoming space mission to an asteroid will provide not only valuable training and experience for future aeronautical engineers, but also vital scientific data for later research. The mission, sponsored by NASA and the University of Arizona, will launch in late 2016 and rendezvous with the asteroid two years later….

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People who care lost in the border rhetoric

Political contenders jockey for attention on how tough their immigration policies are or what can be done to reform the system, while everyday people in Arizona go into the desert to provide humanitarian aid to migrants. One couple, John and Diane Hoelter, volunteer with Humane Borders to provide water to migrants crossing the Southern Arizona…

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Planning mitigates potential water crisis

The looming specter of shortage on the Colorado River poses a serious concern for states relying on the precious source of water, but with foresight and planning, many parts of Arizona are prepared to endure for decades to come. Kelly Mott Lacroix, senior research analyst with the Water Resources Research Center at the University of…

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