When Dickson Despommier and his medical ecology students began dreaming of vertical farming in the 1990s at Columbia University, the thinking and designs involved elaborate, fancy buildings. Two decades later, a shipping container was used as a successful vertical farm by University of Arizona professor Joel Cuello. He compared his design to a beehive,…
Student data collected by the University of Arizona has ignited a debate. On March 7, UA announced it could use CatCard data to predict a student’s probability of returning for their second year of college. “By getting their digital traces, you can explore their patterns of movement, behavior and interactions,” said professor Sudha Ram, director…
Police officers and fire fighter are first responders to get first treatment in training to high the state’s opioid epidemic. The University of Arizona and Arizona Department of Health Services will use a three-tier approach to what Gov. Ducey declared a “statewide emergency,” the growing opioid epidemic. “With 100 to 270 overdoses related to opioids…
