CALS News and Announcements

  • UA Nutritional Science Club Gives Students a Chance to Become Involved in Tucson Community

    The UA’s Nutritional Sciences Club has cooked up a variety of student participation events this semester with their campus and community involvement.


    A financially independent club recognized by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, the UA Nutritional Sciences Club’s main goal is to provide students who are interested in nutrition a chance to learn more about the topic and educate their community.

  • Dissecting the Matter

    Nathaniel Vrana starts his shift at the UA’s Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory by opening a jar of shrimp that arrived in the mail the previous day.


    The physiology senior puts on blue gloves and grabs a razor. He lays out one shrimp on a piece of tinfoil, quickly cuts off its pleopod, or fin, and puts it in a tube.

  • UA Launches Community Garden

    Garden in the Desert, a UA student-led group, was launched two years ago to create and help build community gardens around campus. The team has since shaped the foundation for a new community garden, which is located near the Highland Garage.

    See the Arizona Public Media video at http://www.azpm.org/news/story/2011/11/30/60-university-of-arizona-launches-community-garden/

  • Breeder's Cup: University of Arizona Students Start Company to Improve Horse Racing Video

    On a typical weekday at 8 a.m., most college students are preparing for class, or so the parents funding their educations can only hope.
     
    David Matt, a senior at the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program, wasn’t even close to campus Monday morning, or even in Arizona. Rather, he was on the Churchill Downs backstretch, watching Havre de Grace breeze in the morning hours in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
     

  • UA Researchers, Clinicians Fight Childhood Obesity

    Obesity affects 17 percent of all children and adolescents in the United States, triple the rate from just one generation ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Scott Going, professor in nutritional sciences at the University of Arizona, works in childhood obesity prevention, and he says youth are experiencing an epidemic.

  • Myriad Factors Impact Effective Cotton Defoliation

    In just a few months, cotton pickers will bear down crop rows to reap the benefits of a good growing season so far amid the highest crop prices in years.

     Now is a good time to review defoliation techniques to ensure the plants are in good shape before harvest.

    “There is an art to defoliation that comes from understanding cotton physiology, years of experience, and monitoring crop field conditions and the weather,” said Pedro Andrade, University of Arizona assistant professor and specialist at the Maricopa Agricultural Center (MAC) in Maricopa, Ariz.

  • The War on Microbes

    The outbreak of a new foodborne bacterial strain wreaking havoc in Germany is a reminder of the fast-changing nature of microbes and the dangers they pose to society. UA researchers are developing innovative strategies to fight emerging germs threatening the food and health-care industry.

  • Poll Shows High School Students' Distrust of Financial Service Providers

    A new national opinion poll of nearly 900 high school students shows that more than two years after the country suffered the massive financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, the majority of respondents harbor a significant amount of distrust toward banks, credit unions, credit card companies, businesses and investment institutions. This sense of distrust is compounded by a lack of understanding about the basic services and products of financial institutions.

  • Wild Horses Saved, Slaughtered, Much-studied

    University of Arizona professor Ed de Steiguer didn't need to look far for inspiration during the six years he spent researching and writing his recent book, "Wild Horses of the West: History and Politics of America's Mustangs."


    For starters, there's a century-old photograph on the fireplace mantel in the Foothills home de Steiguer shares with his wife, Pamela.


    The image is of his father, Joe de Steiguer, who was about 3 or 4 and sitting on a mule in San Marcos, Texas.

  • Note to Dads: Good Parenting Makes a Difference

    Father's Day is a chance to recognize dads for putting up with all manners of nonsense that kids manage to cook up on the way to adulthood.


    But a new study by researchers at the University of Arizona shows just how important dad's job as a role model actually is.


    "When it comes to girls and their decisions about sex, it turns out a father's influence really does matter," said Bruce J. Ellis, the study's lead author and the John and Doris Norton Endowed Chair in Fathers, Parenting, and Families at the UA Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences.