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iPlant Gets ARL Help
ARL's Nirav Merchant is contributing to the iPlant Collaborative's $50M project startup as iPlant's interim director of cyberinfrastructure development. The project will develop a centralized
databas... Read More ...
Barton Elected SPIE Fellow
ARL - Biomedical Engineering Director Jennifer Barton Elected SPIE Fellow Dr. Jennifer Barton will be honored as a SPIE fellow. Dr. Barton is the director of ARL's Biomedical Engineering div... Read More ...
ARL's New Core Facility
ARL and Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering have merged resources and services to form the University Spectroscopy and Imaging Facilities (USIF). The new service core expands UA's mic... Read More ...
Overpeck Receives Nobel
Jonathan Overpeck, Director of Arizona Research Labs'
Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, is part of a group of scientists awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Overpeck is one of 33 lead auth... Read More ...
Hildebrand Honored
Two longtime University of Arizona professors have been elected fellows of
prestigious national organizations.
Astronomer Marcia J. Rieke is one of 227 newly elected fellows of the
American Aca... Read More ...
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The enormous expansion of interdisciplinary programs reflects the growing awareness that the most urgent and significant problems faced by our society and the most exciting research at the frontiers of science cannot be successfully addressed from the perspectives of a single traditional discipline. Critical scientific engineering and societal problems are necessarily complex, and a mixture of disciplines is needed for their study. The establishment of effective interdisciplinary programs is mandated if a university wishes to respond to society's needs. Such programs will contribute to participating academic units by attracting outstanding students and faculty and by providing exciting opportunities for graduate students in new areas of knowledge and new realms of research.
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