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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
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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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 Established in 1979, ARL continues to be guided and inspired by the following: mission, context, and objectives.
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- To provide the necessary mechanisms to enable world-class researchers, postdoctoral fellows, scientists, and students (undergraduate and graduate) to construct new research projects, arrange productive collaborations, and open new educational opportunities of an interdisciplinary quality among colleges which otherwise would not be possible, thereby cultivating intellectual and scientific development and scholarly endeavors.
- To actively explore for and acquire necessary extramural funding to support the interdisciplinary programs and research activities.
- To promote the excellence of ARL instructional programs, scholarly research activities, and faculty service at the State and National levels.
- To offer educational opportunities through formal courses, workshops, training and outreach programs.
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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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ARL supports and promotes interdisciplinary collaborations that initiate new research and educational programs of high priority to the scientific community. This cross-fertilization between disciplines has created new projects, collaborations, and educational opportunities (e.g., establishment of the Biomedical Engineering Program, Center for Insect Science, Divisions of Neurobiology and of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, and Institute for the Study of Planet Earth). The very success of these programs and other programs in ARL is a direct result of providing opportunities for research active faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students (undergraduate and graduate) to develop intellectual and scientific growth. |
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