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Research News - November 2018

UA Ranked in Top 25 for Research Funding

The UA’s strengths in areas like transportation research make it one of the top research universities in the country, according to a survey recently released by NSF.
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Rooftop Greenhouse Teaches, Nourishes and Empowers Students

The nation’s first student-run rooftop greenhouse with the capacity for year-round food production helps stock the UA Campus Pantry.
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Stopping Cancer With a Smartphone

Using an affordable, portable device that attaches to a smartphone, a University of Arizona researcher and his collaborators hope to save lives in rural Africa.
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Five Nanosecond Decision-Making: New Chip Design to Make Speedy Calculations for Researchers

Matching hardware with software can require a cluster of specialists. A University of Arizona professor is using an $820,000 DARPA grant to work with a team of researchers and industry partners on designing a new kind of chip that could do this work...