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Faculty News - November 2018

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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...
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Dominic Boccelli Joins UA as New Head of Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics

Former department head Kevin Lansey welcomes civil engineering colleague.