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BioPark aims for stronger industry RACHEL McCLUSKEY Arizona Daily Wildcat
graduating. The candidates differed in their views about how to create jobs. McSally said taxes and mandates on business owners were not the solution to fixing the economy. Business owners will not be able to hire more people if their taxes are
Following its official dedication last week, the UA BioPark aims to solidify the bioscience industry in Southern Arizona and increase jobs in the region. The purpose of the new BioPark is to create a second research park closer to the main campus. Plans for the park include laboratories and offices to house biotech companies, a technology high school, a hotel, a conference center, and student and faculty housing. President of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council Ron Shoopman explained that the Flinn Foundation in Phoenix created the program to grow the bioscience industry in Arizona. The foundation created roadmaps that outlined the necessary steps to build the industry, create jobs for the region and improve Arizonans’ quality of life. “Having facilities available and ready to be turned into new projects in a reasonably short amount of time is an enormous advantage for southern Arizona,” he said. According to a study by the U.S. Department of Commerce, 60 percent of the jobs that bioscience parks offer are to people with a bachelor’s degree. The BioPark’s conception began with securing land for the project. Since the UA campus is landlocked, outside land
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JORDIN O’CONNOR/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT REP. RON BARBER AND REPUBLICAN contender Martha McSally debate Tuesday night during a forum hosted by Arizona Public Media in the Student Union Memorial Center’s Grand Ballroom.
Campus contention Arizona Public Media, student leaders host forum for Congressional District 2 candidates to debate issues including education, economy and health care in SUMC’s Grand Ballroom on Tuesday STEPHANIE CASANOVA Arizona Daily Wildcat
Arizona’s economy, education and health care were among the issues that Rep. Ron Barber and GOP challenger Martha McSally discussed at the Congressional District 2 forum on Tuesday night
in the Student Union Memorial Center’s Grand Ballroom. Few students attended the forum, though many seats were filled with members from the Tucson community. “It would have been nice to see more students out here since they came to our campus,” said Sam
Burns, a business management senior. “It’s pretty hard to avoid it and there was very few students here.” The issues of education and the economy in Arizona went hand-inhand during the forum, with both candidates emphasizing the need for students to be able to afford higher education as well as to find jobs after
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UA scientists are using extremely fast pulse lasers to study the movement of electrons, atoms and molecules. The experiments will help scientists to further their fundamental understanding of atomic motions, said Arvinder Sandhu, the assistant professor of physics leading the project. He also said that their findings may eventually have applications in nanotechnology fields, because of the fine control over atoms and molecules demonstrated by the experiments. The technique they use is called ultra-fast science, Sandhu said, and involves using short pulses of light to take pictures of electrons in helium atoms, or the movement of oxygen molecules. The pulses of light are measured in attoseconds, a unit so small that the difference between an attosecond and a second is comparable to the difference between a second and the age of the universe, Sandhu said. He added that the principle is analogous to fast-motion photography. “If you wanted to see a fastmoving object with your camera, you would need one of two things,” he said. “Either you need a very fast, mechanical shutter that opens and closes very fast so the object doesn’t
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BRIANA SANCHEZ/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT FOURTH-YEAR PHYSICS GRADUATE Henry Timmers (left), along with Niranjan Shivaram (right), a sixth-year physics graduate student, work with Dr. Arvinder Sandhu on the femtosecond amplifier, which allows scientists to freeze and photograph electrons in helium atoms.
get blurred, or you need a strobe of light which shines on the object only for a very brief duration, during which you expose your film … and after that, it’s dark again so you don’t get blurring.”
Since it is physically impossible to create a shutter for a camera that moves at attosecond speeds, the only option is to illuminate the object with short bursts of light using lasers.
Lasers that pulse at attoseconds were not available, said Sandhu, so the UA had to build its own. It is possible to buy femtosecond-speed
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