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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013
VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 139
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UA’s Tech Launch maps out future MAXWELL J. MANGOLD Arizona Daily Wildcat
The release of a strategic plan this month marked the start of a new era for a UA unit aimed at sharing faculty technological innovations. Tech Launch Arizona’s strategic plan, “Roadmap,” is a guide for the unit’s current and future plans to help share UA faculty’s technological innovations with those outside the university. Its goal is to advance university “discoveries into intellectual property, inventions and technology,” according to the Office of Technology Transfer website. “What we created is a framework for the changes that
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are occurring and will occur,” said David Allen, executive director and vice president of Tech Launch. “It provides an overview for people to understand that the operation is going to be different and how it’s going to be different … It shows that this new team that has been created has the knowledge, experience and the resources to carry on the plan.” Tech Launch, which is a presidential cabinet-level unit that reports directly to UA President Ann Weaver Hart, oversees the offices of Technology Transfer, Corporate and Business Relations and University Research Parks. Having the three under the same umbrella is a “big step forward,” said Bruce Wright, associate vice president
for University Research Parks, which used to work independently from the other two offices. The Roadmap outlines the unit’s work toward technology commercialization, industry-sponsored research and integrating the UA and university technology parks, in the hope of moving inventions from UA researchers to outside markets. “It’s not critical that we distinguish ourselves from others,” Allen said. “We want to be distinguished in what we do.” The Arizona Board of Regents has set four measurements for goals related to technology commercialization by 2020,
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Day of Silence highlights bullying
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UA ALUMNUS JERRY SCHUSTER, 58, runs around the UA Mall on Tuesday night to raise money for the Arizona Resource Connection, a student-run organization that provides services to resettled political refugees. Jerry’s Ultramarathon, organized by Eller College of Management students, began Tuesday and will end today at 9 a.m., at which point Schuster will have run for 48 hours total.
An annual LGBT event will end a little more loudly this year, as students plan to break their Day of Silence with a flash mob. The Day of Silence is a national awareness campaign aimed at highlighting the discrimination, bullying and harassment that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning students face, according to Katie Kilby, a public health junior and intern for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Pride Alliance. Students will take a vow of silence today as a testament to the issues that affect the LGBTQ community. “I think that silence and discrimination, it hurts all of us, but I don’t think we always connect with how it hurts us,” said Jennifer HoefleOlson, program director for LGBTQ Affairs through the Dean of Students Office. “The Day of Silence campaign is an opportunity to really help all of us reflect on the voices we’re not hearing.” Though the Day of Silence will not be nationally recognized until Friday, Hoefle-Olson said, they decided to host the event today, as there will be more students on campus. The event, a collaboration between Pride Alliance, LGBTQ Affairs, ASUA and the UA, is also meant to increase student involvement. Over the past two weeks, Pride Alliance has hosted a booth on the UA Mall to provide students with a free T-shirt to tie-dye in preparation for the event. The idea is to create visibility
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Early childhood care pays off later, statewide study finds MAXWELL J. MANGOLD Arizona Daily Wildcat
A study conducted by statewide university researchers is shedding light on the benefits of early childhood care and education, and Arizona parents’ motives for using such programs. First Things First commissioned and funded the Arizona Child Care Demand Study, which was conducted by a team of researchers from the UA, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, including Douglas Taren, lead researcher of the study, the UA associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of public health. The study demonstrated “how urgent the need is for better early care and education options for Arizona’s families.” Since its publication, the report of the study’s findings has been
disseminated to the statewide FTF board, regional partnership councils and early childhood stakeholders, said Liz Barker Alvarez, communications director for FTF. Early child care services will then use the information to better service parents seeking early childhood care for their children, Barker Alvarez said. Incorporating more than 1,300 interviews from Arizona parents with children not yet in kindergarten and younger than 6 years old, the data generated both statewide and regional reports that found that parents use a “patchwork” of arrangements to raise children. This “patchwork” makes use of a network of several resources for upbringing, such as childcare centers, early TYLER BESH/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT education, family members and friends. TUCSON RESIDENT Kristy Kohler and her husband Alan Kohler play with “Most families appear to do what’s called a network … ‘One 18-month-old son Henry in Main Gate Square. A statewide study is shedding day he goes to Aunt Edis. The next day I stay with him until
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light on the benefits of early childhood care and education.