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The Daily Wildcat UITS officials are advising the UA community to be cautious when using the UA Public wireless connection. The UA offers two options for wireless connection: UA Wi-Fi and UA public. Christian Schreiber, university information security officer of University Information Technology Services, said UA Wi-Fi is an encrypted wireless signal, meaning the data is unreadable without a key to translate it. Michele Norin , chief information officer of UITS, said it is the most secure connection available and is recommended by UITS. “As long as you use that secure portion with your ID and your password, we’re pretty confident of its security,” Norin said. UA Public is an unencrypted signal provided to the general community. It is not secure because no key is required to see the data. If it must be used, according to Schreiber, UITS advises users not to enter personal information or passwords because they are easily discovered by criminals lurking online. Schreiber said unencrypted connections make it easy for
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JOHN SCHULTZ, a geoscience senior and intern at GeoDecor, a geoscience-based interior decorating business, works on fossils and dinosaur bones in the lab on site.
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The Daily Wildcat A Tucson-based interior decorating business gives UA students the opportunity to work with dinosaur bones and other rare fossils. GeoDecor is a business focused on restoring rare bones and fossils for interior decorating and collectors. Last semester, GeoDecor approached the UA Department of Geosciences about a potential internship for students. Restoring fossilized animals,
including dinosaur skeletons, was on the list of duties. Nancy Schmidt, a paleontology professor and adjunct instructor for geosciences, said the internship is a rare and unique opportunity for undergraduate students. Interning for a business that can provide the volume and breadth of vertebrate fossils is what makes this a tremendous opportunity, according to Schmidt. “Primarily, the internships are designed to give the students some professional experience in a business environment related to geosciences,” Schmidt said. “The
dinosaurs are just a big plus.” The internship is one semester long and has been offered to seven UA students thus far. Roughly 40 to 45 hours working in the GeoDecor lab is equivalent to one credit hour, and students usually take one to two credit hours, according to Schmidt. The responsibilities vary from building frames to conditioning and restoring fossilized animals. “They are learning both the soft and the hard skills,” Schmidt said. “The hard skills are how you actually do the work to prepare the
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A UA employee spent part of her summer researching water in the Arctic Ocean. Betsy Wilkening, program coordinator for the UA’s Arizona Project Water Education for Teachers, traveled to the Arctic as a member of the Grosvenor Teacher Fellow Program. Wilkening and Grosvenor Fellows visited Greenland and Nunavut, Canada from Aug. 9 to 26. The program is part of National Geographic Education and is designed to award teachers the opportunity to experience scientific phenomena firsthand, with the intention of bringing them back to their hometowns with new knowledge they can share. “The objective is to have gone out into the Arctic so they can come back and share what’s going on in the region, like the climate change, and
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