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University of New Mexico starts Chicano Studies online plan
Facing a growing Latino student population and pressure to increase its graduation rates, the University of New Mexico is launching an online degree program in Chicana and Chicano Studies beginning this fall just as ethnic studies programs are facing challenges in neighboring Arizona.
Risk to children’s online safety increases during summer
School books may be closed for the summer but laptops are open. As children spend more time on the Internet, police and parents are working harder to protect them from online predators.
Last nuclear power plant in California to close by 2025
The rooftop panels and churning turbines of booming solar and wind energy are helping make U.S. nuclear power plants, with all the safety fears and rising costs they bring, obsolete, some experts say. So much so that Californiaai??i??s largest utility and environmental groups struck a deal on June 21 to shutter the last facility in the state.
Forum focuses on energy policies in Democratic platform
A forum in Phoenix aimed at gathering grass-roots voices to help shape the Democratic Party platform drew calls on June 17 for a tax on carbon emissions to curb climate change and for an end to the practice of fracking in natural gas production.
State spent millions on failed biospecimen program it hopes to revive
Everything changed for Brent Gendleman in 2003. That’s when the businessman uprooted his life in Washington, D.C., to make the trek west to Arizona and run 5am Solutions, a software company that focuses on medical and research applications.
Growing Arizona bioscience industry faces funding challenges
Arizona’s bioscience industry continues to grow, but a small venture capital stream and declining research funding pose challenges, according to a report by the Flinn Foundation, a Phoenix-based organization that supports research and business activity in the sector.
Arizona cities work to stay ahead of emerging technology
Every month seemingly brings a slick new gadget to consumers’ hands, but those technological advancements aren’t always felt in the public sector, where some local governments have only just begun to push through upgrades to sometimes decades-old systems.
Phoenix surgeon uses 3D-printing technology to reconstruct patient’s face
A Valley doctor used a high-definition CT scan to develop a 3-D printed implant to reconstruct the face of a teenager who's face was decimated in an accident.
Health care organizations respond to stressful wait times
When you arrive at the doctor’s office, chances are that you’re about to wait. And wait. And wait some more.
ASU professor tests preventive cancer vaccine
For more than 10 years, professor Stephen Johnston and a team of researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have been developing a cancer vaccine aimed at preventing all types of cancer.
Children in lower-income areas more susceptible to asthma
Children in the state’s lower-income urban communities suffer more serious bouts of asthma caused by dirty air and other pollutants – despite decades of state and local monitoring and repeated concerns that air in their neighborhoods is dangerous to their health.
3 reasons downtown Phoenix could (maybe) survive without D-Backs
Eighteen years ago the Major League Baseball team moves into new stadium digs, known as cutting edge for its retractable roof and acknowledged as an economic magnet for the businesses built on blocks surrounding the facility in downtown Phoenix.
