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Scientists study dog cognition in new center
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BY MARISSA HEFFERNAN @_mheffernan
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 – Thursday, October 6, 2016 VOLUME 110 ISSUE 19
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ALISSA NEAL, A THIRDYEAR graduate student in the 3D extended media program, shows off her tattoos outside the Art building on Wednesday, Sept. 28. Her tattoos are a representation of what she has achieved and wants to achieve in her lifetime.
Researcher Evan MacLean is leading cutting-edge research at UA’s new Canine Cognition Center in the Emil W. Haury building. The Canine Cognition Center studies the behaviors and thought processes of dogs. MacLean is a biological anthropologist and comparative psychologist who previously ran Duke University’s Canine Cognition Center. “At first, I thought it was going to be a little foray,” MacLean said. “Now I’m at the UA starting their Canine Cognition Center.” MacLean will be looking at two central questions: What makes human psychology unique, and how and why does cognition evolve? “I’m motivated by questions that will take more than a lifetime to answer,” MacLean said. Funding comes from the UA as well as a number of public and private sources, from places like the National Institute of Health to pet food companies. MacLean runs tests on dogs similar to the tests behavioral psychologists give to children. He said that dogs function much like human children in their thought processes. The goal
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OSIRIS-REx team member retires BY HANNAH DAHL @DailyWildcat
While most people might consider themselves fortunate to see a single rocket launch in their lifetime, Ed Beshore has seen four, including one he helped build. From rocket launching to asteroid hunting, Beshore has had a vast impact on the space industry, from constructing automated
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telescopes for the Catalina Sky Survey to designing software for the OSIRIS-REx mission. Beshore, currently the deputy principal investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission, will retire on Oct. 4, his 62nd birthday. His history of space work within the UA began in 1973 when he graduated from high school and began studying astronomy at the university. After graduating with an undergraduate degree in astronomy, he left the field to become a software engineer. It wasn’t until the ‘90s that he
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reignited his passion for astronomy, constructing an observatory in his backyard in Colorado and automating his telescope so that it could search the sky without his physical presence. He was offered a position on the Catalina Sky Survey team in Tucson, doing the same type of work he had done with his telescope. Through his work on the sky survey, he became involved with the OSIRIS-REx mission.
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