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David Lynch, professor of mining engineering and material science and engineering, shows a photograph on Thursday of a mine in Tacoma, Wash., from 1941. Lynch’s office is covered in photos of old inventions. Lynch received a patent related to the creation of silicon last year. Licensing and options contracts, a precursor to inventions becoming products, generated $1.26 million in revenue in 2009 for the university.

By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA reached a record number of agreements helping to bring university-developed technology into the marketplace in 2010. The UA Office of Technology Transfer signed 64 licensing and option agreements last year, which was a 49 percent increase from 2009, according to a report presented to the Arizona

Board of Regents. The report also showed increases in invention disclosures and patent applications within the university compared to the past several years. Filing inventions through the Office of Technology Transfer starts the process of translating research into its practical application, according to Patrick Jones, director of the Office of Technology Transfer. Once an invention is licensed, it can eventually be sold in the market-

place as, or as part of, a product or service. Research at the UA has not been affected by the economic recession as heavily as other areas within the university, Jones said. Industry funding, as well as funding from the federal government, during the past several years has helped fuel the innovation increase. “We were very successful in competing for stimulus funding targeted at supporting LICENSING, page 5

Residence halls get eco check-ups By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA House Energy Doctor program is giving three Residence Life buildings a sustainability checkup. The program consists of graduate and upper-division undergraduate architecture students who test buildings in order to prescribe how they can save energy and cut costs. The doctors audited Maricopa Residence Hall, La Aldea graduate housing complex and Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall on March 30. Assessing the buildings took three and a half hours. This was the first time the program had done simultaneous audits and the first time the program has audited buildings on the UA campus. The doctors spent a lot of time studying the three building in detail before the audit. “Its one thing to look at it on paper or on the computer and it’s a completely different animal to go out and test them,” said A.J. Mach, house energy doctor. The doctors will give their recommendations to Residence Life on May 12, showing possible solutions and a

breakdown of how much money various strategies would save. For La Aldea, exterior lights are left on all night long causing energy to be wasted, Mach said. Another possible recommendation will be to use lighter paint colors because the darker paint colors in La Aldea absorb more heat. House Energy Doctor Justin Hernandez worked on Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall. “Residents on the south side are usually really hot during the summer and then ones one north side are really cold during the winter,” Hernandez said. “It’s just an issue with the mechanical system … there are individual controls that each resident has but the whole building as a whole … they can’t regulate one building from another because its all connected.” Lighting is also left on in several areas, he said. The mechanical system in La Aldea is not high efficiency, which causes the building to use more energy, according to Alan Roberts, house energy doctor. “If they upgrade that equipment they SUSTAINABILITY, page 8

UA officials hope to create space for 1,200 students downtown by 2013. President Robert Shelton and Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup spoke at the UA Visitor Center on Friday to present two potential development teams’ ideas for more student housing. The aim is to reduce mini-dorm demand and create other housing options around the line of the new modern streetcar. This would increase the potential of the streetcar to connect campus and for classes to be held downtown starting next year as well as the National Institute for

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Civil Discourse, according to those involved with the project. “A part of every great city is a great university,” Walkup said. “We knew this was the right thing because (downtown) was the heart of our city.” Walkup said this would help people realize the impact of the modern streetcar on the city and the university. Capstone Development Corp. with local developer Jim Campbell and Peach Properties submitted the two selected proposals, and according to Shelton this is a true partnership between the public and private sectors. Both teams submitted proposals in

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Justin Parish, a graduate student in architecture design energy conservation, checks the readings while completing a blower test in La Aldea graduate housing complex on March 30. The blower test is used to determine how well sealed a building is.

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Two Arizona abortion bills will place restrictions on state funding for abortion programs and further limit access to abortion procedures. House bills 2416 and 2384 passed through the Legislature and were signed by Gov. Jan Brewer. H.B. 2416, which was signed on April 2, prohibits the use of telemedicine, or electronically exchanged medical information for patient health, in an abortion. The bill also requires that women seeking an abortion be given the option to see their ultrasound before the procedure, said Republican Sen. Nancy Barto, from District 7. “The more information a woman has before she makes that choice, the better for her,” Barto said. “Because there’s nothing worse than having knowledge after the fact and believing that you may have made a different choice.” Many women change their minds after realizing that what is inside of them is alive and has a heartbeat, she said. Years later, they end up regretting their decision and suffer emotionally and psychologically as a result. Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, from District 15, opposes the bill. She said that, because of the coercive setting, most women will not refuse to see the ultrasound if their doctor makes it available to them. “That’s probably unconstitutional because other courts in the country have noted that it’s an undue burden on the woman,” she said. Sinema said it is even more detrimental that H.B. 2416 prohibits the use of telemedicine because the practice helps women access the abortion pill with consultation from a doctor. Women can take a series of two pills, to be taken within the first nine weeks during pregnancy, in order to induce a woman’s period, she said. A doctor must prescribe it, but not all parts of the state have doctors that perform abortions, Sinema said. Telemedicine allows women to go to a nurse practitioner to get a screening and have a TV conference with the doctor. They could also get their pills prescribed this way, she said. If a pregnant woman knows she wants to have an abortion, she can no longer use the television conference system, Sinema said. This also makes it harder for women who are poor or live in rural communities. “It’s basically another attempt to just stop women from getting access to lawful abortion,” she said. Barto said they are trying to help women avoid the consequences of regretting abortion decisions and thinks having the option to see the ultrasound will save lives. “At the end of the day, that’s important to me, but I think it’s important to a lot of Americans,” she said. H.B. 2384, which was signed on April 12, explains that abortions will not be subsidized using tax dollars, Barto said. The bill also denies funding for any organization that provides referrals to women seeking an abortion procedure, Sinema said.

response to the university’s call for publicprivate student housing partnerships issued last year. Shelton said he “cannot use enough superlatives” to describe it. Both proposals would try to locate the dorms near proposed stops on the streetcar line and work in to the amenities of downtown, as well as a new city parking garage to allow for easier transit to and from campus. More details will become available as they emerge. — Kristina Bui contributed to the reporting of this story.

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ASUA announces new candidates ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Daniel Hernandez and James Allen have both thrown their hats in the ring for another run at the ASUA presidency after being disqualified from the general election last month. But they will not be alone. The Associated Students of the University of Arizona has officially recognized three candidates to join Allen and Hernandez in the special presidential election: Jesse Gunsch, Myles Tacher and former Senate candidate Robert Rosinski. The special election to determine the next ASUA president will be held Thursday.

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