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‘YouTube of the universe’
By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT To the naked eye, the night sky is just a series of stationary dots. But to the iPhone, it is anything but. A new application called “Transient Events,”developed by the UA’s Catalina Sky Survey, in collaboration with the
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, will provide a real-time data stream on dynamic celestial objects directly to an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Known as transient objects, they vary in terms of brightness or position relative to the night sky and can be anything from asteroids to comets to supernovae.
“The sky is not as static as people might think,” said Suzanne Jacoby, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope public outreach and education manager. “It’s moving, changing, even exploding on a nightly basis.” The application was developed in part as a large-scale beta test for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope after
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a similar project was conducted by the Catalina Sky Survey with the California Institute of Technology during a search for near-earth objects. “The researchers at Caltech sifted through the data looking for stationary transient objects,” said Edward SPACE APP, page 5
Project Greenway struts its stuff
By Matt Lewis ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Meg Peterson, a business management and marketing junior, poses on the catwalk during an environmentally friendly fashion show put on by Students for Sustainability on the UA Mall on Monday. The fashion show educated the public about sustainability issues.
By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT More than 20 eco-chic models worked the catwalk during Project Greenway on Monday. The event was hosted on the UA Mall and included a 30-minute fashion show as well as tents in which
featured vendors sold various, environmentally-friendly products. Students for Sustainability, a leadership program through ASUA, planned the event. The group works to implement environmentally friendly practices on campus and found that clothing is an important choice for college students.
“Clothing is a big thing for our generation,” said David Schmulenson, a communication sophomore who helped organize the event. The fashion show included four vendors who were chosen for their sustainable or fair trade practices. Many of the models sported
recycled, brand-name clothing from resale boutiques Buffalo Exchange and Plato’s Closet. Other outfits utilized organic fabrics or were created by artisans from around the world who are paid a living wage.
Foam fingers that say “UA is #1” in the geosciences department are not in reference to athletics, but academics. The U.S. World & News Report recently ranked the UA’s graduate geology program No. 1 in the nation . The program shares first place with the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. “I’m absolutely thrilled. We have a great department, and it’s nice to be recognized as the number one department in the country,” said Susan Beck, a UA professor of geosciences . The university has 13 departments and colleges that rank in the top 10, according to the U.S. World & News Report rankings . The UA School of Earth and Environmental Sciences also ranked top in funding, with $11.6 million in grants from the National Sciences Foundation. Karl Flessa, the geosciences department head , said this has in part contributed to the success of the program. “We’re planning on having a celebration. I’m sure we’ll pop some corks off either champagne bottles or beer bottles,” Flessa said. Sarah Truebe, a second-year geosciences doctoral candidate , first informed Flessa of the department’s ranking. Truebe e-mailed Flessa after seeing a post on Facebook by a friend saying the UA was ranked number one. “I chose to come to the University of Arizona because I saw number of strengths in the earth sciences in general and specifically the geosciences department,” Truebe said. “It’s always nice to get the external validation on the awesomeness of our program.” Becoming the best didn’t just happen overnight. “I think the ranking reflects the effort of a lot of people over a really GEOLOGY, page 5
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UA’s Law Society celebrates Earth Week By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The first day of the UA Environmental Law Society’s Earth Week kicked off with a discussion about advocacy on Monday. “We wanted to do something for Earth Day and discovered it is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day,” said Alex Smith, president of the Environmental Law Society. Smith said upon finding out about the anniversary, the club decided to do something for the whole week. According to Smith, Earth Week looks to explore cutting-edge environmental topics. “I hope that people can get exposed to the core issues that are driving toward environmentalism right now,” Smith said. Sandy Bahr, director of the Sierra Club’s Gordon Bates/Arizona Daily Wildcat Grand Canyon chapter, gave the first Sandy Bahr, a member of the Sierra Club, spoke on Monday about presentation. environmental and political issues in the College of Law as part of the Bahr shared her experiences working for events during Earth Week leading up to Earth Day on Thursday.
the Sierra Club and examples of how she has worked to advocate for environmental issues specific to Arizona. She also talked about the state legislature and the challenges she faced when trying to advocate for the environment. “Now we’ve got this legislature that is trying to make it (so) that some of the best programs we have have no teeth,” Bahr said. Bahr stressed the value of having people engaged in the legislative process. “People make a difference in that process. You would be surprised; one person showing up from someone’s district … can totally turn the tide on things,” she said. First-year law student Andrew Spencer said he thought the presentation was enlightening and enjoyed the focus on Arizona. Spencer said he is looking forward to the other Earth Week presentations. “It’s always interesting to get people from the community,” Spencer said.
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