Daily Wildcat — September 14, 2011

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New buildings could spur research By Brenna Goth DAILY WILDCAT

The UA may soon get the green light to start planning on two new buildings that will help the university reach its research goals. The Arizona Board of Regents’ Capital & Project Finance Committee recommended approval for engineering and bioscience research facilities at its meeting on Sept. 1. The UA will submit its 2013 to 2015 Capital Improvement Plan for the approval of the full board at its next

meeting later this month. If approved, the UA will be able to use 2 percent of the building budget to begin initial planning, according to Lorenzo Martinez, assistant vice president for finance and administration for the Arizona Board of Regents. Construction could start after July if the rest of the approval process goes smoothly, Martinez said. The buildings could boost research at the UA. The university is aiming to increase the number of doctoral

research degrees awarded as well as research expenditures and invention disclosures, according to the fiveyear strategic plan it submitted to the regents. “People are sort of cramped to the gills in the space they have,” said Leslie Tolbert, senior vice president for research. “We need more space. But we need better space.” The buildings will be similar to the current BIO5 Institute, with open labs that allow for collaboration between researchers as well as

student involvement, Tolbert said. Specific programs to use the bioscience research building have not yet been chosen, though the UA seeks to attract new faculty and expand research in general. “We could do more,” Tolbert said. Both buildings are set to be constructed north of Speedway Boulevard, according to Bob Smith, senior associate vice president for Business Affairs. The Engineering Research Building will be located east of Aerospace & Mechanical

Engineering Building while the Bioscience Research Building will be next to the Keating BIO5 Institute. Plans for the new engineering building include installing classroom space as well as research laboratories, according to Jeffrey Goldberg, dean of the College of Engineering. The college’s current facilities are often in states of disrepair, he said. “We’ve got some really old space,” Goldberg said. “It’s hard to do pre-

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JobLink: Use with caution By Eliza Molk DAILY WILDCAT

be at least 90 percent privately funded to be eligible for the prize. The lander is slated to reach the moon about three days after launch. The autonomous spacecraft’s algorithm will allow it to surpass the landing accuracy of past unmanned landers, said Furfaro, who is working on

While Wildcat JobLink can be a helpful tool for students looking for employment, it can also be a misleading one. Posted jobs are not always what they seem to be, say some students. Wildcat JobLink is a career management tool that offers UA students and alumni access to jobs, internships and other services like campus interviewing and resume referrals. Students can only access JobLink with a UA NetID and must have a UA email address. Victoria Tsze, a UA alumni who graduated in August 2011 with a degree in psychology, used JobLink to land an account executive position with D & G Concepts, a marketing consultant firm, after graduating. Tsze said the job description omitted that the position was door-to-door sales and 100 percent commission-based. “They (JobLink) fluffed it up to make it flowery and pretty,” she said. In addition to feeling cheated by the job description, Tsze also said she felt the company itself was not honest. She said during the interview, the company explained she would be talking to individuals interested in the selling product, and that she would receive marketing and account managing experience. Tsze said after a week of training that neither was the case. “I would have to tell people in the area that we (D & G Concepts) set up a new Internet line and that service will be a lot faster, even if that wasn’t true,” she added. Nearly every “legitimate” company can register to be posted on JobLink, according to Karen Bartos, a senior office specialist at Career Services. Bartos explained her department does not reach out to potential employers because they usually apply to be posted on JobLink, and she tries to post any jobs that could be good for students. “Applicants range from private residents looking for people to work in their gardens to people looking for CEOs to work in Europe or Asia,” she said. Bartos said once a company registers with JobLink, she looks at their website and if the company is local, she checks the Better Business Bureau. Her department does not post jobs asking for student photographs because that can lead to things like profiling. “We keep an eye out for the students so it’s a safe place to work,” she added. Other alumni like Sarah Sussman, a 2011 graduate with a degree in political science, said she found JobLink to be “very helpful” because it gave her the opportunity to interview with many different companies.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF JEANNINE STURM, SCHOOL OF MUSIC

The UA String Project is an outreach project by the School of Music used to help get children ages 3 to 12 interested in playing music. This week marks the beginning of practices for the project, which provides group and private lessons to children wanting to learn a string instrument.

UA project has world on a string By Sam Munsey DAILY WILDCAT

In a room full of young musicians, Darian Douglas teaches children how to properly hold a string instrument, which sometimes look bigger than the student. This is the one of the first classes that Douglas, a music education senior, is teaching this semester. This is the first week of practice for the UA String Project. The UA String Project is an outreach program started by the UA’s School of Music more than 12 years ago. It is designed to provide music education experience to undergraduate and graduate students by allowing them to teach young musicians in a classroom setting. “It has been the best way to get experience in a classroom before I student teach,” said Douglas, who has been a member of the project for the

last four years. The program is also used to help engage children’s interest in learning a string instrument by providing group and private lessons for the violin, viola, cello and double bass. The youngest member to participate in the program this year is 3 years old, and the project accepts applicants up to the age of 14. “It’s great to see the little kids come in so excited to go to violin class because they are doing something completely new,” said UA String Director Jeannine Sturm. “The older kids love it as well because they are learning challenging pieces that they may or may not get to learn in class or at school.” This year, the program has 66 students. More than 30 are less than 6 years old. “Our string project is geared a lot towards the very young,” said Don Hamann, the founder of the project

and a faculty member in the School of Music for the last 20 years. “It’s not so much being able to play the instrument, but more about training the student’s kinetic abilities to understand music and the mind as an art form.” Throughout the semester, students will learn rhythm, how to read music and how to hold an instrument. At the end of the term, the project holds a recital every Reading Day for the UA to showcase its students. This year the recital will take place on Dec. 8. The project allows an opportunity for UA teaching students to get involved as well. It is not just open to string-playing musicians, but also to others seeking experience in the classroom. Hillary Engel, a music education senior and percussionist, said she is interning for the UA String Project as a way to understand teaching a multitude of instruments.

“It’s something I have to know if I want to teach in the future,” Engel said. The program also allows students to find what age group they are comfortable teaching by providing them the opportunity to work with all ages. “I used to be scared about teaching younger children, but after this, I have come to realize they tend to just love you, said Terra Stockellburg, a music education senior. “I like teaching that age group.”

For more info UA Strings is accepting applications for fall semester enrollment until Sept. 25. To find information about tuition rates and instrument rentals, visit the program website at www.cfa.arizona.edu

Fly me to the moon: Team seeks $30M interstellar accuracy prize from Google By Amer Taleb DAILY WILDCAT

A UA graduate student and assistant professor have a big incentive to accurately land their robot on the moon — a portion of $30 million. Roberto Furfaro, an assistant professor of systems and industrial engineering and Daniel Wibben, a systems engineering graduate student, will

work with a privately funded lunar transportation company to attempt a pinpoint landing on the moon in 2014. The company, Moon Express, is helping the professor and student win the Google Lunar X Prize. After landing within 10 meters of its intended target, Moon Express’ robot will have to travel 500 meters on the moon’s surface and send

video, images and data back to Earth by the end of 2014 to win the $30 million purse. The 2008 Phoenix Mars lander’s landing target was 20 kilometers wide and 120 kilometers long. Twenty-six teams are competing for a portion of the prize, which is the largest international incentive prize of all time, according to the Google Lunar X Prize’s website. Teams must


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