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It's Time to Celebrate
On May 11-12, our community celebrates the Class of 2012 during Spring Commencement. University of Arizona President Eugene G. Sander will preside over the ceremonies at McKale Center, conferring thousands of undergraduate and graduate degrees. Drs. Peter Rhee and Brian Schmidt, a UA alumnus and a winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, will deliver the keynote address.
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The Will to Rise
Whether she’s acting on stage or soaring over the high jump bar, junior theatre major Brigetta Barrett pushes herself to rise to the occasion. “The thing that’s different about me is that I’m not afraid to fall,” she says. Letting go of fear and learning from mistakes will take Barrett to the 2012 Olympic Trials and hopefully to compete for gold in London this summer.
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Big Science at Biosphere 2
Matt Adamson lives within Biosphere 1 – our Earth – just like all of us. But he also has the privilege and the responsibility of serving as the associate director of K-12 education at Biosphere 2, one of Time-Life Books' Top 50 Wonders of the World. Join Matt on a brief tour of a place where University of Arizona researchers do some very, very big science.
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Poetry Off the Page
The University of Arizona Poetry Center holds its third biennial symposium, Poetry Off the Page, May 18-20, 2012. During the weekend, the Center will host various performances, classes, panels and exhibits, one of which will showcase the “precarious” work of Chilean poet, visual artist and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña.
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And the Race is On
Binoculars are so last century. But that’s how you watch a horse race, scanning the rail as thoroughbreds thunder around the track. Imagine instead a jockey’s eye view of the race – brought to you by UA students who developed the “jockey cam,” a smart helmet that streams real-time video. Their invention is changing the horseracing experience, and has potential for other sports, even the military.
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