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Inside the Southeastern Arizona Communications Center in Sierra Vista. The center helps dispatch first responders with multiple agencies in Cochise County.

Technology helping curb border crime in Cochise County

Aug 16, 2019 Arizona 360 tours the county's new communications center for first responders.
Roche senior manager Heidi Barnett, left, and Empire High School chemistry teacher Hillary Stacey at Roche/Ventana's Oro Valley lab.

Tucson educators bringing experience in STEM industry to classrooms

Aug 16, 2019 The UA-generated fellowship placed teachers in Arizona technology and medical companies for the summer.
Signs to the Sunset Point rest area on Interstate 17, north of Phoenix, 2014.

Landslide database to shape Arizona I-17 expansion project

Aug 16, 2019 Officials say the database will help officials evaluate the risk in expanding the highway, which navigates through a mountainous region up to Flagstaff.
UA graduate student in geosciences Becki Beadling on a research vessel in teh Southern Ocean, deploying robotic floats that gather information for the SOCCOM project.

Ocean & Space

Aug 14, 2019 Learn about UA scientists in the Southern Ocean measuring climate change; and celebrating the past and future of space exploration at Spacefest X.
A 2017 lidar "point cloud" image of the Washington Mall in Washington, D.C. Advances in remote sensing technologies are changing the types and quantity of data available to researchers.

Understanding data more and more important for college students, professor says

Aug 13, 2019 Hoshin Gupta suggests there are some basic ways of seeing the world through data that all college students should understand.
This screen grab from a NASA video released Aug. 12, 2019 shows four potential locations on Bennu for the OSIRIS-REx probe to collect soil samples.

OSIRIS-REx team IDs targets among boulders of asteroid's rough terrain

Aug 13, 2019 Asteroid Bennu's tricky surface has pushed the mission to take a new approach to sample collection.
UA professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering Larry Head sits for an interview with Arizona 360 host Lorraine Rivera at Arizona Public Media on July 11, 2019.

As industries turn to automation, cyber vulnerabilities arise

Aug 12, 2019 UA professor Larry Head says attacks on systems are inevitable.
John Heun operates a mobile platform in an alfalfa field at the Maricopa Agricultural Center on July 26, 2019. The mobile platform is equipped with technology used for research in precision agriculture conducted by the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

UA research farm using automation to innovate industry

Aug 12, 2019 The Maricopa Agricultural Center is a testing ground for precision agriculture.
A backup driver sits behind the wheel of a Waymo self-driving taxi as the vehicle makes a right turn on its own in Chandler, Arizona.

Waymo on its plans to grow in the Phoenix metro area

Aug 12, 2019 The company offers Lorraine Rivera a ride in one of its self-driving taxis.
A TuSimple test driver waves from inside a self-driving semi as it leaves the company's warehouse in Tucson.

Inside TuSimple's Tucson warehouse

Aug 12, 2019 The company is testing self-driving semis on I-19 and I-10.
Arizona 360 host Lorraine Rivera interviews UA Eller College of Management economist George Hammond in his office on August 6, 2019.

Study examines long-term impacts of automation in Arizona

Aug 12, 2019 UA Eller College of Management economist George Hammond explains some of the findings.
The Northern Arizona University campus in Flagstaff, Arizona.

NAU to implement 'virtual parking' with cameras that read plates

Aug 9, 2019 License plates will be treated as permits and scanned by cameras mounted to university vehicles, officials said.
Summer students learning self-driving car technology at UA.

UA summer program offers experience with self-driving tech

Aug 6, 2019 Students from all over the country test their skills using an autonomous car on campus.
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Looking for links between eating and emotion

Aug 5, 2019 UA researchers investigate brain cells that regulate eating behavior.
Matt Hashim discusses how people can protect themselves from cyber crimes with Arizona 360 host Lorraine Rivera at Arizona Public Media on August 1, 2019. Hashim is an expert in digital privacy at the UA Eller College of Management.

Changing our online behaviors to guard against cybercrime

Aug 2, 2019 Security and privacy expert Matt Hashim discusses steps to be more vigilant.
The Green and Colorado Rivers meet at Canyonlands National Park in Utah.

As Southwest water managers grapple with climate change, can a 'Grand Bargain' work?

Jul 29, 2019 The approach aims to rebalance some of the bad math that came from promising water to too many people.

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