There's still time to find the perfect pad

If panic grips the pit of your stomach every time you drive past an apartment complex and realize you haven't secured your housing for next year, don't worry ÷ you are not alone and it's not too late. With only 5,500 spaces for on-campus residents, the University of Arizona is home to almost 30,000 commuter students, or students who live off-campus. Many have had to face the task of finding off-campus housing that's right for them. [Read article]

Mark Zupan has long fought the brain drain at the UA and tried to save the Eller College of Business and Public Administration from losing its ranking as one of the top 25 business colleges in the country by finding ways to retain faculty.

But soon Zupan, dean of the business college, will be leaving, too.

In an e-mail addressed to faculty and staff Monday, Zupan announced that he will be leaving the UA Jan. 1 to accept a position as the dean of the University of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration. [Read article]

Delays in plans for an addition to the Chemistry building played a key role in prompting four prominent UA scientists to depart for the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Construction on the 88,500 square-foot, $45 million addition is expected to start in February, but Jean-Luc Bred‡s and his three colleagues, chemistry professors Seth Marder and Joseph Perry, and optical sciences associate professor Bernard Kippelen, had been expecting the project for years. [Read article]

Undergrads hope for a smooth ride in ÎTurbulence'

Breathing hard, a UA student jumps into his new car and excitedly pulls the brake. As he rolls smoothly onto the pavement for the very first time he smiles for the cameras at the side of the road.

Local Tucson television stations and newspapers were on hand Monday morning as the University of Arizona Solar Car Team unveiled Turbulence, the solar powered car the team plans to race in July at the American Solar Car Challenge. [Read article]

(U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. ÷ To relieve financial burdens on college students, the U.S. Department of Education recently reduced interest rates on some student loans.

Interest loans taken out since 1998 dropped from 4.06 percent to 3.42 percent, according to a Department of Education press release. The reduction will bring the student loan interest rate to an all-time low. The rate for students still in college will be even lower at 2.82 percent. [Read article]

(U-WIRE) PULLMAN, Wash. ÷ More than $827 million was collected from universities in 2001 all over the nation for patents, signed licenses and start up companies.

One hundred and forty-three universities from the United States were researched in this study. A total of 9,454 patents, 3,300 licenses and more than 402 start-up companies were accumulated for the university in 2001.

Washington State University did not rank in the top ten, but there have been many patents that have been signed with the college. [Read article]

Doctoral student learns to teach, knows all about physics

WILDCAT: So what got you stuck here in the summer?

MCCLUNG: Uh, I'm teaching 102.

WILDCAT: How do you like that? You know, now the roles have been reversed and now you get to look down on all those people.

MCCLUNG: Um, I don't think I'm looking down on people. I just enjoy being able to help people out. [Read article]

Children of dead military personnel to get free tuition

The Arizona Board of Regents will likely approve a plan tomorrow to give a full university tuition wavier to children of Arizona residents killed in action during U.S. military conflicts.

The plan won praise from regents at their meeting in April, and is unlikely to face any challenges at tomorrow's meeting. Three Arizona residents with children were killed during the conflict in Iraq, and their families would be eligible for the tuition benefit when the children reach the universities. [Read article]

7 rapes, including those of three young girls, have been connected to one attacker in Miami, Police Chief John Timoney said, according to CNN.

6 slayings tied to one Jacksonville, Fla., cab driver. Paul Durousseau was tied to five killings in Jacksonville that happened between December and February, and another 1997 killing in Georgia, according to the Associated Press.

2 men were accused of killing and grilling a 20-pound dog in Arkansas. The remains of the chow-chow, its paws, were found in a backyard grill, according to Reuters. [Read article]

(U-WIRE) IOWA CITY, Iowa - Thirty-one employees at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics have been vaccinated against monkeypox following recommendations by the Iowa Department of Public Health, an action coming in the wake of health officials reporting 15 confirmed cases and 82 possible cases of the disease in eight states.

The UI Health Care Smallpox Response Team is a portion of the more than 500 health-care workers statewide who have been vaccinated with the smallpox virus ÷ the most proven treatment for monkeypox ÷ as part of the first phase in the bioterrorism national-response plan. [Read article]