The department of surgery is looking for new ways to cut into innovative medical technologies.
Along with the Arizona Surgery Club, the department hosted the Surgery Simulation Expo Friday to showcase various medical simulation machines.
The machines are mannequins that look and feel like real humans, complete with movement and internal organs. They can be programmed to suffer from various medical conditions, which doctors can practice curing.
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Not as foreign as the Cannes, not as full of snow-jacketed Hollywood starlets as the Sundance, the Arizona International Film Festival still brings the best and the latest in independent filmmaking to Tucson.
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This year's spring Club Crawl might feel cozy, with zero bars on North Fourth Avenue participating in the event, leaving East Congress Street to handle all the rocking itself.
"Basically, the (Fourth Avenue) bars backed out," said Jeb Schoonover, event coordinator and Rialto Theatre owner.
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I showed up at the Holmes Tuttle Clubhouse almost precisely on time at 2:30 pm. It doesn't seem like a difficult appointment to make on a Saturday afternoon, but the night before happened to be my 21st birthday and, as expected, I wasn't feeling 100 percent. I was there to help a contingent of UA greeks with their second annual All Greek Service Day.
"(All Greek Service Day) is a day for the greek community to come together," said Rebecca Pitts, vice president of administrative affairs of UA's Panhellenic Association. "It's also a chance to give back to the community that made us what we are."
The community that made me what I was at that moment was the downtown Tucson bar scene. I didn't feel like I owed them anything in particular.
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