Students missing their bicycles may find luck in a new Web site developed by a UA alumnus, aimed to help students find their stolen bicycles.

Brian Hance, an applications systems analyst at Arizona Student Media, developed the free site www.stolenbicycleregistry.com, which allows victims of theft to register and track their stolen bicycle, Hance said.

"It's 100 percent for everybody, both to register and search," Hance said. [Read article]

More than 500 scientists converged on the UA last week to discuss the gamut of scientific research being done in the Western United States.

The Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held court at the Student Union Memorial Center for three days last week to hold their annual convention.

David Nash, the executive director for AAAS-SWARM, said by Wednesday more than 350 people were signed up for the three-day conference. He said the final amount of registered attendees reached more than 450. [Read article]

A staff member's job is like juggling apples, oranges and bananas, Provost George Davis said to university employees at a luncheon Friday.

That was the message Davis tried to get across at the 17th Annual Awards for Excellence organized by the Staff Advisory Council and Employee Recognition Steering Committee.

At the awards ceremony, administrators lauded university staff for their contributions to the UA. [Read article]

LAKE HAVASU CITY - Where were you at 4 a.m. Saturday?

While some were probably just falling into their beds, 28 UA students were crawling out of their tents into the cold twilight at the Crazy Horse Campgrounds to fuel up on bananas and power bars, pump up their bike tires, grab their wetsuits and head to the starting line.

The UA's club triathlon team, the Tricats, traveled last weekend to Lake Havasu City for their final competition of the season, the National Collegiate Triathlon Championships. [Read article]

Covered in paint, sawdust, drywall and many other construction site goodies, the ladies from Kappa Delta Chi spent Saturday working with Habitat for Humanity at a site of 36 new homes not far from the UA campus.

Twenty-eight members of Kappa Delta Chi were on site from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. working on building homes for low-income families in Tucson.

The 1,352-square-foot homes have three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and are energy efficient certified by Tucson Electric Power. Because the homes are meant more for low-income families, the construction is funded through private contribution and government funding, Pitman said. [Read article]

A car show is being held on the UA Mall today in remembrance of two UA students who were killed in a motorcycle accident last year.

The Arizona Wildcat Off-road club lost Joseph Johnson, one of their members, April 18, 2004, when he and his passenger Lindsay Schiffman crashed on Euclid Avenue and Seneca Street, said Tally Largent, a friend of Johnson's.

Johnson died at the scene of the crash and Schiffman died at the hospital, Largent said. [Read article]

When John Hand left the university in 2000, it was not because he couldn't handle the work.

Like many students who leave, Hand said he just wasn't adjusting to campus life and had nowhere to turn to for help, getting bounced around from advisers to other offices.

Now the sociology junior is back and he created a Web site to increase retention at the UA by providing students with a central location for information. [Read article]

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