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Endeavour buzzes Tucson on retirement flight

September 20, 2012 by

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Space shuttle Endeavour flew low and slow over the University of Arizona on Thursday, part of the final lap of its retirement flight over the United States in route to the California Science Center. The overflight was added by NASA in response to a request by Mark Kelly, who commanded the shuttle’s last space mission, […]

SC Wire: New Solar Array Shows Promise

August 24, 2012 by

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Read  “New Solar Array Shows Promise,” part of the coverage on a new UA solar array written the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram: “On the University of Arizona campus, researchers with the school’s optical science department are developing a new solar array that could make solar energy cheaper than its competition. Led by Dr. Roger Angel, […]

SC Wire: Solar Soars in the Desert

August 24, 2012 by

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Watch Solar Soars in the Desert, an episode of Arizona Public Media’s Arizona Week produced by the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram, including a field piece that reviews a new solar array that promises huge improvements in capturing solar energy. “If we show that we can build this thing, we can take it to manufacturing scale […]

SC Wire: UA study to improve storm predictions

May 17, 2012 by

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Read UA study to improve storm predictions, written by the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram and published in the Green Valley News: “Even after the summer monsoon, most of Southern Arizona remains in severe drought. This lack of rain is likely to continue or intensify into 2012, according to the National Weather Service. The chaotic summer […]

Book Review: “Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City”

February 14, 2012 by

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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, by Andrew Ross, Oxford University Press, 2011, 312 pages. Review by Paul M. Ingram The cause remains a mystery, but in early October 1947, a fire incinerated the entire Phoenix streetcar fleet. The city, suddenly without a public transport system had two choices: rebuild the […]

SC Wire: History helps make sense of wildfires

January 31, 2012 by

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Read History helps make sense of wildfires, written by the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram and published in the Green Valley News: “North of Albuquerque, the people of the Pueblo of Jemez may hold a secret to dealing with wildfires in the ponderosa pine forests of western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. The tribe has lived […]

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