With a major research university right in our backyard, a strong military presence and innovative companies throughout the metro region, thereâs often a plethora of interesting science and technology news to be found in Southern Arizona. Hereâs a breakdown of the most interesting recent developments.
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Design Day. Senior students in the University of Arizona’s College of Engineering recently presented their longtime projects for the college’s annual Craig M. Berge Design Day. Unlike previous years, for 2021 the 99 student teams presented their projects over video. But similar to previous years, multiple student teams took home large awards for this work. This year, more than $46,000 was awarded to various student teams working with industry and university sponsors. The winners of the $7,500 Craig M. Berge Dean’s Award for Most Outstanding Project created a “solar-powered, autonomous rover” to monitor Oso Grande, which is Tucson Electric Power’s wind turbine
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Montgomery: With the state’s jobless numbers already nearing pre-pandemic levels and competition on the rise in a changed job market, the search for hospitality workers may not end with Alabama’s participation in federal supplemental unemployment benefits. Some who lost jobs in the industry “went off and found a job that has more … dependable wages,” said Jacqueline Allen, spokeswoman for state workforce development agency AIDT. “Everybody who basically wants a job right now has a job.” That’s My Child youth nonprofit founder Charles Lee said every member of his teens-to-work training program now graduates with a job, and the phone keeps ringing with employers asking for more. Meanwhile, he said federal relief payments and jobless benefits have changed people’s outlook on what’s possible. “It’s the most money some people have ever seen,” Lee said. “I think it’s just whoever is willing to go up to that $15
His killed me as a pre-punk boy. Like some free-reed instrument, it glowed more than pushed, transmitting a longing I couldn t yet name. Was the sweetest on KWFM radio in Tucson in the mid 70s. That voice sidled up swimmingly next to his male-peer stars, like the velvet country-rock throats of John Dawson (New Riders of The Purple Sage) and Jackson Browne, especially on the song of isolation The Story, a tune filled of songwriterly flourishes, raw violin and a foreshadowing narrative so great it transcended any potentialities as a formal radio song, yet there it was on free-form KWFM, regularly:
Rural Metro firefighter injured in early morning house fire House along Tanque Verde and Wentworth fully involved. (Source: Rural Metro Fire Dept. Facebook) By KOLD News 13 Staff | April 29, 2021 at 5:50 AM MST - Updated April 29 at 9:51 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A firefighter is recovering from minor injuries sustained in a house fire on Thursday morning.
The Rural Metro Fire Department was called to a home near Tanque Verde and Wentworth around 3:30 a.m. Rural Metro Fire Department responds to house fire on Thursday, April 29. (Source: KOLD)
Upon arrival, they found a house covered in flames, along with several cars. Crews were able to get the fire under control within 45 minutes.
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