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Dear Alumni,
 Thanks for reading our monthly
Wildcat Corner e-newsletter. We enjoy providing you with the most recent news and information from The University of Arizona. If there is anything else you'd like to read to stay connected, please e-mail us at campus@al.arizona.edu.
On Thursday, October 26, The University of Arizona will inaugurate its 19th president, Dr. Robert N. Shelton. Tucson residents, or those close to Tucson, are invited to be part of this grand tradition, which starts at 3 p.m. in Centennial Hall on the UA campus. Parking is available at the garage on Tyndall Avenue and Fourth Street, just west of the entrance to the University. A reception follows at 5 p.m. on the lawn of the Arizona State Museum.
Phoenix residents can take part in the festivities by watching the inauguration live at the College of Medicine-Phoenix. Join fellow UA supporters at 3 p.m. in the newly renovated auditorium at 550 E. Van Buren Street,
Building 2. Parking is available behind Building 3 off of 7th Street. For more information contact Brigitte Jordan-Mincks, 602-827-2018.
If you are unable to attend, you can watch the event live on www.kuat.org.
Bear Down!
Sarah Beaudry
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Dues-paying membership in the Alumni Association began in September 2005.
During the inaugural year, more than 7,700 UA alumni and friends joined. We
appreciate this spirit of support and will continue to build on this strong
foundation.
If you would like to learn more about membership
benefits or are considering joining, go to
www.arizonaalumni.com/membership.
New members will receive a new pin, an improved card, and can select from
five new designs … take a look at the new cards
here.
Upcoming Arizona Football Tailgates and Games:
Arizona vs. Washington State - Nov 4, 2006
(Buy game tickets by clicking here) – deadline to purchase tickets is October 19, 2006
Arizona vs. Oregon - Nov 18, 2006
(Buy game and tailgate tickets by clicking here)
To purchase tickets to other UA Athletics events, please visit www.arizonaathletics.com
Join Your Local Alumni Club
All you need to do is send an e-mail to clubs@al.arizona.edu that states the city that you
live in and that you would like to get involved with your local alumni club. By doing so, you can help make a real difference in your community, while at the same time supporting your alma mater. Alumni clubs contribute philanthropically to local organizations and raise scholarships for UA students. Don’t forget to attend alumni events in your area. Visit the online events calendar to see what event is happening next!
22nd Annual University of Arizona Hispanic Alumni Club Scholarship Dinner and Dance
Please join us in honoring Humberto S. Lopez with an evening of dining and dancing. Proceeds benefit The University of Arizona Hispanic Alumni Club Scholarship Fund and
programs.
Friday, December 1, 2006
Reception 6 p.m.
Dinner 7 p.m.
The Hotel Arizona at the Tucson Convention Center
181 W. Broadway
Tucson, Arizona 85701
Event Contact: Tina Johnson, 520-621-4407 or tina@u.arizona.edu
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 The University of Arizona Alumni Association welcomes back alumni, friends, and family to celebrate the UA’s 92nd Homecoming, November 9-11. The weekend includes scheduled alumni events with colleges, campus clubs, Greek life, other campus units, and the Alumni Association.
View our full schedule of events
Homecoming Alumni Awards and Recognition Reception
Friday, November 10
3 – 5 p.m.
Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom South
Each year since 1943, the University of Arizona Alumni Association has presented accomplished alumni and friends with distinguished awards. Our goal is to recognize alumni, friends of the institution, community leaders, faculty, staff, students, alumni clubs, and college alumni councils for outstanding achievement and service to
The University of Arizona, the Alumni Association, their communities, and their professions.
View the 2006 Homecoming Award Winners
Class of 1956 Reunion
 Due to popular demand, the UA Class of 1956 Reunion will now take place on
The University of Arizona campus during Homecoming, November 9-11, 2006.
We have lots of activities planned! Please see the included schedule. We hope you will join us for this special weekend. Better yet, we hope you will volunteer to contact some of our classmates so that we can make sure that we have the best reunion ever! Please feel free to contact us via the contact information listed. We hope to see you in November! — Your Class of ’56 Reunion
committee
We need your assistance in contacting your fellow classmates from 1956.
If you can help, please contact:
Hank Harrison: 520-399-3067 or hank@azalumni.com.
Mona Bambauer Niehaus: 520-795-5436 or
mona@azalumni.com.
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NEWS
In the summer 2006 Alumnus, we featured a global warming series highlighting the extensive research and discoveries about global climate change at the UA. The series may be found online here.
 ALUMNI PROFILE
Cheering up the Troops
Graham Elwood ’91
So, what do you get when you have a kid who is an ethical vegetarian, loves to watch game shows, drinks gallons of Mountain Dew, loves martial arts and weapons, football, lacrosse, and baseball; and has a knack for making people laugh? Graham Elwood! (read more)
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Panama Canal
 From Costa Rica to the U.S., enjoy an unforgettable cruise experience on board the Six-Star
Crystal Symphony. Begin your journey in Caldera, Costa Rica ... traverse the storied Panama Canal, and sail along the
Caribbean Sea, visiting Aruba, St. Kitts, St. Barts, and St. Thomas. January 31 - February 11, 2007
Paris and London
 Go where queens, knights, and castles aren't just in fairy tales. Spend
four nights in London at the Millennium Gloucester, then travel on the Eurostar,
a comfortable and convenient part of a continental journey, linking two capital cities in speed and style. The world’s most advanced train has transformed travel between the U.K. and the continent. The
Eurostar whisks you through the famous Channel Tunnel, one of Europe’s largest infrastructure projects to date, in the utmost of comfort. In Paris you spend
three nights at the Paris Rive Gauche and experience one of the most romantic cities in the world. April 20 - 28, 2007
Oaxaca
 Journey to Mexico’s most beautiful city, the shimmering jewel of Oaxaca. This program, developed exclusively for
The University of Arizona Alumni Association, offers a full immersion in the finest arts and crafts Mexico has to offer. Set in the rugged Sierra Madres, the journey to lovely Oaxaca features such highlights as the fascinating archaeological site of Monte Alban, the beautiful mosaic work in the ruins of Mitla
and the rich folk art of Oaxaca, including its famed black pottery, hand-carved wood animals, and amazing woven tapestries, as well as a taste of delicious Oaxacan cuisine. NEW DATES: January 13 -19, 2007
Call 800-232-8278 or go to www.ArizonaAlumni.com/Travel.
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Career Advisory Network
Register now to be a mentor, to receive mentoring, or to network with other alumni with this new Wildcat Corner online community service. Mentors have complete control over the degree of their involvement, including time commitment, availability, and the method of interaction (phone call, blind e-mail, etc.). What better way to leverage the extreme range of skills and experience our alumni offer than by an online community of volunteer wildcats! (Sign up here)
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E-mail Forwarding
Found under the “E-mail Services” link, this useful feature allows you to set up your very own Wildcat Corner permanent e-mail address which ends with azalumni.com. Tired of pointing friends and potential business contacts to luvbears9224@freemail.com? Then set up your new permanent e-mail address today! It can include yourname@azalumni.com. Because this address can point to any existing e-mail account, it may be the last e-mail address you ever need to give out. Best of all, to use it, you simply check and send mail as usual — but with much more professional results. (Sign up here)
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Class Notes
Did you just get married? Did you just get a new job? Did you just have a baby? Class Notes offer a simple and effective way to get the word out to fellow alumni about your latest exploits, milestones, or even recent vacations. Your name and class year are displayed automatically (along with an optional picture) linking back to your online profile, which makes for a great way of reconnecting with fellow alumni. (Sign up here)
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 The University of Arizona celebrated the opening of the College of Medicine-Phoenix on October 10. Following a historic statewide collaborative effort, The
UA College of Medicine, in collaboration with Arizona State University, opened its new facility at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus (read more).
DISCOVER
UA surgeons were first in the world to successfully use a totally artificial heart as a bridge to transplant. Now they are the first to win approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for that same device. The study of the CardioWest total artificial heart was led by Jack Copeland, M.D.,
co director of the UA Sarver Heart Center and a world leader in cardiac transplantation. "Our team has worked on the development of the CardioWest device for two decades. We have believed all along that we could save lives for patients with heart failure and make them better candidates for cardiac transplantation." www.arizona.edu
ACHIEVE
Dance major Lindsey Quigley's life is full. Dance classes. Academics. Rehearsals. Performances. Time with friends
and family. Her life also is silent. Lindsey can't hear. Not music, not the sound of the human voice, or hands clapping a choreographed eight-count. Mark Miceli,
a graduate student in technical theatre, wants to help. His study of sound led him to develop a device that lets Lindsey feel the beat, right through her body. Art and science. New partners in a very old dance. www.arizona.edu
BUILD
The University of Arizona fosters an entrepreneurial spirit campus wide. In this environment, new discoveries become thriving enterprises. The UA contributes significantly to the state's economy and gives rise to new industries for Arizona.
A University-based business, an "orphan" drug from Germany, and years of determination may mean new treatments for cancer patients. In 1989, Evan Hersh, M.D., of the Arizona Cancer Center, founded a new company, Amplimed. Years later, he and his colleagues rediscovered a drug that showed great promise in stimulating the body's immune response. Testing it further, they realized it had applications in cancer therapy. Now the drug, called Amplimexon, has been approved for Phase I clinical trials for patients with multiple myeloma, malignant melanoma, and pancreatic cancer. UA seed funding and venture capital investment are moving the company forward. "If we're successful, the UA will gain royalties, and Tucson will gain jobs and other economic profits," Dr. Hersh said. "But most importantly, up to 200,000 patients each year may benefit." www.arizona.edu
SERVE
Imagine having 20,000 dishes. That’s how many Southwestern Indian vessels are in the Arizona State Museum collection, making it the world’s largest collection of Southwest Indian pottery. The hand-crafted pots span 2000 years of life in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, reflecting almost every cultural group in the region. This collection is considered one of
the nation’s most significant cultural resources. Established in 1893, Arizona State Museum is the oldest and largest anthropology museum in the Southwest and one of the UA's oldest research units. See the pots online at
www.statemuseum.arizona.edu.
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College of Science
New Chemical Sciences Facility Unveiled
 The University of Arizona’s
Department of Chemistry celebrated the opening of its new 87,000 square-foot Chemical Sciences Building during a dedication event on Thursday, Oct. 5. Thirty years after the opening of the UA’s last chemistry research facility, the Chemistry Department
— ranked 22nd among all universities in federal research funding
— opens the new state-of-the-art teaching and laboratory facility.
The Chemical Sciences Building contains more than 46,000 square feet of research space and specialized labs including a clean room, glass blowing, X-ray, and surface analysis laboratories. It
is home to innovative research in biomolecular design and mechanisms, materials chemistry for new technologies in electro-optics
and homeland security and the astrochemistry of planetary and interstellar media.
Global Climate Change Lecture Series Kicks Off College of Science's Theme Semester
The public lecture series, "Global Climate Change: A Series of Seven Lectures Exploring Our World and Ourselves," features UA researchers from a variety of scientific disciplines. The lectures discuss how climate interacts with our biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, and will offer ways to mitigate global climate changes through technology and policy.
The lectures, which are free and open to the public, are held in Centennial Hall on the UA campus in Tucson. Parking is available in the Tyndall Avenue Garage, 880 E. 4th St. The garage can be entered from either Tyndall Euclid
avenues.
View the full schedule of Global Climate Change Lectures
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UA Astronomy Department Newsletter
UA Astronomy Department/Steward Observatory departmental newsletter is posted at: http://www.as.arizona.edu.
UA Physics Department Newsletter
UA Physics Department newsletter is posted at:
http://www.physics.arizona.edu/physics2006/
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Basketball
 McKale Madness - The University of Arizona men’s and women’s basketball teams held the first official practice of their respective seasons in front of 7,100 fans who came out to welcome the new year in McKale Center on Friday, October 13..The evening was highlighted with player introductions for both the men’s and women’s teams, as well as a shooting contest, dunk contest and 20-minute scrimmage featuring the men’s team. Read more
2006-07 Men’s Basketball Television Schedule Announced -
National exposure goes hand-in-hand with being one of the nation’s elite programs.
Every regular-season University of Arizona men’s basketball game may be televised live in 2006-07. Read more
Read the 2006-07 Men's Basketball Outlook
Read the 2006-07 Women's Basketball Outlook
Football
 Cats
Run out of Time, OSU Wins 17-10 - Oregon State's defense proved to be too
much for Arizona to overcome especially in the closing moments and the Wildcats
fell, 17-10, in Pac-10 action Saturday night before a Family Weekend crowd of
57,113.
Read more
Soccer
 Arizona,
USC Battle to Scoreless Tie - The UA women’s soccer team tied No. 21
Southern California in double overtime, 0-0. The Women of Troy
controlled the ball for much of the game but were unable to take
advantage of opportunities.
Read more
Volleyball
 No.
6 Washington Tops Volleyball In Four - The University of
Arizona women’s volleyball team (10-11, 1-8 Pac-10) dropped the first
two games to No. 6 Washington (17-3, 7-2 Pac-10), but gave the Huskies
all they could handle down the stretch before falling in four games on
Friday night in McKale Center. Game scores were 30-21, 30-20, 24-30, and
30-26.
Read more
Cross Country
Men's
Cats
Remain Ranked in Latest Poll - The Arizona men’s cross country team is
ranked No. 25 in this week’s USTFCCA poll.
Read more
Women's
Wildcat
Women Run in Pre-National Invite - The Arizona women’s cross country
team placed 34th in Saturday’s NCAA Pre-National Invitational hosted by
Indiana State.
Read more
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