Transcript 05_Murphy_Michelli - Arizona Space Grant Consortium

The Business of Science:
Reporting for the Arizona Daily Star
Michelli Murphy
Mentor: Leslie Newell
Editor: Tim Steller
Asst. Editor: Dave Wichner
NASA Space Grant Symposium
April 19, 2008
Overview:
• Weekday
circulation:
223,200
• Goal: relate
scientific business
development to the
general public
• Total contribution:
32 articles
3 assistant reports
25 briefs
Tucson firm’s battery
had flight-record role
• Sept. 14, 2007
• Sion Power Corp.’s
Lithium-Ion battery
technology.
Photo courtesy of Sion Power Corp.
Photos by James S. Wood / Arizona Daily Star
Firm making safer
smoke signals
• Oct. 3, 2007
• Ventana Research Corp.
• Nontoxic smoke signaling
compound, anticontamination dye
Photo by Lindsay A. Miller / Arizona Daily Star
Photo by Sgt. Stephanie L. Carl / U.S. Army
Innovation
center nurtures
start-ups
• Nov. 12, 2007
• Arizona Center
for Innovation,
local high-tech
business
incubator.
• Focus on
technology
transfer from lab
to marketplace.
Photo by David Sanders / Arizona Daily Star
Photo by Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star
UA leads in
NASA deals here
• Dec. 16, 2007
• Ariz. ranked 15th
in the nation for
NASA contracts
in FY 2007
• Private business
won 75 percent
of total contracts.
• UA pulls in three
to four times
more than local
business.
Photos by Jill Torrance / Arizona Daily Star
A future in the lab
• Feb. 6, 2008
• Biotechnology
Certificate
Program
• Training
students for
careers in life
science
laboratories
Photo by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star
Graphic courtesy of PCC
Local firm seeks approval
for new drug
• Mar. 14, 2008
• Niadyne Inc.
completing trials for
new skin cancer drug
• In partnership
with the Arizona
Cancer Center,
National Cancer
Institute
Photos by Jeffry Scott / Arizona Daily Star
Thank You
• Jack Gillum, Becky Pallack, Gabbi Rico,
Shelley Shelton, Christie Smythe
• Arizona Space Grant Consortium
• NASA
• Questions?