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Get Ready: UAConnect Migration is This Weekend

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The campuswide "email vacation" is coming up this weekend. That's when University Information Technology Services will migrate all employee email accounts to the same campus-based server system.

By now all employees should have received a set of instructions from UITS detailing what needs to be done in advance to make the transition go as smoothly as possible.

As part of the migration, email access will be suspended at 5 p.m. Friday and will become available again at 8 a.m. Monday.

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UA Project Teaches Acupuncturists to Combat Smoking

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A UA study is focusing on how acupuncturists can provide effective counseling to people who want to quit smoking.

More than 20 Tucson acupuncturists are taking part in a University of Arizona project to combat the No. 1 preventable cause of disease and death in the U.S.: smoking.

The acupuncturists are collaborating with the UA Department of Family and Community Medicine on the study, called Project Reach.

As part of Project Reach, acupuncturists participate in training sessions and receive follow-up support that give them skills and tools to help patients quit tobacco. The training offers information about tobacco use and its physiological effects.

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Register Now for Campus Recreation Women's Basketball League

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Coach Joey Lomeli talks to his Las Tucson Sol team during a huddle at Saturday's game at the Student Recreation Center. (Photo courtesy of Taylor Haynes)

Sporty women in search of an outlet for their talents need look no further than Campus Recreation.

The Women's Basketball League has bounced back to life, and while the season is winding down, Campus Recreation is accepting registration for the new season that begins June 16.

The program has been offered on and off for the last five years, said Mirum Washington-White, assistant director of sports programs for Campus Recreation.

Initially, he was approached by a group of campus women who had been getting together on weekends to play basketball, to see if Campus Recreation could put together a league.

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Pharm Alum Saves Man Using Sarver Heart Center CPR Method

Dr. Kern with Wilma and Wilbur.

Even Wilma and Wilbur learned the three Cs – check, call, compress. They are pictured with Karl B. Kern, co-director of the Sarver Heart Center.

Padma Sundareshan understands there's nothing like the feeling of helping save someone's life.

The 2009 UA alum was at work one evening at a Walgreens pharmacy in Oro Valley. A couple was in the waiting area, in line to receive flu shots. Suddenly the wife cried out that her husband had stopped breathing, apparently from cardiac arrest. Sundareshan, who earned a doctorate from the College of Pharmacy, ran out of the pharmacy and, with help, laid the man on the floor and began performing CPR. She administered two breaths, then switched to chest-compression-only CPR.

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LQP Asks: Hot dogs or burgers on the barbecue?

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Hot dogs can be eaten in so many ways – Chicago style, Sonoran style, with chili, plain, with ketchup or cheese-filled. Hot dog fans love the variety; detractors point to the list of ingredients.

Then there are burgers: From medium-rare to well-done, they are juicy, can be made in a variety of sizes and can be topped with as many condiments as a hot dog. Those who are not fans point out the warnings against eating too much red meat.

What they have in common is that they can both be grilled up on the barbecue at gatherings of family and friends.

With the annual Memorial Day barbecue looming for many people, we wanted to know what they prefer on their grills.

So this week, LQP Asks, "Hot dogs or burgers on the barbecue?" See the answers in this video.

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