UA border-research center opens today
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.03.2008
The University of Arizona will officially open its new Department of Homeland Security-funded border-research center today.
The UA will lead a team of research universities to form the National Center for Border Security and Immigration Research.
Homeland Security will give the center $16 million over six years to focus on new technologies such as detection, surveillance, screening, data fusion, sensor networks and other technologies.
The officials scheduled to attend the 11 a.m. luncheon at McClelland Hall, 1130 E. Helen St., include:
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