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The Desert is Abuzz with Bees

Oct. 15, 2019

The University of Arizona Insect Collection is collaborating with Pima Community College students and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum to catalog every native species of bee in Tucson and the surrounding Sonoran Desert.

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Artist’s impression of the quasar 3C 279, based on observations that included the Submillimeter Telescope, or SMT, in Arizona. Powered by supermassive black holes, quasars are among the brightest objects known. With a mass about one billion times that of the sun, this quasar is so far from Earth that its light has taken more than 5 billion years to reach us. (Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Astronomer Receives Packard Fellowship to Pursue Black Hole Research

Oct. 14, 2019

Astronomy Prof Peter Behroozi was awarded a Packard Fellowship to get to the bottom of a long-standing mystery: How could supermassive black holes grow so big so quickly after the Big Bang?

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A female Florida panther is photographed in the wild at Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. (Photo courtesy of Carlton Ward Jr. @carltonward)

New Study Presents 1st Genome Sequence of Florida Panther

Oct. 2, 2019

A University of Arizona researcher and a UA alumnus are part of the team that is the first to sequence the genome of the Florida panther, and they’ve found evidence of increased genetic variation in the population.

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The Desert is Abuzz with Bees

Astronomer Receives Packard Fellowship to Pursue Black Hole Research

New Study Presents 1st Genome Sequence of Florida Panther