Welcome to a new academic year at the University of Arizona!

Dean Carmala Garzione has announce the following new leadership appointments in the College of Science for the 2025-2026 academic year.

A research team led by the U of A found that the brain of the extinct creature Jianfengia is very similar to that of living crustaceans, placing it in the ancestry of insects and crustaceans, not spiders and their relatives, as had been previously assumed.

Using a cutting-edge optics system developed at the University of Arizona, researchers have gotten a glimpse of what our solar system likely looked like during its infancy.

To date, most planetary scientists have relied on crude definitions of habitability, primarily defined as where liquid water can exist on a planetary surface. But a recent three-year NASA-funded study aims to provide a much more precise definition.

Three new papers reveal yet more secrets from samples collected by the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission from asteroid Bennu.

A $2 million gift from the estate of John A. Brown will fund scholarship endowments in the College of Science and College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Arizona.

The University of Arizona microcampus in Beijing, in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics, recently celebrated its first cohort of graduating students.

Dr. Zhang received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to support his groundbreaking work on interactive machine learning — a class of artificial intelligence systems that learn by engaging directly with the world around them.

U of A-led research shows evidence of social microbial transmission in a solitary species, which could help us better understand how microbes are exchanged in humans.