Image Studying Arctic glaciers with airborne radar: UArizona project attracts $30M from NASA June 10, 2024 The Snow4Flow mission, led by professor Jack Holt, will measure glaciers' ice and snow thickness and help scientists better predict how glacial melting contributes to sea level change. Read more at UArizona News
Image Peeking into the invisible world of the atmosphere June 10, 2024 UArizona researchers have developed a new way to uncover hidden layers in the atmosphere, which could help better explain how pollution gets trapped over cities. Read more at UArizona News
Image Webb Telescope finds plethora of carbon molecules around young star June 6, 2024 A team of astronomers, including UArizona scientists, used the telescope to study the disk of gas and dust around a young, low-mass star. Read more at UArizona News
Image Webb Telescope spots the two most distant galaxies ever seen at cosmic dawn May 30, 2024 Researchers have discovered the most distant galaxy ever detected. The secrets it contains challenge previous assumptions about galactic evolution. Read more at UArizona News
Image Glimpses of a volcanic world: New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those from spacecraft May 30, 2024 Astronomers have captured a volcanic event on Jupiter's moon Io at a resolution never before achieved with Earth-based observations. Read more at UArizona News
Image 'Mind-boggling' quasars and atmospheres of vaporized rock: UArizona astronomers explore cosmos with Webb Telescope May 29, 2024 UArizona astronomers have scored some of the largest chunks of observing time with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Read more at UArizona News
Image APIDA Heritage Month Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Hong Li May 21, 2024 The College of Science is celebrating APIDA (Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American) Heritage Month by featuring some of the College’s outstanding faculty with Asian roots. Our next featured faculty member is Dr. Hong Li, an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Read more
Image APIDA Heritage Month Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Haijiang Cai May 14, 2024 The College of Science is celebrating APIDA (Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American) Heritage Month by featuring some of the College’s outstanding faculty with Asian roots. Our first featured faculty member is Dr. Haijiang Cai, an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience. Read more
Image Outstanding Seniors in the College of Science: Ansh Gupta May 10, 2024 Our final Outstanding Senior is Ansh Gupta in the Department of Astronomy. Ansh was also named the overall Outstanding Senior in the College of Science. Read more
Image Steward Observatory alumna Jane Rigby receives Presidential Medal of Freedom May 9, 2024 Jane Rigby, who received her doctoral degree from the UArizona Department of Astronomy in 2006, was recognized for her role in the success of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission and her longtime support of diversity and inclusion in science. Read more at UArizona News