Image UArizona-led asteroid sampling mission's new journey: OSIRIS-APEX Jan. 8, 2024 Under the leadership of the University of Arizona's Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina, the former OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sets off on a journey to study asteroid Apophis and take advantage of the asteroid's 2029 flyby of Earth. Read more at UArizona News
Image Arizona’s Largest Mathematics Education Event Celebrating 20 Years Jan. 8, 2024 For 20 years, MEAD has welcomed, engaged, and appreciated thousands of educators, both in-state and beyond. An impressive list of sponsors ensures that all Arizona teachers can experience research-based, high quality professional development at no cost. Read more
Image New project helps UArizona boost access to hearing health care Jan. 4, 2024 A new partnership among the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing and the three state universities provides free hearing health care for eligible people age 21 or older who do not have insurance. Read more at UArizona News
Image Washington Post: What an Arizona tree reveals about the hottest year on record — and what lies ahead. Dec. 21, 2023 With its stout orange trunk and long, graceful needles, the tree looks like any other ponderosa pine growing on Mount Bigelow. But a sliver of its wood, taken amid Earth’s warmest year on record, shows that this tree has a story to tell — and a warning to offer. Read more
Image Sweating the small stuff: UArizona scientists have begun to study samples from asteroid Bennu Dec. 20, 2023 At the university's Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis, a suite of instruments allows researchers to study the particles collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission the down to the atomic scale. Read more at UArizona News
Image NIH research grant awarded to UArizona College of Science to decipher relationships between synapse function and growth control pathways Dec. 19, 2023 The research will help determine the underlying causes of disruption at the biochemical, cellular, and functional levels, which will ultimately inform how synapses grow as animals develop and how this may go awry in neurodevelopmental diseases. Read more
Image Scientists might be using a flawed strategy to predict how species will fare under climate change Dec. 18, 2023 A new study involving University of Arizona researchers suggests change is happening faster than trees can adapt. The finding offers "a word of caution" for future researchers. Read more at UArizona News
Image Recent volcanism on Mars reveals a planet more active than previously thought Dec. 18, 2023 The findings from the University of Arizona-led study have implications for research into whether Mars could have harbored life at some point in its history. Read more at UArizona News
Image Asteroids, athletics and 'America the Beautiful': The top stories of 2023 Dec. 18, 2023 From delivering a historic asteroid sample to setting a university record in Fulbright Scholars, the University of Arizona celebrated several newsmaking events in 2023. Read more at UArizona News