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The Winston Churchill Foundation has awarded College of Science and W.A. Franke Honors College senior Bryce Wilson a 2025 Churchill Scholarship, which supports undergraduate students who wish to pursue a year of Master's study in science, mathematics and engineering at Cambridge University.

Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Rodger Thompson is one of only 24 astronomers to be named a AAS Fellow this year in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to near-infrared astronomy and Fourier Transform spectroscopy.

Two research publications by the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team suggest that conditions for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

The project provides paid internships for 12 undergraduates and 12 Master of Arts in Library and Information Science (MLIS) students to work with humanities collections and learn best practices in collection and archival management. This training will be centered around humanities collections that are an integral part of ​the museums program at the LTRR.

In order to make the course material more accessible for his student, professor David Kortenkamp utilized audio aids and enlarged or simplified graphics with great success.

Some of the most common types of planets in the Milky Way may be very different than astronomers imagined, according to researchers probing the atmosphere of planet GJ 1214 b.

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

Grief can be hard on the body, says Mary-Frances O’Connor, a psychology professor at the University of Arizona and author of “The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing.”

The U of A ranks No. 1 in the U.S. and No. 4 in the world in water resources, according to ShanghaiRanking's 2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.