March 22, 2018 UA Researchers Track Chinese Space Station as It Falls Astronomer Vishnu Reddy and aerospace engineering graduate student Tanner Campbell are following the path of Tiangong-1, using technology they developed in only four months.
March 21, 2018 The Future of Farming Takes Root How will agriculture feed a world population approaching 10 billion? At the UA, researchers are looking up for answers, in the form of vertical farming. With UANews video. The series Fast Forward is examining the UA's role in the convergence of the digital, physical and biological worlds.
March 20, 2018 Cape Town's Water Crisis: Could It Happen in Arizona? A drought-induced water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa, has Arizonans wondering if a similar situation could happen here. UA water expert Sharon Megdal says it's unlikely.
March 20, 2018 I-Squared Awards Honor Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Ecosystem Champions Tech Launch Arizona held its annual I-Squared Expo and Awards event, and UA President Robert C. Robbins joined in to celebrate the honorees and their accomplishments.
March 14, 2018 How a UA Engineer Gets Cars to Talk A wealth of connected-vehicle research by professor Larry Head is helping to determine how people will move about in the cities of tomorrow. With UANews video. The series Fast Forward is examining the UA's role in the convergence of the digital, physical and biological worlds.
March 14, 2018 UA Tree-Ring Research Helps Analyze Droughts in Mongolia The 2000-2010 drought that killed livestock and drove nomadic herders to migrate to cities was rare but not unprecedented, according to a team that included a UA dendrochronologist.
March 8, 2018 Hockstad Named New Leader of Tech Launch Arizona The current assistant vice president of TLA will succeed David Allen, who is retiring effective April 28 after a six-year tenure of reinvigorating the UA's research commercialization.
March 7, 2018 Researcher Looks at 'Digital Traces' to Help Students Sudha Ram's research tracks students' social interactions and daily routines via their CatCard usage — and leverages that information to make predictions about freshman retention. Fast Forward, a UANews series, is examining the convergence of the digital, physical and biological worlds.
March 6, 2018 Tucson Festival of Books to Celebrate 10th Anniversary Attendance for the event on the UA campus, which benefits literacy programs, now exceeds 100,000, and the presenters are a who's who from literature, science and pop culture.
March 1, 2018 Bok to the Future: Sounding the Depths of a Dying Star A small, aging telescope — the Bok Telescope on Kitt Peak — can still do mighty science, even helping astrophysicists undertake a virtual journey to the center of a dead star.