News Releases

Feb. 7, 2018 - UA Students Take to Tucson's Roads

Feb. 7, 2018 - UA's Center for English as a Second Language Turns 50

Feb. 6, 2018 - Rapid Detection and Recovery: The Science of Hunting Meteorites

Feb. 6, 2018 - Machines as Co-Workers: A New Era Is Upon Us

Feb. 6, 2018 - No Volcanic Winter in East Africa From Ancient Toba Eruption

Feb. 6, 2018 - Students Get Rare Glimpse Into Microsoft Executive's Style

Feb. 2, 2018 - Public Utility Helps UA Engineering Students Help Others

Feb. 1, 2018 - Applications Open for Tillman Scholars Program

Jan. 30, 2018 - AI Explained as 'Intelligence Augmentation'

Jan. 29, 2018 - Super Bowl Has UA Written All Over It

Jan. 29, 2018 - Want to Improve Patient Experience? Take Care of Nurses

Jan. 29, 2018 - UA Researchers Observe Electrons Zipping Around in Crystals

Jan. 26, 2018 - UA Kicks Off World Soccer Study-Abroad Program

Jan. 26, 2018 - Earthquake Engineers Shift Focus to Ensure Structural Safety

Jan. 25, 2018 - Collection of Hopi Basketry Donated to Arizona State Museum

Jan. 25, 2018 - Startup Forges Ahead on Battery Technology Licensed From UA

Jan. 24, 2018 - Record Jump in 2014-2016 Temps Largest Since 1900

Jan. 22, 2018 - Robbins Introduces UA Science Series

Jan. 19, 2018 - New UA Partnership Geared to Students' Global Readiness

Jan. 19, 2018 - 12 UA Graduate Students Named Carson Scholars

Jan. 19, 2018 - UA Fellow Aims to Revitalize Tucson Landmark

Jan. 18, 2018 - Graduate of UA Program Appointed to Arizona Senate

Jan. 17, 2018 - Center for Rural Health Gets $2.2M Opioid Grant

Jan. 17, 2018 - Researchers Explore Psychological Effects of Climate Change

Jan. 12, 2018 - 'Humans, Data and Machines' Is Theme of UA Science Series

Jan. 12, 2018 - Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice

Jan. 12, 2018 - Jet Stream Changes Since 1960s Linked to More Extreme Weather

Jan. 11, 2018 - Students Help Little Telescope Do Big Things

Jan. 8, 2018 - UA Physician Awarded Grant to Develop Test for Schizophrenia

Jan. 8, 2018 - Startup Licenses UA-Invented Mining Sensor Network

Jan. 4, 2018 - Osher Foundation Awards Second Endowment to UA Institute

Jan. 2, 2018 - UA Statement on Football Coach Rich Rodriguez

Nov. 6, 2017 - Poor Social Skills May Be Harmful to Mental and Physical Health

Aug. 17, 2017 - World-Renowned Linguist Noam Chomsky Joins UA Faculty

July 11, 2017 - Nation's First B.A. in Law Now a Model

June 26, 2017 - UA Research: Brains Evolved to Need Exercise

June 12, 2017 - 7 Things You Didn't Know About Cicadas

May 26, 2017 - UA Has the Tools to Analyze Asteroid's Dirt

May 8, 2017 - Narrative Journaling May Help Heart's Health Post-Divorce

April 10, 2017 - Birth Control for Rats? Don't Laugh, It's a Reality and Cities Want It

April 7, 2017 - Regents Approve Robbins as New UA President

March 30, 2017 - How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere and Became a Frigid Desert

March 1, 2017 - Treatment of Pain Gets the Green Light

Feb. 27, 2017 - Dogs, Toddlers Show Similarities in Social Intelligence

Feb. 8, 2017 - Study Finds Naps May Help Preschoolers Learn

Jan. 23, 2017 - Archaeologists Uncover New Clues to Maya Collapse

Oct. 31, 2016 - Study Links Athletic Performance to Mortality

Oct. 26, 2016 - Findings Show How AIDS Spread Across North America

Sept. 9, 2016 - Bound for Bennu! OSIRIS-REx Launch Was 'Perfect'

Sept. 6, 2016 - Career Map Surprised OSIRIS-REx Scientist

Sept. 2, 2016 - Let's Do Launch: Where to Watch OSIRIS-REx

Aug. 24, 2016 - Noodles Supplant Cigarettes as Prison Currency of Choice

June 29, 2016 - Bennu: How a Little Asteroid Became a Rock Star

June 27, 2016 - Anticipation Builds for OSIRIS-REx Launch

March 23, 2016 - HiRISE: 45,000 Mars Orbits and Counting

March 4, 2016 - The Reason for Mars’ Tumultuous Past

March 1, 2016 - How Parents, Romantic Partners Influence Student Spending

Oct. 5, 2015 - 'The Martian' Food-Growing System: It's Here

Aug. 26, 2015 - Terraced Craters: Windows Into Mars' Icy Past

Aug. 12, 2015 - The All-Seeing Eyes of OSIRIS-REx

March 23, 2015 - Archaeologists Discover Maya 'Melting Pot'

March 11, 2015 - UA Mars Scientists Capture Image of Sci-Fi Landing Site

Feb. 14, 2014 - UA Study on Flu Evolution May Change Textbooks, History Books

Dec. 11, 2013 - UA HiRISE Mars Camera Reveals a More Dynamic Red Planet

Dec. 10, 2013 - Countdown Starts for UA-led Asteroid Mission

May 1, 2013 - 9-Year-Old Names Target Asteroid of UA-Led NASA Mission

April 25, 2013 - Archaeologists Unearth New Information on Origins of Maya Civilization

April 11, 2013 - Did UA Mars Camera Find Lost Spacecraft?

Nov. 28, 2012 - Post-Divorce Journaling May Hinder Healing for Some, UA Study Finds

Oct. 26, 2012 - Princess by Proxy: When Child Beauty Pageants Aren’t About the Kids

May 9, 2012 - The Flowing Sands of Mars

Jan. 17, 2012 - UA Makes Mirrors for World’s Largest Telescope

Dec. 15, 2011 - Meteorite Shockwaves Trigger Dust Avalanches on Mars

Oct. 19, 2011 - Meet the Riekes: Researcher Spouses Speak on Science, Football and Shutterbug Scuffles

Aug. 4, 2011 - Briny Water May be at Work in Seasonal Flows on Mars

Aug. 3, 2011 - UA Scorpion Antivenom Collaboration Gains FDA Approval

June 27, 2011 - Biosphere 2 to Have a Permanent Home With the UA

May 25, 2011 - NASA Selects UA-Led Mission to Collect Sample From Asteroid

Feb. 3, 2011 - Northern Mars Landscape Actively Changing

Oct. 29, 2010 - UA HiRISE Camera Links Fresh Mars Gullies to Carbon Dioxide

Oct. 5, 2010 - Chest-Compression-Only CPR Improves Survival

Sept. 9, 2010 - Phoenix Mars Lander Finds Surprises About Planet’s Watery Past

March 3, 2010 - UA Psychologist 'Eavesdrops' on Happiness

Dec. 31, 2009 - OSIRIS-REx Project One of Three Finalists for NASA’s Next Space Venture

Nov. 3, 2009 - Frost-Covered Phoenix Spacecraft Found in HiRISE Images

Sept. 24, 2009 - Scientists See Water Ice in Fresh Meteorite Craters on Mars

Sept. 2, 2009 - Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution

May 13, 2009 - UA Research on Scorpion Antivenom to be Published

May 12, 2009 - Phoenix Mars Mission Lands a Doctorate for Peter Smith

March 9, 2009 - HiRISE Camera Captures Subtle Colors of Mars' Tiny Moon Deimos

Dec. 8, 2008 - HiRISE Camera Captures High-Resolution 3-D Images of Mars

Nov. 17, 2008 - Gamma-Ray Evidence Suggests Ancient Mars Had Oceans

Sept. 17, 2008 - HiRISE Stereo, Color Images Detail Mars Terrain that Tantalizes Explorers

June 20, 2008 - Frozen Water Confirmed on Mars

April 9, 2008 - HIRISE Sees Phobos in Color and Stereo

Oct. 27, 2007 - HIV's Path Out of Africa: Haiti, the U.S., then the World

Oct. 10, 2007 - HiRISE Releases Color Images, Movie of Prospective Landing Sites on Mars

Aug. 29, 2007 - HiRISE Camera Returns New View of Dark Pit on Mars

Dec. 2, 2006 - UA Art Class About to Complete Giant Phoenix Mars Mission Mural

Nov. 1, 2006 - Fly Your Name on NASA's Phoenix Mission to Mars

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