News Releases

Jan. 10, 2022 - California's 'climate whiplash' has been worsening for 50 years and will continue

Jan. 10, 2022 - UArizona returns in person, requires surgical-grade masks or higher

Jan. 5, 2022 - Major Health Diagnostics Provider Quidel Makes $2M Investment in UArizona

Dec. 28, 2021 - UArizona research again ranks among nation's top public universities

Dec. 28, 2021 - News release: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Successfully Begins its Journey to Space

Dec. 25, 2021 - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Successfully Begins its Journey to Space

Dec. 21, 2021 - First Cases of Omicron Identified at UArizona

Dec. 20, 2021 - Astronomers Detect Signature of Magnetic Field on an Exoplanet

Dec. 17, 2021 - UArizona Alumnus Established $2.3M Endowment for the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy

Dec. 16, 2021 - Meet the Husband-and-Wife Team that Helped Get Infrared Astronomy off the Ground

Dec. 16, 2021 - Student-Led Initiative Will Launch Satellites as 'Ambassadors for World Peace'

Dec. 16, 2021 - Diverse Plant Water-Use Strategies Make Forests More Resilient to Extreme Drought

Dec. 16, 2021 - UArizona Health Sciences Researchers to Study Long COVID as Part of National Collaborative

Dec. 15, 2021 - UANow Will Return Jan. 13

Dec. 15, 2021 - Engaging Vaccine-Hesitant Loved Ones With Empathy

Dec. 15, 2021 - A Woman's Dying Wish Leads to Returning a Piece of History

Dec. 14, 2021 - Respiratory Tract Bacterial Extracts Could Prevent COVID-19

Dec. 14, 2021 - UArizona Continuing and Professional Education Launches Cannabis Certificate Programs

Dec. 13, 2021 - Here's How to See Comet Leonard, According to the UArizona Researcher Who Discovered It

Dec. 10, 2021 - Researchers to Study Why COVID-19 Strikes Asthma Sufferers Less Severely Than Others

Dec. 10, 2021 - Study Shows Air Pollution Reduces Benefits of Exercise on the Brain

Dec. 9, 2021 - Vaccines, Asteroids and Puppies: The Top UArizona Stories of 2021

Dec. 8, 2021 - Scouting Ancient Supermassive Black Holes

Dec. 8, 2021 - Climate-Only Models Likely Underestimate Species Extinction, Study Finds

Dec. 7, 2021 - Three UArizona Faculty Members Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Dec. 6, 2021 - Algorithms are Making Many of Your Decisions – and You Might be OK With That

Dec. 3, 2021 - Gov. Ducey Says Investment in Hypersonic Flight is Ticket to the Future

Dec. 1, 2021 - $1.5M Advances Hypersonics Research and Technology

Nov. 30, 2021 - Media Advisory: UArizona Hockey to Play at New Iceplex in 2024

Nov. 29, 2021 - UArizona President Urges Caution as Omicron Variant Causes New Concern

Nov. 29, 2021 - RSVP for Virtual University Status Update Today (Nov. 29)

Nov. 29, 2021 - RSVP for Virtual University Status Update Nov. 29

Nov. 23, 2021 - UArizona Postdoc's 50-Mile Run for Indigenous Scientists Featured in Patagonia Film

Nov. 23, 2021 - UArizona Team Creates Instrument to Study Invisible Clouds that Warm Earth

Nov. 22, 2021 - UArizona Sets Record for International Student Enrollment

Nov. 19, 2021 - Age of Empires IV Players Eligible for UArizona Credit Through History Department Collaboration

Nov. 19, 2021 - Ruffing It: UArizona Researcher Talks Dogs With Actor Jeff Goldblum

Nov. 18, 2021 - Evidence Points to Animal Market, Not Lab, as Epicenter of Pandemic

Nov. 18, 2021 - Researchers Develop Ultra-Thin 'Computer on the Bone'

Nov. 17, 2021 - 'Back to the Rez': Students Write and Star in Navajo-Language Play

Nov. 17, 2021 - Delivery Robots are Ready to Take Your Order

Nov. 16, 2021 - New Center Will Address Native American Disability Challenges

Nov. 16, 2021 - Ever Been Lost in the Grocery Store? Researchers are Closer to Knowing Why it Happens

Nov. 16, 2021 - Newsweek Ranks UArizona Among America's Best for Online Learning

Nov. 16, 2021 - Media Advisory: UArizona Astronomer to Participate in Webb Telescope Media Briefing

Nov. 15, 2021 - Reminder: RSVP for Virtual University Status Update Today (Nov. 15)

Nov. 15, 2021 - UArizona Leaders Stress Vaccination, Testing and Mental Health Care Ahead of Holidays

Nov. 15, 2021 - Compound Developed at UArizona Health Sciences Provides Innovative Pain Relief

Nov. 12, 2021 - RSVP for Virtual University Status Update Nov. 15

Nov. 12, 2021 - Study Identifies Breast Cancer Treatment Disparities Among Indigenous Women

Nov. 11, 2021 - Near-Earth Asteroid Might be a Lost Fragment of the Moon

Nov. 10, 2021 - Global Temperatures Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today's Warming 'Unprecedented'

Nov. 9, 2021 - Media Advisory: Thermal Vacuum Chamber Delivery to Applied Research Building Site

Nov. 8, 2021 - Helping Women Overcome Discrimination in STEM

Nov. 5, 2021 - UArizona Alumnus R. Ken Coit Commits $50M to Advance College of Pharmacy

Nov. 3, 2021 - School of Theatre, Film & Television Ranked No. 7 Among Public Universities in The Wrap's Top 50 Film Schools

Nov. 3, 2021 - UArizona Strengthens Support for Local Vets Through Operation Hat Trick

Nov. 2, 2021 - UArizona Ranks No. 1 for Doctoral Degrees Awarded to Native Americans

Nov. 2, 2021 - Media Advisory: Class of 2020 Graduation Celebration

Nov. 1, 2021 - A Life Less Obvious: Study Sheds Light on the Evolution of Underground Microbes

Nov. 1, 2021 - Media Advisory: UArizona Leadership to Announce Transformational Gift to the College of Pharmacy, Unveil New Name

Nov. 1, 2021 - Presidential Nominee, UArizona Alumna Sees Storytelling as Way of Life

Nov. 1, 2021 - Study Casts Doubt on Theory That Women Aren't as Competitive as Men

Oct. 29, 2021 - No University Status Update on Nov. 1

Oct. 28, 2021 - Media Advisory: NASA to Hold Media Briefings Leading up to James Webb Space Telescope Launch

Oct. 27, 2021 - Distinguished UArizona Alumni to be Honored During Homecoming

Oct. 27, 2021 - Study Shows Vaccine Protects Dogs Against Valley Fever

Oct. 27, 2021 - UArizona Ranked in Top 10 for Space Science on Latest US News Best Global Universities List

Oct. 27, 2021 - UArizona Named 2021 Fulbright HSI Leader

Oct. 27, 2021 - Homecoming Returns to UArizona Campus

Oct. 27, 2021 - Astronomers Discover Massive Galaxy 'Shipyard' in the Distant Universe

Oct. 26, 2021 - Media Advisory: Constitutional Law Expert Jamal Greene to Kick Off College of Law Speaker Series, Discuss How Rights Go Wrong

Oct. 26, 2021 - UArizona Ranks Among EPA's Top University Green Power Users

Oct. 26, 2021 - UArizona Welcomes Tribal Leaders From Across U.S. for Two-Day Summit on Education

Oct. 26, 2021 - Researchers Develop Tools to Listen, Talk to Plants with $25M from NSF

Oct. 25, 2021 - UArizona-Led Team Finds Nearly 500 Ancient Ceremonial Sites in Southern Mexico

Oct. 21, 2021 - Astronomers Provide 'Field Guide' to Exoplanets Known as Hot Jupiters

Oct. 20, 2021 - Changing Ocean Currents Are Driving Extreme Winter Weather

Oct. 19, 2021 - UArizona Art Exhibition Explores Universal Subject of Food

Oct. 19, 2021 - RSVP for Virtual University Status Update Aug. 30

Oct. 19, 2021 - Chemistry Building Renovation, Construction Will Create New Collaborative Learning Spaces

Oct. 18, 2021 - Media Advisory: Groundbreaking for Chemistry Building Renovation and New Facility Dedicated to Collaborative Learning

Oct. 18, 2021 - UArizona Employees Must Upload Proof of Vaccination by Dec. 8

Oct. 14, 2021 - RSVP for Virtual University Status Update Oct. 18

Oct. 14, 2021 - Who's Been Kissing Who? Prairie Dog 'Greet Kisses' Reveal Complex Social Networks

Oct. 14, 2021 - COVID Curriculum Brings Science Home for High School Students

Oct. 13, 2021 - UArizona Shares in $5M Grant to Support Latino Humanities Studies

Oct. 13, 2021 - Understanding the History and Traditions of Día de los Muertos

Oct. 13, 2021 - Entendiendo la Historia y las Tradiciones del Día de los Muertos

Oct. 12, 2021 - Life on LEO: Plants to be Added to the Landscape Evolution Observatory at Biosphere 2

Oct. 12, 2021 - UArizona Astronomers to Help NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Peer into Space's Past

Oct. 11, 2021 - No University Status Update Today

Oct. 9, 2021 - UArizona Names W.A. Franke Honors College in Recognition of $25M Gift

Oct. 8, 2021 - Engineering Students Get Cooking With Homemade Solar Ovens

Oct. 8, 2021 - Engineers 3D-Print Personalized, Wireless Wearables That Never Need a Charge

Oct. 7, 2021 - UArizona Chemists Develop Flame Retardant Sulfur Plastics from Fossil Fuel Waste

Oct. 6, 2021 - Media Advisory: Announcing New Name for UArizona Honors College

Oct. 6, 2021 - UArizona Partners on $10M USDA Grant to Expand Research on Growing Crops Under Solar Panels

Oct. 6, 2021 - New Research on Tropical Cyclone Extremes Could Aid in Disaster Planning

Oct. 6, 2021 - Highly Porous Rocks Responsible for Bennu's Surprisingly Craggy Surface

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The University of Arizona, a land-grant university with two independently accredited medical schools, is one of the nation's top public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report. Established in 1885, the university is widely recognized as a student-centric university and has been designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. The university ranked in the top 20 in 2021 in research expenditures among all public universities, according to the National Science Foundation, and is a leading Research 1 institution with $824 million in annual research expenditures. The university advances the frontiers of interdisciplinary scholarship and entrepreneurial partnerships as a member of the Association of American Universities, the 71 leading public and private research universities in the U.S. and Canada. It benefits the state with an estimated economic impact of $4.1 billion annually.

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