Aug. 6, 2025 Taylor Moore, 93, finds community and 'grit' hiking Tumamoc Hill A small gathering on Tumamoc Hill celebrated the 93rd birthday for Taylor Moore, who walks the hill three times a week, and highlighted Tumamoc's role as "the Central Park of Tucson."
Aug. 4, 2025 Tree ring study reveals Western Apache fire management practices buffered climate effects Research shows small, frequent fires by mobile hunter-gatherer groups controlled landscape-scale fire activity.
July 15, 2025 Did a meteor impact trigger a landslide in the Grand Canyon? The meteor impact that created one of Arizona's most recognizable landmarks and the wood and sediments found in a cave in the Grand Canyon are strikingly similar in age. A new study involving a U of A dendrochronologist suggests they could be related.
July 8, 2025 How the U of A's Arizona Meteorological Network feeds data to the National Weather Service The information is valuable to agriculture, public safety and urban planners and even contributes to the weather app on your phone.
June 30, 2025 Alumni couple's $1.5M gift strengthens U of A mining education when it matters most A $1.5 million gift to the Department of Mining and Geological Engineering will increase opportunities for students and spur faculty research.
June 23, 2025 Rooted in tradition, growing with science: Revitalizing Indigenous crops in the Southwest Michael Kotutwa Johnson leads a project at the University of Arizona Campus Agricultural Center that involves low-cost irrigation trials, nutritional analysis of traditional crops and the development of databases to capture the science of Indigenous agricultural systems.
June 18, 2025 Predicting how plants will fare in the heat is not so easy According to researchers at the University of Arizona and The University of British Columbia, small-scale observations of how plants respond to heat don't always translate into an accurate prediction at a larger scale.
June 4, 2025 Water Resources Research Center conference highlights cross-boundary collaboration The Water Resources Research Center's annual conference focused on ways nations, states, tribes and others work together when water crosses borders.
April 16, 2025 U of A hosts inaugural U.S. Mining Summit The summit, held at the University of Arizona on April 3 and 4, rallied academic and business leaders around surging minerals demand amid unprecedented domestic challenges.
March 20, 2025 U of A Center for Innovation generates $664.8M in economic output The U of A Center for Innovation is Arizona's leading business incubator network, helping science and technology startups in Southern Arizona and beyond to bring their ideas to market.
