Oct. 6, 2021 UArizona Partners on $10M USDA Grant to Expand Research on Growing Crops Under Solar Panels UArizona researchers are part of a national team analyzing how the practice of growing crops under solar panels can best be implemented across the country.
Oct. 6, 2021 Exploring the History of Latinos in U.S. Baseball A UArizona doctoral student in the Department of History was inspired by his own family's past to examine the relationship between racial identity and sports in the United States.
Sept. 29, 2021 Learning About the Complexity of Coffee From Crop to Cup As the world celebrates International Coffee Day on Oct. 1, UArizona students will be learning about the complexity of coffee in the new course Food 353: Coffee from Crop to Cup.
Sept. 28, 2021 Compassion Will Be the Focus of In-Person Downtown Lecture Series The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences' annual series returns to an in-person format this year, with lectures at 6 p.m. every Wednesday in October at the Fox Tucson Theatre.
Sept. 23, 2021 Earliest Evidence of Human Activity Found in the Americas Footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico confirm human presence over at least two millennia, with the oldest tracks dating back 23,000 years.
Sept. 22, 2021 Those Earrings Are So Last Year – But the Reason You're Wearing Them is Ancient Shell beads found in Morocco are at least 142,000 years old. Archaeologists say they're the earliest known evidence of a widespread form of human communication.
Aug. 30, 2021 Grant Funds Rape Forensic Exam Program at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson The nearly $500,000 in funding also helped create a Sexual Assault Response Team with experts from the university, hospital and community to ensure the program meets survivor needs.
Aug. 4, 2021 Satellite Data Reveals Increasing Proportion of Population Exposed to Floods Worldwide The proportion of the population exposed to floods has grown by 24% globally since the turn of the century, new research finds. That's 10 times more than scientists previously thought.
July 21, 2021 Olympics Then and Now This year's Olympics differ from past Games in two major ways: They are the first to be postponed due to a pandemic, and they are the first to be held without spectators, says ancient Olympics expert David Gilman Romano.
July 14, 2021 Professor's Underwater Tent Invention to Appear on Shark Week The portable inflatable Ocean Space Habitat, co-invented by UArizona professor Winslow Burleson, allows occupants to essentially camp out underwater.