April 28, 2020 Diana Liverman Elected to National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences UArizona Regents Professor Diana Liverman has been elected to two prestigious honoraries for her work on climate change and society.
April 23, 2020 Majority of 2020 Flinn Scholars Choose UArizona The university will welcome 12 of this year's 19 Flinn Scholars, who are among Arizona's highest-achieving high school seniors. This will be UArizona's largest cohort of Flinn Scholars in about a decade.
April 16, 2020 How to Avoid Stereotyping Older Adults During the Pandemic COVID-19 could create a "perfect storm" for reinforcing stereotypes about older people, says UArizona researcher Jake Harwood, who studies intergenerational communication.
April 13, 2020 UArizona Guggenheim Fellow Will Study Conservation in China History professor David Pietz will study changing attitudes in China toward animal life, conservation and environmental change.
April 9, 2020 UArizona Graduate Student Wins National Storytelling Competition Jake Meyers' urban farming in Nairobi video won the grand prize in the 2020 Planet Forward Storyfest contest.
April 9, 2020 Grieving Rituals Lost to COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the cancellation of countless time-honored rituals. Maribel Alvarez in the School of Anthropology says creating new rituals can help ease the pain.
April 8, 2020 UArizona Makers Race to Provide Personal Protective Equipment In response to shortages amid the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty and staff are designing and manufacturing face shields, intubation hoods, respirators and more.
April 1, 2020 Bringing Pandemic Lessons to the (Virtual) Classroom As COVID-19 continues to impact so many aspects of life, faculty in a range of disciplines are finding ways to use the global health crisis as a teachable moment in class.
March 31, 2020 Social Distancing as a Moral Dilemma: Notes From a Medical Ethicist During the COVID-19 outbreak, staying home has become a question of morality. UArizona medical ethicist Laura Howard explains what our behavior during the pandemic says about the complexity of human nature.
March 26, 2020 Do Introverts Have the Edge in Social Distancing? Maybe Not, Psychologist Says Psychology professor Matthias Mehl says social interaction – though not in person – is essential at a stressful time like this, for introverts and extroverts alike.
