Dec. 15, 2021 Engaging Vaccine-Hesitant Loved Ones With Empathy As the holidays near, members of the Alliance for Vaccine Literacy offer tips for navigating emotionally fraught conversations with vaccine-hesitant friends and family.
Dec. 14, 2021 Respiratory Tract Bacterial Extracts Could Prevent COVID-19 Researchers from the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson found that the bacterial lysate OM-85 blocked SARS-CoV-2 infection by decreasing the ability of the coronavirus to bind to the lung cell surface receptor ACE2.
Dec. 13, 2021 Here's How to See Comet Leonard, According to the UArizona Researcher Who Discovered It The brightest comet of the year, named after the UArizona researcher who discovered it, is paying one last visit to Earth's neighborhood before leaving the solar system forever.
Dec. 10, 2021 Researchers to Study Why COVID-19 Strikes Asthma Sufferers Less Severely Than Others A University of Arizona Health Sciences-led research team received $7.16 million in federal funding to study how to better control severe asthma and determine why sufferers are less likely to contract COVID-19, influenza and rhinovirus.
Dec. 10, 2021 Study Shows Air Pollution Reduces Benefits of Exercise on the Brain While physical activity benefits brain health in low-pollution areas, physical activity in areas with the most pollution does not confer the same benefits, a new study finds.
Dec. 9, 2021 Vaccines, Asteroids and Puppies: The Top UArizona Stories of 2021 From tracking the origins of COVID-19 to learning how puppies communicate with people, UArizona expertise in a variety of fields made international headlines in 2021.
Dec. 7, 2021 Three UArizona Faculty Members Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors For their technological contributions to engineering and health care, Liesl Folks, Mark Van Dyke and Terry Matsunaga have been recognized with the highest professional distinction for academic inventors.
Dec. 6, 2021 Algorithms are Making Many of Your Decisions – and You Might be OK With That A new study by UArizona law professor Derek Bambauer suggests that most people are content to let big data-produced algorithms decide many – but not all – of their day-to-day decisions.
Dec. 3, 2021 Gov. Ducey Says Investment in Hypersonic Flight is Ticket to the Future The governor joined Raytheon Missiles & Defense president, university leadership, and representatives from the education sector to tour UArizona wind tunnels and discuss the state’s STEM workforce.
Nov. 23, 2021 UArizona Postdoc's 50-Mile Run for Indigenous Scientists Featured in Patagonia Film Lydia Jennings couldn't celebrate her new Ph.D. in 2020 because of the pandemic, so a few months later, she dedicated a 50-mile run to 50 Indigenous scientists. A new film, produced by Patagonia, tells the story.
