Sept. 16, 2021 HydroGEN Project Awarded $5M to Model National Water Resources Using Machine Learning HydroGEN, a UArizona-led project funded by the National Science Foundation's Convergence Accelerator program, will allow researchers to build a national platform for hydrologic forecasting.
July 7, 2021 Researchers Find Evidence of a Coronavirus Epidemic 20,000 Years Ago An ancient coronavirus outbreak in East Asia could help researchers identify viruses that have caused epidemics in the past and may do so in the future.
June 30, 2021 NASA Extends UArizona-Led Asteroid Search Mission For two more years, NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or NEOWISE, will continue its hunt for asteroids and comets – including objects that could pose a hazard to Earth.
June 29, 2021 Construction Begins on UArizona's New Applied Research Building The three-story building will be dedicated specifically to research programs related to the "Grand Challenges" pillar of the university's strategic plan.
June 28, 2021 Socioeconomic Fallout of COVID-19 Threatens Global Coffee Industry COVID-19 has become a new threat to the coffee industry by acting as potential trigger for renewed epidemics of coffee leaf rust – the most severe coffee plant disease in the world.
June 15, 2021 Monsoon Madness: Professional and Amateur Forecasters Invited to Bet on Much-Needed Rain Professional forecasters' predictions for this year's monsoon season are "basically a scientific shrug," according to UArizona climate researchers. Now, members of the public can put their own monsoon predictions to the test in a fantasy monsoon game.
June 11, 2021 UArizona to Lead Mission to Discover Potentially Dangerous Asteroids Infrared astronomy expert Amy Mainzer will lead NASA's NEO Surveyor mission to find, track and characterize yet unseen asteroids and comets that may pose a threat to Earth.
June 2, 2021 UArizona and NASA Identify Methane Super-Emitters in the Nation's Largest Oil Field Fixing just the worst leaks in the Permian Basin oil field could cut emissions of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — by 55 tons an hour, new research finds.
June 1, 2021 UArizona Engineers Demonstrate a Quantum Advantage Researchers in the College of Engineering and James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences have demonstrated how quantum resources can improve technology today.
May 3, 2021 UArizona Cuts Carbon Footprint with All-Renewable Grid-Purchased Power Through an agreement with Tucson Electric Power, UArizona will get all of its purchased energy from two sources: the Oso Grande Wind Farm in southeastern New Mexico and the Wilmot Energy Center solar-plus-storage system south of Tucson.
