June 11, 2021 New School of Mining and Mineral Resources Will Take Holistic Approach Jointly housed in the College of Engineering and the College of Science, the school will offer training in areas such as data science, business, social sciences, public health and law.
June 9, 2021 Asteroid 16 Psyche Might Not Be What Scientists Expected New research by a UArizona undergraduate finds that asteroid 16 Psyche, the target of an upcoming NASA mission, may not be as metallic or dense as predicted.
June 8, 2021 Organic Molecules Offer Clues About Dying Stars and Outskirts of the Milky Way UArizona researchers have observed, in unprecedented detail, organic molecules in planetary nebulae. Their work sheds new light on how stars form and die.
May 27, 2021 Map of 226M Galaxies Provides Unprecedented Look at the Evolution of the Universe An international team of scientists, including several from UArizona, has completed the largest-ever map of the universe, spanning more than 7 billion light-years.
May 26, 2021 Sustainable Design Expert: The Building You're Sitting in Is the Elephant in the Room Jonathan Bean says buildings are the No. 1 pathway to achieving the Biden administration's new carbon emissions goals. Bean is training the next generation of architects to make climate-positive buildings the new normal.
May 25, 2021 $2M Gift Advances UArizona Space Science Initiatives The gift will allow for the purchase of a nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometer, which the OSIRIS-REx analysis team will use to help find answers to questions about the origins of the solar system.
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 6, 2021 Volcanoes on Mars Could be Active, Raising Possibility that Planet was Recently Habitable The most recent volcanic activity on Mars, which occurred about 50,000 years ago, might have been triggered by a nearby asteroid impact that happened around the same time.
April 28, 2021 UArizona Startups Recognized at IdeaFunding 2021 Competition Three companies based on UArizona technologies were awarded top honors in Tucson's annual business pitch competition.
April 14, 2021 Fruit Flies and Cellular Demise – Zeroing in on the Causes of ALS New UArizona research has identified a previously unknown pattern of protein creation in the motor neurons, which are the cells that malfunction in patients with ALS.