June 9, 2020 NASA's OSIRIS-REx Discovers Sunlight Can Crack Rocks on Asteroid Bennu Scientists with the UArizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission found that rocks on asteroid Bennu appear to be cracking as sunlight heats them up during the day and they cool down at night.
June 8, 2020 UArizona Joins Network Dedicated to Improving STEM Graduate Education The university is one of six new institutions to join the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, which is dedicated to improving how graduate students are prepared for STEM faculty positions.
June 8, 2020 Should You Buy or Sell a House During the Pandemic? Gary Pivo, a university expert on real estate development, discusses COVID-19's impact on the housing market and what it could mean for prospective buyers or sellers.
June 8, 2020 Trading Pipets for Keyboards: KEYS Internship Goes Virtual The BIO5 KEYS Research Internship Program will take a new form this summer as 49 students engage in computational projects from the safety of their homes.
June 8, 2020 Underrepresented STEM Students Explore New Frontiers of Sound The New Frontiers of Sound Research Experience and Mentorship program provides mentors and research opportunities for underrepresented students interested in graduate school and careers in engineering.
June 3, 2020 Largest, Oldest Maya Monument Suggests Importance of Communal Work Archaeologists have discovered the largest and oldest Maya monument ever recorded. Its construction suggests that Maya civilization developed more rapidly than once thought.
June 2, 2020 Insomnia, Loneliness and COVID-19 Researchers found that loneliness and anxiety-induced insomnia may have contributed to a spike in suicidal thoughts in the United States during April's wide lockdown period.
June 1, 2020 Health Sciences Students Analyze COVID-19 Published Research The College of Medicine – Phoenix is helping evaluate the quality of the research being released rapidly about the virus that causes COVID-19.
June 1, 2020 Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu May Have Formed Directly From Collision in Space Scientists from the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 teams have new theories about why the asteroids Bennu and Ryugu have their signature "spinning-top" shapes.
June 1, 2020 Partnership Provides Crucial Firewood to Hopi and Navajo Homes Closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have made it difficult for tribal members to collect and transport firewood from nearby forests for cooking, boiling water and heating.
