Dec. 16, 2020 HSI Status Brings Additional $2.3M in CARES Act Funding to UArizona Much of the federal COVID-19 relief funding is being used to increase access to technology equipment and restore some student jobs lost early in the pandemic.
Dec. 15, 2020 What You Need to Know About Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine As Americans began receiving Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine this week, UArizona immunobiologist Deepta Bhattacharya talked about the science, development and safety of the vaccine.
Dec. 15, 2020 UArizona Project to Support Native American Students in STEAM Fields UArizona is partnering with Diné College on a project that aims to provide Native American students with skills, knowledge and confidence to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering, agriculture and math.
Dec. 14, 2020 Customer Behavior is Driving Pandemic Distress for Grocery Store Workers, Report Finds Twenty percent of Arizona grocery store workers surveyed say they have experienced severe levels of mental distress during the pandemic. A major source of that stress: customer behavior.
Dec. 14, 2020 COVID-19, Asteroid Dust and Crane Flies: UArizona's Top Stories of 2020 Preventing a COVID-19 outbreak through wastewater testing, tagging an asteroid and solving a longstanding Maya mystery were all in a year's work at the University of Arizona.
Dec. 11, 2020 'Freezer Farm' Ready to Store More Than 1.6M Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine at UArizona The University of Arizona's ultracold storage facility could play an important role in the state's plan for vaccine distribution.
Dec. 8, 2020 UArizona Professors Elected to the National Academy of Inventors Robert Norwood in optical sciences and Laurence Hurley in pharmacy are the latest UArizona faculty members to receive the prestigious designation.
Dec. 8, 2020 Uncovering the Mind-Body Connection of Touch Inspired by her work at an orphanage in Romania, Dr. Katalin Gothard aims to understand how the brain interprets the social, emotional and physical aspects of touch.
Dec. 8, 2020 Genetically Engineered T Cells Could Lead to Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases UArizona Health Sciences immunobiologists have created a five-module chimeric antigen receptor T cell that is showing early potential to fight Type 1 diabetes.
Dec. 7, 2020 UArizona to Roll Out New COVID-19 Test, Enhanced Requirements in Spring Students who plan to live on campus or attend in-person classes in the spring will be required to test weekly for COVID-19. A new swish-gargle test will allow the university to ramp up its testing efforts.
