May 1, 2019 $36,250 in Prizes Awarded at Engineering Design Day The top team won the $5,000 grand prize for designing a system to help lost hikers find their way home using a mesh network of solar-powered beacons and a cellphone app.
May 1, 2019 UA Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in STEM disciplines.
May 1, 2019 UA Launches Online Community for Wildcats The Bear Down Network will serve as an online gathering place for current UA students, alumni, and UA faculty and staff.
May 1, 2019 UA Sophomore Named Student Regent Anthony Rusk, a double major studying neuroscience and philosophy, politics, economics and law, has been appointed as a student regent to the Arizona Board of Regents.
May 1, 2019 Liverman Testifies Before House Climate Committee UA geographer Diana Liverman outlined the impacts of global warming to the Southwestern U.S. and emphasized the urgency of reducing emissions to limit warming.
May 1, 2019 Education Majors Learn Global Lessons from Student-Teaching Internationally The UA College of Education's International Student Teaching Program places elementary education majors in classrooms in China, Norway and Mexico.
April 29, 2019 What Deep Learning Reveals About Saturn’s Storms A "deep learning" approach to detecting storms on Saturn show the vast regions affected by storms and that dark storm clouds contain material swept up from the lower atmosphere by strong vertical winds.
April 29, 2019 Researchers Find Ice Feature on Saturn’s Giant Moon While searching for the origins of Titan’s methane and the organics that coat its surface, UA researchers made the unexpected discovery of a large ice feature on Saturn's largest moon.
April 29, 2019 Climate, grasses and teeth: the evolution of South America mammals Armadillos as big as Volkswagens and other grass-eating mammals became more diverse in South America about 6 million years ago because of shifts in atmospheric circulation.
April 29, 2019 Ashes of a Dying Star Hold Clues about Solar System's Birth A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their lives and provide the building blocks of new stars and planets.