Feb. 20, 2019 UA Awarded AAU Grant to Further Active Learning The UA is one of 12 AAU-member institutions to receive funding to further existing efforts to improve undergraduate education as part of the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative.
Feb. 18, 2019 A Tasty Florida Butterfly Turns Sour UA entomologist Katy Prudic led a 15-year study that found that, when living apart from the unsavory bug it mimics, the viceroy butterfly becomes yucky, making biologists rethink old theories about animal mimicry.
Feb. 14, 2019 UA Among Top Producers of Foreign Language Degrees The Chronicle of Higher Education has ranked the colleges that grant the most bachelor’s degrees in foreign languages, with the UA finishing among the top 10 in the nation.
Feb. 14, 2019 UA Study Suggests Possibility of Recent Underground Volcanism on Mars A new study conducted by UA planetary scientists suggests volcanoes may have been recently boiling deep below the surface of the Red Planet.
Feb. 13, 2019 UA Named Top Producer of Fulbright US Scholars Eight UA faculty members have the opportunity to teach and conduct research internationally thanks to Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards.
Feb. 13, 2019 Seeing the Forest Through the Lidar Lens A team of ecologists used lidar technology to scan the leaf canopy of an Amazon forest and found that trees responded to drought in some surprising ways.
Feb. 11, 2019 Common Diabetes Drug May Help Heart Failure Patients A research team at the UA Sarver Heart Center investigated whether metformin, a common diabetes drug, could be an effective treatment for a type of heart failure that affects nearly half of all heart failure patients.
Feb. 11, 2019 How Your Smartphone is Affecting Your Relationship UA psychology professor David Sbarra and his collaborators propose an explanation for why we are so drawn to our smartphones, even when they take us out of the moment in our close relationships.
Feb. 8, 2019 Pulses from a Dead Star, Little Green Men and a Historic Discovery In 1969, UA scientists were the first to detect the optical flash from a pulsar — a stellar corpse thought to pack at least one-and-a-half times the mass of our sun into a neutron star.
Feb. 6, 2019 FIRE Recognizes UA for Commitment to Free Speech The UA is one of 45 institutions to receive a green light from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which rates more than 400 of the nation’s top colleges and universities.
