April 24, 2019 Bird Feathers Offer Insight into How Evolution Works A UA team shows that evolution is driven by dependency on other species within ecological communities – testing a long-held idea of the late UA professor George Gaylord Simpson.
April 24, 2019 Creating Cultural Understanding, One Word at a Time After working to mend U.S.-Afghan relations through language and compassion, UA student Felisa Hervey had a stroke that inhibited her ability to speak before finishing her dissertation.
April 24, 2019 Christiane Amanpour to receive UA Journalism's Zenger Award Renowned CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour will be honored for her extraordinary contributions to press freedom and the people’s right to know at the UA School of Journalism's Zenger Award lunch on Sept. 20.
April 23, 2019 Which Car Crashes Cause Traumatic Brain Injury? New research from aerospace and mechanical engineering professor Samy Missoum details a new method for calculating the probability of a TBI due to a car accident.
April 22, 2019 Ancient Pee Reveals Earliest Stages of Animal Domestication A UA geosciences undergraduate developed an innovative method of using ancient urine salts to reveal when humans in ancient Turkey began shifting from hunting to herding.
April 17, 2019 Four Questions: Here There Be Monsters Astrophotographer Adam Block talks about the galaxy known as Messier 87, home of the supermassive black hole photographed by the Event Horizon Telescope.
April 17, 2019 Peace Corps Prep Program Leads to Service for Two UA Seniors Gina Aniano and Ruth Byrnes took advantage of a new undergraduate program and were rewarded with invitations to serve in the Peace Corps.
April 17, 2019 UA Senior Adds Wildcat Family to Already-Sprawling Family Tree Transfer student Gabriel Martinez found his second family at the UA as a deaf studies major. He plans to pursue a master's degree and eventually work in disability resources.
April 16, 2019 UA to Present Honorary Degrees, Alumni Achievement Award Dr. Mae Jemison and Victor Smith will receive honorary doctorates, and Andy Harris will receive the Alumni Achievement Award during the UA's 155th Commencement on May 10.
April 16, 2019 Powerful Particles and Tugging Tides May Affect Extraterrestrial Life Two new studies by UA space scientists may bring into question the habitability of TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets, three of which are in the habitable zone of space.
