Aug. 6, 2020 No-Clog Toilet Paper, Weight-Loss Pet Food Among Award-Winning Student Innovations Tech Launch Arizona has awarded funding to five-student teams to develop inventions with the goal of bringing them to the public as impactful products to benefit society.
July 20, 2020 Returning to Farming's Roots in the Battle Against the 'Billion-Dollar Beetle' A new study from UArizona entomologists reaffirms the importance of crop rotation and diversification in combating the western corn rootworm's resistance to biotech crops.
July 7, 2020 Early Childhood Education Centers Can Boost Parents' Engagement at Home Early childhood education centers play an important role in encouraging parents to engage in educational activities with their children at the centers and at home, research finds.
June 30, 2020 Superfund Research Center Receives $10.6M to Study Mining Waste, Arsenic-Diabetes Link The UArizona center unites medical and environmental scientists across campus to attack the unique environmental contamination issues facing Arizona.
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.
May 15, 2020 Continuously Active Surface Disinfectants May Provide Barrier Against Spread of Viruses In the battle to slow or prevent the transmission of viruses, such as the novel coronavirus, continuously acting disinfectants could provide a new line of defense, according to a UArizona study.
May 6, 2020 With COVID-19 School Closures, are Children With Developmental Delays Falling Through the Cracks? The earlier the better when it comes to identifying children with developmental delays, but social distancing has made early identification difficult. To help, UArizona Cooperative Extension has started offering free virtual development screenings.
May 4, 2020 Bee Afraid ... 'Murder Hornets' are Here The Asian giant hornet has made its way to the United States. Entomologists Wendy Moore and Katy Prudic help separate fact from fiction on the buzz surrounding the hornet's arrival.
April 28, 2020 UArizona Researchers Pivot to Tackle COVID-19 Thirteen research teams will address various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic with financial support from a rapid-turnaround seed grants supplied through the BIO5 Institute and state funding. The grants amount to more than $500,000.
April 21, 2020 What Helps Couples Weather Financial Storms As many couples feel the financial strain of COVID-19, researcher Ashley LeBaron says financial stress doesn't have to be detrimental to relationships.
