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 28, 2020 Diana Liverman Elected to National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences UArizona Regents Professor Diana Liverman has been elected to two prestigious honoraries for her work on climate change and society.
April 27, 2020 UArizona Partnership with State Begins COVID-19 Antibody Testing The first phase of testing will include 3,000 health care workers and first responders in Pima County, as well as 1,500 members of the general public.
April 24, 2020 Inventors Formulate Material for More Powerful Lasers Inventors at the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences have developed a method for enhancing the performance of optical fiber lasers. UArizona has licensed the technology to startup CMLaser Technologies Inc.
April 24, 2020 History-Making Adventurer and UArizona Alumna to Deliver Commencement Address Alison Levine has summited some of the world's tallest mountains while also climbing the corporate ladder. On May 15, she will address graduating seniors virtually.
April 23, 2020 Majority of 2020 Flinn Scholars Choose UArizona The university will welcome 12 of this year's 19 Flinn Scholars, who are among Arizona's highest-achieving high school seniors. This will be UArizona's largest cohort of Flinn Scholars in about a decade.
April 23, 2020 COVID-19 Has Changed Consumer Behavior. What Does it Mean for the Future? Consumer scientist Sabrina Helm talks about current trends in consumer spending, online shopping and stockpiling and what they might mean for the future of retail.
April 22, 2020 Coronavirus Creates Conditions for Unique Environmental Science 'Global Experiment' Researchers are racing to collect atmospheric and other data, which they can use to determine the extent of the impact of the virus on environmental health.
April 21, 2020 US Oil Prices Plummet. What Does it Mean? Daniel Scheitrum, assistant professor of agricultural and resource economics, explains why U.S. oil prices have fallen deep into the red and what it might take to get back in the black.
April 21, 2020 UArizona Cameras Capture Asteroid Close-Up During OSIRIS-REx Rehearsal The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft got within 200 feet of the asteroid Bennu during a practice run for the NASA mission. The spacecraft will grab a sample from Bennu's surface in late summer.
