Sept. 25, 2020 25 Days of 'O-REx' The UArizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission is poised to accomplish a first for NASA: collect a sample from a near-Earth asteroid and bring it back home. As the Oct. 20 collection date nears, here are 25 facts about the mission.
Sept. 24, 2020 Game On: University of Arizona Leaders Discuss Today's Pac-12 Vote The Pac-12 CEO Group met today to decide whether to play fall sports this season. The group of university presidents and chancellors from the Pac-12 schools voted in favor of bringing back fall sports, starting with football.
Sept. 24, 2020 OSIRIS-REx Begins its Countdown to TAG In just a few weeks, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface and collect a sample of the asteroid's rocks and dust.
Sept. 24, 2020 UA Presents Reimagined With a New Name – Arizona Arts Live UA Presents, the university's performing arts presenter, has a new name: Arizona Arts Live. Executive Director Chad Herzog says the rebranding is part of a broader effort to make Tucson an arts destination.
Sept. 23, 2020 Tucson Humanities Festival to Focus on Justice The October series of virtual presentations will include discussions about Black Lives Matter, immigration, health care disparities, student activism and more.
Sept. 22, 2020 NASA to Provide Update on Agency's First Asteroid Sample Collection Attempt NASA will hold a media teleconference to provide an update on the agency's first attempt to make contact with the surface of asteroid Bennu and collect a sample next month.
Sept. 22, 2020 UArizona Downtown Lecture Series Explores the Power of Women The annual College of Social and Behavioral Sciences series will take place virtually this year and explore the themes of fairy tales, gender-based violence, Latinas in politics and more.
Sept. 21, 2020 University to Continue Holding Only 'Essential Courses' in Person Through Oct. 2 While the campus has seen a spike in cases over the last few weeks, Friday's positivity rate was down from last week, and no new students were admitted to isolation housing over the weekend.
Sept. 21, 2020 NASA's OSIRIS-REx to Asteroid Bennu: 'You've Got a Little Vesta on You...' Bits of the asteroid Vesta have been found on the mission's target asteroid Bennu, highlighting the variety of asteroids in the solar system and what it says about its evolution.
Sept. 17, 2020 NSF Grant Accelerates Development for One of World's Most Powerful Telescopes; Test Bed Being Built at UArizona UArizona researchers have been busy building a testbed that essentially consists of a miniature-sized active stand-in for the Giant Magellan Telescope's seven-piece primary mirror.