Dec. 16, 2021 Diverse Plant Water-Use Strategies Make Forests More Resilient to Extreme Drought To paint a clearer picture of how global climate change affects Earth's ecosystems, conducted an unparalleled experiment: forcing the world's only enclosed rainforest – housed in Biosphere 2 – through a four-month-long controlled drought and recovery.
Dec. 16, 2021 Student-Led Initiative Will Launch Satellites as 'Ambassadors for World Peace' The University of Arizona has joined a collaboration with Space Trust – a nongovernmental organization based in the United Kingdom – and the University of Nairobi in Kenya to develop a series of Earth-orbiting spacecraft built by university students.
Dec. 16, 2021 Meet the Husband-and-Wife Team that Helped Get Infrared Astronomy off the Ground Marcia Rieke led the development of one of Webb's powerful infrared cameras. George leads the science team for another instrument on board. Both are Regents Professors at UArizona.
Dec. 13, 2021 Here's How to See Comet Leonard, According to the UArizona Researcher Who Discovered It The brightest comet of the year, named after the UArizona researcher who discovered it, is paying one last visit to Earth's neighborhood before leaving the solar system forever.
Dec. 9, 2021 Vaccines, Asteroids and Puppies: The Top UArizona Stories of 2021 From tracking the origins of COVID-19 to learning how puppies communicate with people, UArizona expertise in a variety of fields made international headlines in 2021.
Dec. 8, 2021 Scouting Ancient Supermassive Black Holes A team led by UArizona astronomers will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine three of the most distant active supermassive black holes known, as well as their host galaxies.
Dec. 8, 2021 Climate-Only Models Likely Underestimate Species Extinction, Study Finds Ecologists estimate that 15 to 37% of species will go extinct as a direct result of climate change. But when you consider the indirect effects of climate change, extinction rates may be higher, new research suggests.
Dec. 7, 2021 Three UArizona Faculty Members Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors For their technological contributions to engineering and health care, Liesl Folks, Mark Van Dyke and Terry Matsunaga have been recognized with the highest professional distinction for academic inventors.
Dec. 3, 2021 Gov. Ducey Says Investment in Hypersonic Flight is Ticket to the Future The governor joined Raytheon Missiles & Defense president, university leadership, and representatives from the education sector to tour UArizona wind tunnels and discuss the state’s STEM workforce.
Dec. 1, 2021 $1.5M Advances Hypersonics Research and Technology Samy Missoum, a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, received $1.5 million to lead the development of a surrogate aerodynamic database, an essential tool in the design of next-generation hypersonic systems.
