Oct. 28, 2018 UA Joins Research Coalition on Climate As part of the University Climate Change Coalition, the UA will collaborate with other top research institutions dedicated to finding practical solutions to climate challenges.
Oct. 24, 2018 Rare Blue Asteroid Reveals Itself During Fly-By An international team led by Teddy Kareta, a doctoral student at the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, investigated (3200) Phaethon, a bizarre asteroid that sometimes behaves like a comet, and found it even more enigmatic than previously thought.
Oct. 19, 2018 UA, USDA Recognize Milestone in Pink Bollworm Research UA scientists have been studying the pink bollworm for decades, with their research playing an integral role in the eradication of one of the world's most devastating crop pests.
Oct. 18, 2018 Helping Minority Students Overcome Barriers to Graduate Education A $1.075 million grant from the National Science Foundation allows the UA to continue helping underrepresented students through the Bridge to the Doctorate Program.
Oct. 17, 2018 UA and Microsoft Create Cloud Infrastructure Partnership to Train Tomorrow's Leaders The new Cloud Infrastructure Renewal Center will focus on developing sustainable data centers and educating students to engineer, operate and manage them.
Oct. 16, 2018 Data on Demand: Creating a Search Engine for Microbiome Sciences The Hurwitz Lab corrals big data sets into a more searchable form to help scientists study microorganisms and how they relate to each other, their hosts and the environment.
Oct. 15, 2018 Tracking the Movement of the Tropics 800 Years into the Past A UA-led research team used tree rings to trace the north-south shifts of the tropics back 800 years. They found that periods of tropical expansion coincided with severe droughts.
Oct. 10, 2018 Drier, Less Predictable Environment May Have Spurred Human Evolution Sediment cores provide evidence of a variable but progressively drying climate coincides with a major shift in stone-tool-making abilities and the appearance of modern Homo sapiens.
Oct. 2, 2018 Facebook Status: Sick. How People Use the Internet to Cope with Illness In a new book, UA communication professor Stephen Rains explores how people diagnosed with serious illnesses turn to social media, online health forums and other digital resources for help coping.
Sept. 27, 2018 Startup Licenses UA-invented Aquatic Animal Growth Assay How can farmers of aquatic animals quickly and efficiently select the top producing stocks for breeding? Benjamin Renquist has invented a new assay that answers this question, offering an easy-to-use assay that has been licensed to startup GenetiRate.
