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 24, 2020 Pandemic Provides Unique Learning Experience for Journalism Students The pandemic presented a once-in-a-career opportunity for UArizona student journalists who rose to the occasion to cover it, with guidance from faculty and staff.
June 23, 2020 Are You a Hugger? It Might Be Hereditary Affection is genetic for women but not men, a new study finds. Study author Kory Floyd says those who are genetically predisposed to being more affectionate may be struggling with "skin hunger" amid COVID-19 physical distancing.
June 17, 2020 Black Lives Matter and Pandemic Bring Juneteenth Into Focus UArizona historian Tyina Steptoe discusses the history of the holiday that recognizes emancipation, and why more people than ever may celebrate it this year and in the future.
June 15, 2020 UArizona to Offer New Degree in Bilingual Journalism Bilingual journalism is more than being able to ask questions in two different languages. "It's important to understand the history, the economics, the politics, the culture of diverse groups," says associate professor Jessica Retis.
June 10, 2020 From Social Distancing to Disinformation, COVID-19 Shows How History Repeats Three scholars in the UArizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences see several parallels between today's pandemic and ones from centuries past.
June 8, 2020 Should You Buy or Sell a House During the Pandemic? Gary Pivo, a university expert on real estate development, discusses COVID-19's impact on the housing market and what it could mean for prospective buyers or sellers.
June 3, 2020 Largest, Oldest Maya Monument Suggests Importance of Communal Work Archaeologists have discovered the largest and oldest Maya monument ever recorded. Its construction suggests that Maya civilization developed more rapidly than once thought.
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 20, 2020 Striving for an Accurate Census Amid the Pandemic Geographer Jason Jurjevich discusses "hard-to-count" populations in Arizona and how the COVID-19 pandemic has created additional challenges for ensuring an accurate census.
