Oct. 11, 2018 'Vampire Burial' Reveals Efforts to Prevent Child's Return from Grave Archaeologists found the remains of a 10-year-old child with a stone inserted into his or her mouth at a fifth-century Italian cemetery. They think the stone was meant to keep the child from rising from the dead and spreading malaria to the living.
Oct. 8, 2018 Tucson Meet Yourself Draws on Academic Research, Practice The popular folklife festival Tucson Meet Yourself has a long history with the University of Arizona and is rooted in the rigorous study and practice of folklore.
Oct. 7, 2018 IPCC Global Warming Report Co-Authored by UA Professor UA Regents' Professor Diana Liverman is one of eight U.S. authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new report on global warming.
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. 19, 2018 Downtown Series to Focus on Music, Identity, Place This year’s free Downtown Series at the Fox Theatre will examine how humans have used music to connect, communicate, examine our surroundings and express our identities.
Sept. 19, 2018 Endowment Will Support Children's Literature Collection at UA A $1 million gift from Kathy and Jerry Short will support the UA's Worlds of Words, the nation's largest collection of global literature for children and young adults.
Sept. 10, 2018 Study Reveals Which Transgender Teens Have Highest Suicide Risk Teens who were born female but identify as male, and teens who don't identify as exclusively male or female, are most at risk for attempting suicide, according to new research.
Sept. 4, 2018 Creating a Story Map of Tucson’s Street Murals Laura Sharp is embracing the field of visual geography, from story mapping Tucson's murals to examining how fictional shows shape our understanding of the physical world.
Aug. 22, 2018 Workplace Bias Differs for Single Versus Married Parents Previous research has shown that mothers and fathers experience different biases at work, but a new study suggests these biases disappear for single parents.
Aug. 15, 2018 Bilingual Children to Benefit from Language Assessment Research A $2.5 million National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant is funding research into the diagnosis and misdiagnosis of speech sound disorders in bilingual Latino children.
