Today U of A-led team discovers large ritual constructions by early Mesoamericans Archaeologists working in southeastern Mexico unearthed further signs that a monument first recorded in 2020 is one of the region's most significant ceremonial sites known today.
Today How U of A students braved the summer sun to help communities become heat resilient More than 150 students across all three state universities have been involved in a Department of Energy program to help communities understand and respond to extreme heat. Their work, researchers said, was crucial to gathering data that will inform researchers' advice to city planners.
Oct. 16, 2025 Two U of A antiquities experts named members of the Institute for Advanced Study Eleni Hasaki, an expert on ancient Greek ceramics, and Irene Bald Romano, a scholar of Greek and Roman sculpture, will each spend a semester at the renowned institute in New Jersey.
Oct. 14, 2025 Karletta Chief named to inaugural endowed professorship in Indigenous resilience The Haury Professorship in Indigenous Resilience advances the university's world-class Indigenous environmental resilience research, education and outreach.
Aug. 4, 2025 Tree ring study reveals Western Apache fire management practices buffered climate effects Research shows small, frequent fires by mobile hunter-gatherer groups controlled landscape-scale fire activity.
June 18, 2025 Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed in new U of A study A new paper agrees with findings that footprints discovered in New Mexico are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old – much older than the previously known earliest signs of human culture in the Americas.
June 5, 2025 Masking, distancing and quarantines keep chimps safe from human disease, study shows A U of A primate researcher's latest study could help develop best practices to address the persistent issue in conservation of human diseases infecting primates.
May 14, 2025 Architecture students design and build shelter to serve Tucson's unhoused Students in the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture spent the year designing and building an 8-by-12-foot shelter that could lay the groundwork for a network of similar shelters in Tucson.
April 28, 2025 $2M gift establishes endowed chair to support consciousness studies The U of A will establish the Thomas G. Bever and Stuart R. Hameroff Chair in Consciousness Studies with a gift from Eugene Jhong, a retired Google software developer.
April 17, 2025 U of A researchers discover screen time surprise under grandparents' care A new study by U of A researchers found that nearly half of the time American children spend with their grandparents involves interacting with or watching media on a screen.
