Sept. 14, 2018 Research Aims to Ease Psychological Distress in Cancer Patients, Caregivers A four-year National Cancer Institute grant will enable UA nursing professor Terry A. Badger to study a precision approach to decreasing psychological distress in cancer patients and their family caregivers during treatment.
Sept. 12, 2018 New Degree Combines Professional, Cultural Skills A new career-centered degree in the College of Humanities will give students an educational path that integrates professional training and skills in intercultural competence.
Sept. 12, 2018 UA Engineering Students Help a Fellow Wildcat Walk After suffering an aneurysm that left him in a wheelchair 19 years ago, Jeffrey Bristol is getting some assistance in retraining his brain and muscles to walk.
Sept. 11, 2018 Guided Imagery to Be Used in Smoking-Cessation Study Powered by results from her recent See Me Smoke Free study, UA nursing professor Judith S. Gordon hopes to use guided imagery to help underserved smokers harness the power of their minds to help them quit smoking.
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. 10, 2018 Fierce Winds Quench Wildfire-like Star Birth in Far-flung Galaxy Astronomers have detected the most-distant galactic "wind" of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.
Sept. 9, 2018 UA Named One of the Nation's Top 50 Public Institutions The UA earned its highest overall mark in the U.S. News & World Report ranking since 2011, placing 46th among public institutions in the Best Colleges 2019 guidebook.
Sept. 5, 2018 Taking Aim at a Deadly Lung Disease A $4.4 million grant from the Department of Defense will help researchers test two drug candidates for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis – a deadly disease with no cure.
Sept. 5, 2018 Irony Is the New Black Research by Caleb Warren, assistant professor of marketing at the UA, indicates that consuming brands ironically is a way to secretly signal our identity or beliefs to people who know us.
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.
