March 9, 2022 UArizona engineer leads $1M project to fight vision loss Biomedical engineering and optical sciences professor Dongkyun "DK" Kang is developing a way to diagnose and treat corneal ulcers that's eight times cheaper and 20 times faster than today's gold standard.
March 9, 2022 The Tucson Festival of Books is back! Here's what to expect This weekend, the festival will be held in person for the first time since 2019. The event will feature nearly 300 authors, more than 200 exhibitors and about 30 venues with talks, exhibits, interactive activities and more.
March 8, 2022 Tommy Lloyd, Bennedict Mathurin earn top honors in Pac-12 year-end awards The Arizona men's basketball team won five out of six on the Pac-12's major year-end awards, with sophomore Bennedict Mathurin named conference Player of the Year and Tommy Lloyd named Pac-12 Coach the Year.
March 7, 2022 'Wonder House' makes its debut at SXSW The university's "Wonder House" will make its long-awaited debut this week at SXSW in Austin, offering three days of speakers, musicians and immersive experiences. Highlights will be shared via social media using #UArizonaSXSW.
March 4, 2022 UArizona Health Sciences colleges climb in Blue Ridge rankings of NIH funding The R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, College of Nursing and Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health posted significant gains in research funding, according to rankings compiled by the nonprofit Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
March 2, 2022 UArizona climate adaptation experts contribute to latest IPCC climate report The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week released a new report focused on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Two UArizona experts contributed.
March 2, 2022 UArizona to help NASA understand solar wind and plasma with HelioSwarm mission Plasma is rare on Earth, but it fills the sky. To more deeply understand this state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible universe, NASA's HelioSwarm mission will deploy a "swarm" of spacecraft to gather data. UArizona assistant professor Kristopher Klein will serve as the mission's deputy principal investigator.
March 1, 2022 College of Science Lecture Series returns in person to delve into the mineral world The College of Science Lecture Series returns in person this month to explore how minerals can reveal secrets of the past, power our present and be sustainably mined in the future.
Feb. 28, 2022 Doctoral student uses digital, gaming platforms to share Black history Doctoral student Amber Coleman is working on two passion projects as a student developer with the Center for Digital Humanities – an interactive history of the Dunbar School and a video game exploring the history of the Buffalo Soldiers.
Feb. 28, 2022 Student views of racism in medicine a catalyst for change Echoes of frustration with racism in medicine rebound among students, staff and faculty, as students work for positive change in medical school and health care overall.
