University of Arizona in the News

Colin Denny, a research assistant in the University of Arizona College of Education who grew up on the Navajo Nation, performed a sign language interpretation of the song "America the Beautiful" during the Super Bowl pregame show.

Narrative therapy – writing stories to make sense of traumatic, or just problematic, experiences –  wasn't created to help people cope with the end of romantic relationships but journaling or similar writing exercises can prove useful in those situations. "A very important part of adapting to a breakup is to make some meaning from the experience,” said University of Arizona professor of psychology David Sbarra, who researches social relationships and health.

Amid a historic drought, states dependent on the drought-stricken Colorado River may consider desalination to meet their demand for water. However, desalination plants come with a high price tag, require enormous amounts of energy, and pose problems for the environment. In December, Arizona's water finance board advanced a proposal for a $5.5 billion desalination plant in Mexico's Sea of Cortez that would pump water 200 miles north in a pipeline through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to customers statewide.

The University of Arizona has been ranked the nation's top producer of Fulbright Scholars, setting a new university record for the number of faculty and researchers to receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards.

Since opening in 1977, the University of Arizona's Main Library has served as a central hub for students to study and conduct research, but it hadn't changed much in four decades. The university recently completed major library renovations, and the first two floors have now been transformed into a bright, colorful and airy space full of state-of-the-art technology, flexible furniture with hard and soft seating, and new rooms for classes, quiet study and group collaboration.

University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins sat down with Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs at the InvisionAZ Tech Summit at the Phoenix Open to discuss how to ensure Arizona remains a leader in innovation.

In the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, Turkish student-athlete Dilara Gedikoglu started taking financial donations to assist those suffering in her home country.

The University of Arizona astronomy and space sciences operations generate as much money for the local economy every year as a Super Bowl, according to a new economic impact report. The total yearly economic output of the university's space sciences operations is estimated at roughly $560.5 million. In addition, space sciences activities generate roughly $21.1 million in state, county and municipal taxes every year. For comparison, Visit Phoenix estimates Sunday's Super Bowl will generate $600 million in economic impact for the Phoenix and Arizona economies.

Katharine Jacobs, director of the University of Arizona Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions, writes that the underlying management system of the Colorado River needs urgent attention.

A cemetery in central Italy has the remains of children whose bodies were pinned down with rocks, likely to prevent "revenants" rising from the dead. Dog burials from this period "are often associated with children as tomb protectors and puppies would have been an especially lively and fresh sacrifice with perhaps more potency for remedy for the community," said David Soren, a professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.