University of Arizona in the News

In his new memoir, Prince Harry talks about taking psychedelics to deal with the ongoing pain over the death of his mother. Grief is not a mental illness; it is a normal human experience that comes after the loss of a loved one. However, if the grief has not improved at all after a year and is affecting a person's ability to function, a diagnosis of prolonged grief, sometimes called complicated grief, might be warranted.

Many Gen Zers have rejected traditional credit in favor of new-age layaway programs. "We have sort of indoctrinated younger borrowers in the idea that having credit-card debt is bad," said University of Arizona marketing professor Anastasiya Ghosh. Ghosh's research involves polling consumers about which method of spending makes them feel the most guilty. "Credit cards are always the worst," she said. Conversely, when given the option between (a Buy Now, Pay Later program) and debit, shoppers made no moral distinction.

Grief can trigger a number of cognitive, behavioral and physiological changes. Experts say there are strong evolutionary elements to how and why we endure grief. "Grief as a response may have evolved originally as a response to separation," said University of Arizona associate professor of psychology Mary-Frances O'Connor.

University of Arizona Regents Professor Emeritus of Law Robert Glennon discusses Arizona's water future, its present situation and what we can learn from its past.

Arizona Board of Regents chair-elect Fred DuVal writes the state of the university is "strong – with even more to come" and that President Robert C. "Robbins is on track to be one of the most successful and consequential presidents of UArizona in recent memory."

The University of Arizona Superfund Research Center is among the agencies that have conducted extensive water and soil quality testing on the Animas and San Juan rivers in Colorado in the wake of the 2015 leak of contaminated water from the Gold King Mine near Durango, Colorado. Karletta Chief is a professor of environmental science at the University of Arizona, an extension specialist and the community engagement core lead at the university's Superfund Research Center.

New research suggests that even at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels, the Earth will lose nearly half of its glaciers to climate change in the coming decades. "The glacier areas around the globe are quite varied and have unique responses to the changing climate," said University of Arizona assistant professor of geosciences Christopher Harig, who was not involved in the latest research. "So there has been a rapid advance in glacier modeling to really capture what is happening in the different settings."

Rebecca Senf, chief curator at the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography, has worked with the images of fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon on a handful of occasions during my 16-year tenure. Senf writes that Avedon's portraits include so many rich details that they can feel more revealing than seeing someone in person.

The Hankyoreh, a daily newspaper in Seoul, visited the College of Education's Worlds of Words as part of a feature story exploring children's literature.

In 2020, University of Arizona professor of anthropology Takeshi Inomata used lidar data to spot Aguada Fénix – nearly 500 seemingly standardized pre-Columbian structures across a broad area of southern Mexico that date back to between 1000 and 800 B.C.E., before direct archaeological records of Maya writing and calendar systems.