University of Arizona in the News

Few people in the U.S. know the mechanics of how to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Additionally, untrained bystanders usually take too long to try find a pulse or they will misidentify their own pulse as the other person's, according to University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center.

Lake Mead will need more than just rainfall to replenish itself. Last year was the driest one yet for the reservoir, and the Bureau of Reclamation estimates 2023 will bring more of the same. "The Bureau of Reclamation's latest studies expect water flows to continue to decline in the Basin this year. It is easy to lose sight of this when we see the heavy rains and flooding in California, and the destruction they have brought to some communities," said University of Arizona professor of geography, development and environment Andrea K. Gerlak.

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.

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 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.

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.