University of Arizona in the News

In January, astronomers at the University of Arizona Catalina Sky Survey discovered asteroid 2022 AE1. Not long after, the European Space Agency calculated the 230-foot-wide hunk of rock would collide with Earth in July 2023. However further observations determined the 2022 AE1 would, at its closest, come within about 5.7 million miles of the planet.

Olivia Miller, curator of the Art of the Food exhibit at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, is interviewed. The exhibition uses a variety of mediums to examine food in a variety of non-alimentary contexts, from satire to social commentary. With prominent artists including Damien Hirst, Hung Liu, Analia Saban and Andy Warhol, the collection shows the ways that food is our communities, relationships, cultures and languages.

First Lady Jill Biden visited the Tohono O'odham Nation's San Xavier Health Center March 8, to tout the Biden-Harris administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative. The University of Arizona Cancer Center received $3 million as part of the initiative to cut cancer death rates nationwide by at least 50% over the next 25 years in part by increasing colorectal cancer screening in Arizona’s American Indian communities.

The University of Arizona men's basketball team dominated Pac-12 Conference honors as decided by member coaches. Sophomore guard Bennedict Mathurin took home Player of the Year honors, while junior center Christian Koloko was named both Most Improved Player and Defensive Player of the Year. Sophomore guard Pelle Larsson was tabbed Sixth Man of the Year and first-year coach Tommy Lloyd was selected Coach of the Year.

The University of Arizona Health Sciences received more than $133 million in National Institutes of Health funding in 2020-2021, with several colleges showing improvements in the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research national rankings, released in mid-February. From Oct. 1, 2020, to Sept. 30, 2021, the UArizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy advanced its ranking to No. 6 with $13.8 million in NIH funding.

A spent rocket booster, identified by a University of Arizona team as a leftover from a Chinese mission, slammed into the moon's far side Friday at over 5,000 miles per hour.

Just like people, dogs can develop degenerative nerve diseases which damage their minds. One illness in particular has a direct analogue in dogs: Alzheimer's disease. This story reporting on Canine Cognitive Dysfunction references the University of Arizona's The Dog Aging Project, a nationwide study funded by the National Institute on Aging, along with partner institutions, which seeks to learn more about how to help dogs with the condition and, in the process, provide research data that helps fight human diseases related to senescence.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week released a new report focused on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Two University of Arizona experts contributed to the Working Group II report, which is part of the larger IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

From a huge Russian military convoy snaking its way to Kyiv, to missile strikes and refugee crossings, commercial satellite imagery of the Ukraine conflict helps lift the fog of war, illuminating for the public what was previously the domain of spy agencies. Technologies that can pierce cloud cover and work at night are also coming to the fore, as a growing army of open-source intelligence analysts offer near real time assessments of battleground developments.

Researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory confirm a hefty chunk of space junk expected to meet a fiery end on the far side of the Moon turns out to be a rocket booster from a Chinese mission in October 2014.