University of Arizona in the News

Researchers at the University of Arizona will be launching a study of how prone Hispanic children are to asthma in Tucson compared with their peers on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Sonora.

Chief executives have signed countless statements in support of social causes over the last few years. Experts discuss whether they make a difference. Nooshin Warren, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Arizona, anticipates seeing even more of these public statements. The more consumers come to expect businesses to weigh in on issues that matter to them, the more investors will see such activism as an extension of company interests and not a diversion from them.

In the film "Quantum of Solace," Daniel Craig's second film in the James Bond canon, businessman-villain Dominic Greene (played by Mathieu Amalric) is not after oil or diamonds. Instead, Greene is conspiring with coup-craving General Medrano in exchange for one simple gift: Bolivia's water. "What happens with climate change is that there's less precipitation in most of the western mountains," said Robert Glennon, a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona James E.

Dogs may have earned the title "man's best friend" because of how good they are at interacting with people. Those social skills may be present shortly after birth rather than learned, a new study by University of Arizona researchers suggests.

Most of the country's schools and day cares are preparing to reopen this fall for fully in-person instruction and care. Experts discuss the basic rules around masks, social distancing and vaccinations. "Anyone can refuse to answer the question, but they should be prepared to be treated as if they are unvaccinated," writes Sarah Whitley Coles, a University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix professor, in Dear Pandemic, a website and newsletter that offers family-friendly medical advice.

Experts say the birthrate is falling for American women in their 20s, especially in places where the local economy is booming. In Arizona, Hispanic women made up approximately 60% of the total decline in births in the state since 2007, according to a University of Arizona analysis.

Dogs may have earned the title "man's best friend" because of how good they are at interacting with people. Those social skills may be present shortly after birth rather than learned, a new study by University of Arizona researchers suggests.

Mary-Frances O'Connor is a researcher and professor of psychology at the University of Arizona. For more than 20 years, she has been focused on understanding emotions – primarily as they relate to those who have lost loved ones. Now, O'Connor wants to better understand how people who have lost loved ones during the pandemic experience grief.

A research study run by the National Institutes of Health has turned up evidence of possible coronavirus infections in the United States as early as December 2019, weeks before the first documented infection in this country. The earliest result from Illinois, when coronavirus cases were only beginning to spread in Wuhan, China, is the most likely candidate for a false positive, said Michael Worobey, a professor and head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.

Menopause changes women's brains – but many of the changes are temporary, and the brain eventually compensates for some of them, according to new research. In one of the first studies to take an in-depth look at brain changes in healthy women before and after menopause, researchers from Weill Cornell and the University of Arizona found that the menopause transition changes the brain's structure, energy consumption and connectivity.