University of Arizona in the News

Doug Hockstad, assistant vice president of Tech Launch Arizona at University of Arizona, said the Tucson-based university launched a record number of startups in fiscal 2020, despite the pandemic.

Prior to the start of the University of Arizona's annual spring football game, Rob Gronkowski set a Guinness World Record for highest altitude catch of an American football. A helicopter hovering 600 feet in the air dropped a football down to the ground for Gronkowski to catch.

University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins writes about the university's plan to hold an in-person commencement ceremony and how the university used innovative methods of testing and tracing to stop the spread of COVID-19 on campus last year.

Scientists know that the intense stress of grieving can affect the body in various ways, but much remains a mystery. Mary-Frances O'Connor, a psychologist who researches grief at the University of Arizona, studies both the psychology of grief and its biological changes in the laboratory and is one of the few researchers who straddles both fields. "Humans are predisposed to form loving bonds, and as soon as you do, your body is loaded and cocked for what happens when that person is gone.

For the sixth year in a row, University of Arizona experts predict an above-average hurricane season over the Atlantic Ocean.

A new study finds that overconsumption, overpopulation and uncertainty about the future are among the top concerns of those who say climate change is affecting their reproductive decision-making.

Bacteria are helping corals in lab tests, but experts say risks rise as treatments are applied in the wild. To help ease some minds, including her own, Raquel Peixoto – who published the first probiotics experiments in 2015 – is planning contained experiments this year at the 700-square-meter artificial ocean in the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2. The tests will give a clearer look at how probiotic treatments might affect other ocean life.

The Global Vaccine Poem, a collaboration between the University of Arizona Poetry Center the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, aims to create meaning from hardship, spread vaccine awareness and build on Wick's Traveling Stanzas project that fuses poetry with everyday life.

New images of Bennu's surface captured during the final flyover reveal dramatic changes to the sample site.

Experts say there has been a growing number of people participating in citizen or community science during the COVID-19 pandemic. Katy Prudic, assistant professor of citizen and data science at the University of Arizona, is interviewed.