University of Arizona in the News

In a review paper published in the journal Science, a group of climate experts makes the case for including paleoclimate data in the development of climate models. Such models are used globally to assess the impacts of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, predict scenarios for future climate and propose strategies for mitigation.

Felina Cordova-Marks, a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Arizona Cancer Center focusing on the science of cancer health disparities, has been named the Woman of the Year in the Tucson Hispanic Chamber's annual "40 Under 40" list.

In addition to an increased risk of COVID transmission because of evictions, there are costs associated with these cases that will be borne by taxpayers, analysts say. According, to research by the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the Innovation for Justice Program at the University of Arizona, if one-quarter of the people who are evicted wind up in homeless shelters, taxpayers could face $130 billion in costs for emergency medical treatment, foster care, shelter and juvenile delinquency services.

Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci writes that Americans should postpone all gatherings until at least March to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. "Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona, told me that decades of research on viral immunology suggest we should feel confident that the vaccines will reduce transmission and contagiousness as well."

Cities and universities across the world are looking into using wastewater-based epidemiology to track the spread of COVID-19. Wastewater samples from the Likins dorm on the University of Arizona campus came back positive for COVID-19 in August. "If we had not picked up those two students the next morning, they would have been spreading it all over the community," said Reentry Task Force Director Dr. Richard Carmona. "It gives you an early warning."

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and several epidemiologists and health and science writers for The New York Times discuss their predictions about the months ahead. "I won't take traveling to my extended family for granted," said Alicia Allen, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona.

Fourteen years after its inception and 10 years after NASA officially made it a mission, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission successfully surpassed its most treacherous and rewarding phase: sample collection. WIRED journalist Chris Wright details the ways in which the OSIRIS-REx team kept the sample from leaking out into space.

A University of Arizona-led team has nailed down the temperature of the last ice age – the Last Glacial Maximum of 20,000 years ago – to about 46 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a survey of 2,500 researchers in the U.S., Canada and Europe, Kyle Myers from Harvard and his team found that 32% had shifted their focus toward the pandemic. Neuroscientists who study the sense of smell started investigating why COVID‑19 patients tend to lose theirs. Physicists who had previously experienced infectious diseases only by contracting them found themselves creating models to inform policy makers. Michael D. L. Johnson at the University of Arizona normally studies copper's toxic effects on bacteria.

University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins writes that the COVID-19 vaccine must be stored at ultra-cold temperatures and that the University of Arizona began preparing to meet this distribution challenge months ago.