University of Arizona in the News

Additional students are expected to be on the University of Arizona campus this week as more in-person instruction gets underway.

Rita Stubbs, an assistant coach for the University of Arizona's volleyball team, helped establish the Pac-12 Diversity Mentorship Program to give minorities the resources to develop, build networks and learn from current, successful coaches.

Through a National Institutes of Health program called "All of Us," tribal nations across Indian Country are pushing federal scientists to conduct disease research that serves Indigenous peoples in a meaningful way. "We're concerned about access to data as well as release of data without tribal permission," said Stephanie Russo Carroll (Ahtna-Native Village of Kluti-Kaah), a professor in the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Agrivoltaics, the co-locating of agriculture and solar photovoltaic panels, offers a possible solution, with University of Arizona-led research reporting positive impacts on food production, water savings and the efficiency of electricity production.

Astrophysicist Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil discovered an extremely odd-shaped galaxy in the background of a broad survey of the sky. The galaxy in question had a central body surrounded by an elliptical outer ring of stars, unconnected to the core. This is an extremely rare phenomenon – 1 in 1,000 galaxies take on this configuration, conservatively. But Mutlu-Pakdil looked closer and lo and behold – the galaxy had not one, but two rings – a completely new kind of galaxy.

Tatyana Bresler, a member of the American Institute of Architects, the AIA Southern Arizona 2021 president-elect, and the principal architect at Eglin+ Bresler Architects, writes about why the University of Arizona campus is her favorite place in Tucson. "Every visit is a treat, an opportunity for inspiration, a possibility to stretch the wings of imagination, and to glimpse into the intriguing future."

Black and Hispanic people and people with low incomes are more likely to live in areas at high risk of flooding from natural disasters than white and Asian people, according to a new study led by the University of Arizona.

An article examines the lack of female voices in media coverage of and policy debates on the coronavirus pandemic. Within the sciences, this dynamic threatens decades of work to close the gender gap, said Saskia Popescu, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Arizona, as women may struggle after the pandemic to compete for jobs and grants with male colleagues who have accrued more professional visibility.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can relieve pain, according to a new study by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers.

The University of Arizona's choral programs are adjusting their rehearsals and performances amid the COVID-19 pandemic.