University of Arizona in the News

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.

Robert Glennon, Regents Professor and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, writes that climate stresses are raising the stakes for interstate water disputes.

Mordecai I. Brownlee, the vice president of student success at St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas, writes that through institutional commitment like that of model institutions such as the University of Arizona, Hispanic Serving Institutions will be best positioned to realize student success and help their students achieve the dream of economic mobility.

Migrants trekking across the Arizona borderlands have died at higher rates in the past two decades since stepped up enforcement began funneling them into remote, hostile desert and mountain regions, a sweeping new analysis concluded Monday. The report by the University of Arizona Binational Migration Institute provides a multidiscipline look at migrant border death investigations in Arizona over 30 years.

In a first-of-its-kind coalition to accelerate climate change action, and with help from University of Arizona researchers, a new nonprofit organization called Carbon Mapper is launching a program to improve scientific understanding of global methane and carbon dioxide emissions.