University of Arizona in the News

The Pac-12 CEO Group voted unanimously to postpone all sport competitions through the end of the 2020 calendar year.

University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins discusses how to return to school safely during the coronavirus pandemic.

As heat waves, drought and disease challenge food security in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, scientists are setting their sights on a novel model for desert farming.

"There are programs that change their policies with the wind – this year it's Test A, and this year it's Test B," said Evan MacLean, who directs the canine cognition center at the University of Arizona. MacLean said he is optimistic the wave of research will boost providers' success rates, but he warned that it will take time.

Tumamoc Hill will remain open after university officials saw a marked increase in the number of walkers wearing masks – one of the hill's mandatory guidelines put in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

Andrea Gerlak, a professor in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona, writes that heat waves in the face of COVID-19 serve to heighten existing insecurities and reveal systemic inequities around access to water and energy in the U.S.

Small talk with coworkers in the break room and pleasantries exchanged with office staff are more meaningful than you might think, according to an Academy of Management Journal article. Allison S. Gabriel, an associate professor in the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management, is a coauthor of the study.

Biosphere 2 will offer evening self-guided driving tours around the premises. Visitors will be able to explore Biosphere 2 from their vehicles, guided by a mobile app specifically made for that purpose.

Rather than see productivity plummet with undergraduates out of the lab, Michael Johnson, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, and other researchers have pivoted to focus on renewing their existing grants, analyzing neglected data, and writing up results for publication.

The University of Arizona will receive an initial, five-year, $26 million grant from the National Science Foundation, with an additional five-year $24.6 million option, to establish and lead a new National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center called the Center for Quantum Networks.