University of Arizona in the News

Feryal Özel, a leader on the team that captured the first-ever image of a black hole, will be the keynote speaker at the 2020 Women in Analytics conference.

Leila Barraza, an assistant professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, discusses how quarantines are much less effective when expanded to whole cities.

Researchers recently grew organoids of snake venom glands – essentially miniature 3D versions cultivated in lab dishes. Dr. Leslie Boyer, the medical director of University of Arizona's VIPER Institute, called the biotechnology "a potentially wonderful addition to the toolbox of toxins research generally."

Dillinger Brewing Company is releasing its "OSIRIS-REx Recon" beer cans in celebration of the recon phase of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

From the Southern Ocean, professor Joellen Russell is collecting big data that is expected to tell us more about the Earth and its climate.

Megan A. Carney writes that restrictive immigration policies don't affect the flow of immigrants, but they do hurt the people living in the communities where migrants first arrive.

More treatment and fewer arrests for those with drug addictions is the goal of a new program.

According to University of Arizona nutritional scientist Richard Simpson, exercise and stress can both affect the body's immune system.

Research from the Eller College of Management finds that making an effort to feel positive emotions, rather than faking them, can produce personal and professional benefits.

Early morning blue light exposure therapy can aid the healing process of people impacted by mild traumatic brain injury.