University of Arizona in the News

UA honors student Adriana Mitchell is working with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for one month on the Hayabusa2 sample return mission to asteroid Ryugu.

A team of scientists from the UA College of Medicine – Tucson has found that the cytomegalovirus may not weaken, but actually boost our immune system.

A recent UA study suggests that it may be because of the link between higher estrogen levels and lower levels of the sodium proton exchanger NHE1.

The UA's Roberto Rodriguez gave the keynote speech at the third Statewide Summit on Mexican American Studies for Texas Schools.

The UA was awarded a $4 million grant to support the University's training of public health professionals on childhood obesity, mental health care and the opioid epidemic.

Research headed by UA psychologist Peter Helm shows that existential isolation tends to be stronger among men than women.

Retired Army Spc. Anthony Farve said that wheelchair basketball completely changed his life. He is now a member of the UA's wheelchair basketball team.

Most North American forest ecosystems are, at most, 400 or 500 years old, according to Don Falk, a forest ecologist at the UA.

Tyina Steptoe, an associate professor of history at the UA, writes about civil rights activist Ella Baker.

David Sbarra, a professor in the psychology department at the UA, is interviewed about people's addiction to busyness.