University of Arizona in the News

The New Frontiers of Sound Science and Technology Center will focus on topological acoustics, an emerging field in which researchers exploit the properties of sound in ways that could vastly improve computing, telecommunications and sensing.

University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins writes about the university's plan to address the university's financial challenges that he presented to the Arizona Board of Regents on Dec. 13.

If an issue is worth discussing, University of Arizona professor of communication Chris Segrin, a specialist in interpersonal relationships, recommends developing a plan in advance based on specific goals. "Try to avoid using (other people) as a listening board for your own emotions because that translates to very different goals," Segrin said. "'I want to get this off my chest, off my mind,' versus 'There's something I would like to see different, some change.'"

For decades, scientists have used rings from long-lived trees like ponderosa pines to uncover clues about ancient climates. Those analyses helped prove human-made greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and demonstrated modern climate extremes are unprecedented in the last 1,000 years. Now, cutting-edge techniques allow researchers to observe how the rings form in real time.

Forty-seven of the 197 American Bar Association accredited law schools, including the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, have received approval to use the JD-Next program in admissions. The examination, developed at the University of Arizona in 2019, is an innovative and equitable alternative to the traditional LSAT.

A team led by Joana Voigt and Christopher Hamilton at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory combined spacecraft images and measurements from ground-penetrating radar to reconstruct in three-dimensional detail every individual lava flow in Elysium Planitia. The extensive survey revealed and documented more than 40 volcanic events, with one of the largest flows infilling a valley named Athabasca Valles with almost 1,000 cubic miles of basalt.

Hospice workers have lessons to teach the rest of us about how to discuss death. In a new study, researchers led by University of Arizona associate professor of sociology Daniel Menchik spent eight months sitting in on team meetings at a hospice care facility that were also open to patients' families to learn how both groups talked to each other about the impending deaths of patients.

The University of Arizona-led GUSTO mission will send an aerostatic balloon the size of a football stadium into the stratosphere above the South Pole for 55 days to study the Interstellar Medium, the gas and dust between the stars.

Jaclyn Champagne, JASPER postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona, writes about how black holes form and what kinds of astrophysical neighborhoods they grow up in.

The University of Arizona marching band, "The Pride of Arizona," won the 2023 Sudler Trophy, awarded biennially by the Sousa Foundation to collegiate bands that demonstrate "the highest of musical standards and innovative marching routines and ideas, and which has made important contributions to the advancement of the performance standards of college marching bands over a number of years."