Oct. 16, 2018 Data on Demand: Creating a Search Engine for Microbiome Sciences The Hurwitz Lab corrals big data sets into a more searchable form to help scientists study microorganisms and how they relate to each other, their hosts and the environment.
Oct. 15, 2018 Tracking the Movement of the Tropics 800 Years into the Past A UA-led research team used tree rings to trace the north-south shifts of the tropics back 800 years. They found that periods of tropical expansion coincided with severe droughts.
Oct. 11, 2018 'Vampire Burial' Reveals Efforts to Prevent Child's Return from Grave Archaeologists found the remains of a 10-year-old child with a stone inserted into his or her mouth at a fifth-century Italian cemetery. They think the stone was meant to keep the child from rising from the dead and spreading malaria to the living.
Oct. 10, 2018 Drier, Less Predictable Environment May Have Spurred Human Evolution Sediment cores provide evidence of a variable but progressively drying climate coincides with a major shift in stone-tool-making abilities and the appearance of modern Homo sapiens.
Oct. 9, 2018 One UA Graduate's Journey From 4-H to Freshly CEO "My parents really valued putting us in situations where we were surrounded by great people," said Michael Wystrach, who was an Arizona 4-H kid long before he was a Wildcat.
Oct. 8, 2018 Tucson Meet Yourself Draws on Academic Research, Practice The popular folklife festival Tucson Meet Yourself has a long history with the University of Arizona and is rooted in the rigorous study and practice of folklore.
Oct. 7, 2018 IPCC Global Warming Report Co-Authored by UA Professor UA Regents' Professor Diana Liverman is one of eight U.S. authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new report on global warming.
Oct. 2, 2018 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Named UA Presidential Scholar Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and photojournalist David Hume Kennerly has been given an honorary appointment as the first UA Presidential Scholar.
Oct. 2, 2018 Facebook Status: Sick. How People Use the Internet to Cope with Illness In a new book, UA communication professor Stephen Rains explores how people diagnosed with serious illnesses turn to social media, online health forums and other digital resources for help coping.
Sept. 27, 2018 The Butterfly Effect and the Future of Teaching Biology In a cross-country collaborative class, a UA professor and a data science specialist help arm students for biology’s big data revolution by incorporating coding into the scientific method.
