Dec. 15, 2021 Engaging Vaccine-Hesitant Loved Ones With Empathy As the holidays near, members of the Alliance for Vaccine Literacy offer tips for navigating emotionally fraught conversations with vaccine-hesitant friends and family.
Dec. 14, 2021 Respiratory Tract Bacterial Extracts Could Prevent COVID-19 Researchers from the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson found that the bacterial lysate OM-85 blocked SARS-CoV-2 infection by decreasing the ability of the coronavirus to bind to the lung cell surface receptor ACE2.
Dec. 10, 2021 Researchers to Study Why COVID-19 Strikes Asthma Sufferers Less Severely Than Others A University of Arizona Health Sciences-led research team received $7.16 million in federal funding to study how to better control severe asthma and determine why sufferers are less likely to contract COVID-19, influenza and rhinovirus.
Dec. 10, 2021 Study Shows Air Pollution Reduces Benefits of Exercise on the Brain While physical activity benefits brain health in low-pollution areas, physical activity in areas with the most pollution does not confer the same benefits, a new study finds.
Dec. 8, 2021 Climate-Only Models Likely Underestimate Species Extinction, Study Finds Ecologists estimate that 15 to 37% of species will go extinct as a direct result of climate change. But when you consider the indirect effects of climate change, extinction rates may be higher, new research suggests.
Dec. 8, 2021 Scouting Ancient Supermassive Black Holes A team led by UArizona astronomers will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine three of the most distant active supermassive black holes known, as well as their host galaxies.
Dec. 7, 2021 Three UArizona Faculty Members Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors For their technological contributions to engineering and health care, Liesl Folks, Mark Van Dyke and Terry Matsunaga have been recognized with the highest professional distinction for academic inventors.
Dec. 6, 2021 Algorithms are Making Many of Your Decisions – and You Might be OK With That A new study by UArizona law professor Derek Bambauer suggests that most people are content to let big data-produced algorithms decide many – but not all – of their day-to-day decisions.
Dec. 3, 2021 Gov. Ducey Says Investment in Hypersonic Flight is Ticket to the Future The governor joined Raytheon Missiles & Defense president, university leadership, and representatives from the education sector to tour UArizona wind tunnels and discuss the state’s STEM workforce.
Nov. 19, 2021 Ruffing It: UArizona Researcher Talks Dogs With Actor Jeff Goldblum Evan MacLean, director of the Arizona Canine Cognition Center, is lucky enough to have a career working with dogs. Recently, he had the opportunity to work with a popular actor as well.
