Dec. 18, 2018 Clinical Trial to Treat Liver Cancer Through Immunotherapy is Accepting Patients A clinical trial at the UA Cancer Center in Phoenix will be the first to use immunotherapy as a primary treatment option for liver cancer.
Dec. 11, 2018 New Valley Fever Clinical Guidelines to Help Avoid Delays in Diagnosis Banner Health has launched new clinical practice protocols developed with input from the UA Valley Fever Center for Excellence to help physicians more quickly diagnose and treat patients with Valley fever infections.
Dec. 10, 2018 UA-Led OSIRIS-REx Discovers Water on Asteroid Bennu Observations made by the spacecraft during its approach of Bennu reveal that the asteroid interacted with water in its early history and is an excellent specimen for the mission, which is slated to return a sample of surface material to Earth in 2023.
Dec. 10, 2018 UA Undergrad Works to ID OSIRIS-REx Touchdown Site Systems engineering and mathematics double major Keara Burke is helping NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft find the perfect place to collect samples on the asteroid Bennu.
Dec. 4, 2018 OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Asteroid Bennu Since its launch on Sept. 8, 2016, OSIRIS-REx has spent two years catching up with asteroid Bennu on its orbit around the sun. The spacecraft's arrival at Bennu on Dec. 3 marks a major milestone, with the mission transitioning from flying toward the asteroid to orbiting around it.
Nov. 28, 2018 We're at Bennu! What's Next? The UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission kicks into high gear while the spacecraft is on its final approach, closing in on asteroid Bennu and scheduled for arrival on Dec. 3. UA mission experts explain what comes next.
Nov. 14, 2018 BENNUVAL! Celebrates the Spirit of Human Curiosity To celebrate the science and stories of space, UA science and humanities professors will join local musicians, artists and guests to present BENNUVAL!, a family friendly variety show.
Oct. 30, 2018 US News: UA a 'Top Global University' A top-10 ranking by the UA space science program led a strong overall showing by the university in the U.S. News & World Report 2019 Best Global Universities rankings.
Oct. 26, 2018 Green Light Therapy Moves to Next Phase of Study: HIV-Related Pain Having found that green light therapy decreases fibromyalgia and migraine pain, UA researchers are beginning a new preclinical study to determine if it can also control HIV-related neuropathic pain.
Oct. 24, 2018 Rare Blue Asteroid Reveals Itself During Fly-By An international team led by Teddy Kareta, a doctoral student at the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, investigated (3200) Phaethon, a bizarre asteroid that sometimes behaves like a comet, and found it even more enigmatic than previously thought.