Today U of A faculty and staff nationally recognized with presidential honors The prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Mentoring and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers highlight the university's commitment to fostering excellence in teaching, research and community impact.
Today Do women talk more than men? It might depend on their age Researchers found that women between the ages of 25 and 65 – the life stages of early and middle adulthood – spoke on average 3,000 more words per day than their male counterparts.
Today Bryce Wilson wins prestigious Churchill Scholarship Each year, only 18 student across the U.S. are awarded Churchill Scholarships, which supports undergraduate students who wish to pursue a year of master's degree study in science, mathematics and engineering at Cambridge University.
Jan. 29, 2025 Asteroid Bennu comes from a long-lost salty world with ingredients for life Two research publications by the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team suggest that conditions for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.
Jan. 24, 2025 Spectra from a carbon dioxide world: Astronomers unlock the atmospheric secrets of a 'new class of planet' The most common types of planets in the Milky Way have long been shrouded in mystery, and some of them may be very different than astronomers imagined, according to a team of researchers probing the atmosphere of planet GJ 1214 b.
Jan. 21, 2025 Arizona Online earns several strong placements in latest ranking from US News & World Report Arizona Online ranks No. 12 among online bachelor's degree programs and ranks No. 5 on the Best Online Bachelor's Programs for Veterans list.
Jan. 21, 2025 Partnership with Tohono O'odham Community College gives students path to public health degree A transfer pathway to the Zuckerman College of Public Health will enable Tohono O'odham Community College students to expand their career potential.
Jan. 21, 2025 New research examines impact of Disney's 'The Living Desert' A paper by U of A associate professor Susan Swanberg explains how the Oscar-winning 1953 film, shot in Tucson, failed to live up to its claim as a "true-life adventure."
Jan. 17, 2025 U of A astronomers capture unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action U of A astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared.
Jan. 16, 2025 NASA's Pandora mission one step closer to probing alien atmospheres, with mission operations based at U of A The exoplanet mission, which will study of at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars, has cleared an important milestone with the completion of its spacecraft bus.