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The University of Arizona Yuma Receives USDA Grant to Build the Next Generation of Agriculture Workers
Thursday, November 30, 2023
The University of Arizona Yuma and three partner colleges have been awarded a USDA grant to equip the next generation of highly skilled agricultural workers and reduce barriers for Hispanic students seeking a bachelor's degree in the career areas of agriculture.
UArizona named one of the nation's top 'green colleges'
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
The university was named in the top 50 of the Princeton Review's 2024 "Guide to Green Colleges." It also ranked 17th among both the highest-research and public universities in the nation.
OSIRIS-REx flies on as OSIRIS-APEX to explore a second asteroid
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
NASA extended the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission, which has since been renamed OSIRIS-APEX. The spacecraft will study another potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid named Apophis.
UArizona earns seventh top 10 global ranking in water resources
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
The University of Arizona is ranked No. 2 in the U.S. and No. 8 in the world in water resources, according to the 2023 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
First look at Bennu sample reveals carbon, water
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
The latest findings from NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission support scientists' theory that asteroids rich in carbon and water may have delivered the essential building blocks of life and made Earth habitable.
The last required piece of the world's largest telescope takes shape at UArizona
Friday, September 29, 2023
The Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory will start fabrication in the final stage to complete the Giant Magellan Telescope. It marks a milestone in the search for other, potentially Earth-like planets and the exploration of the universe.
University of Arizona ranks 22 on list of top 100 U.S. universities granted utility patents
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
The University of Arizona ranked No. 22 among the top U.S. universities granted utility patents in 2022, according to a list published by the National Academy of Inventors.
UArizona scientists investigate new frontiers of sound with $30M center
Thursday, September 7, 2023
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.
UArizona experts suggest solutions to encourage food, water and economic security in a changing climate
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins created a commission to identify solutions to the challenges facing Arizona agriculture in a rapidly changing climate. The recommendations are outlined in a new report.
Soils in drought stress leak more volatile organic compounds into the atmosphere
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Microbes do a lot under the soil surface that can't be seen with the naked eye, but even tiny soil microbes are feeling the stress of hotter and drier conditions. These microbes release more volatile organic compounds into the atmosphere in response to drought stress, a new study conducted at the Biosphere 2 rainforest finds.
Pass the salt: This space rock holds clues as to how Earth got its water
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
The discovery of tiny salt grains in a sample from an asteroid provides strong evidence that liquid water may be more common in the solar system's largest asteroid population than previously thought.
UArizona engineers lead $70M project to turn desert shrub into rubber
Monday, May 8, 2023
The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Bridgestone, focuses on growing and processing guayule (pronounced why-OO-lee), a hardy, perennial shrub that could be an alternative source of natural rubber.
Becoming a multiplanetary species: Crew completes first mission in pressurized habitat at Biosphere 2
Friday, May 5, 2023
A four-person crew sealed themselves in an air-tight pressurized habitat, called the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars, for six days to practice what it might be like to live on the surface of another celestial body.
Work has begun on the plan that will get the University to carbon-neutral by 2040
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Efforts are underway to wean the University of Arizona off fossil fuels and go carbon-neutral by 2040 – perhaps even sooner. As a first step toward that goal, the Office of Sustainability is leading the development of the University's first Sustainability and Climate Action Plan.
Scientists develop new way to measure wind
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Atmospheric scientists have developed an algorithm that uses data from water vapor movements to measure wind. This could help predict extreme events like hurricanes.
How cities use energy to regulate temperature – just like mammals
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
A UArizona undergraduate looked at cities as living things to investigate how human energy use changes with rising temperatures. Her research could help save lives from heat waves.
Optical switching at record speeds opens door for ultrafast, light-based electronics and computers
Monday, March 20, 2023
Imagine a home computer operating 1 million times faster than the most expensive hardware on the market. Now, imagine that being the industry standard. UArizona physicists hope to pave the way for that reality.
UArizona researchers awarded $1.2M to explore farming at existing solar power sites
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
A $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy supports a UArizona agrivoltaics project that will examine how crop production and livestock grazing can flourish at existing commercial solar farms.
USDA awards over $4.7M to support 'climate-smart' food production
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
The Arizona Partnership for Climate-Smart Food Crops will promote climate-smart food production practices and help farmers reduce water consumption and carbon emissions.
$11M Energy Frontier Research Center to advance molecular-level solar science
Monday, August 29, 2022
Chemical and environmental engineering professor Erin Ratcliff will lead a national collaboration to create solar fuels and storage technologies that are more durable and sustainable, but less expensive.
Small but mighty: How UArizona researchers are harnessing the power of algae to capture carbon
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
A team of University of Arizona researchers is working to scale up production of carbon-absorbing marine algae in an effort to curb the worst impacts of climate change.
Study finds large new source of greenhouse gas emissions
Friday, February 4, 2022
Researchers discovered hundreds of large bursts of methane from oil and gas production activities across the globe. The bursts account for 10% of global oil and gas methane emissions and are missing from most greenhouse gas emissions inventories.
Future forests will have smaller trees and soak up less carbon, study suggests
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
By combining tree-ring data with U.S. Forest Service data, UArizona researchers have captured a more complete picture of what will drive future tree growth amid climate change. They predict individual tree growth will decline by as much as 91%.
‘Punctual Urbanisms’ Framework Proposed by UArizona Researchers Clarifies Small-Scale Urban Planning Interventions
Monday, January 10, 2022
Guerrilla urbanism. Lighter, quicker and cheaper. Insurgent urbanism. Pop-up urbanism. These are just some of the 16 terms used widely, though rarely evenly, for rapid planning responses to urban problems.
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