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A new U of A women's hockey team took to the ice for its first game last week, marking the first time since 2007 that the university has had a competitive women's team in the sport. 

For first-time voters, the 2024 presidential race is shaping up to be memorable. Political scientist Frank Gonzalez discusses young voter turnout, the Taylor Swift effect and the Gen Z gender gap.

The College of Humanities will celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month with its 15th annual festival, featuring talks and activities that examine the overlap between medicine and the humanities.

At the New Frontiers of Sound (NewFoS), students are working side-by-side with world-renowned researchers on cutting-edge studies in topological acoustics—a new field which exploits the complete range of acoustic wave properties.

Students in the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) have been honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) with an Honor award in the Research Category for their project “Smart Tree Watering in Southern Arizona’s Urban Environment.”

The endowment honors the memory of Meixner, a renowned hydrologist and former head of the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences. McIntosh is as a University Distinguished Scholar, professor and associate head of the department.

A new U of A-led study combines data from ancient shells with advanced climate modeling to shed light on how El Niño weather patterns might change in a warming world.

Tree-ring data reveal that periodic shifts in strong winds high above Earth's surface have driven opposite climates in different parts of Europe for at least the past 700 years.

The Arizona Astrobiology Center received a $1 million gift from Eugene Jhong, a retired Google software developer, to support research on the origins of life and consciousness.

The funding from the Mellon Foundation will provide library and information science graduate students hands-on experience as they help communities record their histories.

A group of researchers, including U of A astronomers, observed the atmosphere of a hot and uniquely inflated exoplanet using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.