Image U of A celebrates Wildcat wheelchair basketball national champs, prepares to host 2026 national tournament April 18, 2025 The U of A men's wheelchair basketball team took home its first national championship win in March and will host next year's tournament on campus. Read more at University of Arizona News
Image Innovative airflow research highlights noninvasive speech data collection April 17, 2025 The Douglass Phonetics Lab in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is a hub for research and teaching in articulatory and acoustic phonetics, speech perception, psycholinguistics, and speech technology. Full story here
Image U of A researchers discover screen time surprise under grandparents' care April 17, 2025 A new study by U of A researchers found that nearly half of the time American children spend with their grandparents involves interacting with or watching media on a screen. Read more at University of Arizona News
Image U of A hosts inaugural U.S. Mining Summit April 16, 2025 The summit, held at the University of Arizona on April 3 and 4, rallied academic and business leaders around surging minerals demand amid unprecedented domestic challenges. Read more at University of Arizona News
Image Navy funds hypersonic heat reduction research April 15, 2025 The Office of Naval Research selected Kyle Hanquist, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, to receive a 2025 Young Investigator Program award. Hanquist has proposed a solution to a dilemma engineers face in designing ultra-fast aircraft. Full story here
Image Novel treatment approach for language disorder shows promise April 15, 2025 Neuroscientists have combined traditional speech therapy with electrical stimulation of the brain to treat primary progressive aphasia, a condition that causes a decline in language abilities. Read more at University of Arizona News
Image ECE team wins first place in the inaugural AI-Hardware Design League April 11, 2025 AI-HDL brings together students from different backgrounds and five nations to learn about hardware design, artificial intelligence in chip development. Full story here
Image Study sheds light on ancient solar activity using radiocarbon locked in tree-rings April 11, 2025 Analyzing radiocarbon in tree-ring samples, scientists have created the most detailed record yet of solar activity during the first millennium B.C.E. Read more at University of Arizona News
Image U of A-led NASA Aspera mission hits spacecraft milestone April 11, 2025 A mission to probe the mysteries of the faint universe made a major stride toward launch after the completion of the spacecraft "bus" assembly. Read more at University of Arizona News
Image Improving veterans' health through biomedical innovation, AI and implementation science April 8, 2025 Dr. Sairam Parthasarathy testified before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs about the need to turn biomedical advances into clinical solutions. Read more at University of Arizona News