U of A expert working to preserve Native American sign languages

Jan. 16, 2025

Melanie McKay-Cody signing a modernized sign for the term "Indigenous"

A library book she found when she was 10 inspired Melanie McKay-Cody to pursue a career studying Native American sign languages. Now a researcher in the College of Education, she's one of the foremost experts at the intersection of Native and Deaf identity. She shares her story in this article and video.

NASA's SPHEREx mission will use software from the Arizona Cosmology Lab to answer questions about the first moments after the Big Bang

NASA's newly launched SPHEREx mission will use software developed at the Arizona Cosmology Lab to analyze data and help astronomers understand what happened in the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Environmental Science Major Minors in Mineral Resources

Environmental science major Teresa Billick is gaining a unique perspective on sustainability through summer internships with a large mining company. Billick says the skills she is learning are highly transferable and offers thoughtful advice.

James Webb Space Telescope reveals unexpected complex chemistry in primordial galaxy

U of A astronomers are learning more about a galaxy that existed when the universe was just 2% of its current age. One unexpected finding: significant amounts of oxygen.