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As director of the USA National Phenology Network, Theresa Crimmins engages scientists, natural resource managers and volunteers nationwide in tracking when plants and animals undergo seasonal life cycle events.

One of Mona Arora's current projects is to bring together teams to understand how the COVID-19 response can inform both pandemic and climate preparedness.

The Department of State's Diplomacy Lab gives college students the opportunity to present their recommendations on various topics. Two UArizona classes teamed up in the fall to participate in the program for the first time.

Kirsten Engel researches how, why and when state and local climate policies spread to other jurisdictions or to the federal government.

The College of Medicine – Phoenix will serve as home base for the first-ever U.S. program to teach surgery and procedural skills for space missions in 2023.

The new UArizona Health Sciences Sensor Lab is expanding health care research by providing access to wearable sensors and advanced digital technologies.

Chemistry instructor Colleen Kelley uses her imagination and knack for storytelling to make "boring" chemistry anything but. By disguising chemical elements as superheroes and turning chemical reactions into mysteries, her comics help fourth through sixth graders master chemistry concepts typically taught at the college level.

Floods affect more people than any other type of natural disaster and are expected to increase as the climate changes. Beth Tellman uses satellite data to better understand where floods occur and to develop applications for emergency response and recovery.

Joellen Russell uses floating robots, supercomputers and satellites to predict the global climate and carbon cycle, particularly the role of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Most of the rocky bodies in our solar system were formed or shaped by massive collisions early in the solar system's history. A newly observed dust cloud from a similar crash offers clues about how often these events occur around other stars.