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Portait of Dr. Juanita Merchant

Friday

Reprogrammed glial cells might tell a different origin story for rare GI cancers

Examining the role of a cell signaling pathway called hedgehog could help improve neuroendocrine cancer treatment.

Research study sleep habits in a lab setting

New $3.8M NIH grant funds research on 'mind after midnight' as a suicide risk factor

Researchers in the Department of Psychiatry are studying the effects of being awake between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on decision-making.

Read more at University of Arizona News

I green light laser scans several objects on a desk, including a watering can, a plant, a wooden box, two figurines shaped like a bird and a balloon dog, and a replica of an ancient Greek or Roman sculpture

Turning surroundings into a 'virtual screen' could help machines to better see in 3D

A new approach to accurately imaging objects with complex shapes and varying degrees of "shininess" could enable high-precision applications in virtual and mixed reality settings, industrial inspection and medical imaging.

Read more at University of Arizona News

A person sitting at a desk looking at a computer screen.

U of A Core Facilities Highlights: Translational Bioimaging Resource

The Translational Bioimaging Resource is a university-wide resource for pre-clinical biomedical imaging serving researchers across disciplines, across campus, and beyond.

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Portait of Dr. Juanita Merchant

Reprogrammed glial cells might tell a different origin story for rare GI cancers

Friday

Research study sleep habits in a lab setting

New $3.8M NIH grant funds research on 'mind after midnight' as a suicide risk factor

Thursday

Big Idea Challenge Showcase – The year two check-in

Wednesday

A person sitting at a desk looking at a computer screen.

U of A Core Facilities Highlights: Translational Bioimaging Resource

Wednesday

I green light laser scans several objects on a desk, including a watering can, a plant, a wooden box, two figurines shaped like a bird and a balloon dog, and a replica of an ancient Greek or Roman sculpture

Turning surroundings into a 'virtual screen' could help machines to better see in 3D

Wednesday

U of A faculty member Paul Wagner speaks in front of a blue digital display showing code and a Guy Fawkes mask.

From classroom to command: U of A leads in cyber operations education

Tuesday

A doctor assists a child patient with a breathing test

Antibiotic proves ineffective in treating wheezing in young children in the emergency room

Monday

Portrait of Dan Theodorescu

U of A Cancer Center director awarded prestigious Spence Medal

May 14

Medical form

Study validates accuracy of depression screening for people with chronic pain

May 13

Portrait of Dr. Sairam Parthasarathy

New study to help inform patient, physician choices for sleep apnea treatment

May 11

A gold-colored quantum computer dilution refrigerator

Google selects U of A for quantum research group focused on life sciences

May 11

This artist's concept shows a galaxy with spiral arms populated densely by stars, shown in blue. A bright, glowing ball in the center pushes energetic gas and dust (shown in pink) that ripples across the dust, slamming into the star-forming spiral arms.

Cosmic blowtorches: How quasars shut down star formation in the early universe

May 6

Alt Text: Roberto Furfaro poses in front of a screen depicting Earth surrounded by tracked orbital objects, with bright green paths illustrating their trajectories through space.

U of A professor joins international effort to ensure space safety and sustainability

May 4

Members of the CatSat launch team, some wearing black "CatSat Launch Team" shirts, stand on the University of Arizona Mall at night, looking up at the bright plume of a SpaceX rocket arcing across the dark sky above campus palm trees and buildings.

Inside CatSat: the U of A student-led satellite mission

May 4

Bob Bodnar

U of A appoints Bodnar to lead mining, critical minerals institute

April 30

Scott Saleska, director of the LEO Survey and lead of the BIC From Earth to Early Mars project, inspects the living crust atop one of the LEO hillslopes at Biosphere 2.

A launchpad for landscape terraformation science

April 29

A view of the control room at the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center (ASTEC).

Innovative research team receives national recognition from NSF I-Corps program

April 29

One of two LEMS seismometers redesigned by U of A to detect moonquakes

Seismometers re-designed by U of A will measure moonquakes during a future Artemis mission

April 28

Silhouetted against the blue sky, a small drone is seen hovering a few feet above the grey, barren, rock-strewn surface of a debris-covered glacier.

Drone radar reveals buried glaciers on Earth, guiding the search for water on Mars

April 28

Entrance to the Mysteries of the Cosmos exhibit

Investigate the possibility of alien life at Flandrau's newest exhibit

April 28

University of Arizona campus

U of A innovation drives $459.7M in annual economic impact for Arizona

April 23

people sitting in a cleanroom dressed in protective lab equipment

IRLabs donates high-tech microscope to U of A Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing

April 22

People standing at a fire station

Can an over-the-counter supplement help address cancer risk for firefighters?

April 22

Cryogenic and Compressed Gas core facility

University of Arizona Core Facilities Highlights: Cryogenics & Gas Facility

April 22