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Early-career graduate students host an exclusive, NASA-funded astrobiology conference

AbGradCon 2026, a student organized conference, brought an international group of graduate students studying astrobiology, planetary science and astronomy to the University of Arizona to present their research and engage in early-career discussions.

Dr. Geoffrey Gurtner elected to National Academy of Medicine

Monday

Dr. Geoffrey Gurtner has been awarded more than $50 million in federal research funding, holds more than 50 patents, has founded five venture capital-backed life science companies, has authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and nearly 50 book chapters, and has served as president of several medical societies.

Three years into its second mission, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX sets its sights on 2029

Oct. 12, 2026

OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft that originally flew as OSIRIS-REx, is expected to reach the asteroid Apophis in late spring of 2029, but the team is already keeping the spacecraft busy.

Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of our solar system

Oct. 8, 2026

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected.

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OSIRIS-REx, 1 year later: Asteroid sample continues to provide clues about early solar system and origins of life on Earth

Sept. 24, 2024

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Early-career graduate students host an exclusive, NASA-funded astrobiology conference

Dr. Geoffrey Gurtner elected to National Academy of Medicine

Three years into its second mission, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX sets its sights on 2029

Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of our solar system

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Tucson Humanities Festival will explore well-being

Student Researchers Amplify Innovation at the New Frontiers of Sound

American Society of Landscape Architects Recognizes U of A Students’ Smart Watering Project

Jennifer McIntosh named inaugural Dr. Thomas Meixner Endowed Professor

Ice age clues point to more extreme weather patterns in our future

Harvests, wildfires, epidemics: How the jet stream has shaped extreme weather in Europe for centuries

$1M gift will advance consciousness research at U of A Astrobiology Center

$1M grant will support paid internships in community archives

Astronomers catch a glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet

OSIRIS-REx, 1 year later: Asteroid sample continues to provide clues about early solar system and origins of life on Earth

Study: Over nearly half a billion years, Earth's temperature has changed drastically, driven by carbon dioxide

Samples from Huanan Seafood Market provide further evidence of COVID-19 animal origins

U of A project addresses loneliness in older adults living in border and rural communities

U of A center awarded $7.4M for its work on climate adaptation solutions

Equinoxes explained: Everything you need to know about the upcoming fall equinox

Researchers take power and efficiency of biological sensing to record level

U of A partners on project combining AI, virtual reality and agriculture

New research reveals prosperity for planet, people if Earth’s critical resources are better shared

First-year student from Ukraine hopes to find purpose helping others

The molecular magic of mating

A mother’s touch: can close physical contact with newborns reduce mother and baby’s dependence on drug treatment?

Center for Creative Photography receives $1M gift commitment to establish endowment for interdisciplinary education

College of Nursing receives $1.6M to support Indigenous students

Preventing car battery fires with help from machine learning

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