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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman speaks to students and community members in the Bear Down Gym

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman inspires U of A students to help shape the golden age of space exploration

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman brought the agency's Inspiration Tour to the University of Arizona, sparking excitement about where America is headed in space and the opportunities for a new generation to help shape it.

Arid land satellite image

Satellite data exposes escalating 'boom-and-bust' dynamic in greening drylands

Four decades of satellite records reveal that roughly 80% of global drylands are experiencing extreme swings in interannual productivity, and current models are missing it.

Read more at University of Arizona News

Artist's visualization of an early galaxy surrounded by blue-green gas, with orange streams of metal-enriched gas being expelled into intergalactic space

JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements

Contrary to conventional wisdom holding that early galaxies were composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, new observations suggest that galaxies were seeding the cosmos with heavy elements just 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Read more at University of Arizona News

Matthew Mars, Rebecca Schomer and Mark Beilstein pose indoors on the University of Arizona campus

Translating the language of life: Researchers explore a new path to high-efficiency farming

Big Idea Challenge project brings together computing, plant science, biology and the humanities to rethink one of agriculture’s most fundamental systems and maximize crop yields.

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Phoenix City Council approves $20M for CAMI

June 26, 2024

Mirror Lab

Space sciences, water resources, geosciences excel in latest US News global ranking

June 26, 2024

A piece of the asteroid Bennu

Bennu holds the solar system's 'original ingredients,' might have been part of a wet world

June 26, 2024

A photo after the Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship luncheon

Graduate student researchers find support through nonprofit fellowships

June 24, 2024

University of Arizona campus

Princeton Review names UArizona a 'Best Value College'

June 21, 2024

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Study challenges popular idea that Easter Islanders committed 'ecocide'

June 21, 2024

Two women discuss data below a set of monitors

Solving Alzheimer’s precision medicine questions with data

June 20, 2024

The Amazon rainforest

When in drought: Researchers map which parts of the Amazon are most vulnerable to climate change

June 19, 2024

Ginny L. Clements Academic Center

Arizona Athletics names Sofia Read to first fully endowed position in department history

June 18, 2024

Joellen Russell

UArizona oceanographer shares expertise during National Ocean Month

June 18, 2024

A woman in a black, long sleeve shirt and paint covered overalls leans against a mural painted on a wall.

Poetry Center helps bring a splash of color to one of Tucson's busiest streets

June 18, 2024

Image of educators learning at the NASA NGS workshop

Arizona Astrobiology Center, NASA champion space education for middle school teachers, students in Southern Arizona

June 17, 2024

Clouds and lightning over a desert landscape

Magic of the monsoon: A 'socially and ecologically' important phenomenon for the Southwest

June 14, 2024

lisa garcia looking through a telescope under a dome lit with red light slightly open to show a starry sky

Native American representatives gather with UArizona leaders for third Tribal Leaders Summit

June 12, 2024

A blue background with intersecting light blue lines and a lock

Cybersecurity Clinic will protect businesses from online threats, develop students' career skills

June 12, 2024

a field of galaxies and bright supernovas are circled in green

UArizona graduate student and team discover most distant supernovas ever found

June 11, 2024

a view of clouds from the window of an aircraft

Peeking into the invisible world of the atmosphere

June 10, 2024

airplane on snow

Studying Arctic glaciers with airborne radar: UArizona project attracts $30M from NASA

June 10, 2024

An artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust.

Webb Telescope finds plethora of carbon molecules around young star

June 6, 2024

A man wearing sunglasses and a navy blue polo shirtkneels next to a medium-sized yellow dog wearing a "Service Dog" vest.

Veterans with service dogs may have fewer PTSD symptoms, higher quality of life

June 4, 2024

squirrel eating

Squirreling it away: Unraveling food hoarding behavior to conserve endangered squirrels

June 4, 2024

Ginny L. Clements Academic Center

Arizona athletes post banner spring semester in classroom

May 31, 2024

a collection of galaxies, with a pullout of one blurry reddish galaxy

Webb Telescope spots the two most distant galaxies ever seen at cosmic dawn

May 30, 2024

The two primary mirrors are visible in this photo taken of the Large Binocular Telescope at dusk

Glimpses of a volcanic world: New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those from spacecraft

May 30, 2024