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Study validates accuracy of depression screening for people with chronic pain

A new study found that a widely used depression screening questionnaire is accurate for people with and without chronic pain, debunking a common misconception that the screening inflates depression scores for people with chronic pain.

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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

Hands-on space mission teaches students how quick problem solving—not smooth execution—helps prepare them for careers in the space industry.

Bob Bodnar

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

Robert J. Bodnar will shape the vision, structure and long-term direction of the university's research initiative in mining, critical minerals and subsurface science and innovation.

Read more at University of Arizona News

A gold-colored quantum computer dilution refrigerator

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

The Research Program at the Intersection of Life Sciences & Quantum AI, or REPLIQA, brings together U of A researchers from science and engineering fields to lay a foundation for new biological discoveries.

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Comet 3I/ATLAS is visible as a smudgy, white speck with a diffuse halo around it against jet-black background of space.

U of A's Mars camera gets close look at comet from interstellar space

Nov. 19, 2025

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's president highlights U of A partnership as model for linking education, research and industry

Nov. 19, 2025

University of Arizona astronomer develops novel method to make AI more trustworthy

Nov. 18, 2025

Stephanie Russo Carroll

U of A expert leads process to codify the first global standard on Indigenous Peoples' data

Nov. 17, 2025

Four older people playing pickleball

Precision Aging Network data release opens new pathways for healthy aging research

Nov. 17, 2025

Mole with cirle around it and numbered 1 to 4

U of A researchers awarded federal grant to explore topical immunoprevention for skin cancer

Nov. 17, 2025

A person holds a small grey wearable device used for would healing

Revolutionizing wound care with AI

Nov. 14, 2025

A portrait of Derick Maggard, Araceli Hernández-Granados, Pierre Deymier, Lynn Frazier, Rakhi Gibbons and Doug Hockstad

Sounds like success: U of A NSF center wins Innovator of the Year Award

Nov. 13, 2025

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U of A scientists recognized with prestigious NIH 'New Innovator' awards

Nov. 12, 2025

two people look at equipment in a lab

When cancer treatment stops, but the healing stalls

Nov. 10, 2025

A dancer stands in silhouette in front of an image of space

EarthScape: Where artistic and scientific worlds collide

Nov. 10, 2025

A pregnant woman stands with one plate of salad and another with a donut

NIH grant will help probe ‘nutritional memory’ to increase understanding of food choices

Nov. 10, 2025

archaeologists crouching in a hole in the ground and digging around artifacts buried in the ground

U of A-led team discovers large ritual constructions by early Mesoamericans

Nov. 5, 2025

A dry, dusty desert landscape.

U of A Superfund Research Center secures $14.8M NIEHS grant to combat hazardous dust effects in Southwest

Nov. 4, 2025

Firefighter on top of fire truck using hose to spray water on burning homes

Extensive LA-area fires altered blood proteins in firefighters, raising health concerns

Nov. 3, 2025

portrait of joaquin ruiz

Biosphere 2 director honored by French government

Oct. 31, 2025

Jennifer Stern and Kassandra Bruner, wearing white coats in a lab setting

U of A scientists link calorie restriction, glucagon, healthy aging

Oct. 30, 2025

A person opens the door to a sealed habitat as a second person exits, waving and smiling.

Dwarf peas inside Biosphere 2's SAM breathe new life into space habitat research

Oct. 29, 2025

Image of man holding lightbulb with blue clusters of symbols referencing intellectual activity

CUES funds groundbreaking research in teaching and learning

Oct. 27, 2025

A small fish swims near vegetation.

Endangered desert fish find new home at Biosphere 2

Oct. 24, 2025

Three U of A faculty honored by American College of Medical Informatics

Oct. 24, 2025

Sunburn on a person’s arm

Making cancer vaccines more personal

Oct. 24, 2025

two people pose with a framed proclamation

A decade of impact: U of A and Banner Health transform health care in Arizona

Oct. 24, 2025

New planetarium show quickly becomes global success

Oct. 23, 2025