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The U.S. Space Force and partner nation delegations from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay

Oct. 21, 2026

‘One hemisphere, stronger together’

The U.S. Space Force and delegations from nine nations assembled for the 2026 Space Doctrine Conference at the U of A, one of the first academic institutions to collaborate at this scale, to build a shared approach toward securing the space domain.

AbGradCon 2026 graduate committee

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, a professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson

Dr. Geoffrey Gurtner elected to National Academy of Medicine

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.

Read more at University of Arizona News

APEX and Apophis

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

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.

Read more at University of Arizona News

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Portrait of Jacob Galloway

Turning toxic dirt into green gold

May 13

Medical form

Study validates accuracy of depression screening for people with chronic pain

May 13

Portrait of Lynette Valenzuela

Focusing the lens on ovarian cancer

May 11

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

two people working in a lab

Celebrating 20 years of the KEYS Research Internship and the class of 2026

May 1

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

19 People sitting and standing pose on a balcony with mountains behind them.

Convergence Awards winners honored by U of A Office of Research and Partnerships

April 21

A group of researchers poses for a photo at a road cut exposing tan-colored sandstone sediments next to a highway in Chile.

Andes volcanoes – the missing link between algae blooms, whales and climate millions of years ago

April 17

Portrait of Kyle Peeples and Sydney Mintalar

Launching careers while working to protect vulnerable people from extreme heat

April 16

Isabel Barton, wearing safety goggles and gloves, leans over a lab bench using tweezers to examine a small mineral sample as part of a project to improve copper recovery from chalcopyrite.

Unlocking Arizona’s copper powerhouse for energy and industry

April 14

A woman in a blue dress with white stitching and long brown hair and dark yellow sunglasses stands with her arms crossed in front of a rusted wall.

U of A professors Elaine Romero, Erika Hamden named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows

April 14