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UArizona Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives has launched Project LISTO to introduce Hispanic students to STEM majors and opportunities and provide a framework for other Hispanic-Serving Institutions to do the same.

University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins created a commission to identify solutions to the challenges facing Arizona agriculture in a rapidly changing climate. The recommendations are outlined in a new report.

At 16, Tadeusz Borowski is one of the youngest first-year students to start at UArizona this fall, after graduating from high school two years early. His studies in medicine, he hopes, will shed light on how gifted minds develop.

When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivers a sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, it will launch decades of scientific investigation. Mission principal investigator Dante Lauretta is most excited to shed light on the origins of life on Earth.

The University of Arizona earned recognition for its quality of life, intramural sports programs, health services, student government participation and more.

Researchers have found that the bees, which cut bits of leaves for their nests, prefer leaves that harbor the common mold Aspergillus, which may help enhance the insects' health and survival.

Twins Elizabeth and Andrew Ghartey weren't set on attending the same university, but they're glad they landed at UArizona together. The first-year engineering students are both interested in careers in medicine.

Nearly half of career firefighters report short sleep and poor sleep quality. With a $4 million grant, UArizona researchers are working to identify key factors for implementing workplace sleep coaching for firefighters.

Microbes do a lot under the soil surface that can't be seen with the naked eye, but even tiny soil microbes are feeling the stress of hotter and drier conditions. These microbes release more volatile organic compounds into the atmosphere in response to drought stress, a new study conducted at the Biosphere 2 rainforest finds.

A new image of the massive El Gordo galaxy cluster, taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shows 62 distorted galaxies behind the cluster.