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  • August 31, 2023

    • UArizona experts suggest solutions to boost food, water and economic security in changing climate
    • UArizona researchers and community partners map history of housing injustices in Tucson
    • Study finds the brain can help solve its own memory issues
    • Tucson startups find support they need at UA Tech Parks
    • Grant empowers educational equity and diversity in STEM on campus

  • August 16, 2023

    • UArizona reports second-most inventive year on record
    • Prestigious awards pave the way for twins in College of Engineering
    • Virtual city prepares students for future of cybersecurity
    • A common mold could help a bee species thrive
    • Researchers look to improve worksite sleep health for Arizona firefighters

  • August 2, 2023

    • How cities are battling extreme heat, and why record-breaking temps don’t tell the whole story
    • New UArizona study links brain waves directly to memory
    • Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center receives $7.8M NIH grant
    • Solving water challenges is complex–learn how law, health, climate and Indigenous rights all intersect in developing solutions
    • Separating lightning fact from fiction

  • July 19, 2023

    • OSIRIS-REx team members practice recovering asteroid sample capsule bound for Earth
    • UArizona and partners form consortium to address Southwest water concerns
    • Creative people enjoy idle time more than others
    • Tasting tomorrow: adapting heritage cuisine for a changing climate
    • New, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb

  • July 5, 2023

    • Space Act Agreement with NASA will advance UArizona engagement in human spaceflight
      Improving skin cancer care through data
    • Professor completes first underwater camping trip at Biosphere 2
    • UArizona astronomers identify the earliest strands of the cosmic web
    • UArizona recognized for return on investment and research network

  • June 21, 2023

    • UArizona to pilot new Department of Defense training program
    • Ukrainian startups learn U.S. ropes at UArizona Center for Innovation | Arizona Daily Star
    • State-of-the-art MRI machine to advance research on brain's inner workings
    • Asteroid sample holds clues about how Earth got its water

  • June 7, 2023

    • Is it time to categorize space assets as critical infrastructure?
    • UArizona researchers tackling the growing concern about Valley fever
    • Study provides deeper insight into long COVID
    • Ponderosa forests struggle in the face of Southwest megadrought

  • May 24, 2023 

    • Astronomers want your help hunting for asteroids
    • Scientists use AI to identify likely drug targets in search for Alzheimer's cure
    • UArizona faculty members receive Peabody Award for 'Missing in Brooks County'
    • Sky is the limit for research at new sleep center facility
    • UArizona entomologist elected to National Academy of Sciences

  • May 9, 2023

    •  UArizona researchers lead a five-year project to turn desert shrub into rubber
    • Becoming a multiplanetary species: Crew completes first mission in pressurized habitat at Biosphere 2
    • Dozens of outstanding UArizona STEM graduate students awarded prestigious fellowships
    • Nearby planetary system seen in breathtaking detail
    • UArizona students shine at annual international agrivoltaics conference

  • April 25, 2023

    • Icy moonquakes: Surface shaking could trigger landslides
    • UArizona researchers to help track deadly fungus in Arizona wastewater
    • CAPLA faculty collaborate with Salt River Project to understand Arizona's electrified transportation network needs
    • UArizona kicks off plan to go carbon-neutral by 2040
    • Arizona CoVHORT research study receives award to continue investigation of long COVID

  • April 11, 2023

    • UArizona opens Applied Research Building
    • Astronomers race to make sense of brightest gamma ray burst ever seen
    • Symposium leads to launch of UArizona Cancer Engineering Initiative
    • Protection for the ‘Internet of Things’ fueled by UArizona innovation

  • March 28, 2023

    • Optical switching at record speeds opens door for ultrafast, light-based electronics and computers
    • UArizona researchers launch the Great Arizona Tick Check
    • 6 months to go until historic asteroid sample delivery
    • UArizona expert among first to see Easter Island's recently discovered statue
    • 3D radar scan provides clues about threats to iconic Alaskan glacierWant to better understand quantum computing?

  • March 14, 2023

    •  Student-built satellite uses 'beach ball' for an antenna
    • Bridging academia and industry
    • Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumb trick inspires robotic exploration of caves on Mars and beyond
    • Before global warming, was Earth cooling down or heating up?
    • UArizona COVID-19 treatment takes next step toward public impact via license to pharmaceutical company
    • UArizona engineers lead $1.2M project to 3D-print parts for hypersonic vehicles

  • Feb 28, 2023

    • UArizona researchers awarded $1.2M to explore farming at existing solar power sites
    • Ukranian startups join UArizona Center for Innovation throught Department of State partnership
    • UArizona program will invite students to piece together ‘puzzle’ of Black identity in the Southwest
    • James Webb Telescope gives UArizona astronomers unprecedented glimpses into stellar nurseries
    • Innovative UArizona faculty elected to the National Academny of Inventors
    • Tomatoes, Wildfires and Rats: Three France-UArizona new international emerging action projects
    • Lake Mead: Where Does It Get Its Water and Is It Filling Up?

  • Feb 13, 2023

    • Economic impact of UArizona space sciences rivals that of Super Bowl 
    • UArizona project will provide broadband and technology access to underserved students and communities
    • UArizona named No. 1 producer of Fulbright Scholars
    • More lunar missions means more space junk around the moon - two scientists are building a catalog to track the trash
    • Five UArizona researchers named AAAS Fellos 

  • Jan 31, 2023

    • UArizona ranks among top 20 public universities, No. 1 in astronomy and astrophysics
    • NASA awarded nearly $3M to Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility
    • UArizona partners with regional universities in re-envisioned NSF I-Corps Hub program
    • Cancer Center gets $1.1M gift for holistic cancer care
    • JWST Heralds a New Dawn for Exoplanet Science