UArizona Impact in Action

Featured stories and events to connect you with UArizona's exciting research and discovery, meaningful innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and societal impact.
Newsletter Archive
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
- Space Act Agreement with NASA will advance UArizona engagement in human spaceflight
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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?
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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
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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