Nearly $4M in federal grants will help UArizona institute expand resources for LGBTQ+ youth Feb. 28, 2024 Two federal grants will help the university's Southwest Institute for Research on Women expand mental health services and sex education designed to serve LGBTQ+ youth. Read more at UArizona News Image
Arizona lawmakers confident in Robbins' leadership during UArizona financial challenges Feb. 26, 2024 State senators say University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins is the right man to lead the institution. Read more at UArizona News Image
Steward Observatory balloon mission breaks NASA record 22 miles above Antarctica Feb. 24, 2024 Seeking clues about the life cycle of stars, the GUSTO balloon mission, led by university astronomer Chris Walker, breaks the record as NASA's longest-flying heavy-lift balloon mission. Read more at UArizona News Image
National leaders gather at UArizona to map the future of semiconductors Feb. 23, 2024 Advances in semiconductor technology are indispensable to today's standard of living. Industry leaders met to strategize ways to shore up the domestic semiconductor industry. Read more at UArizona News Image
Camp Cooper celebrates 60 years teaching Tucson's youth about the Sonoran Desert Feb. 22, 2024 The Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, which the College of Education operates with the Tucson Unified School District, is celebrating the milestone with the center's first renovations since it opened. Read more at UArizona News Image
The science of leap day – how it works and why we do it Feb. 21, 2024 Ahead of Feb. 29, UArizona Regents Professor of planetary sciences Renu Malhotra explains why we need leap year, why we skip it once a century and why we sometimes need to add leap seconds. Read more at UArizona News Image
How a team of students uses technology to preserve and share Black history Feb. 21, 2024 The University of Arizona Center for Digital Humanities partners with clients such as the Tucson Center for Black Life to both preserve historical artifacts and make them widely available as digital exhibits. Read more at UArizona News Image
Distinguished UArizona graduates to be honored at Alumni of the Year awards ceremony Feb. 20, 2024 The recipients were chosen for their achievements, public service, advocacy for education, volunteerism and service to students and the university. Read more at UArizona News Image
Giant Magellan Telescope brings new partner into the fold Feb. 20, 2024 Taiwan's leading astronomy institute joins Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, South Korea and the United States in building one of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes. Read more at UArizona News Image
'The future is fungal': Research finds fungi that live in healthy plants are sensitive to climate change Feb. 20, 2024 The findings, more than a decade in the making, reveal a rich diversity of beneficial fungi living in boreal forest trees, with implications about the health of forests. Read more at UArizona News Image