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UArizona Health Sciences is uniquely poised to help address Arizona's long-term health care needs, President Robert C. Robbins said in a presentation to the Arizona Board of Regents.

On April 23, 1923, the university celebrated a new, 36-inch telescope that would kick off major astronomical research. Steward Observatory will be rededicated this weekend in honor of its 100-year anniversary.

UArizona is home to one of few veterinary medicine degree programs that prepares students to enter the workforce in three years. The College of Veterinary Medicine's first class will graduate in August.

Hsp90-inhibitor drugs in the spinal cord are showing promise as potential pain therapeutics, finds a new study by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers.

Efforts are underway to wean the university off fossil fuels by 2040 or sooner. As a first step toward that goal, the Office of Sustainability is leading the development of the university's first Sustainability and Climate Action Plan.

During a briefing Friday morning, Steve Patterson, the university's interim chief safety officer, said he will read all reports of threatening incidents. President Robert C. Robbins also detailed administrative and physical changes designed to improve campus safety and security.

Many of the ice-encrusted moons orbiting the giant planets in the far reaches of our solar system are known to be geologically active. Quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on the moons circling Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study led by a UArizona graduate student.  

Atmospheric scientists have developed an algorithm that uses data from water vapor movements to measure wind. This could help predict extreme events like hurricanes.

A UArizona undergraduate looked at cities as living things to investigate how human energy use changes with rising temperatures. Her research could help save lives from heat waves.

Wastewater-based epidemiology's potential was brought to bear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it could help public health officials get ahead of the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris.