UA President Ann Weaver Hart has joined other university leaders across the nation to urge Congress and President Obama to restore investments in research and education to help ensure America’s continued role as an innovation leader, as well as to power the economy and create jobs.
Assembled with UA technology and know-how, the Near Infrared Camera that will be at the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope has been shipped to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and shortly will be integrated into the telescope structure. (Image credit: Northrop Grumman)
UA cancer researcher Sally Dickinson is exploring the potential benefits of applying a broccoli-based ointment to the skin. Her research focuses on how sulforaphane – a naturally occurring compound in broccoli with established chemopreventive properties – could possibly be used to help patients reduce their risk for skin cancer. (Photo credit: csrichards.com)
Never settle: University of Arizona leaders and programs are being recognized around the world for achievements in discovery, health care and business leadership.
For her groundbreaking work on developing treatments for snakebites and scorpion stings, UA physician-scientist Leslie Boyer has been named a Hero of Rare Diseases by the FDA. Boyer is the founding director of the VIPER (Venom Immunochemistry, Pharmacology and Emergency Response) Institute at the UA College of Medicine.
Even after the flames are out, vapors arising from a smoldering environment – the overhaul stage of a fire – present great dangers to firefighters. Professor Eric Lutz and graduate student Leaton Jones at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health are working to better understand how these chemicals evolve to improve firefighting equipment and practice.
The Colorado River provides water for more than 30 million people across the Southwest. What will happen to this essential resource as our climate changes? A new paper co-authored by Jonathan T. Overpeck, co-director of the UA Institute of the Environment, brings increasing clarity to this crucial question. Photo credit: Reuters/Charles Platiau.
Dolores Hill, senior research specialist for the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, developed the Target Asteroids! program to engage the public in the UA-led OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. Now, the President of the United States has honored her as one of 12 White House Champions of Change for citizen science. Photo credit: Andrea Kelly/Arizona Public Media.
Shedding light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the cloudy worlds of Uranus and Neptune, scientists at the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Lab have discovered that the massive jet streams and weather phenomena associated with them appear to be ripples on the surface rather than extending deep into the planets' interior.
Forget what you might think a laboratory looks like. In the San Xavier Mining Laboratory, students and researchers trade lab coats for hard hats, and drill deep into the science and business of mining. Here, 150 feet within the Earth, tomorrow’s top mining engineers are being forged right out of the stone.
Here in Tucson, we hear the sounds of Spanish and English mixing richly throughout the community. But spend time among bilingual speakers, and you often hear both spoken at the same time, even within the same sentence. This process called "code-switching." How does it work? Psychology doctoral student Kalim Gonzalez led a study to find out.
For 13 years, the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office has worked to identify more than 1300 migrants who died crossing the Arizona desert. Nearly 800 others remain unidentified. Cultural anthropologist Robin Reineke studies scant possessions and other clues found with the dead that can sometimes bring closure to their relatives. The UA doctoral candidate is a pioneer in this field.
Our ancestors left the jungle, began to walk upright and ultimately ran like the wind. These early distance athletes chased prey and fled predators -- and grew bigger brains. Why? University of Arizona anthropologist David A. Raichlen studied humans, dogs and ferrets to demonstrate how aerobic exercise stimulates the production of brain-growth chemicals.
Fire in the mine! What should you do? UA scientists are working to help prepare miners to respond to and avoid the emergencies they may encounter working at a mine through development of educational computer games.
Fighting wars against enemies like illness, hunger and injustice requires more than brute strength. As in any war, winning demands training, experience and planning to harness the raw passion for real results. For warriors ready to do battle, the new UA Master's in Development Practice offers the essential training to win in the field.
Judith Bronstein, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has always loved getting outside and studying living things. An expert in the relatively new field of mutualism – the cooperative interaction among organisms and species – she loves asking those questions that have never been asked, and then bringing those new ideas to the next generation of scientists.
When Stephen Russell, PhD, started his career, there wasn't a lot of research on sexual minority youth in his field of family studies and human development. He changed that in a big way. Today, he’s not only illuminating the risks that minority youth face, but he's also giving students opportunities to ask their own questions and begin creating knowledge legacies of their own.
Students can use the UA-developed Heart Anatomy Explorer I application to view, rotate and zoom in on images of a real human heart.
What does it mean to be a participating member of the digital age? Through the new eSociety program, students take courses covering social media strategies, artificial intelligence, identity in the digital realm, privacy concerns, Internet communications law, information ethics, strategies for managing a social presence and the access -- and barring of access -- to information, and much more.
Ask Paul Blowers, PhD, why he was originally attracted to the field of chemical engineering, he’ll give you a simple answer: because it was hard. He had seen the discipline get the best of others, and he was determined to be great at it. Today, a UA Distinguished Professor, he now focuses on helping students get the best out of themselves.