UA News

UANews | A group of UA faculty members and those practicing at the Arizona Health Sciences Center have contributed to a new book about uninsured Americans in the United States, what problems they face and what resources are available to them.

UANews | UA researchers are heading up a project incorporating entomology and ethnology with high resolution remote sensing and insect modeling to understand the likes and wants of mosquitoes to better understand ways to control the insect population. 

UANews | Dr. David G. Armstrong, a UA professor of surgery and director of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance, has been named the 2010 Roger Pecoraro award winner and lecturer by the American Diabetes Association.

UANews | UA psychologists have found that infants need adequate sleep, including regular naps, in order to effectively learn about the new world they reside.

UANews | To boost its bench-to-bedside science and position itself in a more competitive place to acquire translational research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the UA has formed a Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute to provide the groundwork for therapeutic advances that will directly advance medical care.

UANews | A USDA research grant will fund research designed to benefit at-risk families and young people.

UANews | Arizona Cancer Center scientist Jesse Martinez has been awarded a $993,584 grant from the National Cancer Institute to research prevention of colon cancer.

UANews | Miss America 2008 will speak during Love Your Body Day, an annual UA event that takes place Feb. 22 during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Feb. 21-27.

UANews | Mark and Mimi Nichter have published a series of articles recently about the smoking behaviors of college students, offering important insights about smoking related to drinking, gender and stress.

UANews | A group of researchers at the UA Steele Children's Research Center have discovered a genetic link between inflammation in the digestive tract and premature aging.

UANews | The new Diamond Children's Medical Center will, according to a new study, boost the regional economy by more than $5 billion over the next five years.

UANews | The UA has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for a lab facility in downtown Phoenix.