UA News

UANews | The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has returned the first pictures of locations on the Red Planet suggested by the public.

UANews | Members of the Students for Sustainability Garden in the Desert want to offer the opportunity for UA students and others to grow their own food.

UANews | A group of UA students wants to do something beneficial with the 2,000 tons of compostable waste produced at the University of Arizona each year.

UANews | University of Arizona students are pushing to make the campus – and the surrounding community – a greener place to study, work and live.

UANews | UA Professor Emeritus Stuart Hameroff and his colleagues have convened a group of academics and researchers from around the world to discuss their research in the area of consciousness studies during a conference this month.

UANews | UA physicists who built part of the world's largest particle collider are thrilled that today the machine smashed protons together at the highest energy ever achieved.

UANews | Richard Greenberg and Peter Smith will discuss the possibility of life on Europa and Mars.

UANews | The world's largest particle collider is expected to smash protons together at the highest energy ever achieved in the wee hours of Tuesday, March 30.

UANews | An expert in emerging water contaminants, Shane Snyder also will develop linkages to other areas of campus studying water sustainability issues.

UANews | Six graduate students at the UA have received scholarships from the Marshall Foundation that will help each of them complete their dissertations.

UANews | The HiRISE camera photographed a dust devil roaming the Martian plains far from the normal occurrence of such weather phenomena.

UANews | EarthWeek, March 29 through April 3, is a student-run event that features research presentations by graduate and undergraduate students in a range of environmental sciences.

UANews | Erica Corral, assistant professor in the department of materials science and engineering, is the first UA researcher chosen for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's Young Investigator Program. Her work could help hypersonic vehicles go on longer missions in more extreme conditions.

UANews | David Poirier and Robert Erdmann in materials science and engineering are researching how molten metals solidify in zero gravity.

UANews | Experiments by a UA anthropologist and his colleagues show that fossil footprints made 3.6 million years ago are the earliest direct evidence of early hominins using the kind of efficient, upright posture and gait now seen in modern humans. 

UANews | The UA has announced a new Bachelor of Applied Sciences degree in meteorology, available through UA South. The program is open to all students interested in the study of weather and climate who already hold an associates degree of applied science (AAS) in a weather-related field.  

UANews | Thomas Banchoff, a geometer from Brown University who met with artist Salvador Dali on numerous occasions, will present the Bartlett Memorial Lecture this month.

UANews | Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars all came to be.

UANews | California's western Sierra Nevada had more frequent fires between 800 and 1300 than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a new study led by Thomas W. Swetnam, director of UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.

UANews | UA engineers find swapping one chemical for another may actually result in greater energy use, compounding the problems the new chemical was supposed to fix.

UANews | Studying giant hawk moths, UA researchers have discovered that the key to unraveling the mystery of sexual size dimorphism lies in the early developmental stages.

UANews | Researchers at the center will work to create new ways to diagnose disease, monitor health and build equipment by merging new technologies.

UANews | UA biologist Travis Huxman will offer some insights on Biosphere 2's role in studying climate science.

UANews | Elliott Cheu, a physics professor and member of UA's Large Hadron Collider-ATLAS team, will discuss the symmetry between matter and antimatter and what happened to the antimatter that was produced by the Big Bang at a public lecture on March 10.

UANews | Research shows a correlation between happiness and deeper rather than superficial conversations.

UANews | Robert McCall, whose work influenced both artists and scientists, died Feb. 26, leaving a substantial collection to the UA Museum of Art.

UANews | Two University of Arizona research and development groups were selected to develop and manufacture key technology for the first major undertaking to investigate the mystery of dark energy in the universe.

UANews | Tune in to KUAT/Channel 6 to watch UA planetary scientists talk about Pluto’s status as a planet and landing on the ice of Mars.

UANews | The UA's BIO5 Institute will present the Ventana/Roche Science Pavilion at Tucson Festival of Books, which will be held March 13-14 at various locations on the University campus.

UANews | The UA Press has published a new book about conservation along the U.S.-Mexico border featuring several UA researchers who served as co-editors.