UA News

UANews | The projects are among 60 by UA engineering students to be showcased May 4 at Engineering Design Day, the UA College of Engineering's premier showcase of student design.

UANews | The insects known as aphids can make their own essential nutrients called carotenoids, which are the building blocks for molecules crucial for vision, healthy skin, bone growth and other key physiological functions.

UANews | Mike Crimmins travels the state to educate farmers, ranchers and others about how to cope with climate change.

UANews | Scientists are educating the public on issues such as water, drought and increasing temperatures.

UANews | University climate research involves scholars in fields ranging from Earth  science to engineering, law and social sciences to public health, and agriculture to the humanities and art. Collaboration has improved the  University’s public outreach efforts.

UANews | Jonathan Lunine's research involves spacecraft missions and the exploration of planets, moons and other celestial bodies in our solar system and beyond.

UANews | U.S. and Mexican water agencies, universities and non-governmental organizations are collaborating to find out whether operating the Yuma Desalting Plant changes the largest wetland on the Colorado River Delta.

UANews | The Regents' professor joins one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Established in 1780 by John Adams and other founders of the nation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences celebrates the 230th anniversary of its founding this year.

UANews | A new study sheds light on how proposed legislation to curb greenhouse gases could affect farmers and ranchers in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.

UANews | Apollo 17 astronaut Capt. Eugene "Gene" Cernan is slated to speak May 3. The Friends of the University Libraries, which raises money for the UA's library division, is organizing the event.

UANews | About 450 youth will visit the UA on Saturday to compete in a design competition hosted by the UA's Office of Early Academic Outreach.

UANews | Armin Sorooshian, an assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering, is one of only 17 scientists chosen nationally by the Navy to receive a Young Investigators Program grant.

UANews | The UA tops 679 public and private universities in funding for the physical sciences, according to a new National Science Foundation report.

UANews | The National Science Foundation grant will fund a program at the UA to link graduate engineering students to local classrooms.

UANews | More than two dozen UA departments and clubs are participating in activities ranging from how to retrofit a home to be more energy efficient to a demonstration of how algae can be grown to make biofuel.

UANews | The event will bring together artists, scientists, students and visitors to explore Biosphere 2 and see the environment in new ways. Activities include new exhibits, an art and science sculpture project thematic tours and live music.

UANews | Marvin A. Stokes, a UA professor who studied tree rings in ancient Navajo sites and in Spanish Colonial mission churches, died April 7. He was 82.

UANews | Transient Events, a new iPhone application for amateur and professional astronomers and anyone interested in the universe, highlights cosmic events such as exploding supernovae, comets traveling through the solar system or blazars – plasma jets erupting from supermassive black holes.

UANews | Kapil Galla, a doctoral student in mining and geological engineering, has earned an invitation to the Cannes International Film Festival in France as an intern with the film program, Creative Minds in Cannes.

UANews | Caltech Astronomer J. Davy Kirkpatrick will give this year's Marc Aaronson Memorial Lecture at UA's Steward Observatory. In his presentation, which is free and open to the public, the former Steward Observatory graduate will explain the bizarre nature of brown dwarfs, celestial bodies that defy classification as stars or planets.

UANews | Scientists will spend the next five years evaluating a range of pollutants with plans to develop models to counter contamination.  

UANews | Did a change in climate or an extraterrestrial impact bring an end to the beasts and people that roamed the Southwest shortly after the last ice age?

UANews | Flandrau Planetarium and exhibits will reopen and offer planetarium shows, science demonstrations, telescope viewing and much more seven days a week.