UA News

UANews | Recent research on the study of the seasonal cycles of plants and animals will be presented during an Oct. 2 symposium that is free and open to the public.

UANews | An extension on UA’s architecture building waters its own one-acre desert wetlands oasis. CALA East will soon be topped by a green roof of desert plants and house a wind-tunnel that occupants will use to improve the energy audits they prepare for Arizona residences and businesses.

UANews | UA architecture students and faculty are building energy-and-water efficient houses at costs that lower-income desert dwellers can afford. The modestly priced houses could be duplicated around Tucson.  

UANews | Desert dwellers can look to innovative UA architecture faculty and students for more energy-and-water efficient dwellings.

UANews | Jeffrey Pyun has been developing nanostructured thin films that resist corrosion and store more data on magnetic tape.

UANews | The UA's Rodeo Club raised $30,000 to build a practice arena and facility to aid in recruitment and improve the skills of its members.

UANews | Diana Liverman, co-director of The University of Arizona's Institute of the Environment, helped organize "4 Degrees and Beyond," a conference currently meeting abroad.

UANews | H. Dieter and Netzin Steklis have been studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda for 15 years, work that has drawn the attention of family studies researchers in the UA Norton School.

UANews | UA researchers Frank Porreca and Theodore Price, both UA pharmacology professors, have co-authored a newly published article about chronic pain.

UANews | The HiRISE camera orbiting Mars is seeing almost pure ice at the bottom of new impact craters. HiRISE is operated at the LPL.

UANews | UA researchers will study the hydrologic cycle's "living filter," the zone from the top of trees to the bottom of the groundwater table.

UANews | How much pressure can the Earth system take before it begins to crash? Scientists pose a framework to help answer the question.

UANews | UA hydrologists and atmospheric scientists will use cosmic rays to analyze soil moisture in order to improve weather forecasting.

UANews | The ninth SAHRA Annual Meeting will be held this year Sept 23-24 at the Doubletree Hotel, 445 S. Alvernon Way in Tucson. 

UANews | A UA mathematics professor is aiding in a nationwide initiative working to set math standards, detail expectations for students, promote professional development for teachers and also evaluate education policy.

UANews | The Office of Undergraduate Research unveils a Web portal that will connect students with research opportunities on the UA campus and beyond.

UANews | Autumn is a unique time for science and stargazing on the sky island mountaintop.

UANews | A full-size model Phoenix Lander has landed at Biosphere 2 before it heads, ultimately, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

UANews | UA geneticist Michael Hammer and his colleagues report that their research shows a number of ancestors fueled the ancient Jewish priesthood that dates back more than three millenia.

UANews | The gallery is showing a baker's dozen of favorite Phoenix and HiRISE images of Mars through Oct. 13.

UANews | The nails-on-a-blackboard sound of cicadas is fueled by unusual bacteria that live inside the insects, say a team of UA researchers.

UANews | The Steward Observatory will launch the 84th season of its speaker series with a talk on Monday.

UANews | Biosphere 2 is the research venue for 78 sophomores from a new and innovative Ohio high school.

UANews | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory scientists will talk about their latest research in the free public lecture series.

UANews | Warming from greenhouse gases has trumped the Arctic's millennia-long natural cooling cycle, suggests new research from a team that includes UA geoscientists.

UANews | The Office of the Provost has announced two major faculty hiring initiatives that will provide $12 million to support environmental science, engineering and policy and translational medicine.

UANews | The HiRISE team, led by Alfred McEwen at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has released thousands of new images of Mars.

UANews | Rafe Sagarin, an assistant research scientist with the UA's Institute of the Environment, advocates the use of observational methods and involving the public in research. 

UANews | Kathleen Lohse has received an ADVANCE Project grant to evaluate watershed management and restoration.