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A new decadal survey from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends NASA fully support NEO Surveyor, a space-based survey designed to discover and measure asteroids and comets that could pose an impact hazard to Earth. Amy Mainzer, a professor of planetary sciences, leads the effort. 

The partnership will advance pain and addiction research and accelerate positive health outcomes in Arizona, Oklahoma and across the country.

Three new student programs aim to train the next generation of health care professionals and increase access to care across Arizona’s diverse communities.

The University of Arizona is ranked No. 93 overall, No. 49 among U.S. institutions and No. 27 among public colleges and universities in the annual Center for World University Rankings, released Monday.

Throughout his career spent studying opioids, Todd Vanderah, PhD, has been determined to find a way to manage pain without increasing the risk of addiction.

Jessica Tierney will be the first climatologist to win the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award since Congress established it in 1975. She is also the first from UArizona to ever receive the honor.

Future University of Arizona Health Sciences students will have new health care career opportunities thanks to the Arizona Board of Regents' approval of three new degree programs.

On Wednesday, the campus community celebrated the grand opening of the Student Success District, a new, nine-acre span of four buildings packed with services and programs focused on helping students thrive.

Ellen McMahon focuses on the potential for art to make people more receptive and responsive to the facts of climate change.

UArizona researchers were leaders in a worldwide effort to understand tropical trees and their futures under climate change. They found that heat and drought slow the growth of these trees, which are major carbon dioxide absorbers.