Image 5 things to know about creating a pandemic-resilient state March 8, 2024 Janko Nikolich, MD, PhD, and the Aegis Consortium want to unite government agencies and experts in a mission to improve future pandemic responses. Read more
Image School of Art graduate fellow tells lucha libre story March 6, 2024 Andrés Caballero, a photographer and Master of Fine Arts student, is using his 2024 Mellon-Fronteridades Graduate Fellowship to share wrestling culture with the public. Read more at UArizona News
Image A pebble scooped from an asteroid is now on display at UArizona museum March 6, 2024 The Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum is now one of only three places in the world where the public can see a piece of the asteroid Bennu, collected during NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission. Read more at UArizona News
Image James Webb Space Telescope captures the end of planet formation March 5, 2024 How much time do planets have to form from a swirling disk of gas and dust around a star? A new University of Arizona-led study gives scientists a better idea of how our own solar system came to be. Read more at UArizona News
Image PlanetScape: Fusing art, science and technology March 1, 2024 PlanetScape isa multimedia collaboration between the University of Arizona Health Sciences SensorLab, the UArizona College of Fine Arts and the UArizona College of Science’s Department of Astronomy. The project blended art and science in a way that enlivened the senses and acted as a catalyst for creativity for artists and scientists. Read more
Image Nearly $4M in federal grants will help UArizona institute expand resources for LGBTQ+ youth Feb. 28, 2024 Two federal grants will help the university's Southwest Institute for Research on Women expand mental health services and sex education designed to serve LGBTQ+ youth. Read more at UArizona News
Image Steward Observatory balloon mission breaks NASA record 22 miles above Antarctica Feb. 24, 2024 Seeking clues about the life cycle of stars, the GUSTO balloon mission, led by university astronomer Chris Walker, breaks the record as NASA's longest-flying heavy-lift balloon mission. Read more at UArizona News
Image Camp Cooper celebrates 60 years teaching Tucson's youth about the Sonoran Desert Feb. 22, 2024 The Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, which the College of Education operates with the Tucson Unified School District, is celebrating the milestone with the center's first renovations since it opened. Read more at UArizona News
Image How a team of students uses technology to preserve and share Black history Feb. 21, 2024 The University of Arizona Center for Digital Humanities partners with clients such as the Tucson Center for Black Life to both preserve historical artifacts and make them widely available as digital exhibits. Read more at UArizona News
Image Giant Magellan Telescope brings new partner into the fold Feb. 20, 2024 Taiwan's leading astronomy institute joins Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, South Korea and the United States in building one of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes. Read more at UArizona News