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Arizona football head coach Kevin Sumlin has tested positive for COVID-19 and has immediately entered self-isolation following the school’s most recent administration testing, the team announced on Monday, Oct. 5. Read more
By Briana Aguilar | 10/09/2020 8:19pm
Zoom is known globally as the go-to website for online schooling. Although it has made teaching accessible to millions of students, there is no doubt that the company has had its issues. Three University of Arizona professors have varying levels of frustration when it comes to teaching via Zoom. On a scale from one to 10, 10 being the most frustrated with Zoom, the professors' answers varied from three to 10 to even saying that it depends on the day.
By Udbhav Venkataraman | 10/02/2020 9:49am
Group homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been one of the hardest hit by this pandemic. The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities defines intellectual disability as “a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills.”
By Amit Syal | 10/02/2020 9:50am
With over 7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. and over 34 million worldwide, experts have been trying to figure out what has led to such an increased transmission of the coronavirus. New research out of the University of Arizona could help to elucidate this question.
By Amit Syal | 09/30/2020 8:28am
Imagine this: It's 2019, and you're leaving the house and remember to bring three things — your phone, wallet and keys. This year, that checklist might be a little incomplete. Without a mask or face covering, you'd be barred from entering a number of different places, including restaurants, hotels and airplanes.
By Kristijan Barnjak | 09/29/2020 1:23am
The University of Arizona’s reentry task force met to discuss optimism surrounding low COVID-19 transmission and a decrease in cases, as well as the end of the 14-day shelter-in-place. The university will remain in Phase 1 of reentry, with in-person classes being held for essential courses only.
By Aidan Rhodes | 09/27/2020 8:21pm
As Aidan, an aspiring elite athlete, became comfortable with a new routine living in Tucson, the pandemic suddenly pulled the ground out from underneath us all, forcing him to move away from the city and reminisce about what he misses most.
By Gloria Gomez | 09/27/2020 5:01pm
To mitigate declining profits, Pima County partnered with the Downtown Tucson Partnership to offer a reimbursement program aimed at developing outdoor spaces.
By Amit Syal | 09/27/2020 5:02pm
Now nearly seven months into the pandemic, the world has seen a wide gamut of strategies to battle the coronavirus. In Sweden, the futile attempt to induce herd immunity led to a sharp increase in the number of deaths nationwide. In the U.S., despite nearly 7.5 documented infections and over 200,000 reported deaths, a new study published in The Lancet on Sept. 25 found that under 10% of Americans have antibodies against the coronavirus.
By Ian Tisdale | 09/26/2020 11:27am
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey held a press conference Thursday, Sept. 24 to highlight the advances each university has made in regard to development and administration of COVID-19 tests, and to answer questions about COVID-19 protocols going forward.
By Annie Gao | 09/24/2020 10:18pm
Researchers in Germany discovered something odd about the aftereffects of COVID-19, not when the spread of the virus first started stirring global panic, but rather months down the line. The possibility of a heart condition, myocarditis, was found at alarmingly high rates in an MRI imaging study of 100 people who had been recently infected with the coronavirus.
By Katie Beauford | 02/22/2021 2:06pm
Tucson art house movie theater The Loft Cinema debuted their newest form of COVID-19-friendly movie watching this September.
By Sam Burdette | 09/23/2020 5:08pm
At Monday’s reentry briefing, University of Arizona President Dr. Robert C. Robbins announced another extension of in-person instruction for only Phase 1 courses and discussed stronger disciplinary measures for students who are not following the university’s rules related to COVID-19.
By Guest Authors: Janko Nikolich-Zugich, MD, PhD; Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD; Ryan Sprissler, PhD | 09/22/2020 12:51am
As the scientists whose labs developed the [University of Arizona] antibody test for exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, we read with interest the opinion piece by Andrea Moreno last week in the Daily Wildcat (OPINION: Why the COVID-19 Antibody Test is Useless on Campus). We would like to offer our thoughts on exactly how the test is useful on campus.
By Diana Ramos | 09/22/2020 12:04pm
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, universities haven’t looked the same. As the current fall semester approached, Dr. Robert C. Robbins, president of the University of Arizona, allowed students to return to campus assuring them that it would be safe for them to come back.
By Jillian Bartsch | 09/19/2020 2:11pm
The UA Debate Series is launching a podcast version of their debate series this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — the first live podcast will be released on Sept. 24, 2020.
By Kristijan Barnjak | 09/15/2020 12:22am
The University of Arizona Reentry Task Force met Monday to announce a new shelter-in-place directive for students living on and near campus. This new recommendation comes from both the university and Pima County in response to an increase in the rate of coronavirus transmission within the last week.
By Andres Diaz | 09/14/2020 7:33am
At its core, the medical profession is founded on human connections. Long before the advent of modern medicine, let alone a relative understanding of science and the human body, care revolved around relationships, trust, and human touch.
By Johnnie Mitchell | 09/13/2020 8:23pm
For those searching for a DIY quarantine activity, making your own masks may be the solution. Mask-making is a fun activity that goes a long way toward preventing the need to quarantine, helping the environment and allowing people to do everyday activities safely.
By Kristijan Barnjak | 09/10/2020 10:06am
The University of Arizona Reentry Task Force met Wednesday, Sept. 9 to speak about false positives in testing, clarifications in the 3Ts initiative, and resource utilization.
