A new course at the University of Arizona seeks to find treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. Pharmacy students’ 2020 class registration ended earlier this month with the opportunity to take the class, “From Chemistry to Cure.” Read more
Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a compound that would be used as an alternative to opioids in treating the pain of chemotherapy. Read more
An international team of researchers has descended on University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, sealing off the complex’s rain forest, to conduct a one-of-a-kind study examining the impact of droughts on carbon flow in the ecosystem. Read more
The Africana Studies Program acquired an unusual new "employee": a robot that acts as a moving informational billboard and assistant. Members of the program said their hope is that the robot helps to normalize technological innovation while directing traffic to the Africana Studies Program. Read more
Roll out the red carpet and bring your telescopes; 36 University of Arizona researchers, graduate and undergraduate students were a part of a project that won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize, otherwise known as the “Oscars of Science.” Read more
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics technology, is the most recent organization to add its name to an endowed faculty chair position with the University of Arizona James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, rewarding the college with a $500,000 grant. Read more
Hong Hua, an optical sciences professor at the University of Arizona, helped develop the technology to invent a pair of high-resolution goggles that helps legally blind people see. She and a graduate student, Jason Kuhn, worked with eSight Corporation to release this innovative product to the public. Read more
Amy Mainzer, Ph. D., is an astronomer and astrophysicist. She is one of the world’s leading asteroid hunters at NASA. She’s the host of popular children’s show about astronomy. And in September, she will join the University of Arizona’s Department of Lunar and Planetary Sciences as a professor of planetary sciences professor. Read more
A University of Arizona College of Medicine alumnus has played a significant role in the advancements of electronic prosthetics. Read more
Klearchos Papas, a University of Arizona professor in the department of surgery, is leading a team to develop a new way to treat Type 1 diabetes. The treatment would release insulin into a person when an oxygen-enhanced implantable device senses their glucose level is too low. Read more
Over a dozen schools around Arizona will race their solar powered go-karts to find out which is fastest at Racing the Sun. Racing the Sun is free to attend and will take place at the Musselman Honda Circuit, at 11800 S. Harrison Rd., April 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Read more
The "Bringing Black Holes into Focus with the Event Horizon Telescope" lecture was held the evening of Wednesday, April 17, in the Environmental and Natural Resources 2 building at the University of Arizona. Read more
Kacey Ernst is the program director and associate professor in epidemiology at the the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the environmental determinants of the transmission and control of vector-borne diseases. Read more
