Females of a little-known primate from the rainforests of Madagascar have been known to outlive their male peers by many years, despite no obvious differences in hormone levels or lifestyle. A team led by a UA anthropologist has found the likely answer to the mystery. Researchers studying aging in an endangered ...

With major sponsorship support from the UA and the Arizona Daily Star, among others, the annual Tucson Festival of Books will be held at the UA March 9-10. The Tucson Festival of Books has been and remains deeply invested in improving literacy and promoting the love of learning. Since its inception in ...

“When I was 19, I had a fairly serious spine surgery,” Sbarra recalls, “and I spent most of the summer flat on my back, thinking about how am I going to put the pieces of my life together?” Sbarra went on to study what it means, emotionally and physically, to put ...

The UA's new eSociety program promises the benefit of a globally focused and interdisciplinary understanding about the advent and evolution of the knowledge-driven Internet age. Many of the most significant, globally impactful companies and products recently created are tied to digital communications and computational technologies – wireless networks, social networks, smartphones ...

Thompson will oversee institutional communications, marketing, brand management, government relations, community relations and Arizona Public Media. Teresa Lucie Thompson, a nationally recognized marketing executive, has been named the University of Arizona’s Senior Vice President for University Relations. Thompson, currently Vice President for Marketing and Media and Chief Marketing Officer at Purdue University, ...

Pac-12 Networks and ESPN have teamed up to welcome Hall of Famer and UCLA legend Bill Walton back to the broadcasting chair with a nine-school road trip and speaking tour across the Pac-12 Conference that includes a stop at the University of Arizona on Feb. 6. The talk, which will ...

UA College of Pharmacy researchers at the UA's BIO5 Oro Valley facility are working to quicken the process of drug-discovery evaluation. Medicinal chemists face a multitude of hurdles trying to discover new and effective therapeutics for the treatment of disease. In the University of Arizona’s BIO5 Oro Valley facility is a team ...

As the sun sets, dim stars glow more brightly and others appear, arraying into familiar constellations. Tom Fleming uses a laser pointer to identify them for his Astro 203 class. Here is familiar Orion, the hunter. Here are lesser-known Cassiopeia and Pegasus and Perseus, neighbors in the night sky and forever linked ...

Microbe-eating flies from at least three different locations around the world recently have evolved into herbivores, feeding on some of the most toxic plants on Earth. Fly detectives and UA evolutionary biologists Noah Whiteman and Richard Lapoint are trying to find out what genetic pathways led the flies to such ...

Genomics, the topic of this year's lecture series at the University of Arizona's College of Science, is not an inherently controversial topic. It is the realm of scientists who sequence and assemble the entire set of DNA contained in each cell of an organism. Genomics provides a road map for researchers in ...

After years of planning, members of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona are pushing to bring Spring Fling back to campus for its 40th anniversary next spring. Spring Fling has been off campus for about 10 years, which has caused lower attendance rates and lower profits for clubs, according ...

The Red Planet ramblings of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity are clearly visible in a new image snapped by a sharp-eyed spacecraft. The rover photo, taken on Jan. 2 by the HiRise camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the ground Curiosity has covered since landing inside the Red Planet's huge Gale ...

Effective this week, the UA South headquarters in Sierra Vista will be known as UA Sierra Vista. The University of Arizona South location in Sierra Vista is getting a new name. Effective this week, the UA South headquarters in Sierra Vista will be known as UA Sierra Vista. The new name more ...

TUCSON(KGUN9-TV) - Airway, breathing and circulation; they're the ABC's of CPR. Well, not anymore -- at least when it comes to sudden cardiac arrest patients. "The expectation that's still in place across the nation is that there's not a lot of hope that we're going to save a majority of these patients ...

We all know germs are just about everywhere, but where do they hide most?. Shopping carts: You may have noticed from the often-greasy status of the handlebar that grocery carts aren’t the cleanest. High levels of E. coli lurk on both the handles and the seats. Dr. Charles Gerba recommends using ...

As Arizona State University’s spring semester begins, students studying life sciences will learn about subjects such as evolution, neurobiology, and genetics in a new, high-tech classroom designed to promote “active learning.” Rather than listening passively to a lecture in an auditorium, students will work in small groups on “student-centered” learning exercises ...

TEMPE - The apple cores, half-eaten sandwiches and other unappetizing scraps thrown out at Arizona State University's Barrett Dining Hall would usually end up in a landfill. Instead, it will become compost to grow gardens and trees. Committing to the Food Recovery Challenge organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Arizona's ...

The First Smiles program makes practicing good dental hygiene fun for young kids. Young children around the state are “brushing up” on dental health thanks to an oral health program delivered by the University of Arizona. The First Smiles program – an initiative of First Things First, administered in four Arizona counties ...