Despite its desert landscape and lack of an ocean, Tucson is home to one of the world's leading experts in shrimp pathology: UA professor Donald Lightner.
Environment and Sustainability News
The UA's Dennis Ray will lead the effort of breeding guayule, a rubber-producing plant suited for arid environments, to achieve higher yields and reduced harvest cycle time.
This summer, students will work with Arizona Cooperative Extension on sustainability projects throughout the state - providing them valuable on-the-job experience.
Universities and museums are natural allies. The UA's museums collectively are ranked No. 5 on a list of the most amazing university museums by Best Colleges Online.
The College of Engineering's Engineering Design Day featured student inventions like a hydroponic barley fodder system, a portable weather chamber, and a mammal GPS tracker.
Sharon B. Megdal, director of the UA Water Resources Research Center, WRRC, has been elected president of the National Institutes for Water Resources, NIWR.
Rafe Sagarin and Eric Magrane discuss observation, art, science, aesthetics, and biomimicry in a wide-ranging conversation on art and environment.
Carl Olson morphed from a child fascinated with caterpillars into an insect collection curator known as the "Bug Man."
UA researchers using a technique called remote sensing have found that a wetter winter usually means a milder summer fire season. In remote sensing, satellites capture reflected sunlight, which can be processed and analyzed to study the Earth.
Scientists study New Mexico's Rabbit Mountain, where forests burned in 2011 Las Conchas Fire, to determine the fire-climate effects on snow water resources.
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