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University of Arizona researchers have received a grant to develop a better way to communicate with plants and understand their signals. They hope to tweak the circuits in plants, which could allow them to observe what happens when plants go into drought stress.

UA researchers working on communicating with plants

Jillian Bartsch
December 4, 2021
Researchers around the world are working on vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, experts estimated that it would take 12-18 months at the earliest to create a vaccine for the pandemic. Courtesy of FDA.

Students earn $1K by participating in this COVID-19 study

Jillian Bartsch
September 3, 2021
Pressure to behave perfectly in the pandemic has been on college students more than anyone. Signs scattered throughout the University of Arizona campus remind students to mask up and Bear Down amidst the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. 

BREAKING: New delta-plus coronavirus variant detected

Jillian Bartsch
August 4, 2021
The pillars standing in Heritage Park represent the different types of houses, as well as what chapter they belong to. Each sorority or fraternity has the opportunity to buy a pillar and put their name on it.

Major changes happening in Greek Life this fall

Jillian Bartsch
July 26, 2021
Old Main, blocked off to allow landscape workers to operate. Taken on Aug. 10, 2020, off of the UA Mall.

CAJUA releases an open letter regarding fall reentry

Jillian Bartsch
May 10, 2021
Old Main, blocked off to allow landscape workers to operate. Taken on Aug. 10, 2020, off of the UA Mall.

From Iceland to China: Meet the UA professors who are taking their research worldwide

Sydney Jones, Jillian Bartsch, Kristijan Barnjak, and Hillary Schiff
April 29, 2021
The Coalition of Black Students and Allies marched through the University of Arizona campus to decriminalize Black lives Aug. 28, 2020.  

2020: A year of activism for the UA community

Jillian Bartsch and Elvia Verdugo
April 18, 2021
Screenshot of University of Arizona President Dr. Robert C. Robbins, who outlined this year's tuition and program fee changes to the Arizona Board of Regents Tuesday, April 6.

ABOR hears feedback on university tuition and program fee proposals

Jillian Bartsch
April 7, 2021
Phase three of the new project to add solar panels and a rooftop garden on the University of Arizona’s Environment and Natural Resources 2 building is about to begin.

New additions to the ENR2 building make headway

Jillian Bartsch
March 24, 2021
Adding more security cameras around campus has been widely debated, especially after the death of a University of Arizona student near the Cherry Avenue garage.

Ongoing debate in UA community about security cameras on campus

Jillian Bartsch
March 17, 2021
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

What the OSIRIS-REx mission is doing now

Jillian Bartsch
February 26, 2021
Old Main, blocked off to allow landscape workers to operate. Taken on Aug. 10, 2020, off of the UA Mall.

A look inside the new University of Arizona human rights program

Jillian Bartsch
February 25, 2021
Students riding scooters on University Blvd in front of Gentle Ben's Brewing during the pandemic at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020.

Is Tucson’s COVID-19 curfew still in effect?

Jillian Bartsch
February 11, 2021
Holuhraun is a large lava field just north of the Vatnajökull ice cap, in the Icelandic Highlands. Photo courtesy of Christopher Hamilton, associate professor at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

Q&A: Testing Mars exploration drones

Jillian Bartsch
February 2, 2021
Researchers at the University of Arizona, Feige Wang and Jinyi Yang, have been working on this research for a few years. They explained that the surprising part was not the discovery of this quasar itself, but what they had found from their survey. Photo credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva

The UA discovers most recent quasar to date

Jillian Bartsch
January 24, 2021
The University of Arizona will lead NASA's Aspera Mission. Photo courtesy of Carlos Vargas, who is a postdoctoral researcher in the UA’s Steward Observatory. According to Vargas, the Aspera mission will produce the world’s first maps of the mysterious "warm-hot" phase of gas that surrounds galaxies.

The UA to lead NASA’s Aspera mission

Jillian Bartsch
January 17, 2021
Behind the Beaker: the DW science podcast highlights scientists and their work in the UA community. Weekly shows are available everywhwere you stream podcasts including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Behind the Beaker: DW Science Podcast

Alexandra Pere, Jillian Bartsch, and Udbhav Venkataraman
December 14, 2020
Students are encouraged to take out loans before they're able to understand what that means. Aerial view of UA Mall on Dec. 6, 2016/Courtesy Dean Kelly

University hiring slow down comes to an end

Jillian Bartsch
December 14, 2020
Breaking News (Illustration by Pascal Albright | Daily Wildcat) 

What you need to know about the Tucson curfew

Jillian Bartsch
December 4, 2020
The University of Arizona announced it is acquiring the assets of Ashford University as part of the creation of UA Global Campus, Monday, Aug. 3. Global Campus will be a nonprofit entity aiming to provide an education fully online at an affordable rate.  

UA Global Campus approved by accreditor

Jillian Bartsch
November 23, 2020
Voting Ballot (Illustration by Molly Cline | Daily Wildcat)

Election 2020: Which propositions passed?

Jillian Bartsch
November 3, 2020
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

History in the now: First asteroid sample through NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission

Jillian Bartsch
October 20, 2020
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

First-ever sampling of asteroid’s surface

Jillian Bartsch
October 18, 2020
Side-by-side photo of former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. Photos both by Gage Skidmore/Flickr.

Where do the presidential candidates stand with their environmental policies?

Jillian Bartsch
October 15, 2020
Breaking News (Illustration by Pascal Albright | Daily Wildcat) 

Spring break canceled for 2020-21 academic year

Jillian Bartsch
October 15, 2020
Screenshot of a flyer for the University of Arizona's Tucson Humanities Festival, held virtually this year. The theme for the festival is "Toward Justice."

UA’s Tucson Humanities Festival focuses on “Toward Justice” theme

Jillian Bartsch
October 11, 2020
Arizona held its primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020.  

Election 2020: A last-minute guide to voter registration

Jillian Bartsch
October 5, 2020
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is hosting a downtown lecture series called WOMANPOWER through October 2020. Courtesy SBS

Downtown Lecture Series announces theme “Woman Power”

Jillian Bartsch
September 28, 2020
As a way to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, the UA Debate Series is beginning a podcast. The first one will be live on Sept. 24. Courtesy George McLoof

UA Debate Series launches new podcast series, adapts to pandemic

Jillian Bartsch
September 18, 2020
University of Arizona student Max Goodman created a petition to make election day a campus-wide holiday. Courtesy Max Goodman.

UA student petitions to make Election Day a campus holiday

Jillian Bartsch
September 16, 2020
Jennifer Uhrlaub is a coronavirus researcher at the University of Arizona who also happened to test positive for COVID-19. Uhrlaub reported mild symptoms, including a cough, fatigue and a loss of taste.

UA COVID-19 researcher tests positive for coronavirus despite precautions

Jillian Bartsch
September 8, 2020
The University of Arizona recently started a RISE Program, which provides support to students in need of it. Amy Athey helped develop the program. Courtesy Amy Athey

UA launches new health and wellness initiative to provide peer support

Jillian Bartsch
September 4, 2020
Task Force Director Dr. Richard Carmona, Vice President of Communications Holly Jensen and University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins focused on on-campus mitigation efforts during the Sept. 1 task force press conference.

Campus reentry update: Task force holds special briefing to discuss new COVID-19 mitigation efforts

Maggie Rockwell and Jillian Bartsch
September 3, 2020
Recently, health experts around the world have been trying to figure out if packages can aid in the transmission of the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by lemonhalf; licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0)

Frozen food packages have tested positive for COVID-19, but can you get sick from them?

Jillian Bartsch
August 30, 2020
The Coalition of Black Students and Allies marched through the University of Arizona campus Aug. 28 to decriminalize Black lives. 

Coalition of Black Students and Allies marches to decriminalize Black lives

Jillian Bartsch
August 29, 2020
The University of Arizona officially announced students would be returning to in-person classes during a reentry press conference on July 16. The methods of instruction offered during the fall include in-person, flex in-person, live online and iCourse. 

Two UA professors speak on why they decided to hold their classes online

Maggie Rockwell and Jillian Bartsch
August 17, 2020
A view of the food court in the Student Union Memorial Center on Jan. 26, 2017.  

Here’s what the Student Union will look like in the fall

Jillian Bartsch
August 11, 2020
Dr. Jim Schwiegerling, a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences, recently designed and developed implantable cataract replacement lenses for the eye. Courtesy Jim Schwiegerling.

Optical scientist develops implantable cataract replacement lenses

Jillian Bartsch
August 6, 2020
Member of CAJUA Celeste González de Bustamante speaks at a press conference on Thursday, June 11, voicing faculty and staff concerns about the UA's furlough plan. 

CAJUA sends open letter to President Robbins, Eller College offers a humane financial plan

Jillian Bartsch
August 3, 2020
The NMR spectrometers at the UA that have allowed scientists, like Wolfgang Peti, to gather details of the interaction between RCAN1 and calcineurin, two proteins that have long been implicated in Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome. Courtesy Wolfgang Peti.

Researchers’ new finding leads to better understanding of neurological disorders

Jillian Bartsch
August 3, 2020
A view of Banner University Medical Center on Dec. 20, 2015.

Keeping your mental health and wellness during the pandemic and quarantine

Jillian Bartsch
July 25, 2020
Resource Guide: A rundown of the UA BookStore and Student Union

Resource Guide: A rundown of the UA BookStore and Student Union

Jillian Bartsch
July 21, 2020
A researcher at the University of Arizona holds a serology test used for detecting the presence of antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19. If you believe you have symptoms, the UA offers many testing sites around campus. Courtesy Gerri Kelly.

How to deal with isolation and quarantine from the COVID-19 pandemic

Jillian Bartsch
July 18, 2020
Carol Stewart, Associate Vice President of Tech Parks Arizona, was named one of the most influential women in Arizona business for 2020 by AZ Business Magazine. Courtesy Tech Parks Arizona

UA Tech Park leader named one of the “Most Influential Women in Business for 2020”

Jillian Bartsch
July 15, 2020
New UAEMS building, which is located south of South Stadium Parking Structure. Courtesy Mary Hardin.

UA Emergency Services offers 24/7 health care, among other providers

Jillian Bartsch
July 13, 2020
The University of Arizona has sent out several statements about COVID-19 and how the administration plans to prevent a widespread outbreak on campus.

Meet UA’s Associate Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion’s final candidates

Ian Tisdale, Priya Jandu, Maggie Rockwell, and Jillian Bartsch
July 10, 2020
Gordon Bates / Daily Wildcat Sairam Parthasarathy, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Sleep Disorders, shows one of the rooms used for in patient sleep studies.

Recent study finds nearly half of U.S. healthcare workers suffers from insomnia

Jillian Bartsch
July 9, 2020
New UAEMS building, which is located south of South Stadium Parking Structure. Courtesy Mary Hardin.

UA Emergency Medical Services receives new station from CAPLA

Jillian Bartsch
July 2, 2020
The University of Arizona Police Department on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in Tucson, Arizona. 

Racist flyers found on UA campus, UAPD investigating

Jillian Bartsch
July 2, 2020
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks about his background and experience prior to becoming governor during his visit to Dr. Paul Melendez's business ethics class at the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building on April 27. Ducey supported several bills during the past legislative session aimed at curbing citizens' influence on Arizona laws.

Gov. Ducey announces more restrictions for Arizona

Jillian Bartsch
June 30, 2020
University of Arizona student Dorthea Stephenson created a George Floyd memorial scholarship petition. Courtesy Dorthea Stephenson.

UA student proposes George Floyd memorial scholarship

Jillian Bartsch
June 26, 2020
UA startup Botanisol Analytics won $1.5 million contract

UA startup Botanisol Analytics won $1.5 million contract

Jillian Bartsch
June 25, 2020
University of Arizona Regents Professor Diana Liverman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

UA professor elected to two national academies

Jillian Bartsch
June 22, 2020
Dr. Paul Gordon, a University of Arizona professor and family medicine physician, with his wife, Dr. Eve Shapiro, on his listening tour.

UA physician and medical student bike across the country for U.S. healthcare system

Jillian Bartsch
June 15, 2020
University of Arizona's Cooperative Extension hosted the summit June 1-3. Photo courtesy: Arizona 4-H Youth Development

Virtual 4-H Summit prepares youth for career world

Jillian Bartsch
June 11, 2020
In times of crisis, young people turn to memes to cope. But is that healthy? 

Mind Window: An app to see inside the mind

Jillian Bartsch
June 6, 2020
Amidst a global pandemic, child development affected in many different forms

Amidst a global pandemic, child development affected in many different forms

Jillian Bartsch
June 1, 2020
Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched in 2018, Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth. 

Looking back on a year of scientific achievements

Jillian Bartsch
May 12, 2020
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor John Wiens in his office in Biosciences West. Wiens is currently working on a project about species extinction.

Data shows high levels of species extinction

Jillian Bartsch
March 2, 2020
The Tucson Festival of Books is a free, public celebration of authors, books, reading and literacy. Many tents were more than just books, this event has things for people of all ages.

$2 million donated to literacy programs by Tucson Festival of Books

Jillian Bartsch
March 1, 2020
Unknown profile photo The Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona located at 1013 E. University Blvd in Tucson AZ on Monday 18, February. The Museum was established in 1893 and is one the University's original research units.

Raymond H. Thompson’s legacy

Jillian Bartsch
February 9, 2020
Dr. Donata Vercelli explains her research on human microbes in her office on Jan. 25 at the BIO5 Institute in Tucson, Ariz. Vercelli is speaking to the community at UA's College of Science Lecture Series in Centennial Hall on Feb. 12th.

Donata Vercelli discusses the impact of the microbiome

Jillian Bartsch
February 7, 2020
Astronomy professor Chris Impey in his office. Impey will be speaking at the "Science on Screen" event at The Loft Cinema on Tuesday.

Science for the future

Jillian Bartsch
January 27, 2020
DeAndre Ayton during the McDonald's Red-Blue game on Oct. 20 in McKale Center.

Ayton makes strong first impression in Arizona debut

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October 21, 2017

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