Dr. Carla Atkinson, an ecologist in the Department of Biological Sciences, is integral to research at UA to help better understand freshwater mussels, improving efforts to conserve and restore the animal to the state’s streams and rivers. […]
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UA Research Examining How Heat Waves Are Getting Bigger
Dr. David Keellings, assistant professor of geography, was recently awarded a three-year, $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the relationship between the size of heat waves and causes across the U.S. […]
Tears Turn to Success for Graduate Student: Determination Brings NIH Fellowship
Jennie Thies, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, was recently awarded an NIH Diversity Research Supplement, a highly competitive fellowship that will support her research. […]
Maya Violent Warfare Occurred Earlier Than Thought
Dr. Alexandre Tokovinine, UA assistant professor of anthropology, is part of a team of researchers who show brutal warfare in Mayan civilizations occurred earlier than previously thought. […]
Religious Studies Awarded $350,000 Grant from the Luce Foundation
From the July 2019 Desktop News | UA’s department of religious studies was recently awarded a $350,000 grant by the Luce Foundation to fund an interdisciplinary conference surrounding the teaching, research, and public scholarship of religion in America. The conference, known as American Examples, aims to redefine the study of American religion and apply it […]
UA Professor to Play Role in Upgrade of Particle Detector in Antarctica
Dr. Dawn Williams, UA professor of physics and astronomy, is part of the team that will upgrade the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the Antarctic detector that identified the first likely source of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays. […]
Worm-Like Mollusks Lost Traits Over Time, UA-led Research Confirms
A perplexing group of worm-like mollusks are not primitive ancestors of the group, rather they lost many traditional mollusk traits over time, according to research led by Dr. Kevin Kocot, professor of biological sciences. […]
A&S in the News: May 5-11, 2019
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for research on zombie-like cells, Fulbright Scholarship winners, and more. […]
Researchers Quicken Drug Discovery Method via Zombie-Like Cells
Dr. Lukasz Ciesla, assistant professor of biological sciences, and other UA researchers discovered a method that uses magnetic nanoparticles coated with a biological cell membrane as a lure to fish out pharmacologically active compounds from plants and other natural organisms. […]
Climate Change to Blame for Hurricane Maria’s Extreme Rainfall
A storm of Maria’s magnitude is nearly five times more likely to form now than during the 1950s, an increase due largely to the effects of human-induced warming, according to a study led by Dr. David Keellings, assistant professor of geography. […]
