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Program director Rudy McCormack (center) and staff at UA College Academy for Parents.

New state grants help point families to higher education goals

Jun 2, 2022 University of Arizona College Academy for Parents encourages parents to start quest for college early.

New University of Arizona building focuses on tech startups

May 27, 2022 Tech Launch Arizona helps new businesses get off the ground.

Title IX has helped power University of Arizona women's athletics to championship status.

Title IX continues its evolution at 50

May 17, 2022 The statute's five-decade anniversary this summer highlights successes and shortcomings.

Image of black hole in the Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists marvel at new black hole image

May 12, 2022 The University of Arizona-led Event Horizon telescope project captured the object in the center of the Milky Way.

The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are designed to calibrate the spacecraft's optics.

Get ready for spectacular star show from the James Webb Space Telescope

May 10, 2022 Project engineers are fine tuning the instrument's optics for targeted images.

Still image from Oct. 20 video of the OSIRIS-REx sample collection event, with rocks flying around the arm of TAGSAM after it makes contact with the surface of asteroid Bennu.

NASA calls University of Arizona a "crown jewel"

May 8, 2022 University students and researchers work with NASA on a number of high-profile projects.

Ice core samples along with tree rings yield information from thousands of years ago.

University of Arizona researcher gets closer to solving ancient mystery

May 5, 2022 Studies of tree rings and ice core samples are providing clues to what happened to Minoan civilization in 1500 B. C.

Researchers are masking medicines to flow alongside red blood cells and avoid the body's defense systems.

Biomedical engineers sneak medicines past immune system

May 4, 2022 University of Arizona researchers are developing ways to target medication more efficiently to fight disease.

Kathy Short in the Worlds of Words library at UA's Department of Education.

International exhibition focuses on children's pandemic self-portraits

May 2, 2022 Tucson is the show's first stop outside of Germany.

Old Main on the campus of the University of Arizona.

Universities partnering to end addiction

Apr 29, 2022 The University of Arizona and Oklahoma State University are working together to combat pain and addiction.

Organic marijuana being grown at an Arizona farm for processing into medical marijuana.

Cannabis courses offered by University of Arizona

Apr 27, 2022 Voters made the recreational marijuana business legal, but they didn't make it easy.

OSIRIS-REx on its return journey to Earth.

NASA to extend OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for a mission to a second asteroid

Apr 25, 2022 The University of Arizona-led mission will rendezvous with the Asteroid Apophis in 2029

Apollo 16 lunar exploration, April 1972.

Tucson-based scientists giving moon rocks a second look

Apr 25, 2022 NASA's Apollo 16 crew originally collected the samples 50 years ago.

Four tech companies will have access to the laboratory at Biosphere 2 for research.

Biosphere 2 starts a tech incubator

Apr 13, 2022 The laboratory welcomed four tech startups in a ribbon cutting ceremony.

Students walk near the fountain at Old Main on the University of Arizona campus. From August 2019.

Tuition increases OK'd for Arizona's 3 public universities

Apr 8, 2022 University of Arizona is boosting tuition by 2% to $11,525 a year for undergrads.

The cover art for Oceanography's latest album, "Thirteen Songs About Driving Nowhere in Alphabetical Order."

"We Are Prone To Accidents Close to Home..." The songs of Oceanography.

Apr 7, 2022 Also on ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT: How UA recipients of the Mellon Foundation's "Fronteridades" grant are exploring the border experience; and author Jodie Hollander talks about leading a free series of "Poetry in the Parks" workshops.

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