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Native American Superheroes Get a Chance to Fly

Aug 4, 2016 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Education funding changed by Prop 123; meet library writer-in-residence Adrienne Celt, former UA student goes for gold at the Olympics.

Arizona Public Media presents Beyond the Mirage: The Future of Water in the West, a film by Cody Sheehy and a production of the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Water Resources Research Center.

Beyond the Mirage: The Future of Water in the West to be distributed nationally through American Public Television

Aug 2, 2016 The documentary will be made available to Public Television stations who belong to APT Exchange

The University of Arizona's 28-acre College of Medicine campus in downtown Phoenix.

UA Phoenix Med School Under Regents' Scrutiny

Aug 2, 2016 Board will hold meetings to review medical community complaints.

Scarab or figeater beetles are common during the Sonoran desert's hot summer months when they come out to eat and breed.

Bright Green Beetle Makes a Sonoran Desert Appearance

Jul 26, 2016 Iridescent insect is active during summer months in Southern Arizona.

UA Cancer Center contributes to VP Biden's Cancer Moonshot

Jul 26, 2016 Effort seeks to complete a decade’s worth of research in 5 years, focusing on ovarian cancer.

The sun rises through the trees in the Coronado National Forest.

UA Research Finds Trees May Absorb Less CO2

Jul 25, 2016 North American forest growth slowing because of climate change, tree ring study reveals.

Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court Justice Kagan Reschedules Tucson Visit

Jul 20, 2016 Will deliver UA College of Law Lecture next month and visit with law students.

An artist's concept of select planetary discoveries made by NASA's Kepler space telescope.

Astronomers, Led by UA, Confirm 100-Plus New Planets

Jul 19, 2016 Celestial bodies could contain clues about our solar system's formation.

Tucson Police, African American Communities Evaluate Relationship

Jul 15, 2016 Success working together creates a less-divided community, they say.

David Sbarra, associate professor & director of clinical training at the University of Arizona Department of Psychology, and Mary-Frances O’Connor, Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona Department of Psychology, discuss how the impact of mental illness can reach well beyond the mind.

UA Alzheimer's Research Looks at Aging Female Brain

Jul 14, 2016 Scientist considers reproductive milestones as triggers

Scientists study the effects of aging on the brain.

UA Researchers Focus on Healthy Aging Brain

Jul 13, 2016 Dementia, Alzheimer's are not inevitable.

An artist's impression shows a view of the triple star system HD 131399 from close to the giant planet
orbiting in the system.

UA Student Discovers Distant Planet in Three-Star System

Jul 7, 2016 Four times Jupiter's mass, celestial body can offer clues to planetary formation.

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter will examine the origin and evolution of the solar system's largest planet.

UA Scientist to Delve into Jupiter's Secrets in Flyby

Jun 29, 2016 Juno spacecraft reaches solar system's largest planet July 4 after five-year journey.

Tucson Optics Industry Brings Good Jobs, Needs Workers

Jun 24, 2016 Industry has shrunken in recent years; new companies want it to regain prominence.

Students walk across the UA Mall as the sun sets in the background. Photo taken December 10th, 2015.

Students Ponder Impact of University Leadership Change

Jun 16, 2016 President Ann Weaver Hart to step down as president by 2018.

Girls Can Learn from New UA Women's Basketball Coach

Jun 14, 2016 Adia Barnes, returning to coach team she once played for, holds summer camp.

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