UA College of Science: Transforming the Way We Live

Our researchers are interested in understanding our universe and our place in it and how we can have better lives from their discoveries.

In 2017, members of the Galileo Circle provided scholarships of $1,000 or more to 161 UA Science undergraduate and graduate students.

Telemedicine, when applied to intensive-care units, provides the ability to remotely monitor critically ill patients and identify adverse events that are often challenging for bedside clinicians to detect.

Parkinson’s disease may be a systemic condition affecting cells more broadly, beyond the boundaries of the brain.

In some cases, our own body can decrease the effectiveness of cancer treatments.

Arizona needed a mineral that was known to museums around the world and unrivaled for its beauty

Free, mobile Android app called Where’s My Mind sends users surveys at random moments to capture the nature of their mental experience.

The Tumamoc Tour tells the story of this desert and the more than 4,000 years of human history through the lens of these historic grounds.

On your way south to Puerto Peñasco (or Rocky Point), the large dune field to your right is what used to be the interior of the Grand Canyon, brought to rest here by the once-mighty Colorado River.

The tools and measures we use  to diagnose speech disorders were designed for children who speak just one language — English.

For over a century, the University of Arizona has been a place of wide-open opportunities both for students to learn and faculty to explore th…

Program allows community members to audit science classes at a reduced tuition rate through the University of Arizona College of Science.

Rainforest, an ocean and three enormous sloping landscapes.

Four mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope, each 27 feet across, are in various stages of production at the Mirror Lab.

Why would those pediatric cancers form if they don’t acquire as many mutations as adult cancers? What else could be happening?

Bringing the grief support into widows’ and widowers’ homes. 

Andrew Paek’s lab uses time-lapse microscopy to create movies of cancer cells responding to chemotherapy treatment.

University of Arizona reserachers recently discovered structure in the circumstellar matter around a young star, which suggests that giant planets may be able to form much more rapidly than previously thought.

 UA researchers focus on discovering undiscovered public knowledge. 

Binary stars help University of Arizona researchers confirm models of nuclear fusion, which we could never test in laboratories on Earth.

A warming Arctic is undergoing significant environmental change.

As a system in which to test our ideas, we settled on the Arizona charter school “ecosystem.”