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Tomás Díaz de la Rubia is the U of A's next senior vice president for research and innovation. He is expected to begin his appointment Nov. 11.

U of A scientists will participate in many aspects of NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which will orbit Jupiter and make 49 flybys of its moon Europa to study the moon's icy shell and help researchers better understand what lies beneath.

Spanish researchers evaluated tissues for fibrosis using MeCo Score, a diagnostic tool invented at the University of Arizona.

The five-year project will work with families in Arizona and Florida to develop new, culturally informed tools to support interventions.

For the first time, one of the Giant Magellan Telescope's primary mirror segments, produced at the U of A Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, has been integrated into a support structure that will maintain the mirror's shape once mounted on the telescope.

Two recently released prestigious international rankings recognize the University of Arizona as a top-25 U.S. public research institution.

Every second, more than 3,000 stars are born in the visible universe. Many are surrounded by protoplanetary disks – swirling "pancakes" of hot gas and dust, from which planets form. U of A researchers have obtain detailed insights into the forces that shape protoplanetary disks.

The endowment honors the memory of Meixner, a renowned hydrologist and former head of the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences. McIntosh is as a University Distinguished Scholar, professor and associate head of the department.

A new U of A-led study combines data from ancient shells with advanced climate modeling to shed light on how El Niño weather patterns might change in a warming world.

Tree-ring data reveal that periodic shifts in strong winds high above Earth's surface have driven opposite climates in different parts of Europe for at least the past 700 years.