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Five U of A faculty and staff were recognized with Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Mentoring and Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Each year, only 18 student across the U.S. are awarded Churchill Scholarships, which support undergraduate students who wish to pursue a year of master's degree study at Cambridge University.

Researchers set out to answer the age-old question: Are women really much more talkative than men? They found that women between the ages of 25 and 64 – the life stages of early and middle adulthood – speak on average 3,000 more words per day than their male counterparts.

Two research publications by the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team suggest that conditions for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

Some of the most common types of planets in the Milky Way may be very different than astronomers imagined, according to researchers probing the atmosphere of planet GJ 1214 b.

Arizona Online ranks No. 12 among online bachelor's degree programs and ranks No. 5 on the Best Online Bachelor's Programs for Veterans list.

A paper by U of A associate professor Susan Swanberg explains how the Oscar-winning 1953 film, shot in Tucson, failed to live up to its claim as a "true-life adventure."

A transfer pathway to the Zuckerman College of Public Health will enable Tohono O'odham Community College students to expand their career potential.

A library book she found when she was 10 inspired Melanie McKay-Cody to pursue a career studying Native American sign languages. Now a researcher in the College of Education, she's one of the foremost experts at the intersection of Native and Deaf identity. She shares her story in this article and video.

New observations led by a U of A astronomer suggest that even dwarf galaxies can accrete mass from other small galaxies, challenging a long-held theory about dwarf-galaxy expansion.