The U of A just finished its first year in the Big 12 conference—a major milestone. Click through to read about our many victories, as well as getting some perspective on how athletes are adjusting.

Nearly 10 million people die of cancer each year. Doctors and researchers at the U of A’s Comprehensive Cancer Center — as well as the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, the Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies (CAMI) and other initiatives across the U of A — have devoted their professional lives to figuring out what they can do about it. And they’re making strides.

Undergraduate researcher Tom Pham is working with his mentor, Abhijit Date, to improve how medicine gets into our eyes.

Since 2017, student volunteers from the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and the College of Medicine – Phoenix have been going into the streets of Phoenix to provide basic medical care to some of the most vulnerable people in the community. Learn how they are adapting to shifts in funding and legislation while keeping their mission clear.

Learn about the researchers and thinkers across the U of A adapting to the AI revolution in real time, from mining and space defense to agriculture and the humanities. Also, meet the U of A’s inaugural chief AI officer, David Ebert.

Aurora Seekins ’25 moved around a lot as a kid — until high school, she hadn’t finished a full year of school, and by the time she graduated (salutatorian, no less), she met the federal qualifications for homelessness. That didn’t stop her. Now a U of A graduate and a graduate student in applied economics at Boston College, Seekins reflects on the experiences that got her to where she is, including her time with Fostering Success, a U of A program for students who have experienced foster care, homelessness or housing insecurity.

Melani Martinez’s family ran the El Rapido restaurant in the Presidio district of downtown Tucson for nearly 70 years. Now Martinez, an associate professor of practice in the U of A’s Foundations Writing program, has published a memoir called The Molino, which poetically documents her childhood experiences in the kitchen while doubling as a history of downtown Tucson, its food and its people.

Fifty years ago, a graduating U of A senior climbed Old Main in the middle of the night and took a piece of campus home. He recently brought it back.

After starting at the College of Medicine – Tucson at just 16, Tadeusz Borowski’s curiosity has led him to unexpected roles as a resident assistant and lab research assistant. Learn more about Borowski’s journey — and his plans for his future — within. 

New provost Patricia Prelock grew up one of six siblings and a first-gen college student before becoming provost at the University of Vermont. Now she’s bringing her clarity and resilience to Tucson.

A new exhibition at the Center for Creative Photography called “Picture Party” celebrates the museum’s 50th anniversary through 100 key images and objects. Learn about the exhibition — including perspective from curators Rebecca Senf and Emilia Mickevicius — here.

A U of A-led NASA small-satellite mission called Aspera is investigating how galaxies are formed. It’s also quietly changing how missions of its kind might be conducted in the future. Learn more about the project, its impact on students, and what it means for future space research from Principal Investigator Carlos Vargas within.

The University of Arizona Libraries recently hit an unusual milestone: Lending more technology devices than books or other printed matter. Meet one of those devices, a credit-card-sized computer called the Raspberry Pi.