University of Arizona News

The Obama administration handed backers of medical marijuana a significant victory Friday, opening the way for a University of Arizona researcher to examine whether pot can help veterans cope with post-traumatic stress, a move that could lead to broader studies into potential benefits of the drug.

This artist's illustration represents the variety of planets being detected by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

Derrick Thompson called 911 in the coastal Maine city of Biddeford to report that he was being threatened.

This image from NASA combines a photograph of seasonal dark flows on a Martian slope with a grid of colors based on data collected by a mineral-mapping spectrometer observing the same area.

Recently I found myself at Avaxat Elementary School in Murrieta getting the necessary paperwork to register another Hunneman boy for school.

Naomi Tsai , Addison Neher, Callie Krevanko and Mae Graham held hands as they waited to hear whether they had been chosen to be Cleveland High School's Rose Festival princess.

A recent study from the astronomy lab at the University of Arizona has the physics world up in arms as it describes a complex phenomenon that neither I, the author of this piece, nor you, the reader, will ever be able to understand in our lifetimes.

WHAT: "The Search for Life Beyond the Solar System. Exoplanets, Biosignature & Instruments," a conference that brings together experts to discuss how to find life in the universe; Jill Tarter, real-life inspiration for the movie "Contact," will give public talk.

A new study of patients with obstructive sleep apnea found that treatment outcomes were better when patients received care from sleep specialists and accredited sleep centers.

The Obama administration handed backers of medical marijuana a significant victory Friday, opening the way for a University of Arizona researcher to examine whether pot can help veterans cope with post-traumatic stress, a move that could lead to broader studies into potential benefits of the drug.

The combined value of the 25 largest projects to break ground in the Southwest in 2013 totaled $3.72 billion - a slight uptick from $3.7 billion in 2012.

In a press release Friday, the University sent a proposal to the Arizona Board of Regents seeking a 3 percent increase in tuition for out-of-state residents, while also proposing a $150 student athletic fee.

Horiba Scientific has acquired Photon Technology International . PTI is a supplier of research spectrofluorometers, serving the university and research laboratories as well as industrial and biomedical markets.

Richard Lyons, the dean of University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business , has a dire forecast for business education: "Half of the business schools in this country could be out of business in 10 years-or five," he says.

The American Library Association congratulated Robert L. Maxwell on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 as winner of the 2014 ABC-CLIO Award for the Best Book in Library Literature for Maxwell's Handbook for RDA: Resource Description and Access , published by the A.L.A. This award recognizes books that assist library professionals or information specialists in ... (more)

Utility and rail infrastructure for Tucson's Sun Link is complete and light rail service will begin in July - the first such service since the Old Pueblo Trolley was suspended when Sun Link began construction in 2011.

If you want to do the big jobs less often, it's time to go small-and smart. Balance your cleaning efforts with these easy strategies to step up your game.

Mars' northern-most sand dunes are beginning to emerge from their winter cover of seasonal carbon dioxide ice.

They're called the Alberta oilsands but most of the sand actually came from the Appalachian region on the eastern side of the North American continent, a new study shows.

Like the buildings, the government needs to be "restored, repaired and redirected," McLaughlin said.