Nov. 15, 2011 Researchers Reap a Sweet and Sustainable Harvest Known as the sugarcane of the desert, sweet sorghum could be a sustainable and ecological future biofuel crop for Arizona.
Aug. 30, 2010 UA Engineers Build Lunar Vegetable Garden The first extraterrestrials to inhabit the moon probably won't be little green men, but they could be little green plants.
Feb. 11, 2019 DOT Put Through Its Paces in Arizona Fields University of Arizona researcher works with the autonomous farming platform and DOT-ready implements this winter .
Nov. 19, 2018 Rooftop Greenhouse Teaches, Nourishes and Empowers Students The nation’s first student-run rooftop greenhouse with the capacity for year-round food production helps stock the UA Campus Pantry.
Oct. 17, 2018 Data on Demand: Creating a Search Engine for Microbiome Sciences The Hurwitz Lab makes extremely large data sets from a range of storage servers searchable to assist scientific discovery.
Aug. 21, 2018 Bugs and Biomes This badass science mom took a DNA sample to cure her daughter's ear infection.
Aug. 16, 2018 NASA Awards UbiQD Contract to Develop Greenhouse Films for Space Missions Phase I STTR will fund a collaboration with the University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center to develop and test quantum dot materials for maximizing crop yields on the moon, Mars or other long-term space missions.
Aug. 9, 2018 Research Looks at Automating Weed Killing Function A research team at the University of Arizona has developed a precision spray assembly capable of delivering herbicides at the centimeter level of accuracy with minimal off-target spray at travel speeds of 2 miles per hour.
March 22, 2018 The Future of Farming Takes Root Sustainable agriculture is quickly becoming the wave of the future as global leaders grapple with the question of how to feed a world population approaching 10 billion. At the UA, researchers are looking up for answers, in the form of vertical...
April 25, 2017 Lunar, Martian Greenhouses Designed to Mimic Those on Earth University of Arizona scientists and engineers in the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, part of the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, are building greenhouses to support a crew of astronauts working on the moon or Mars.
