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We are excited to announce that HAS Associate Professor Bo Guo has been selected as the 2027 NGWA Darcy Lecturer!

From Prescott to the border town of Nogales, "forever chemicals" contaminate the water of nearly 2 million people in Arizona. Some affected utilities have shut down wells and connected to clean sources of water or paid millions for treatment, but dealing with contamination will be a multi-generational problem.

The R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy continues to highlight excellence in student research, with doctoral student Paxton Sample recently being awarded a highly competitive National Institutes of Health F31 individual training grant, a prestigious award that supports predoctoral students pursuing research careers in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences.

At the U of A Imaging Cores – Optical facility, scientists explore worlds invisible to the naked eye, using advanced microscopes to reveal biological structures and processes in remarkable detail.

This month, 49 speakers and 424 participants gathered at the 2026 National PFAS Conference held at the University of Arizona to discuss educational resources, connections and research-backed strategies relating to PFAS. Read more in this article.

Matthew Wun, DVM, MS, DACVIM, a research technologist in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, recently published articles in the Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia for his work on injectable non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and acute kidney injury in veterinary medicine.

The 2026 National PFAS Conference takes place June 8-10 at the University of Arizona, the fifth gathering in a series that began at Northeastern University in 2017. The conference, held every other year, is one of the few national conferences devoted entirely to PFAS, and one of the only ones designed around the people living with the contamination very closely.

Arizona will receive $20 million in federal dollars to address PFAS "forever chemicals" and other harmful contaminants in the drinking water of small or disadvantaged communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced May 19.

As the toxic legacy of ‘forever chemicals’ grows, researchers are racing to develop safer alternatives.

Each year, the US News & World Report ranks universities in over 50 fields of study based on research performance. In 2026, the U of A was ranked number two in the field of water resources. US News compiles this list with bibliometric data from the analytics company Clarivate, which operates the research platforms Web of Science and ProQuest. Factors such as number of publications in the field and the reputation of the publishing journals play a role in determining ranking.