Increased precision of radiocarbon dating and archival evidence reaffirms 23,000 years as the age of the famous footprints discovered in White Sands National Park and demonstrates humans withstood abrupt swings in the environment within individual lifetimes.

Library and information science, housed in the College of Information Science, ranked No. 4 globally and No. 3 in the United States in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.

In this Q&A, Salomé discusses how her involvement in environmental and sustainability groups at the U of A has shaped her interests and how local communities can take action on environmental issues.

Four decades of satellite records reveal that roughly 80% of global drylands are experiencing extreme swings in interannual productivity, and current models are missing it.

Out of the 14-institution cohort to receive this classification, the U of A is the largest R1 research university.