U of A faculty, students develop exhibit to celebrate Santa Cruz County
The "Beyond Fronteras" exhibit at the Historic 1904 Santa Cruz County Courthouse includes photos, videos, paintings and essays about the area's history, culture and people.
Community Engagement
Desert Bound: Wildcats to return to U of A for Homecoming
Homecoming kicks off Oct. 13 with the traditional lighting of 'A' Mountain. The weeklong celebration, themed "Desert Bound," will feature several events, including the Club Olympics, talks by university researchers and more.
$1M grant will support paid internships in community archives
The funding from the Mellon Foundation will provide library and information science graduate students hands-on experience as they help communities record their histories.
U of A project addresses loneliness in older adults living in border and rural communities
Associate professor Ada M. Wilkinson-Lee is partnering with border and rural communities in Arizona to help them overcome the health impacts of social isolation.
Center for Creative Photography receives $1M gift commitment to establish endowment for interdisciplinary education
The anonymous gift will establish an endowment to support exhibitions and programming at the Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery.
Poetry Center adds more than 12,000 caption files to recordings dating to 1963
The Voca poetry readings archive is now accompanied by digitized captions, making one of the world's major poetry audiovisual archives fully accessible and searchable.
New Biosphere 2 tour app gives K-12 students a deeper look at the science under the glass
The new app features videos, animations and a modeling activity to help students more readily grasp the scientific concepts they learn in the classroom.
U of A joins STARS College Network to boost support for prospective students from rural areas
Students from small towns and rural communities often face unique obstacles to attending college. The university's membership in the STARS College Network will expand its reach to those prospective students and help more of them visit campus.
By teaching tech skills, Pascua Yaqui entrepreneur hopes to create opportunities for others
U of A junior Nicolette Gomez hopes to foster a community of Yaqui entrepreneurs through the new Yaqui-Tech Innovation Lab.
Weather trucks search for answers about extreme heat in Tucson's 'data deserts'
A pair of climate-tracking trucks crisscrossed Tucson as part of a statewide project to understand the effects of extreme heat. U of A researchers will translate the data into policy recommendations and other ideas for communities to stay heat resilient.