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Minerals on display at the University of Arizona.

College of Science Lecture Series returns to Centennial Hall

Mar 8, 2022 A springtime tradition is back on the University of Arizona campus.
Driver Maite Caceres, of Uruguay, receives instructions.

Racing women take to southern Arizona track for high-speed honors

Feb 12, 2022 The fastest will win a place in the European-based W Series this summer.
Agua Caliente Park is a Pima County destination located east of Tucson city limits. Visitors often describe it as a "desert oasis" for the community.

Respite and reflection outdoors during the pandemic

Feb 11, 2022 Agua Caliente Park, described as 'desert oasis,' is rich in scenery and history.
Maryanne Chisholm's "After the War" is a watercolor and gouache with ink.

From painting in prison to professional artist

Jan 6, 2022 Tucson resident makes a life-changing transformation with her talents.
Jim Griffith

"Big" Jim Griffith dies at 86

Dec 20, 2021 Legendary folklorist was part of the fabric of Tucson.
Irene, an asylum seeker, holds up an embroidery she made as part of Artisans Beyond Borders.

Asylum seeker artisans will have work on display at a Tucson event Sunday

Nov 19, 2021 The binational initiative Artisans Beyond Borders sells embroidery made by asylum seekers waiting at the U.S. border in Sonora, Mexico.
RIders pedal in the 2017 El Tour de Tucson.

El Tour de Tucson Returns

Nov 18, 2021 The popular event is Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021 after the pandemic forced a cancellation last year.
Research on competitive behavior could impact hiring and retention of women.

Study focuses on competitiveness and the gender wage gap

Nov 10, 2021 University of Arizona-backed research finds women look for fairness in outcomes.
Shelly Lowe was nominated by President Joe Biden to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities.

President picks scholars with Arizona ties to chair endowments for arts, humanities

Oct 7, 2021 A University of Arizona alum and ASU professor tapped to lead federal agencies promoting the arts and humanities.
Preparing food at the 2017 Tucson Meet Yourself.

Tucson Meet Yourself will be scaled back this year, but still in-person

Oct 5, 2021 Festival organizers encourage attendees to socially distance and wear masks.
Arizona History Museum Tucson

Three Tucson museums open for free Saturday

Sep 17, 2021 They are taking part in Smithsonian Magazine's Free Museum Day.
Since the year 2000, the Pima County Medical Examiner has received nearly 4,000 sets of human remains from people who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Arizona. Here, a cross marking the place where a man in his 30s died in 2009 lays a few hundred yards from one of the water stations the nonprofit Humane Borders sets out for migrants crossing the desert.

Documentary exploring death and disappearances along South Texas border comes to Tucson

Sep 10, 2021 'Missing in Brooks County' follows families looking for loved ones who went missing trying to cross Texas' rugged borderland
Photo of the Earth and Moon from Apollo 17, December 1972.

New Apollo era film looks back on moon mission photoraphy

Jul 16, 2021 The documentary producer is reviewing thousands of rare spaceflight images.
Secretary of the U.S. Department Interior Deb Haaland. She represented New Mexico in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019-2021.

Haaland announces investigation into Indigenous boarding schools

Jun 22, 2021 She said 'at no time in history' has such a probe reflected the true impact of the policy among Indigenous families.
Caution over the coronavirus is expected to last for a while.

Slow summer of adjustment expected for COVID-aware citizens

May 27, 2021 The Memorial Day weekend is the first test for many who are ditching their masks.
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Body-positive initiative grows at UA

Apr 30, 2021 The program is responding to increasing issues of self-esteem during the pandemic.

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