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UA develops mobile crisis unit, other efforts to address campus safety and security concerns.

May 5, 2023 The announcement was made during Friday's campus safety briefing.
A Mennonite cotton field

Pati Jinich explores the food - and stories - of the borderlands.

May 3, 2023 Also on Arizona Spotlight: The 6th annual Arizona Palooza is a free event supporting better mental health; Student directors discuss their short films for "I Dream in Widescreen 2023"; and "Stories That Soar!" features our youngest author yet.
Cassandra Klos, mission commander, left, is greeted by Linda Leigh, right, one of the original eight Biospherians as the door is opened on the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars on Tuesday May 2, 2023 at Biosphere 2 in Tucson.

Four-person crew released from sealed habitat after week long journey

May 3, 2023 The crew studied what it would be like to live and work on another planet inside a pressurized habitat.
The west facade of Old Main on the campus of the University of Arizona. From August, 2019.

UA police chief and provost step down

May 1, 2023 University President Dr. Robert Robbins made the announcement to the campus community on Monday morning.
More than one-third of households in Tucson are considered housing cost burdened.

UA professor maps Tucson's racist covenants

May 1, 2023 Professor Jason Jurjevich joined city employees Friday afternoon to discuss the project.

Arizona’s veterinary medicine grads aid shortfall of vets in nation, state

Apr 30, 2023 Employment of veterinarians is projected to grow 19% from 2021 to 2031.
University associate professor and author, Tim Z. Hernandez, visits the headstone in Fresno where most of the 1948 airplane crash victims were buried.

Airplane Crash from 1948 is Revisited and Researched

Apr 28, 2023 A professor and author is trying to find the families of all 32 victims.
Mission medical officer Eiman Jahangir enters the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars as mission communications officer and accessibility officer Sheri Wells-Jensen walks up to the habitat at Biosphere 2 in north Tucson on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Jahangir is a two-time NASA astronaut candidate finalist.

Four-person crew sealed into pressurized habitat to learn about space living

Apr 28, 2023 The crew will be locked in for six days.
UA Geosciences professor Paul Kapp leads a regional structural geology class in the Orocopia Mountains of southern California, March 2023.

UA graduate programs ranked among nation's best

Apr 26, 2023 Management Information and Geosciences were singled out in top college survey.
Outside the R. Ken Coit Student Services Center at the College of Pharmacy on the University of Arizona campus.

Robbins announces changes to the future of UA's medical programs

Apr 22, 2023 The plan will adapt the original 100 year vision that was made in 1967 when the medical school was founded.
Rosi Vogel, left, and Adriana Maldonado work with the Nosotros program, which offers free fibro scans to help people identify liver disease.

Nosotros program helps identify liver disease with free fibroscans

Apr 17, 2023 Liver disease disproportionately affects the Hispanic community, and in Tucson, a local program is taking action to fight this trend.

UA holds first safety briefing, questions of accountability remain

Apr 14, 2023 The safety briefings will be held biweekly.
A view of the mall at the University of Arizona taken from the Student Union.

Anti-abortion demonstration shocks students

Apr 13, 2023 Counter protests condemned use of graphic images.
New York mime artist, Nate Moran in a hat sporting his motto "Never Give Up."

What is the value of a quiet moment?

Apr 12, 2023 On this Arizona Spotlight, a look at the power and importance of silence, from four different angles.

UA announces organizational structure change in police department

Apr 11, 2023 The announcement comes shortly after the university announced the creation of the new "Chief Safety Officer" role.
The historic home of former Arizona Governor Raul Castro.

University of Arizona sued over former governor's home

Apr 9, 2023 The lawsuit states that the home holds more than monetary value for the Castro family.

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