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Arizona's Kylan Wilborn (14) and Dereck Boles (99) walk off the field during the UA-Oregon State game on Nov. 11 at Arizona Stadium.

Ducks shut out Khalil Tate, Arizona offense to beat the Wildcats 48-28

Chastity Laskey
November 19, 2017
The Wildcats enter the field before playing against Washington State in a half full Arizona Stadium on Oct. 24, 2015.

Regents approve UA’s revised capital development plan

Eddie Celaya and Chastity Laskey
November 16, 2017

Letter from the editor: The Wildcat is changing and it’s all about you

Chastity Laskey
August 20, 2017
Ann Weaver Hart speaks about her time as UA President in an interview in her office in Old Main on Friday, August 26, 2016.

Hart: ‘Sometimes it’s time to move on’

Chastity Laskey
September 9, 2016
Potential new Sigma Kappa sisters follow active members in the Sigma Kappa cheer outside of the house on Wednesday, August 17.

Two men entered Sigma Kappa Monday night, later tell member, ‘We’ll be watching you’

Chastity Laskey
September 8, 2016
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, enclosed in a payload fairing, is lifted at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that is to lift OSIRIS-REx into space was stacked at SLC-41 so the spacecraft and fairing could be hoisted and bolted to the rocket promptly. The spacecraft will be sent to rendezvous with, survey and take a sample from an asteroid called Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx’s 34-day launch window opens Thursday

Chastity Laskey
September 6, 2016
GPSC President Zachary Brooks speaks to the Daily Wildcat on Thursday, Aug. 25 at the University Services building. Brooks is stepping down as GPSC president, effective Sept. 27.

GPSC President Zachary Brooks resigns

Chastity Laskey
September 2, 2016
Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs group, FolkLorico, presents a traditional dance to the audiece at the Finding Community Welcome event on September 3, 2013.

UA holds Finding Community Welcome to engage students

Chastity Laskey
August 26, 2016
ASUA Sen. Jonah Soble listens during an ASUA meeting in the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016.

ASUA Senate holds first meeting of the fall semester

Chastity Laskey
August 25, 2016
The SunLink streetcar on University Boulevard on Friday, July 15.

Sun Link extends their hours to meet increased activity

Chastity Laskey
August 25, 2016
Arizona regent Ron Shoopman speaks at an Arizona Board of Regents Meeting on April 7.

ABOR holds meetings to review UA medical colleges

Chastity Laskey
August 8, 2016
UA President Ann Weaver Hart in her office inside Old Main on Wednesday, April 27.

ABOR’s presidential search progresses

Chastity Laskey
August 8, 2016
Paulina Bueno (left) and her twin sister, Fernanda, pose for a photo together on Monday, Aug. 1 in the Student Union Memorial Center. The Bueno twins flew out to Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday to volunteer at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Bueno twins bound for Rio

Chastity Laskey
August 3, 2016

UA experts help national team develop HIV cure

Chastity Laskey
August 3, 2016
Trinity Goss (left) and Kevyn Butler (right), co-leaders of Black Student Union, lead MSUA protesters by Old Main on the UA Mall on March 8. ASUA will host a Diversity and Inclusion Open Night on Tuesday to give students the opportunity to share their experiences overcoming diversity. 

UA’s free speech policy explained

Chastity Laskey
July 24, 2016
Headshot of Ian Ellasante. Ellasante is an American Indian studies graduate student with a minor in gender and women's studies.

UA doctoral students named Point scholars

Chastity Laskey
July 17, 2016

The five UA faces you should know

Chastity Laskey
July 17, 2016

UA research center gets $5 million to research biohazards’ effects on indigenous health

Chastity Laskey
July 9, 2016
Tony Bishop holds up a sign in solidarity at a vigil for the Orlando victims on Sunday, June 12, 2016 in Tucson, Ariz. Bishop identifies as transgender.

UA Institute of LGBTQ Studies spearheads two transgender initiatives

Chastity Laskey
June 28, 2016
Janice Cervelli

UA senior leadership says UA sees a normal amount of employee departures

Chastity Laskey
June 17, 2016
Vigil participant holds a up a sign that reads “We stand with Orlando” during the candlelight vigil. Attendants of the vigil came with posters, candles and ribbons to show support.

Dean of Students to hold First Amendment Symposium

Chastity Laskey
June 15, 2016
UA President Ann Weaver Hart in her office inside Old Main on Wednesday, April 27. Hart recently announced she will not be asking the Arizona Board of Regents to extend her contract in 2018.

Hart shares her expectations for her remaining time at UA

Chastity Laskey and Brenna Bailey
June 15, 2016
Arizona Regent Jay Heiler speaks at the Arizona Board of Regents meeting in Tucson on Thursday, April 7.

Regents approve UA’s proposed $1.1 billion budget

Chastity Laskey
June 10, 2016
Arizona Board of Regents President Eileen Klein addresses the regents on April 7, 2016 at the UA. 

Find out what’s on the Regents’ agenda for their meeting in Flagstaff this week

Chastity Laskey
June 7, 2016
UA doubles up and hires both Jesús Treviño and Rebecca Tsosie to fill open chief diversity officer spot

UA doubles up and hires both Jesús Treviño and Rebecca Tsosie to fill open chief diversity officer spot

Chastity Laskey
June 4, 2016

Meet your student governing bodies, GPSC and ASUA

Chastity Laskey
May 23, 2016
Aaron Baumann, a third-year graduate student set to graduate in a few weeks sits for a photo at the Student Union on Monday, April 25. Baumann is currently running to be a state representative.

A UA grad student is throwing his hat in the ring to be a state representative

Chastity Laskey
April 29, 2016
(from left to right) ABOR President Eileen Klein, NAU President Rita Cheng, UA President Ann Weaver Hart and ASU President Michael Crow await to speak at Thursday’s House Committee on Government and High Education.

TIMELINE: President Hart’s involvement with DeVry in news stories

Chastity Laskey
April 28, 2016
Students browse booths at Engineering Design Day in the Student Union Memorial Center on Tuesday May 4, 2015. The Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Program divides seniors from the College of Engineering into teams, working with sponsors such as Raytheon, Tucson Electric Power and Honeywell.

Engineering seniors get ready for UA Design Day

Chastity Laskey
April 27, 2016
Trinity Goss (left) and Kevyn Butler (right), co-leaders of Black Student Union, lead MSUA protesters by Old Main on the UA Mall on March 8. ASUA will host a Diversity and Inclusion Open Night on Tuesday to give students the opportunity to share their experiences overcoming diversity. 

ASUA to host Diversity and Inclusion Open Night for students

Chastity Laskey
April 25, 2016
UA grads take home Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage with LA Times

UA grads take home Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage with LA Times

Chastity Laskey
April 23, 2016
A view of the various Wi-Fi signals available to students as of Tuesday, April 19. UAPublic will be replaced by a more secure UAGuest network on Friday, which will require a user to create a log-in that will expire after five days.

UA to release a new, more secure version of UAPublic Wi-Fi

Chastity Laskey
April 19, 2016
Students in General Chemistry class use the new collaborative learning space in the Science and Engineering Library on March 25.

UA plans to expand the accessibility of faculty research

Chastity Laskey
April 15, 2016

New ASUA Senators talk positions and platforms

Chastity Laskey
April 10, 2016
Executive Vice Presidential candidate Trey Cox reads the official ASUA results sheet following the announcement of the general election winners on Wednesday, March 2.

ASUA announces the winners of Friday’s special election

Chastity Laskey
April 9, 2016
Student Regent Mark Naufel during the Arizona Board of Regents meeting on Thursday, April 7. Naufel is nearing the end of his two-year regency.

Naufel’s regency: ‘It’s been absolutely phenomenal’

Chastity Laskey
April 8, 2016
Arizona Regent Jay Heiler speaks at the Arizona Board of Regents meeting in Tucson on Thursday, April 7. The regents moved to accept the tuition proposal set forth by UA President Ann Weaver Hart.

Board of regents approves Hart’s tuition proposal

Chastity Laskey
April 8, 2016
Arizona Board of Regents members gather in Phoenix in February 2016. The regents will visit Tucson this week for their final board meeting of the spring semester.

Arizona regents descend on UA for April board meeting, to set 2016-2017 tuition

Chastity Laskey
April 6, 2016
Vianney Careagan, the newly chosen student regent, poses for a picture at the Student Union Memorial Center on Monday, April 3. Careagan replaces outgoing student regent Mark Naufel of Arizona State University, whose term ends this May.

Meet the UA’s newest student regent, Vianney Careaga

Chastity Laskey
April 6, 2016
Executive Vice Presidential candidate Trey Cox reads the official ASUA results sheet following the announcement of the general election winners on Wednesday night. Cox was disqualified following five infractions of the ASUA elections code. 

ASUA releases candidates for this week’s special election

Chastity Laskey
April 3, 2016

Gov. Ducey appoints UA student to Arizona Board of Regents

Chastity Laskey
April 3, 2016
Campus Pantry gets a more centralized living space in Student Union

Campus Pantry gets a more centralized living space in Student Union

Chastity Laskey
March 30, 2016
A view of Banner University Medical Center on N Campbell Avenue on Aug 8, 2015.

First year of the Banner — UMC merger

Chastity Laskey
March 24, 2016
(Left to right) Vianney Careaga, a political science sophomore and director of Civic Engagement, Mikey Finnegan, a junior studying philosophy, politics, economics and law and current chief of staff, and Spencer Bateman, a political science junior and executive director of Public Affairs and Policy, stand for a picture in the Student Union Memorial Center on Tuesday, March 8. The three helped spearhead efforts to bring the student governments of all three Arizona public universities together to form the Arizona Student Government Collaborative.

ASUA joins forces with other AZ student governments

Chastity Laskey
March 9, 2016
UA Architecture Dean Janice Cervelli sits for a picture on Thursday, March 3. Dean Cervelli will be leaving the UA to assume the presidency of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Dean of Architecture to assume the presidency of St. Mary’s College

Chastity Laskey
March 8, 2016
Dr. Joe “Skip” Garcia, senior vice president for the University of Arizona Health Sciences. Garcia was awarded the 2016 Trudeau Medal by the American Thoracic Society.

Senior Vice President of Health Sciences gets an award for outstanding achievement

Chastity Laskey
March 6, 2016
Law textbooks on a shelf in the Main Library on March 4. After a study conducted in conjuction with the Educational Testing Service, the UA James E. Rogers College of Law will now be accepting Graduate Record Examination scores alone for law school admissions.

UA College of Law is now accepting GRE scores in place of LSAT

Chastity Laskey
March 5, 2016
In light of a recent shooting that happened on Feb. 23 just off campus, UA officials explain the UAlert system and how it works. Since the incident, students are now questioning the system and its communication with university students.

UA officials review the UAlert system

Chastity Laskey
March 2, 2016
Books of varying genres are stacked on Sunday, Feb. 28. The UA College of Education plans to expand its World of Words program across the border to Mexico in collaboration with Resplandor International.

UA College of Education expands across the border to improve literacy

Chastity Laskey
February 28, 2016
The Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health houses the Global Health Institute. The college is located in Roy P. Drachman Hall at 1295 N. Martin Ave.

New professor joins UA Health to help the school research on a global scale

Chastity Laskey
February 23, 2016
UA faculty, athletes and donors participate in the ground breaking of the CATS. Academic Center on Feb. 12. The center is expected to be completed in October 2016, and will serve the academic needs of the UA's student-athletes.

For student athletes, the UA puts academics first with the groundbreaking new academic center

Chastity Laskey
February 17, 2016
Colin Lynch, a neuroscience senior, poses with the emergency response button near the Music building on UA campus on Sunday, Feb. 14. The UA created a bystander intervention program in 2008, which is currently being used across the country.

UA intervention program lives on with sister universities after eight years

Chastity Laskey
February 14, 2016
Right to left, Maria Dadgar, executive director of the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Regent LuAnn Leonard, Travis Lane, assistant director of the ITCA, Brenda Loritz, president of NAU's graduate student governments and Jacob Moore, associate vice president of tribal relations for ASU pose for a photo on Friday following the conclusion of the February Regent's board meeting. The Board moved to approve a revision to the 2011 Tribal Consultation policy. 

The Regents move to expand their relationship with Arizona’s Tribes

Chastity Laskey
February 5, 2016

Tuition talk 2016: the regents begin the discussion of setting students’ tuition

Chastity Laskey
February 4, 2016

The Regents are heading to Tempe this week, see what the state’s higher education leaders are up to

Chastity Laskey
February 3, 2016

Tech Launch Arizona reminisces over a successful year

Chastity Laskey
February 1, 2016
Tatum Hammond, ASUA administrative vice president and co-director of the "I Will End Rape Culture" campaign, poses with a T-shirt to promote "I Will" in the ASUA office on Wednesday, Jan 27. The new campaign is working to end rape culture and promote sexual assault awareness on campus.

‘I Will’ campaign kicks off this week to end rape culture

Chastity Laskey
February 1, 2016

ASUA Senator and Byrne go to bat over potential new athletics fee

Chastity Laskey
January 27, 2016
UA College of Nursing located on Mabel Street and Martin Avenue on Saturday, Jan. 24. The onlinr nursing school is leading through innovative learning a U.S News and World Report ranked their online graduate program No. 23 for 2016.

UA College of Nursing’s Online Graduate Program ranked #23 in the world

Chastity Laskey
January 25, 2016
The USS Arizona was sunk in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, with one of its bells salvaged and placed in the tower of the Student Union Memorial Center. The bell arrived at UA in July 1946, and was first rung on Nov. 17, 1951.

New USS Arizona memorial to welcome students next fall

Chastity Laskey and Sam Gross
November 30, 2015
The sign outside the UA College of Nursing on Saturday, Nov. 14th. The college was ranked No. 1 in the state by the Arizona Nursing Program Outcome index.

UA College of Nursing ranks #1 in Arizona

Chastity Laskey
November 18, 2015

Recent study shows that millennials aren’t very religious

Chastity Laskey
November 11, 2015
Sarah Fischer, Vice Chair of Camp Wildcat a physiology senior, and Sarah Findysz, Chair of Camp Wildcat sit in the Camp Wildcat office on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Camp Wildcat currently holds 9 camps a year.

UA students help the underprivileged through Camp Wildcat

Chastity Laskey
October 30, 2015

Young Democrats and College Republicans face off over gun policy

Chastity Laskey
October 28, 2015
Arizona Health Sciences Center

UA professor Joe ‘Skip’ Garcia receives award for academic contributions

Chastity Laskey
October 25, 2015

UA assistant professor examines racial bias in crosswalks

Chastity Laskey
October 23, 2015
Jon Huckins holds hands with Reegan Wilson on Friday, Oct. 9 at Dove Mountain Park. Rebeca Bennett, a program coordinator for BBBST, said they are one of the cutest matches she has ever made.

UA student works to make a ‘big’ difference in a child’s life

Chastity Laskey
October 16, 2015

UA works to expand opportunities for minorities

Chastity Laskey
October 14, 2015
Mary Knudson, left, and Jacob Winkelman, right, co-directors of ASUA Pride Alliance, pose for a photo at the Coming Out Week Resource Fair on the UA Mall on Wednesday, Oct. 7.

Q&A with Pride Alliance Co-Director Mary Knudson

Chastity Laskey
October 10, 2015
looking over the UA mall from Heritage Hill photo by Jesus Barrera

Family weekend fun for students and parents

Chastity Laskey
October 9, 2015

Community Chatter: What are you doing for Family Weekend?

Chastity Laskey
October 8, 2015

This Family Weekend: ‘It’s a Wildcat World’

Chastity Laskey
October 8, 2015
Alex Ross, vice president of VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood, takes a selfie with Anna Keene, president of VOX, at their Pink Out event on the UA Mall on Tuesday, Sept. 29. Pink Out was a nationwide event to stand in solidarity with Planned Parenthood.

UA stands in solidarity with Planned Parenthood at Pink Out event

Chastity Laskey
September 30, 2015
Jean-Louis Lascoux / Via Wikimedia Commons / Modified by The Daily Wildcat / CC BY-SA 3.0Fort-de-France, Martinique, as viewed from an arriving ship on Wednesday, April 1, 2009. The University of Arizona now offers a study abroad program in Martinique.

Students take to the sea and study abroad in the Caribbean

Chastity Laskey
September 28, 2015
From left to right, Olivia Haddad, Sean Horan, and Khas Ochir look out from the edge of Orvieto, Italy on Saturday, May 23, 2015. The had arrived in Orvieto the day prior for the annual Arizona in Italy summer study abroad program through the University of Arizona. (Photograph by Alex McIntyre)

Got wanderlust? Discover global opportunities at the Study Abroad fair

Chastity Laskey
September 21, 2015
Screenshot of what a UA student would see on campus. The story has pictures and videos detailing interesting events and happenings around campus.

Snapchat tells students’ campus stories

Chastity Laskey
September 19, 2015
Students facing anxiety are encouraged to go to Counseling and Psychological Services located at Campus Health, in Highland Commons on the UA campus.

Anxiety on the rise among college students

Chastity Laskey
September 16, 2015

Reagle’s legacy: a puzzle mastermind

Chastity Laskey
August 31, 2015
The Arizona Board of Regents holds a meeting in the Grand Ballroom in the Student Union Memorial Center at the University of Arizona to discuss budget cuts on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. They are strategizing in order to make the next semester a success despite the challenges presented by budget cuts.

ABOR prepares for year with budget cuts, advocates for students

Chastity Laskey
August 24, 2015

Amidst state-wide budget cuts, Hart embraces challenges for the new year

Chastity Laskey
August 23, 2015
Issac Ortega, a senior studying business and managerial economics, poses in front of Old Main. Ortega served as Associated Students of the University of Arizona president for the 2014-2015 school year and will be graduating in just a few days.

ASUA president passes the torch

Chastity Laskey
May 13, 2015
Associated Students of the University of Arizona Sen. Michael Finnegan speaks during the ASUA Senate's weekly meeting at the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday. At the last senate meeting of the year, the senators chose to support giving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals-approved students in-state tuition.

ASUA supports DREAMers tuition

Chastity Laskey
April 30, 2015
Pre-business freshman Andy Evans donates bags of clothes that will be given to Plato's Closet and TMM Family Services on the UA Mall on Tuesday. Representatives will accept clothes in exchange for cash until Thursday.

Students just throw it in the bag on UA mall

Chastity Laskey
April 29, 2015
Bag Some Cash, an event sponsored by Plato's Closet, offers students a chance to trade a bag of their gently used clothing for cash on the UA Mall from Tuesday to Thursday. A large bag of clothes can be traded in for $20, and a smaller bag can be traded in for $10.

Bring a grocery bag of clothes tomorrow, get $10

Chastity Laskey
April 28, 2015
Associated Students of the University of Arizona Sen. Michael Finnegan, second from right, speaks during ASUA Senate's weekly meeting on Wednesday in the Student Union Memorial Center. The meeting focused on the issue of DREAMers and their ability to attend college.

ASUA talks tuition

Chastity Laskey
April 23, 2015
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Andrew Comrie delivers the UA’s 2015-2016 tuition proposal during the Arizona Board of Regents’ public hearing on April 20 at the Gallagher Theater. The hearing allowed students to voice their opinions on President Ann Weaver Hart's tuition proposal.

Never Settle shapes Hart’s tuition proposal

Chastity Laskey
April 21, 2015
Sam Fox, CEO and founder of Fox Restaurant Concepts, answers questions at the 2015 UA Executive of the Year Luncheon at the Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa on Friday. Fox was awarded the Eller College of Management Executive of the Year award.

Sam Fox returns to UA

Chastity Laskey
April 20, 2015
Current and future members of the Bobcat Senior Honorary clap in celebration at the conclusion of the 25th Evening of Excellence in the Student Union Memorial Center North Ballroom on Wednesday. The evening honored those who made significant contributions in academics, service and involvement. 

Honorary recognizes students’ excellence

Chastity Laskey
April 16, 2015

Religious clubs are questioned

Chastity Laskey
April 9, 2015
Members of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate hold their weekly meeting in the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday. Senators debated decreasing their stipends for the 2015-2016 school year.

Senators debate salary cuts

Chastity Laskey
April 2, 2015
Courtesy of Juan Carlos HernandezJustin Wedes gets arrested at Occupy Wall Street in September 2011 while speaking on a megaphone in Zuccotti Park. Wedes will speak at the "Social Movements in the Digital Era" seminar discussing social media's role in social movements.

Social media reaches social movements

Chastity Laskey
April 1, 2015

Grad programs top national ranks

Chastity Laskey
March 30, 2015
University of Arizona Research and Learning Librarians Cindy Elliott (left) and Nicole Pagowsky (right) explore librarian stereotypes at Confluencenter's Show & Tell event on March 11. photo: Jamie Manser

Shushing librarian stereotypes

Chastity Laskey
March 11, 2015
Tommy Pryor, freshman at the University of Washington and Tucson native, demonstrates his sign language translator on Sunday in the Science and Engineering Library.

36 hours of creation

Chastity Laskey
March 9, 2015
Courtesy of Jordan Singer / InnovateUA

Program accelerates UA startups

Chastity Laskey
March 4, 2015
Students from around the country gathered at the Science-Engineering Library to create various cyber projects over the course of 36 hours this weekend as part of Hack Arizona. Attendants used showers in the Student Recreation Center and complementary meals.

Hackers to close the library for 36 hours

Chastity Laskey
March 4, 2015
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Never Settle brings points of discussion to Faculty Senate

Chastity Laskey
March 3, 2015
Senior student Rachel Wolfe fills up her tank on Monday at the Circle K located on Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard. A panel will meet to discuss the changes in the price of oil from 6-8 p.m. in McClelland Hall.

Panel to discuss oil prices

Chastity Laskey
February 24, 2015
Senator ( ) discusses senate reform at ASUA's weekly meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015.

Proposed senate reforms causes lengthy meeting

Chastity Laskey
February 19, 2015

Science of sleep focal point of cafe series

Chastity Laskey
February 17, 2015
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