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Album Review: Dillon Francis electrifies with Wut Wut

Album Review: Dillon Francis electrifies with Wut Wut

Victor Garcia
October 31, 2018
 The bachelor of arts in applied humanities is the latest degree to debut on campus this semester. 

UA launches new undergraduate interdisciplinary degree

Sharon Essien
September 25, 2018
A UA student bikes toward 1st street on Wednesday, Sept. 21.

The need-to-knows of biking on campus

Victor Garcia
July 24, 2018
An international student from Mexico fixes her partner’s costume. These two ladies wore traditional costumes and makeup to represent Dia de los Muertos, “The Day of the Dead”.

New campus program goes international

Victor Garcia
July 21, 2018
Nadia Alvarez, the original creator of the Global event, dances the Macarena with her students at the global fair. Dr. Alvarez wants students to feel pride about their individuality when studying abroad and uses this event to help them remember their culture background.

Global Festival puts prosepective students’ cultures on display

Victor Garcia
July 20, 2018
A UA student bikes toward Old Main on Sept. 21. A Daily Wildcat analysis showed an average of 250 bikes reported stolen on campus per year, and a 2017 Arizona Daily Star article found that 1,200 bikes were reported stolen in 2017. 

Grand Theft: Bicycle Season

Victor Garcia
July 9, 2018
June 27, 2018 -- University of Arizona Police Department respond to a noise complaint outside the Student Union Memorial Center. Video by Victor Garcia Music Credit: Nctrnm- Havasu https://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Electronic/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=1&per_page=200

UAPD called to James E. Roger Cirlce for noise complaint

Victor Garcia
June 27, 2018
The Upward Bound program pose for a picture on the UA Mall. The program supports low-income high school students and helps them transition to campus life.

Upward and unbound

Victor Garcia
June 22, 2018
University of Arizona's Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium held a hands-on, educational event and screening of Dynamic Earth on the 2018 World Oceans Day, which was June 8. Video by Victor Garcia Music Credit: http://www.purple-planet.com/relaxing/4593670348

UA Flandrau Planetarium gets audiences’ feet wet on World Oceans Day

Victor Garcia
June 12, 2018
Terry A. Badger, PH. D, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN received a $2.5 million grant to help improve the lives of cancer survivors after they underwent treatment for cancer.

College of Nursing, professor receive $2.5 million grant funding for research in treatments for cancer survivors

Victor Garcia
June 11, 2018
A UA student bikes toward Old Main on Sept. 21. A Daily Wildcat analysis showed an average of 250 bikes reported stolen on campus per year, and a 2017 Arizona Daily Star article found that 1,200 bikes were reported stolen in 2017. 

Riding your bike around campus? Services abound, but lock it up

Victor Garcia
May 18, 2018
A student pedals past an Emergency Blue Light Telephone located on the UA Campus on May 15, 2018. The tall, bright-blue telephones are meant to stand at a visible distance from each other around campus.  

Blue means safe: Emergency Blue Light Telephones a potential lifesaver

Victor Garcia
May 18, 2018
The University of Arizona's Old Main building on campus.

A handful of sparkles? Not the brightest idea.

Victor Garcia
May 1, 2018
UA ROTC cadets before taking off on a Blackhawk helicopter as part of their training on Thursday, April 12.

Black Hawk: up and away

Victor Garcia
April 16, 2018
Wonder Woman and La Borinqueña soar above El Yunque Rainforest holding the Puerto Rican flag. The comic book cover was created by long-time DC comic book artist and writer, Tony Daniel.

Latinx graphic artist helps La Borinqueña, Puerto Rico

Victor Garcia
April 11, 2018
For several school days, a massive teachers strike has gripped every county in West Virginia, with teachers setting up picket lines on public roads and thronging the capitol to holler at state lawmakers.

Arizona teachers and districts band together for Red for Ed to demand a teacher pay hike

Victor Garcia
April 2, 2018
Ike’s Counter and Marketplace recently partnered with the University of Arizona, parking their food truck by McClelland Hall. Ike’s Coffee is a local business founded in 2001 and purchased by UA alumna, Jackie Sharma.

Ike’s Counter and Marketplace selling baked goods, fresh coffee at McClelland Hall

Victor Garcia
March 27, 2018
Thousands of protesters showed up at Jacome Plaza on March 24 for Tucson's March for our Lives. Similar protests happened across the nation, with gun violence survivors, students and state representatives shared their stories and opinions about gun regulation and recent events.

Tucson comes together to say ‘never again’ to gun violence

Victor Garcia and Rocky Baier
March 27, 2018
Pima Animal Care Center was selected by The Jackson Galaxy Project to participate in the Spring 2018 Semester of Cat Pawsitive Pro, an initiative to introduce positive-reinforcement training to shelter cats. The program aims to increase feline adoption rates.

Keep hanging in there, cats

Victor Garcia
March 14, 2018
Frederick Luis Aldama is the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University.

‘Dreaming in Color: Latinx Comic Universe’ reveals the world of latinx comics to the masses

Victor Garcia
February 27, 2018
Dean Wadsworth from Ozona, Texas rides his horse in theSaddle Bronc Riding event. Catching him mid air as his horse bucks him around the area, he manages to stay on longer than most. The Saddle Bronc Riding event was the 4th event of the opening day of the 93rd Annual Tucson Rodeo on Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Tucson Rodeo Grounds in Tucson, Ariz.

Howdy-Do! The Rodeo is Back

Victor Garcia
February 22, 2018
Students get geared up for a weekend full of hacking as Arizona Hack gets started this Friday.

What the hack? Hack Arizona brings out UA students, Tucson tech industry

Victor Garcia
January 14, 2018
Dhawal Srivastava, center right, a UA student, fixes some glitches in his drone prototype before demonstrating it to judges during Hack Arizona 2015. The 2018 iteration of Hack Arizona will take place from Friday, Jan. 12 through Sunday, Jan. 14.

Hackathon brings innovative disruption to campus

Victor Garcia
January 12, 2018
Kiersten Kunkle, left, and Macie Andrews, right, walk out of the Campus Health Center on Feb. 5, 2016.

Are you covered during Flu Season?

Victor Garcia
December 12, 2017
Vince Redhouse, a native wind flute teacher, leads a flute workshop event organized as part of Native American Heritage Month in the Robert L. Nugent Building on Nov. 14.

UA commemorates Native American Heritage Month

Victor Garcia
November 15, 2017
The UA will play host to the Young Men’s College Conference, which is part of Project Pave the Way. 

UA hosts national men’s organization for high school students

Victor Garcia
November 1, 2017
Ben Champion, director of the Office of Sustainability, sorts waste from the PAC-12 Zero Waste challenge during the homecoming football game on Oct. 29, 2016. The UA Office of Sustainability alongside student organizations help solve the problem of removing trash from campus and the football stadium every year. 

UA makes sustainability competitive

Victor Garcia
October 31, 2017
Cyclists ride down colorful neighborhood streets and check out fun tents containing DJs, coffee, ice cream, street tacos and local sustainability initiatives at Cyclovia on April 2. This season's route takes riders through the City of South Tucson.

Tucson biking community enjoys Cyclovia’s new South Tucson route

Victor Garcia
October 30, 2017
Iced tea is served to patrons at La Indita, located on Tucson's historic Fourth Avenue, north of Fifth Street. The Baja-Arizona region, centered around Tucson, is known to have one of the longest food heritages in the history of the world, as well as a thriving culinary scene. 

US Pulls out of UNESCO

Victor Garcia
October 25, 2017
Cyclists ride down colorful neighborhood streets and check out fun tents containing DJs, coffee, ice cream, street tacos and local sustainability initiatives at Cyclovia on April 2. This season's route takes riders through the City of South Tucson.

Tucson’s Cyclovia heads south for the fall

Victor Garcia
October 20, 2017
The outside of SinfoníaRx's clinical call center, the UA Medication Management Center. Sinfonia mines health care data from health care services to find suitable patients to work with.

UA startup on a healthy road to success

Victor Garcia
September 25, 2017
Malissa Mada learns how to properly saddle her horse in an Intro to Horsemanship course at the University of Arizona’s Equine Center. Eleven horses are enrolled in the course to both learn and help teach students.

UA Equine Center enrolls 11 foals to help teach students

Victor Garcia
September 14, 2017
Students collaborate and study at the UA Main Library. This years freshman class was UA's most diverse ever. It also features the highest percentage of high achieving students in history.

New and Improved: 2017 is UA’s most accomplished class ever

Victor Garcia
September 6, 2017
Zac Lusk prepares a hamburger at the Park Student Union. The Cellar Bistro in the basement of the SUMC is being converted into a meeting space.

“Cellar” of Student Union now Meeting Room

Victor Garcia
August 31, 2017
A collection of arcade games located in the Games Room under the Student Union Memorial Center, at the University of Arizona.

Games Room at UA steps up their game

Victor Garcia
April 8, 2017
A view of the HUB student housing towers on March 31, 2017.

New Hub student housing will impact local businesses

Victor Garcia
April 7, 2017
University Avenue exemplifies the quintessential main drag of a college town. Between Park Ave and Sixth Avenue, University features a variety of shops, bars and cafes that thrive off of the energy UA students bring.

University business owners concerned about minimum wage boost

Victor Garcia
March 24, 2017
Butterflies hang outside of the UA Hillel Foundation to commemorate the lives of 1.5 million children lost in the Holocaust. The university hosted the Jeffrey Plevan Memorial lecture to discuss current Middle East relations.

Visiting professor discusses Middle East relations

Victor Garcia
March 23, 2017

UA CLIMAS initiative helps Hopi Tribe address drought devastation

Victor Garcia
January 17, 2017
ESPN Basketball Insider Jeff Goodman (right) poses with Logan and Bill Murray on March 20.

Arizona near the top of college basketball royalty

Jeff Goodman
October 27, 2016

Obama prepares for GOP Senate

Christianna Silva
November 10, 2014

Anticipation high for Michigan against Duke

March 19, 2011

Q&A; with Eben Britton

April 30, 2009
Joan Schlimgen, a yoga and pilates instructor at the UMC Health and Wellness Center, gives a chair yoga class yesterday morning at the Well University Day in the SUMC.

Fair promotes wellness culture

Jeffrey Javier
April 12, 2007
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