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Q&A with UA Optical Sciences professor who helped invent goggles to help legally blind people see

Q&A with UA Optical Sciences professor who helped invent goggles to help legally blind people see

Alana Minkler
August 29, 2019
Peter Mandybur reads on the Freedom Hill in front of the Administration Building. He is an alumnus who studied communications and found this was one of the best places to relax.

Five top spots to sit and study

Alana Minkler
May 14, 2019
Rainbow Graduation celebrates queer-identifying students and allies for their college achievements

Rainbow Graduation celebrates queer-identifying students and allies for their college achievements

Alana Minkler
May 5, 2019
A team of six University of Arizona engineering students developed a device to detect how long a bruise as been on a body. 

Student engineers create a device to date bruises in child abuse cases

Alana Minkler
April 28, 2019
Campus Christian Church is located on 972 E University Blvd near the Park Student Union.

ICE drops off 120 refugees at Tucson bus station

Alana Minkler
April 21, 2019
Finley Dutton-Reid and Juan Torres, members of the University of Arizona Debate Series, during the debate on April 9. The debate covered whether community college should be tuition free.

First year of UA Debate Series tackles free college tuition

Alana Minkler
April 10, 2019
Gender pay discrepancies among deans and faculty at the University of Arizona

Gender pay discrepancies among deans and faculty at the University of Arizona

Alana Minkler and Priya Jandu
April 7, 2019
Curly Fries at Spring Fling on the UA Mall on April 9, 2016. Spring Fling offers a variety of fair food from fry bread to funnel cakes.

Your guide to allergy-free food at Spring Fling

Alana Minkler
April 6, 2019
Members of Students for Sustainaibility gather together at the community garden during the Students for Sustainability retreat on Sept. 10.

UA alumni and Students for Sustainability leaders take on jobs in the sustainability field

Alana Minkler
April 3, 2019
University of Arizona optical Sciences and engineering senior Adriana Mitchell working on CatCam, the camera that would fly on UA’s CatSat spacecraft that was just selected by NASA as part its Cubesat Launch Initiative.

UA project chosen by NASA to aid in CubeSat Launch Initiative

Alana Minkler
March 27, 2019
Courtesy of Moses ThompsonAbby Stoica helps students harvest greens from Manzo Elementary School's garden. The UA Community and School Garden program is part of the UA's 100% Engagement Initiative. 

Tucson school gardening movement sprouts from Manzo Elementary School

Alana Minkler
March 2, 2019
Red Barn Collections is a company that makes personalized journals out of discarded books. They have been vending at the Tucson Festival of Books for several years.

Read-uce, reuse and Recycle: Festival of Books vendor turns old books into custom journals

Alana Minkler
February 22, 2019
Booths from various UA departments are set up at the Health Expo in 2018. The expo is put on by UA Health Sciences and the College of Letters, Arts and Science.

UA Health Expo aims to prepare students for health professions, to reduce stress

Alana Minkler
February 18, 2019
This map shows where the renovations to increase sustainability will take place under the 2030 District plans.

Seeing green: Tucson looks towards a sustainable future after becoming a 2030 district

Alana Minkler
February 6, 2019
You may spend a lot of time watching games in McKale Center, but how much do you really know about its history? Find out with Daily Wildcat Investigative Editor Alana Minkler in this UA Minute in History. Video by Alec White, Nicholas Trujillo and Alana Minkler Music Credit: Bensound "Summer"

UA Minute in History: McKale Center

Alec White, Alana Minkler, and Nick Trujillo
January 15, 2019
Mark Armao / Arizona Daily Wildcat Katrina Miranda, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is creating a free online chemistry course for Google.

UA professor sues Arizona Board of Regents for alleged gender-based pay discrepancies in the College of Science

Alana Minkler
December 4, 2018
(left to right) University of Arizona President Robert Robbins, Dante Lauretta, and student Keara Burke hold a press conference about OSIRIS-REx on Monday in the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.

OSIRIS-REx arrives to asteroid Bennu after two years of space travel

Alana Minkler
December 3, 2018
 The main characters Rabbit, Sheep, and Deer interact with each other in the Hai Dooleel (When Winter Comes) play. The students of AIS/LING 204A wrote and directed a play in the native Diné language. 

Hai Dooleł: a play written by, directed by, and starring Navajo language students to preserve culture

Alana Minkler
December 3, 2018
One of the centerpiece meals served at a typical American Thanksgiving feast is a large roasted turkey. Courtesy Juli Leonard / Raleigh News & Observer

To feed an army — almost literally

Alana Minkler
November 21, 2018
Protesters chant feminist songs as they walk down University Boulevard on Nov. 5, 2018 in Tucson, Ariz.

The first SlutWalk since the start of the #Metoo movement remains a powerful protest against rape culture

Alana Minkler and Priya Jandu
November 6, 2018
This map shows where the new solar panels will be placed on top of the ENR2 building as well as their energy outputs.

Cutting-edge agrivoltaics plan to be installed on top of ENR2 Building

Alana Minkler
November 5, 2018
University of Arizona mascots Wilma and Wilbur Wildcat show off their dance moves at the Main Gate Square watch party for the lighting of A mountain on Sunday. The "A" on Sentinel Peak was constructed in 1916.

The “A” Mountain Lighting Party lights up the start of this year’s Homecoming

Alana Minkler
October 22, 2018
On Monday, Oct. 8, the University of Arizona officially recognized Indigenous People’s Day instead of Columbus Day.

Indigenous People’s Day: A celebration of shared tribal culture and historical suffering on Columbus Day

Alana Minkler
October 9, 2018
Early voting Pima County members wait in line to cast their vote in at the Associated Students of the University of Arizona office on Nov. 4, 2016.

Out-of-state students faced difficulties when registering to vote

Alana Minkler
September 25, 2018
The deadline for voter registration is Tuesday Oct. 9. Early voting is from Oct. 20 to Nov. 2 this year. Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 6.

The people with clipboards: Voter registration groups are here to prepare students for elections

Alana Minkler
September 18, 2018
The UA's Health Promotion and Preventative Services at Campus Health Service gives out free condoms on Free Condom Fridays. 68 percent of the UA student body reported using condoms during the Campus Helath and Wellness Survey, and the university is ranked as one of the top five universities in the country for sexual health.

The rise of STDs and the role of online dating apps: Misconceptions behind online ‘hookup culture’

Alana Minkler
September 5, 2018
Alfred Urbina speaker for the IPLP program.

Speaker series to cover social justice, sovereignty, human rights struggles in the Native American community

Alana Minkler
September 5, 2018
Recycling bins line both sides of the mall, always within reach of a passing student.

UA Facilities Management up for APPA Award of Excellence

Alana Minkler
May 1, 2018
A red tag issued on Aug. 25, 2012, hangs at The District, a student housing high-rise. These citations are given out when a place receives noise complaints, or is determined to be an "unruly gathering."

Red tags: The afterlife of the party

Alana Minkler
April 24, 2018

Police Beat: April 29, 2015

Amber White
April 29, 2015
Presidential chief of staff Hannah Sager reports to the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate in the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday about a Pac-12 Conference and White House public initiative called ʺIt’s On Us,ʺ which promotes sexual assault awareness. The UA is one of 233 schools to join the public campaign and the campaign will launch at the UA on Nov. 13.

ASUA discuss voting, future projects

Ariella Noth
October 2, 2014

1 of 3 men pleads guilty in cabbie’s death

February 28, 2011
"Reading, anthology revamp fairy tales "

“Reading, anthology revamp fairy tales “

Miranda Butler
December 1, 2010

Fast Facts: Sept. 15

September 15, 2009
Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer speaks with reporters after press conference on the adoption of the ""Social Host"" Ordinance by the Arizona Board of Supervisors. The goal of the ordinance is to reduce the amount of underage drinking.

‘Social Host’ law passed

Cody Calamaio
April 2, 2009

Date Book

November 6, 2007

Fast Facts

February 27, 2006
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