Under threat from a crippling, deadly bacteria, the Arizona Department of Agriculture is escalating its war against a disease crippling the nation’s citrus crops by expanding quarantine zones throughout Arizona and enlisting the help of some of the University of Arizona’s brightest minds. The bacteria, also known as Huanglongbing, functions as an infectious disease and…
A professor at the University of Arizona is giving sight back to those who once saw. Since 2002, Dr. Wolfgang Fink, an associate professor in the UA Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, and colleagues have been working on a new way to give sight to those whose vision has been…
The Tucson Festival of Books returns to the University of Arizona campus for another weekend celebrating words on paper – or screens. The festival runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on March 15-16 and features hundreds of authors and dozens of activities, panels and events to attend. The Festival of Books will have bilingual…
The Garden Kitchen, 2205 S. Fourth Ave., caters to those who want to learn how to garden and be healthy. They offer free gardening classes on Saturday mornings, fresh food tastings, and occasional special events with music and dancing. The Garden Kitchen from Jordan Clifton on Vimeo.
In a regular new mulitimedia feature, Arizona Sonora News Service reporter Brooke Bolek looks at the fashion and style scenes (a la New York’s Bill Cunningham) — this time with a stroll around the University of Arizona and Arizona State University campuses for a fashion check on what students are wearing to class these days….
