When Jay Johnson became University of Arizona’s baseball coach, it was like being named the manager of the New York Yankees. Johnson replaced Andy Lopez as head coach after the 2015 season, and immediate success followed in 2016. After a national championship in 2012, Arizona missed out on the NCAA tournament three years in a row. In 2014 and…
Ed Keeylocko, 85, is living his legend of the Wild West. With cactus green eyes, red hair and black skin, Keeylocko is a minority of minorities, but he never let this stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a cattle rancher in the Southwest….
The Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center might seem like Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory. However, the disembodied limbs and strange technology lying around the lab is not used to make monsters, but rather to train medical students. The Lab, known as ASTEC on the University of Arizona Campus, provides simulated environments in which undergraduate and medical…
Joe Pagac, a local fine artist, has been providing the Tucson community with street art for the past 14 years. Pagac found his calling in art during his sophomore year at the University of Arizona after taking an introductory drawing class. “Once I graduated I just put an ad ‘artist for hire’ in the…
Go to college, major in a practical field, get a job, contribute to society, rinse and repeat. It’s the norm, but some know there’s more to life than following the paved road. Today these risk takers are dreamers, those who follow their passions and are faced with straying from the comfortable in order to reach…
