Students can see their future from the window in Ms. May-Garcia’s health office. Mansfeld Middle School, located across the street from the University of Arizona, is home to students with dreams of attending college no matter any potential financial obstacles. Title I schools represent nearly 60 percent of the approximately 2,000 schools in Arizona. In…
There are more than 9,077 locations that serve food and beverage in Arizona with a projected total of $11.0 billion in sales for the 2014 year, according to restaurant.org. However, with all of these restaurants accounting for 10 percent of the employment in the state, it has created competition between restaurants. Owners are coming…
Alexi Saarela figures he saved himself one semester and over $10,000 when he took a two-hour test back in high school. The CLEP — College Level Examination Program — test, administered during his senior year at Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson, gave him 16 college credits; that’s one full-time semester down. When he enrolled…
More than 600,000 Arizonans are affected by asthma, a controllable chronic disease, with approximately 80 deaths each year, according to the Arizona Asthma Coalition. There are approximately 120,000 Arizonan children with asthma and every year asthma has led to 3,000 hospitalizations, costing Arizonans several millions in direct medical costs, according to the Arizona Health Sciences…
Deep in the densely forested mountains and hills of the Southwestern region of the United States, researchers this year have been climbing tall trees in the name of science. The team from the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, in addition to help from others, has undertaken a major project in an attempt…
