By Jacqueline Canett / El Inde Mariana Valencia remembers the day she got the best news any person on the lung transplant waitlist could receive. She was on the phone with one of her best friends when an anonymous phone number called from area code “720” — Denver. She answered the phone and heard, “Hey,…
By Bradley Anderson / El Inde Jeong Yeol Yoon is a professor and president of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, he studied biomedical engineering in Los Angeles at UCLA, working on lab-on-a-chip and biomaterials and then finding his way to Tucson where he furthered his…
By Seth Litwin / El Inde Judy McDermott watches as kids stagger through the gates of the First Tee of Tucson facility at El Rio golf course, a public golf course located just 10 minutes from the University of Arizona. El Rio was built in the 1930’s as a private golf course until the city…
By Jack Jurgens/El Inde When Steven Perryman started racing go-karts, he was already 65 years old and had never turned a wrench on anything other than his bicycle as a kid. Now the 78-year-old Vietnam veteran and West Point graduate speaks fluently about the differences between “shifter” engines, two-stroke engines and “potato diggers,” the least…
By Yasmin Acosta/El Inde In 2020, the food service industry was hit really hard by the pandemic and many restaurants did not survive. We have seen door after door close to the public temporarily — then sometimes permanently. On the other hand, there’s first-time restaurant owner, Carolyn O’Connor, and her year-old business, Ceres, which is…
