Beneath the east bleachers of Arizona Stadium, the most delicate and perfected mirror-making process takes place. The University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory is famous for building mirrors for some of the world’s most powerful telescopes. Engineers at the mirror lab are working on mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope; each mirror is…
With almost no one in the U.S. willing to work harvest jobs, farms have imported workers via temporary visas, a program widely criticized for the extensive bureaucratic requirements including housing workers. This winter Yuma area farms are expected to produce around 90 percent of the nation’s lettuce and green crops, meaning these farms need to…
Traducido por Javier Aispuro. Viajar en tren en Yuma con una caja con huesos en sus manos, G.W. Chapman hizo lo que muchos creyeron sacrílego. Vació una caja enorme llena de huesos de inmigrantes chinos en el río Colorado. Era un día cálido en 1882 y “Old Chap”, el mensajero expreso y empleado de correos…
Calls for diversity in classroom textbooks have led to tensions over how ethnic groups are represented in school curriculum, boiling down to a case of teaching tolerance and creating more inclusive learning for students. Starting in the 1940s and 1950s following the desegregation of schools, school curriculum hit a crossroad where educators had the opportunity…
Albert Alan lived in poverty as a teenager. This past May 2017 graduated with three degrees from the University of Arizona. Alan knew that education was his honorable way out of destitution. Alan is now a medical student at UA with hopes his medical degree will allow him to be voice of the undeserved. “When I…
