On a sunny September morning in Tucson, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman holds up a rectangular wooden frame that houses a colony of honeybees. The air buzzes as tiny winged speckles flutter about. “Oh, yeah. This is beautiful,” says DeGrandi-Hoffman, an entomologist and research leader at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Carl Hayden Bee Research Center. She raises…
Sandy Wolf’s goal for the evening is simple: Tag 25 bats. The tags are small, metal microchips, similar to the ones used to ID dogs and cats. Inserted under the skin, the tags allow her to record the bats’ location when they fly past an antenna placed at a roost entrance or other frequently visited…
Former University of Arizona football player Matt Scott, who was at Arizona from 2008-2012, will be remembered as one of the most-productive quarterbacks in school history. But 6 1/2 years since he first arrived at the university, Scott is still without a degree, a circumstance that isn’t unfamiliar to former Arizona student athletes. The graduation success rate for…
Arizona universities will graduate thousands of students this month and for many of them it’s time to make the big “what’s next?” decision. A 2013 University of Arizona Career Services survey found about half of the UA grads were headed to work; 16 percent planned to continue on to graduate school and 9 percent were…
At 1 a.m., Paul Smith might be the only one playing Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 at nearly full volume on Mount Lemmon.The piece has a happier tone than the 19th-century Russian and German composers he usually has playing through his iPod — a perfect soundtrack for the two PB&Js on wheat that he’ll scarf…
