COVID-19 protocols and prevention on the UA's campus for the fall 2022 semester

By Sean Meixner | 07/24/2022 6:46pm

A breakdown of COVID-19 prevention resources and protocols at the University of Arizona as the fall 2022 semester approaches. 

UA no longer providing COVID-19 isolation dorms

By Kristijan Barnjak | 07/24/2022 6:16pm

The University of Arizona will no longer provide students with the COVID-19 virus isolation dorms. Instead, they ask students to find own isolation housing or isolate in their student housing. 

Tucson Sun Link streetcar will remain free through end of 2022

By Kristijan Barnjak | 07/17/2022 11:32pm

The Sun Link became free to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic and because of high demand will remain free until the start of 2023. 

UA President Robbins addresses rising Pima County COVID-19 cases

By Annabel Lecky | 06/21/2022 12:42pm

In an email to the University of Arizona community on June 20, President Dr. Robert C. Robbins addressed the rising COVID-19 cases and prompted people to take steps to protect themselves against the virus. 

OPINION: Dorms and COVID-19: Reflecting on the past freshman year

By Isabelle Freguia | 05/10/2022 2:46pm

Freshman year of college is a crazy experience. It is a time when you are on your own, practicing your independence and meeting a countless number of new faces. There is already enough to be stressed about but imagine also having the COVID-19 pandemic linger over it all.

2021-22: A world news year in review

By Sam Parker | 05/03/2022 1:56pm

The 2021-22 academic school year bore witness to a vast array of different news stories that affected student lives on and off campus, from constantly changing conversations and policies surrounding COVID-19 to heated political discourse centered around social and economic issues.

The Arizona Athletic's super seniors

By Chris Pirolo from El Inde Arizona | 04/25/2022 4:43pm

Back in 2020, the NCAA decided to give all fall and spring athletes a mulligan year due to the pandemic disrupting the sports seasons. In many instances, including at the University of Arizona, it has led to larger, oversized rosters across the country as so-called super seniors return for a fifth year of eligibility. 

Sun Tran and other public transportation lift mask mandate

By Jeremiah Ludwig | 04/24/2022 6:22pm

The Sun Tran lifts mask mandate following Florida ruling against national public transportation mask mandate. 

University status update: Suicide prevention site announced, UA President addresses UAGC vet’s benefits controversy

By Sean Meixner | 04/12/2022 5:32pm

The University of Arizona’s virtual status update team met on April 11 to discuss the COVID-19 public health situation at the UA and in Pima County. This was the 62nd briefing, and the last one scheduled for the semester.

OPINION: After two years, COVID-19-conscious students deserve to have some fun without pandemic guilt

By Olivia Krupp | 04/08/2022 7:00pm

Being at a college with such an intense party culture, I’m sure we have all heard these phrases in the past couple of months: “In the middle of a pandemic, really?” or “Stay home!” After two years—and given the fact that Covid really does seem to be in retreat, according to public health authorities like the CDC—these guilt trips are unfair to the students who have done their part and gotten vaccinated.

University of Arizona marks two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Kiara Adams and Jeremiah Ludwig | 03/29/2022 11:24am

The University of Arizona held “A Day of Memory, Healing, and Hope” on Wednesday, March 23 to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

University status update: UA to end COVID-19 mask mandate

By Sean Meixner | 03/15/2022 10:04pm

The University of Arizona’s virtual status update team announced the end of mandatory masking on campus during their meeting on Monday, March 14. The UA intends to end the mask mandate on Monday, March 21.

UA staff shortage affects quality of campus life during the pandemic

By Madison McCormick from El Inde Arizona, Diana Ramos from El Inde Arizona and Cameron Jobson from El Inde Arizona | 03/06/2022 8:19pm

As we begin the third year of the pandemic this week, we look back on the impact its first two years have had on the University of Arizona community, including staffing shortages, increased sanitization practices, ever-evolving mask mandates, and more.

Spring breaking in Mexico or California? Here’s what you need to know

By Madison McCormick from El Inde Arizona | 03/23/2022 10:50am

Students traveling to Mexico and California for this spring break can expect two big things: sticker-shock gas prices topping $5 a gallon in California and COVID-19 protocols that might give you a funky facial tan line. 

Spring Fling canceled: ASUA confirms

By Avery Martinez | 02/28/2022 5:08pm

The Associated Students of the University of Arizona announced online the cancellation of their annual carnival Wednesday morning. When the Daily Wildcat asked why the event was canceled, ASUA representatives refused to comment.

Arizona women's tennis team continues to show the progress head coach Ryan Stotland envisioned

By Ari Koslow | 02/25/2022 12:10pm

It is safe to say the Arizona women's tennis team is in good hands. Head coach Ryan Stotland is back in Tucson and is now running the show after he was hired by Athletic Director Dave Heeke back in 2018. Four years later, he has now helped turn in back-to-back top-20 recruiting classes for the program. 

Podcast: The Daily Wildcat Presents 'Of Power and Pandemics' — a three-part series

By Alexandra Pere, Mandy Loader, Yasmin Acosta and Clara Migoya | 05/03/2022 10:02pm

In “Of Power and Pandemics,” UA School of Journalism students delve into the challenges that many essential workers during the 1918 influenza pandemic faced living in the Arizona-Mexico borderlands.  The podcast series was supported by the University of Arizona Libraries and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant.  

University status update: UA experiences “remarkable” drop in COVID-19 positivity

By Sean Meixner | 02/22/2022 5:17pm

The University of Arizona’s virtual status update team met on Monday, Feb. 21 to discuss the COVID-19 public health situation on campus and in Pima county.

University status update: University experiences minor decline in COVID-19 cases

By Sean Meixner | 02/08/2022 6:40pm

University of Arizona President Dr. Robert C. Robbins reemphasized his belief that the return to in-person classes was a good plan for the spring 2022 semester after discussing the school's recent decline in positive COVID-19 cases at the Feb. 7 virtual status update meeting.