Professor Stephanie MacFarland has been training the next generation of disability inclusion advocates since 1981. Her work has spanned across the country but came back home to the University of Arizona, where she works in the College of Education's Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies. Read more
Four out of the 125 women chosen to represent The American Association for the Advancement of Science IF/THEN ambassadors program are from the University of Arizona. Read more
Mike Neylan, or Chef Mike, is a personal chef in Tucson who specializes in cooking for clients with diabetes, including University of Arizona students. Read more
Wildfire is an application in which students can get alerts about major crimes or events happening at the University of Arizona. The Wildfire app sends relevant notifications to your phone and shows community posts on the home feature. Read more
After a cyclist died early September in Madera Canyon, some cyclists at the University of Arizona are feeling the weight on their shoulders. Some blame the carelessness of motorists, while others blame the infrastructure on campus and throughout Tucson. Read more
Halloween may be around the corner, but no ghost story can compete with the “creepy” stories one passenger heard from her rideshare driver. Read more
Hannah Gaffney, president of the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority, spent the first week of September lobbying for more cancer research. After hearing about a fellow sorority sister being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, Gaffney looked for fundraising options for her friend and stumbled upon the non-profit organization the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Read more
The 42nd annual Tucson Pride in the Desert Parade and Festival 2019 took place yesterday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the George DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center at Reid Park. This year paid homage to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The festival and parade was in honor of the Stonewall Riots and to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. Read more
The University of Arizona 2019 Campus Safety, Security and Fire Report, also known as the Clery Act report, revealed little change in the number of reported hate crimes, a significant rise in documented motor vehicle thefts and a decline in reported rapes. Read more
The 42nd annual Tucson Pride in the Desert Festival will be held this year on Saturday Sept. 28 at Reid Park. The festival has grown immensely from years past with an expected 4,000 attendees this year and 100 local vendors and sponsors. Read more
The Africana Studies Program acquired an unusual new "employee": a robot that acts as a moving informational billboard and assistant. Members of the program said their hope is that the robot helps to normalize technological innovation while directing traffic to the Africana Studies Program. Read more
The University of Arizona will continue to enforce its ban on electric scooters on campus even after the recent pilot launch of the scooters in Tucson. Read more
The students who are accused of assaulting the black student on campus have been suspended from school. The two students' attorneys confirmed that the students, Matthew Frazier, 20, and Matthew Rawlings, 19, were suspended from school as of Monday after allegedly assaulting a black student on campus on Sept. 10, according to the Arizona Daily Star. Read more
