Aug 04 Doctoral Oral Examination: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching 9 a.m. – Noon, Aug. 4, 2025 Hui Wang "Corpus-based Pedagogy in Undergraduate L2 Writing Courses: Effectiveness, Engagement and Instructors' Understanding"
Aug 04 Doctoral Oral Examination: Sociology 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 4, 2025 Rina James "Radicalization Pathways in the Online Context: Accounting for User Trajectories Across Extremist Spaces"
Aug 04 Doctoral Oral Examination: Plant Science 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 4, 2025 Brooke Sykes "Temporal, Spatial, and Phylogenetic Factors That Structure Foliar Fungal Endophyte Communities Across Scales"
Aug 04 Free Community Event on Tumamoc Hill: Taylor's 93rd Birthday 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., Aug. 4, 2025 Long time walker of Tumamoc Hill (three times each week!) Taylor Moore will be celebrating his 93rd birthday on Monday, Aug. 4. Join us in building the Tumamoc community!
Aug 05 Native Know-How Seminar 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., Aug. 5, 2025 This four-hour seminar from the Native Nations Institute invites non-Native professionals to learn how to build mutually beneficial working relationships with Native nations.
Aug 05 Gem and Mineral Museum End of Summer Celebration: $5 Admission 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Aug. 5 – 16, 2025 Join us for our 2nd Annual End of Summer Celebration at the Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum!
Aug 05 Doctoral Oral Examination: Cancer Biology 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 5, 2025 Anutr Sivakoses "Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells Acquire Lymphocyte Proteins and Genomic DNA During Trogocytosis with T Cells"
Aug 05 Doctoral Oral Examination: Nursing 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Aug. 5, 2025 Meghan Orbegoso "Evidence-Based Trauma-Informed Care Education for Nursing Students: A DNP Project"
Aug 05 Doctoral Oral Examination: Spanish Noon – 3 p.m., Aug. 5, 2025 Bouchra El Harrak Lichioui "Morphological Processing in Spanish: Inflection and Derivation in Second Language Learners"
Aug 05 Doctoral Oral Examination – Environmental Science 12:30 – 3:30 p.m., Aug. 5, 2025 Kunal Palawat "Soil Monologues: Critical Ecotones of Pollution, Health, and Justice"
Aug 05 Borderwomen: Tracing Matriarchal Business Networks in Territorial Tucson 6 – 7 p.m., Aug. 5, 2025 The Arizona Historical Society and the Mexican American Heritage and History Museum present "Borderwomen: Matriarchal Business Networks in Territorial Tucson."
Aug 05 Broadway in Tucson: 'Shucked' 7:30 – 11:59 p.m., Aug. 5 – 10, 2025 This corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.
Aug 06 Doctoral Oral Examination: Soil, Water & Environmental Science 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 6, 2025 Ma'ln Alghzawi "Investigating the Transformations of Arsenic and Toxic Metal(loid)s Speciation and the Impact on Arsenic Bioaccessibility in Particulate Matter from Mine Tailings"
Aug 06 Doctoral Oral Examination: History 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., Aug. 6, 2025 Don Unger "A Brief History of Mining Reclamation in Diné Bikéyah"
Aug 06 Broadway in Tucson: 'Shucked' 7:30 – 11:59 p.m., Aug. 6 – 11, 2025 This corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.
Aug 07 Doctoral Oral Examination: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 9 a.m. – Noon, Aug. 7, 2025 Geoffrey Finch "Daisies in the Desert: On Drivers of Extreme Chromosome Number Reduction in Plants"
Aug 07 Doctoral Oral Examination: Materials Science & Engineering 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Aug. 7, 2025 Ariel Rieffer "Corrosion Behavior of Additively Manufactured Alloy 625, A Nickel Based Superalloy"
Aug 07 Doctoral Oral Examination: Systems & Industrial Engineering 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Aug. 7, 2025 Mahdi Mahdavimanshadi "Multistage Stochastic Optimization for Agricultural Operations in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions"
Aug 07 Doctoral Oral Examination: Applied Mathematics 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 7, 2025 Patricia Puente "Data, Scale, and Change: A Study of Hydrologic Dynamics in the Colorado River Basin"
Aug 07 Doctoral Oral Exam: Epidemiology 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 7, 2025 Samantha Marie Ruth "Epidemiological Surveillance of Post-COVID-19 Conditions (PCC) in Southern Arizona: A Comparative Study of Active vs. Passive Surveillance"
Aug 07 Broadway in Tucson: 'Shucked' 7:30 – 11:59 p.m., Aug. 7 – 12, 2025 This corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.
Aug 08 Doctoral Oral Examination: Microbiology 9 a.m. – Noon, Aug. 8, 2025 Elizabeth Howard: "The Impact of Dietary Fibers and Environmental Xenobiotics on Metabolic Homeostasis via the Gut Microbiota"
Aug 08 Doctoral Oral Examination: Aerospace Engineering 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 8, 2025 Martin Liza "Aero-Optical Effects in High-Enthalpy Flows"
Aug 08 Doctoral Oral Examination: Neuroscience 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 8, 2025 Sahana Venkateswaran Srivathsa "How Aging Transforms Spatial Memory and Navigation: From Behavior to Neural Circuits"
Aug 08 Doctoral Oral Examination: Physiological Sciences 1 – 4 p.m., Aug. 8, 2025 Hallie Wachsmuth "Neuronal Signaling of Gut Microbiota-Derived Metabolites in the Regulation of Host Energy and Glucose Homeostasis"
Aug 08 GRAD College/UROC Poster Session 1 – 3 p.m., Aug. 8, 2025 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Consortium scholars will present their summer research in a poster session.
Aug 08 Doctoral Oral Examination: Natural Resources 2 – 5 p.m., Aug. 8, 2025 Christopher Jenney "Habitat and Stocking Strategies for Native Fish Recovery in the Verde River Basin, Arizona"
Aug 08 Broadway in Tucson: 'Shucked' 7:30 – 11:59 p.m., Aug. 8 – 13, 2025 This corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.
Aug 09 Planetarium Show: 'Laser Foo Fighters' 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., Aug. 9, 2025 Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock – however you want to categorize them, the Foo Fighters fill arenas and melt faces.
Aug 09 Broadway in Tucson: 'Shucked' 7:30 – 11:59 p.m., Aug. 9 – 14, 2025 This corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.
Aug 09 Planetarium Show: 'Laser Nirvana' 9:30 – 10:30 p.m., Aug. 9, 2025 Nirvana ushered in the era of grunge, and changed the way rock would sound for years to come. Relive the band's short but very influential career in a powerful laser tribute.
Aug 10 Broadway in Tucson: 'Shucked' 7:30 – 11:59 p.m., Aug. 10 – 15, 2025 This corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.
Aug 11 Doctoral Oral Examination: Human Development and Family 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 11, 2025 Kealie Walker "Stigma, Stress, and Developmental Assets in the Lives and Educational Experiences of Latinx Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents"
Aug 11 Doctoral Oral Examination: Geosciences 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Aug. 11, 2025 Anna Mireia Rebaza Morillo "Unveiling the Mechanisms of Mass Transfer in Modern Subduction Zones"
Aug 11 Doctoral Oral Examination: Mining, Geological and Geophysical Engineering 1 – 4 p.m., Aug. 11, 2025 Jingping He "Best Practices for Mapping Environments Across the Mining Lifecycle with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
Aug 11 Doctoral Oral Examination: Materials Science and Engineering 2 – 5 p.m., Aug. 11, 2025 Dmitriy Bayko "Structure and Glass Transition Behavior of As-Rich As-Se Glasses: modeling and experiment"
Aug 12 Doctoral Oral Examination: Physics 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 12, 2025 Jose Daniel Castro Cisneros "Dynamics of Lunar Impact Ejecta: Escape, Co-orbitals, and Impacts"
Aug 12 Webinar: 'Steps to Secure Your Retirement Income' Noon – 1 p.m., Aug. 12, 2025 Come learn from the experts at TIAA the steps to secure your retirement income. *Note: You do not need to be a TIAA member to attend. All are welcome.
Aug 12 Doctoral Oral Examination: Management 2:30 – 5:30 p.m., Aug. 12, 2025 Arash Roghani "Essays in Information, Disclosure and Search"
Aug 13 Doctoral Oral Examination: Genetics 1 – 4 p.m., Aug. 13, 2025 Sydney VanLinden: "Mechanisms of Asthma Protection by Microbial Agents"
Aug 13 Doctoral Oral Examination: DNP 1 – 4 p.m., Aug. 13, 2025 Jane Leahy: "Medication Reconciliation in a Rural Outpatient Setting"
Aug 14 Webinar: 'The Working Caregiver's Toolkit: Mastering Career and Care' 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Aug. 14, 2025 Balance work and caregiving. Learn to talk with employers, set boundaries & use workplace benefits for success in both career and family care responsibilities.
Aug 14 2025 ONE Conference 1 – 5 p.m., Aug. 14, 2025 The ONE Conference is the annual University of Arizona marketing and communications conference.
Aug 15 Doctoral Oral Examination: Atmospheric Sciences 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Aug. 15, 2025 Chayan Roychoudhury "Modeling and Analysis of Black Carbon in the Third Pole: From Emissions to Snowmelt"
Aug 15 Doctoral Oral Examination: Physics 2 – 5 p.m., Aug. 15, 2025 Rohit Kumar Gupta "Effective Field Theories For J/psi Productions"
Aug 15 Doctoral Oral Examination: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching 5 – 8 p.m., Aug. 15, 2025 Hongni Gou "Black African Students Studying Abroad in China: L2 Investment, Identity Negotiation, and Transformative Life Trajectories"
Aug 17 New Horizons New Member Interest Meeting & Performance 2 – 3:30 p.m., Aug. 17, 2025 New Horizons Music programs provide entry points to music making for adults, including those with no musical experience at all.
Aug 18 Doctoral Oral Examination: Pharmaceutical Sciences 1 – 4 p.m., Aug. 18, 2025 Bayan Alhefzi "Design and Optimization of Functional Polymer-Modified Liposome Formulations for Enhanced Delivery of Therapeutics for Cancer and Depression"
Aug 19 Workshop: 'Understanding The Mental Health Resources Around You' 10 – 10:30 a.m., Aug. 19, 2025 Discover free mental health resources available to employees. Interactive workshop with live demos of ComPsych & CredibleMind—learn access, features & assessments.
Aug 19 Doctoral Oral Examination: Geography 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Aug. 19, 2025 Kai Lepley "Precision Agrivoltaics"
Aug 20 Introduction to Scientific Digital Images Workshop 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Aug. 20, 2025 The primary goal of this workshop is to show that images are data, to illustrate what can be done with those data, and the ease with which they can be compromised.
Aug 20 Webinar: 'Should You Kind of Retire?' 10 – 11 a.m., Aug. 20, 2025 Have you considered phasing into retirement slowly?
Aug 21 Digital Learning Download: Writing an AI Policy for Your Syllabus 10 – 10:30 a.m., Aug. 21, 2025 A live 30-minute presentation and conversation series focused on online teaching and instructional design practices.
Aug 21 Virtual Art Trivia Happy Hour: Conceptual Art! 5 – 6 p.m., Aug. 21, 2025 As usual, the multiple choice questions will be fun for all attendees and answers will be anonymous. So bring an open mind and get ready to have a good time!
Aug 21 University of Arizona Soccer at New Mexico State University 7 – 9 p.m., Aug. 21, 2025 University of Arizona Soccer takes on New Mexico State University
Aug 22 Steward Observatory Mt. Lemmon Community Hearing 6 – 8 p.m., Today The University of Arizona invites community members to attend a meeting to hear about the Steward Observatory Catalina Station Master Development Plan.
Aug 23 Open House Destination Arizona Campus Mixer | University Libraries 1 – 3 p.m., Aug. 23, 2025 Welcome all new, incoming, and transfer students! Come learn about University Libraries at our open house during the Destination Arizona Campus Mixers.
Aug 23 Planetarium Show: 'Laser Beastie Boys' 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., Aug. 23, 2025 The Beastie Boys is one of modern music's most influential and creative forces, mixing rap with sampling, humor and rock.
Aug 23 Planetarium Show: 'Laser Schism (Tool)' 8 – 9 p.m., Aug. 23, 2025 The enigmatic and style-transending act known as Tool records some of the most complicated and powerful heavy metal rock ever created.
Aug 23 Planetarium Show: 'Laser Taylor Swift' 9:30 – 10:30 p.m., Aug. 23, 2025 Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. "Laser Taylor Swift" takes her biggest hits and brings them to life in dazzling laser light.
Aug 25 First Day of Fall Classes 12:01 a.m. – 11:59 p.m., Aug. 25, 2025 Classes begin for the fall 2025 semester.
Aug 26 NASA Sunrise Ceremony 8 – 10 a.m., Aug. 26, 2025 Native American Student Affairs presents a blessing to start the upcoming fall semester.
Aug 26 Wind & Percussion Area Recital 11 a.m. – Noon, Aug. 26, 2025 Free and open to the public. Please note, event duration is approximate.
Aug 26 Graduate Center Open House Fall 2025 3:30 – 5 p.m., Aug. 26, 2025 The Graduate College Graduate Center invites campus to tour our space and meet our team members. RSVP encouraged, but not required. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.
Aug 26 Arizona Reed Quintet 7 – 8:30 p.m., Aug. 26, 2025 Free and open to the public Doctoral student Meg Palermo presents her research on and a performance of choral works by Salamone Rossi.
Aug 27 Wildcat Student Employment Fair Noon – 3 p.m., Aug. 27, 2025 Students can connect with local and on-campus employers hiring Wildcats for part-time jobs and internships.
Aug 27 Webinar: '30 Minute Self-Care: Small Changes, Big Impact' Noon – 12:30 p.m., Aug. 27, 2025 Learn simple self-care strategies that fit busy schedules. Discover quick stress relief techniques, boundary-setting tips, and time management skills.
Aug 27 Flinn Foundation Seed Grants: Info Session and Q&A 3 – 4 p.m., Aug. 27, 2025 Learn how to apply for up to $100,000 in seed funding to support early-stage projects advancing toward real-world clinical impact.
Aug 27 Film Screening: Poetry Film Shorts with Tucson Poets and Arizona Illustrated 5 – 6 p.m., Aug. 27, 2025 Seven poems will be transformed into seven short films, created by the award-winning production and videography team from Arizona Public Media's Arizona Illustrated.
Aug 27 Finding Community Welcome 5 – 7 p.m., Aug. 27, 2025 An event organized by the Student Culture & Engagement Hub, offering all students a chance to explore their six student spaces, connect with student orgs, and find community!
Aug 28 Mini Health Screening - Keating Bioresearch 8 – 11 a.m., Aug. 28, 2025 Regular preventive health screenings help prevent disease through early detection. Schedule your free screening today.
Aug 28 Webinar: 'Leverage Your Parenting Style: Understanding and Adapting Your Approach' Noon – 12:45 p.m., Aug. 28, 2025 Identify your parenting style and learn when to adapt. The workshop covers four major styles, when to incorporate others, and which approaches to avoid for healthy development.
Aug 28 University of Arizona Soccer at Stanford University 3 – 5 p.m., Aug. 28, 2025 University of Arizona Soccer at Stanford University
Aug 28 Chill Out at the Libraries 3 – 5 p.m., Aug. 28, 2025 Join us for a special Welcome Week event at the Main Library.
Aug 29 Doctoral Oral Examination - Communication Noon – 3 p.m., Aug. 29, 2025 Kun Yan "An Investigation of Reply Network Positions, Perceived Social Support, and Quality of Life in Online Eating Disorder Support Communities"
Aug 29 University of Arizona Volleyball vs Alabama State - Back to School Night 6 – 8 p.m., Aug. 29, 2025 University of Arizona Volleyball takes on Alabama State on Back to School Night.
Aug 29 U of A Jazz Faculty Ensemble: Standards & Originals 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Aug. 29, 2025 The U of A Jazz Faculty Ensemble presents a two-night series of jazz standards and original works at the Century Room.
Aug 30 University of Arizona Cross Country vs. Northern Arizona University Midnight – 3 a.m., Aug. 30, 2025
Aug 30 University of Arizona Triathlon: Southern Hills Collegiate Cup Midnight – 3 a.m., Aug. 30, 2025 University of Arizona Triathlon participates in the Southern Hills Collegiate Cup.
Aug 30 University of Arizona Volleyball vs Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 12:30 – 2:30 p.m., Aug. 30, 2025 Arizona volleyball takes on Texas A&M - Corpus Christi.
Aug 31 University of Arizona Volleyball vs Fresno State 12:30 – 2:30 p.m., Aug. 31, 2025 Arizona volleyball takes on Fresno State.
Image Picture Party: Celebrating the Collection at 50 May 3 to Dec. 20, 2025 The Center for Creative Photography is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibit of photographs and archival objects from renowned artists.
Image Museum of Democracy: Pathway to the Presidency Aug. 11, 2025 to May 31, 2026 Pathway to the Presidency offers an in-depth look at the history and transformation of presidential campaigning in America, from the election of George Washington to the 2024 race.
Image Future Tense 2025 Aug. 19 to Nov. 21, 2025 “Future Tense 2025” will celebrate the creative work of student artists, designers and makers working with – or inspired by – fiber and textile materials or techniques.