Arizona & the Southwest

The Mentorship and Education in Science for Tucson program sends U of A juniors and seniors to local middle and high schools to provide one-on-one math tutoring to students.

Researchers from the U of A and ASU this week showcased new techniques to improve urban water use practices. Their work was supported by the Smart Tree Watering Regents' Research Grant.

The funding from the Mellon Foundation will provide library and information science graduate students hands-on experience as they help communities record their histories.

Associate professor Ada M. Wilkinson-Lee is partnering with border and rural communities in Arizona to help them overcome the health impacts of social isolation.

U of A junior Nicolette Gomez hopes to foster a community of Yaqui entrepreneurs through the new Yaqui-Tech Innovation Lab.

A $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will establish the West Region Native American Language Resource Center.

A pair of climate-tracking trucks crisscrossed Tucson as part of a statewide project to understand the effects of extreme heat. U of A researchers will translate the data into policy recommendations and other ideas for communities to stay heat resilient.

Two climate scientists discuss the significance of the monsoon and how members of the public can make their own rainfall predictions.

Students designed housing and an educational campus for the Hopi Tribe, as part of a solar-powered village that the tribe has long sought to build.

A project led by Jason Jurjevich informed a law that lets homeowners remove unlawful restrictions from their property records.