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Just as we can savor a decadent dessert, so, too, can we savor a meaningful conversation. And the latter may be better for us, according to UA researcher Maggie Pitts.

The 11th annual Tucson Festival of Books, believed to be the third-largest celebration of literature in the U.S., takes place March 2-3 on the UA campus in Tucson.

"Fronteridades: Nurturing Collaborative Intersections in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" is part of the UA's aim to become the leading institution for borderlands scholarship, referred to as the Border Lab Initiative.

Keith Allred, the new director of the UA’s National Institute for Civil Discourse, discusses how the institute plans to stem a rising tide of incivility that strains interpersonal relationships and paralyzes effective governing.

The Poetry Coalition, a national alliance of poetry organizations including the UA Poetry Center, will benefit from a $1 million grant to support programming and professional opportunities in the literary arts.

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 66 academic inventors to the inaugural class of NAI Senior Members. Among these are Dong Chul (Jeffrey) Pyun, PhD, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Science at the University of Arizona. NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators with success in patents, licensing, and commercialization. They have produced technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. They also foster a spirit of innovation within their communities through enhancing an inventive atmosphere at their institutions, while educating and mentoring the next generation of inventors.

Monica Landgrave-Serrano, a graduate student in the UA College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, believes in the social and economic power of urban planning.

UA associate professor of Africana studies Bryan Carter gave a talk on black athletes' historical contributions off the court or field as part of a series of UA events during Black History Month.

The UA is one of 12 AAU-member institutions to receive funding to further existing efforts to improve undergraduate education as part of the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative.

UA entomologist Katy Prudic led a 15-year study that found that, when living apart from the unsavory bug it mimics, the viceroy butterfly becomes yucky, making biologists rethink old theories about animal mimicry.