Funding will expand existing programs and support Indigenous experts, scholars and outreach specialists in developing local solutions to climate issues.

Meet Melissa Cordero, an Earth Grant mentor, as she tells us about her professional journey and current work at the Sonoran Institute, based in Tucson.

The Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice within the Arizona Institute for Resilience is pleased to announce six graduate students were awarded the Haury Program Tribal Resilience Native Pathways Award for the 2023-2024 academic year.

The Earth Grant program is welcoming Jessica Estrada as the new Earth Grant Program Coordinator this month! Jessica will continue the coordination and development of the Earth Grant Program as Leona Davis steps into another position in AIR. Jessica will support the Earth Grant students and mentors as the internships continue to develop this school year.

The University of Arizona’s Bachelor of Architecture, offered by the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, has earned the U.S. Department of Energy Zero Energy Design Designation (ZEDD). This national designation, which launched in 2022, “distinguishes post-secondary academic programs that teach best practices of zero energy design and require students to apply those concepts in zero energy design projects,” notes the DOE. The designation lasts for three years, and may be renewed.

The Arizona Institute for Resilience Earth Grant program for interdisciplinary undergraduate students won the 2023 Outstanding School or College Committed to Environmental Education award, an Excellence in Environmental Education recognition given by the Arizona Association for Environmental Education.

What does equity mean to you? How does it play out in our educational system, and what can we do as individuals, programs, or communities to become more fair for everyone? These are some of the questions the presenters and the audience wrestled with at the recent Arizona Town Hall event held in partnership with the University of Arizona at the Health and Innovation Sciences Building on Monday, September 18, 2023.

This summer, Pima County community leaders gathered with University of Arizona researchers for an interactive conversation addressing one of the Southwestern United States’ most urgent topics: water.

Researchers are concerned the heat wave is pushing some of the plants best adapted to the region’s hot, dry summers past their limits.

When it’s 110 F (43.3 C) outside, older houses will likely feel at least 10 F (5.6 C) warmer inside, even with the same air temperature. Why?

The answer has to do with radiant heat. Radiant heat is what keeps you toasty warm at a campfire on a cold winter night. The fire doesn’t warm the air much; rather, like the Sun, most of the fire’s heat moves through invisible waves directly from the campfire to your body.