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Teenage Kacey Ernst, PhD, MPH, had her life figured out. She was going to save the world and the Amazon rainforest at the same time. Ernst is currently director of the Bridging Biodiversity and Conservation Science program within the Lovejoy Center at the Arizona Institute for Resilience.

Planning can go a long way toward reducing the negative health impacts of extreme heat on communities and their residents. Ladd Keith, a University Distinguished Scholar and associate professor in the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, has studied the human impact of extreme heat – and how governments can best respond – for nearly two decades.

Carnegie Science's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona served as an intellectual hub where pioneering ecologists helped transform the emerging discipline of ecology from descriptive natural history into a rigorous scientific field.

For weeks, University of Arizona student Ojas Sanghi had Tuesday, April 8, circled on his calendar: The day he hoped to hear about the Truman Scholarship. Every year, the prestigious award is given to several dozen college students intending to enter government work or public service.

This year, six Arts Research + Resilience projects were awarded funding through a continuing partnership between the Arizona Institute for Resilience and the College of Fine Arts.

The university will mark Earth Day with a week of events hosted by the Office of Sustainability, Students for Sustainability and the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. The events, which are free and open to the campus community, will showcase organizations throughout campus focusing on sustainability.

New York City is perhaps an unexpected place to become an ecologist, and a marketing job for the clothing brand FUBU is an even more unexpected stepping stone to get there. But that's where Elise Gornish was in the early 2000s, fresh out of undergrad with degrees in English and business, and a seemingly cool job in the city.

Coming up through the Painted Desert from Flagstaff, we pull into the Kykotsmovi Village convenience store, where Michael Kotutwa Johnson greets us. He’s a faculty member at the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment and a core faculty member of the AIR’s Indigenous Resilience Center. Today, he wears a shirt with broad, faded stripes and a pair of loose-fitting pants. He’s dressed for a day of farming.

Tumamoc Hill is best known for its popular walking path. It is also home to the University of Arizona's Desert Laboratory. But Tumamoc Hill is really where it all began for Tucson more than 4,000 years ago.

The 30th Indian Nations and Tribes Legislative Day was held on January 15 in Phoenix at the Arizona State Capitol. Senior Vice President Levi Esquerra of the University of Arizona Office of Native American Advancement and Tribal Engagement has been working with AIR's Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice for four years now to organize and coordinate University of Arizona’s presence at this event.