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The new program will make scientific information more accessible to lawmakers by enabling scientists, engineers, and public health professionals to serve as advisors to state legislators.

A $5 million gift from the Thomas Lovejoy Amazon Biodiversity Center will establish the Lovejoy Center for Bridging Biodiversity, Conservation Science, and Policy and the Thomas E. Lovejoy Endowed Chair in Biodiversity, Conservation Science, and Policy within the Arizona Institute for Resilience at the University of Arizona.

The Arizona Initiative for Resilience and International Development and the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions within the Arizona Institute for Resilience, or AIR, brought together multidisciplinary experts from across the University of Arizona, and scholars from the Global South who are a part of the Climate Adaptation Research Program, to address and advance solutions towards a more resilient future.

A $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health, will fund planning for the Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health, or SCORCH, at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. The center will focus on research and programs to help communities in Arizona and other hot, dry geographic regions adapt to climate-driven health threats.

As discussions at COP28 wrestle with climate impacts on global food and water security, we hear from a Hopi farmer on his thriving practice of dry farming and his hopes for shared learning in Dubai.

As the world comes together for COP28, the Arizona Initiative for Resilience and International Development and the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions within AIR has brought together multi-disciplinary experts from across the University of Arizona and scholars from the Global South who are part of AIR's Climate Adaptation Research Program to form a delegation that brings their expertise to address and advance solutions towards a more resilient future.

Michael Kotutwa Johnson represents the 250th generation of his Hopi ancestors who have farmed their homelands for at least 3,000 years. Hear how Johnson, an assistant specialist in Indigenous resilience within the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, helps tribal nations address challenges related to water, energy and food systems.

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

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 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.