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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.

As the weather around us changes, scientists say we need to be more climate resilient. University of Arizona researcher Zac Guido talks about helping communities cope with extreme weather, sea-level rise and other climate impacts. Guido spoke with Leslie Tolbert, Ph.D. Regents professor emerita in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona.

Since 1990, the Udall Center Fellows Program has invited UArizona faculty across campus to take a semester off from teaching duties in order to focus on scholarly research that touches on some aspect of public policy.

A research team from the University of Maryland, Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona, and other institutions has demonstrated the critical role of protected forests in climate change mitigation.

According to the study, protected forests store an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon in their aboveground biomass compared to ecologically similar regions that are not protected.

We protect what we are passionate about—but it is the spark of wonder and discovery that leads us to that passion.

Climate researchers at the University of Arizona are crossing their fingers for another wet monsoon.