From tapping into alternate light and water sources to changing the way people think about energy efficiency, scientists globally continue to take steps toward eco-friendly construction practices.
Building officials are currently taking these advances out of the research lab and onto the UA campus.
The Arizona Daily Wildcat interviewed pre-business junior Cascade Mittman, this year's Wilma, who was revealed at the men's basketball game against UCLA on March 2. Mittman became Wilma in July 2007. She tells the Daily Wildcat what it was like to be a high profile mascot and at the same time maintain a social life.
Palestinian Ambassador Afif Safieh spoke Friday about the necessary conditions for an Israel-Palestine peace treaty, one of them being dialogue, to end years of violent conflict.
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies in conjunction with the Tucson chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the UA Department of Political Science hosted the discussion.
Spring Career Days
UA Spring Career Days is here. Students looking for a job or an internship can go to the Student Union Memorial Center third-floor ballroom today and tomorrow between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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In a sport dominated by Southern schools, the geography of that domination stayed the same - it just shifted a little farther west.
Texas and Auburn have combined to win 11 of the last 12 men's swimming national championships, but neither had an answer for a relentless Arizona squad in Federal Way, Wash.
Don't eat that burger - it might give you Alzheimer's!
Extra weight around your midsection can lead to early death, as well as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, according to US News and World Report. Now they are saying that having a belly bulge may be related to Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Feeling a bit bored by the oh-so-blasé shopping on East University Boulevard or at La Encantada? Well, this weekend you'll have the chance to shop for some more non-traditional fare while supporting your local community at the same time.
Friday through Sunday, the Tucson Museum of Art will be sponsoring the 16th Annual Spring Artisan Fair, which features original work in a variety of mediums, including glass art, pottery, jewelry, wood, metal, leather, photography, furniture, textiles and watercolor.
Counting Crows keep their days of the weekend straight and separate. Saturday nights are heavy, high energy, invincible and even boastful. Sunday mornings are light, reflective, hopeful and sometimes longing for something that isn't there.
“1492″ rips right into the Saturday night section of the album with a drilling drum roll and super charged, hot guitar licks, which sounds slightly unlike Counting Crows but fades into familiarity.
It seems intriguing when in your na'veté you agree to do it, but going to a concert for a band you don't know is pretty much always annoying.
It's all right for the first half-hour, even entertaining perhaps, but then your feet start to hurt, someone farts next to you and you can't point out who it is, the songs all begin to run together and you kind of have to go to the bathroom, but can't leave your friends because you'll lose them.
Tonight the UA Poetry Center promises to host an eye-opening experience.
Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali is the author of four books of poetry in Arabic, most recently “So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005.” This book of poetry was translated by Peter Cole, an award-winning translator and published poet.
Transitioning to summer from spring isn't too difficult in the fashion industry, even with the heat of the sun bearing down. Many trends that rocked in December and January are still wearable through August - just make sure to toss that goldenrod trench into the back of the closet.
Director Michael Haneke wants to make you think. Hell, maybe even consider what a sick human being you really are.
And so is the purpose of “Funny Games,” the latest by the Austrian writer/director, a remake (literally, almost scene by scene, line by line) of the original thriller released to Austrian audiences in 1997.
Yoko Ogawa's newly translated collection of novellas, “The Diving Pool,” presents three disturbing yet beautiful tales of modern Japan. Ogawa seems to be simultaneously interested in exploring the potential for cruelty in ordinary, even likeable people, and in creating unusual, often olfactory, imagery.
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