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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.

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.

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.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has appointed University of Arizona's Michael Kotutwa Johnson to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Arizona Resource Advisory Council (RAC). He sees it as an opportunity to foster collaboration.

The committee on Enabling DOE Regional Energy-Water Demonstrations will provide recommendations to the US Department of Energy on criteria for establishing regional facilities to resolve issues and create opportunities at the intersection of energy and water systems in the United States.

Wildfire management is high stakes and often complex. Fire managers have to consider environmental conditions, weather forecasts and climatic trends, all while making decisions with lives and landscapes on the line.

Ufuoma Ovienmhada will investigate the vulnerabilities of U.S. prisons to climate- driven disasters, using satellite imagery to pursue environmental justice and policy change.