CALS News and Announcements

  • Have an Environment Question? Visit New UA Website

    A team of researchers led by Cooperative Extension agents at the University of Arizona has unveiled a dynamic website that offers the most up-to-date information available on climate, forests and woodlands, but with a personal, interactive twist: users who can't find the answers they seek can pose online questions to experts and get a response in less than 48 hours.

  • UA Partnership Creates New Degree Program in Yuma

    The UA and Arizona Western College have partnered to provide an accessible and affordable bachelor's degree program to students who live in Yuma County.


    Students in Yuma, Ariz. can now complete a bachelor of science degree from the University of Arizona without ever attending the main campus.

  • Feb. Freeze Whittles Total of Heritage Trees

    Nine of the 22 designated Heritage Trees on the UA campus were so badly frozen in February that they will have to be cut down or severely pruned to "something that looks like a coat rack."


    "It's a devastating loss," said Tanya Quist, director of the University of Arizona Campus Arboretum.


    One of the nine trees - a fever tree native to Africa that stood near Cochise Hall - was cut down Monday.


    The Heritage Trees are a collection of special trees prized for their origin, age, appearance or connection with the university's history.

  • Cuello on National Academies' Committee on Sustainability of Algae Biofuels

    CALS Professor Joel Cuello from the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering is one of 15 experts, selected from universities, federal laboratories and companies from across the U.S., who have been appointed to the U.S. National Academies' Committee on Sustainability of Algae Biofuels.

  • Eugene G. Sander and Louise Canfield Sander Create Endowment for CALS Graduate Students

    Eugene G. Sander, vice provost and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is retiring on June 30, 2011. Dean Sander has had a lasting impact on the lives of countless students, faculty, staff members, industry leaders and friends of CALS over his 24-year tenure at the University of Arizona. He and his wife, Louise Canfield Sander, have created an endowment to continue impacting the lives of CALS graduate students.

  • Higher Education Costs: Valuable Tools Help Parents and Students Cope

    The College Savings Foundation and the Take Charge America Institute are two organizations that provide important financial tools and resources to help with higher education expenses. George Chamberlin finds out more information from Roger Michaud and Norton School Assistant Research Professor Joyce Serido.

  • Cancer's Ripple Effect: Diagnosis Impacts Entire Families

    Although the dreaded "C word," cancer, no longer connotes a death sentence, the diagnosis always comes with fear and confusion. Each year 1.5 million people in the U.S. find out the bad news, and the shock reverberates within each patient's family.

  • UA Project Trains New Generation of Youth Scholars

    Perceptions of youth health and sexuality have shifted drastically, even within recent decades.


    Likewise, the ways in which youth perceive their sexuality and health have evolved, as has classroom instruction and information relayed by mass and social media around such concepts.


    To expand research, training and community involvement related to these issues, Stephen T. Russell, the University of Arizona's Fitch Nesbitt Endowed Chair, is collaborating with the UA's Adela C. Licona on the Crossroads Collaborative.

  • Cultural Differences in Parenting Practices

    In the United States, what most people consider good parenting is based on middle class European American behaviors. These behaviors include displays of warmth and closeness balanced with monitoring and control. A new book edited by Dr. Stephen T. Russell, Fitch Nesbitt Endowed Chair, and director of the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth and Families, highlights important parenting differences between European and Asian Americans. At first glance, Asian American parents appear to show less warmth and to be more controlling of their children.

  • In Memoriam: Roy Ax

    Roy Ax, professor of Animal Sciences and adjunct professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arizona, died suddenly the evening of March 29, 2011.  He was an internationally recognized expert in domestic animal reproduction. At the UA, Ax served as chairman of the Department of Animal Sciences from 1990-2001 and was recognized for his outstanding teaching with the Bart Cardon Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010.