University of Arizona News

From its beginnings as a student hangout to its current incarnation as a brew house, Ben's has always been a go-to kind of place - a place you could take your parents or meet friends after a hard day of studying.

THE DESERT SPEAKS is an Emmy award-winning series focusing on desert regions around the world.

Dark, bare south-facing slopes are soaking up the warmth of the sun. The steep lee sides of the dunes are also ice-free along the crest, allowing sand to slide down the dune.

This would not be the first time that a professional sports franchise in your city has changed its name out of sensitivity for its audience.

Comedian Bill Burr makes a much better artificially intelligent operating system in this parody of "Her" from The Flat Earth.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is among those who have helped push income inequality to the front of the political stage.

University of Michigan had a BDSM class . University of Arizona had the Condom Olympics .

A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered a new hearing for the confessed killer of a University of Arizona student, saying Scott Clabourne's attorney failed to challenge the admissibility of his confession.

TUCSON, Ariz., March 5 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Sarah Frost, hospital administrator of the University of Arizona Medical Center - South Campus, has been named chief operating officer of the Hospital Division of the University of Arizona Health Network .

He attended the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. His bachelor's and master's are from Illinois State University, and his Doctorate of Musical Arts is from the University of Arizona.

Voters will decide which candidates will represent their respective districts in the U.S. House of Representatives during the Illinois primary elections on March 18. Ann Callis is from Madison County and was a judge for 18 years.

Experts offered lawmakers some grim statistics Wednesday on cancer in Arizona, including a forecast of 11,400 deaths this year and a 50 percent increase in cancer cases by 2050.

As it's that Grab Bag time in the BudBlog week, today's odd offering is something I saw referenced in a story.

University of Arizona researchers snapped images of a planet outside our solar system with an Earth-based telescope using essentially the same type of imaging sensor found in digital cameras instead of an infrared detector.

Arizona Humanities speaker Dr. Todd W. Bostwick, PH.D., RPA presents a recently created lecture on "Native American Salt Procurement, Use, and Rituals in the American Southwest."

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL, rdambrose at thenation.com, @KatrinaNation Available for a limited number of interviews, Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation and just wrote the piece " The Ukraine crisis calls for less bluster, more common sense " in the Washington Post .

A few hours earlier, this 2-foot-long Western diamondback rattlesnake was hanging out in the front yard of a nearby home, prompting an urgent call to Bryan Hughes, owner of Rattlesnake Solutions .

The Arizona State Museum is holding a symposium honoring the careers of Paul Fish and Suzanne Fish on Saturday, March 8, 2014.

Do you love gardens and poetry? Then, consider a visit to Arizona 's Tucson Botanical Gardens , where poetry and nature combine harmoniously in a "Poetry in the Gardens" event series to create a sensory and literary experience of words and blossoms.

Daniel Asia is an American composer and a professor at the University of Arizona.