In the Media

Sept. 2, 2024

The University of Arizona plans to renovate and update its 45-acre DK Ranch experimental station, which sits along the west bank of Oak Creek near Cornville, to provide more learning opportunities for students and agriculturalists in central and northern Arizona.

Aug. 26, 2024

ALVSCE Vice President Shane Burgess was a guest on the Buckmaster Show to discuss ALVSCE's scope and mission, Tucson Village Farm, and other topics with host Bill Buckmaster.

June 17, 2024

The dual degree B.S. program in Environmental Science shared by UArizona and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (NWAFU) in Yangling, China, reached a milestone with its first graduating class of 82 students.

May 8, 2024

When it comes to putting farm-fresh produce on America's dining tables, Bruce Taylor may just be the salad king. He serves as chairman and CEO of Taylor Fresh, also known as Taylor Farms, the largest producer of salads and fresh-cut vegetables in North America.

Taylor was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Arizona 2024 Spring Convocation. He was nominated by the faculty of the School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness. 

May 2, 2024

Yuma native Tanya Hodges, the face of the University of Arizona in Yuma, La Paz, and Imperial Counties, has been named new YCEDA Director. She is anxious to guide efforts to provide fast-track solutions to high-priority issues within the desert agricultural industry.

April 30, 2024

The University of Arizona is expanding its global research efforts by launching tripartite water research centers in partnership with Kozybayev University in Kazakhstan and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (NWAFU) in China. This collaboration aims to address pressing global water concerns through a unified and innovative approach.

Apr. 9, 2024

Equipped with over three decades of experience in academia and the agricultural industry, Tanya Hodges will serve as the new Executive Director of the Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture (YCEDA). Arizona Farm Bureau congratulates the newly appointed Hodges. 

Mar. 13, 2024

Representatives from virtually every area of water research and management gathered this week at the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center's annual conference to explore how collaboration can help solve water problems on many levels.

Aug. 21, 2023

The new academic year brings changes to the University's college org chart. One school has been elevated to college status, one new college has been officially launched and a third has a new name. All three changes were approved by the Arizona Board of Regents during its June meeting in Flagstaff.

May 10, 2023

Bruce Tabashnik, University of Arizona Regents Professor of Entomology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tabashnik, whose discoveries have advanced understanding of insect resistance to transgenic crops and helped to eradicate the invasive pink bollworm from the United States and Mexico, was one of 120 new members elected to the academy this month, along with 23 international members, in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Dec. 7, 2022

Dr. Rebecca Mosher, an Associate Professor of Plant Sciences and BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona, says "plants are super rad and super cool" in this conversation with Shane Burgess. Mosher is a 2022 UA Distinguished Scholar Award recipient for her research and teaching. Find out about her work in epigenetics, and more. 

Sept. 29, 2022

A conversation with Na Zuo, Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Zuo won the Gerald J. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2022. She says her goal as a teacher is “to use authenticity in the classroom.” Hosted by Shane Burgess.

May 12, 2022

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences conferred an honorary degree on Barbara Page. Page's leadership in ocean conservation and longtime partnership with the college has helped move the needle in efforts to protect ecosystems and improve food security.

Feb. 24, 2022

UArizona School of Natural Resources and the Environment assistant professor Michael Bogan spoke with Shane Burgess to discuss his work in desert streams, the effects of monsoon season on the organisms that live in and around streams in the Sonoran Desert, his science storytelling on social media that’s earned him an audience of more than 8,000 Twitter followers, and his viral video of a coyote chasing a roadrunner.

Feb. 23, 2022

Emre Toker learned about entrepreneurship starting from a young age while helping his father sell produce in the Istanbul market. His journey continued in the U.S. as a successful biomedical innovator and entrepreneur, and since 2018 he has been working with students and faculty at the UArizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to help them reach their goals. 

Feb. 23, 2022

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema visited UA's Yuma Agricultural Center and spoke with local agricultural and UA leaders to discuss several topics and had a separate meeting to focus on water infrastructure. 

Feb. 10, 2022

CALES alumnus Fran Colwell and his wife, Sandy Koizumi, announced they have decided to match all gifts up to $3,000 that fund the Director’s Award in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE) for 2022 UArizona Giving Day, supporting an endowed fund they created in 2021 to help support the school’s students in perpetuity.

Feb. 8, 2022

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited Arizona to promote President Biden's effort to further involve higher education in training for meatpacking jobs and spur competition in the industry and promote sustainable local agriculture.

Dec. 16, 2021

Gary Pasquinelli, a driving force in Yuma-area agriculture and longtime supporter of student success and research at "his adopted second university", earned an honorary Doctor of Science degree from UArizona.

Nov. 11, 2021

John D’Arrigo, the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board for D’Arrigo California and one of the founders of the Yuma Center for Excellence in Desert Agriculture, was honored with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Eugene G. Sander Lifetime Achievement Award.

Oct. 26, 2021

A $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers from the University of Arizona, Cornell University, the Boyce Thompson Institute and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to "listen" to plants to help them develop new technologies to develop sustainable agriculture and support imperiled ecosystems through the newly established Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems.

June 23, 2021

Students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will soon have access to additional and expanded services to support their academic success thanks to a $1 million gift from a University of Arizona alumnus.

Apr. 12, 2021

For more than a century, the Campus Agricultural Center (CAC) has served a vital role for the university as a hub of instruction, research, and extension. University of Arizona Vice President of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension Shane Burgess knows generations of students and faculty consider the 185-acre research facility as a second home, just as important to their UA experience as any classroom or laboratory on the main campus three miles to the south.

Feb. 5, 2021

University of Arizona startup GenetiRate has been acquired by biotechnology company IMV Technologies.

May 15, 2020

Throughout the novel coronavirus pandemic, faculty within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have banded together to serve our local communities—from producing much-needed hand sanitizer for area healthcare workers to most recently donating 900 hundred pounds of fresh produce to Northern Arizona’s Navajo Nation. 

Mar. 26, 2020

Researchers in the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are working to produce much-needed hand sanitizer for health care workers in Southern Arizona hospitals.

Mar. 2, 2020

In keeping with its land-grant mission, the University of Arizona has always served the rural areas of the state, through agricultural research and education that directly impact those communities.

Dec. 13, 2019

Shane Burgess, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at The University of Arizona, stops by to talk about some of the compelling ways university research impacts the private sector. Also, find out how wine, sleeping tigers, and Graceland fit into this wonderful conversation about rural Arizona.

Nov. 26, 2019

The University of Arizona placed in the top 20 among U.S. public universities in physical and life sciences in the newest subject rankings from Times Higher Education.

Oct. 29, 2019

The University of Arizona now has a complete genome description of its academic beef herd after completing a SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) typing project this past May at the V Bar V Agricultural Experiment Station in Coconino County.

Oct. 9, 2019

An anonymous donor's generosity will help train the next generation of wildlife conservation biologists in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment and strengthen the school's outreach opportunities abroad.

June 11, 2019

These entities operate in the shadows but play a major role providing resources to the Kingman area

Apr. 15, 2019

Laura Scaramella, a Tucson native and UA alumna, has been named director of the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences. She begins June 1.

Feb. 1, 2019

Margarethe Cooper, an assistant professor of practice in animal and comparative biomedical sciences, is the inaugural holder of the Victor P. Smith Endowed Chair in Food Safety Education.

Sept. 12, 2018

Five UA colleges are collaborating on a bachelor of arts degree in applied humanities, an innovative interdisciplinary degree designed to give students a global focus.

June 26, 2018

As new food-related majors are burgeoning across the country, the new B.A. in Food Studies and B.S. in Nutrition and Food Systems offer UA students additional opportunities to explore the interdisciplinary nature of food.