University of Arizona junior Andrea Hernández grew up in Nogales, Sonora, where she attended a nursing-intensive high school before transferring to school in Rio Rico, Arizona. Here, she reflects on her passion for science, her dual citizenship and how it felt to split her education across the border. 

Alumni Achievement Award winner Cisco Aguilar, Nevada’s secretary of state, embraces a path of deep purpose — and surprise.

Bear Down Gym has gone through more than a few transformations since it opened its doors a hundred years ago. Here, learn a little about the gym’s architectural history, as well as the 2013 adaptive reuse efforts that have restored some of the building’s 1920s character while also bringing it meaningfully into the present.

Poet, educator and Wildcat basketball legend Ernie McCray ’60 ’62 has lived on planet Earth for nearly 90 years. He doesn’t move like he used to — these days he gets sore just playing the bongos. But he’s still listening, still learning, still working for justice and arguing with his dog (“an órale kind of dude”), and still finding the bright side in a sometimes very dark world.

Across athletic programs, the U of A didn’t just compete this past year; it set the pace.

From the basketball court to the forefront of infrared astronomy, Marcia Rieke’s journey has bridged sports and astronomy.

How students and researchers from CAPLA and the Drachman Institute are working with government and community partners to make a lasting impact on how Tucson houses homeless people.

A leadership message from President Suresh Garimella.

Whether she’s landing big roles in Los Angeles or setting up her own scholarship, Vinessa Vidotto has come a long way since playing make-believe in the desert.

Astrophysicist, director of the Arizona Space Institute and content creator Erika Hamden has made it her mission to prove that the pursuit of knowledge is worth your time.

Double Wildcat Skylar Sieben represented Team Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Alum Les Presmyk draws on a lifetime underground to shape the mining industry.

Tayler Biehl grew up dreaming of playing for the Wildcats — then spent four years embodying what it means to wear the Block ‘A.ʼ

At the University of Arizona School Garden Workshop, K–12 students use a traditional soil blocker to make seed-ready soil cubes, gaining hands-on experience with the planting process and the care it takes to grow food.

The U of A has been making history in astronomy and the space sciences since the establishment of the Steward Observatory more than a hundred years ago. Now, through ambitious projects like NASA’s Pandora mission and social-media-friendly outreach of professors like astrophysicist and 2026 Guggenheim Fellow Erika Hamden, one of the school’s great academic traditions continues.

Research by heat expert and College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Professor Ladd Keith is shaping climate solutions worldwide.

A recent retrospective of late School of Art Professor Emerita Bailey Doogan at the University of Arizona Museum of Art is giving Honors College students a chance to reflect instead of just react.

The School of Music’s instrument ramp finds a second life — and it’s not musical.