Depression can take people to some dark places, and what they do there can shock or hurt the ones they love. But sometimes hitting rock bottom can set the stage for a new beginning.
The city of Tucson has had a long and active Trees for Tucson program (Part of Tucson Clean and Beautiful) which has been working in the community since the 1980s.
Stephan Dong works as an undergraduate research assistant at the Zinsmaier Neurogenetics Lab where they use Drosophila Melanogaster as a model organism, aka fruits flies, to study the brain and neurodegenerative disease.
When a University of Arizona junior and veteran of the War in Afghanistan interviews a surgeon for a science journalism class, he finds an unexpected connection.
We speak to UA student Emily Huddleston about her journalistic work with the lowland leopard frog and the threats it faces in southern Arizona, including the invasive and aggressive American bullfrog.
The University of Arizona’s LEAF program- Linking Edible Arizona Forests – estimates the main campus has about about 8,000 mature trees of which nearly 25% have edible qualities such as fruit, seeds or nuts.
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