This historic gathering has attracted hundreds of experts, scholars, researchers and activists to southern Arizona to establish a national standard for Indigenous data governance and help tribal communities protect their traditional knowledge.

A bill backed by Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne that would have tied school discipline to their letter grades was rejected by the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Two Republicans sided with Democrats in voting down the measure.

The new superintendent of the Peoria Unified School District is now officially on the job. A series of meetings in the northwest Valley has been set for him to engage the communities that together send more than 35,000 students to learn in his district.

Tucson-based archeologist Deni Seymour has spent around four decades doing research in southern Arizona. Seymour has spent the last three years researching the route of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, a major colonizing presence in the American Southwest, as well as Fray Marcos de Niza.

Sen. Ken Bennett (R-Prescott), chair of the Senate Education Committee, says he expects everyone will eventually agree on something closer to 6.9% draw on the state land trust to increase teacher pay.

Adam Block, a researcher at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, is in Texas now to watch and photograph the eclipse.

Social media use has grown exponentially in the last decade, and the explosive launch of e-commerce has given rise to a new era of advertising: influencer marketing. Which has led researchers to ask: Can users tell when they’re being advertised to? And how important is it for them to know when influencers are being paid?

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is capable of observing over 100,000 galaxies per night and is creating the largest 3D map of the universe to study dark energy.

The University of Arizona says it’s made a $15 million improvement on its budget shortfall, which was projected at about $177 million dollars in January.