Arizona Education News
A Phoenix-based arts collective is hosting an open mic night on Wednesday. But it’s not just any open mic night and not just any arts collective. Thems. aims to support artists from the LGBTQ+ community, and this week's Fruity Poetry Night at There Space is part of that.
Jamie Lander and her stepson are defendants in a lawsuit against alleged members of the "Gilbert Goons" and their parents. She moved from Riggs Elementary to Chandler’s special education department.
April 24, 2024
A new report from a national education group looks at how states are doing to link education and opportunity. The State Opportunity Index from the Strada Education Foundation finds Arizona doing well in some of the metrics examined — and less well in others.
April 23, 2024
Patrick Whelan is a doctor — an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at UCLA specializing in pediatric rheumatology, to be exact. But, he’s also a great lover of music. As part of what he calls a pandemic project, he started teaching a course at Harvard University on music and the mind
April 23, 2024
ASU associate professor Melissa Wilson spoke more about the project to fully sequence the genome of the Gila monster, including a crowdfunding effort that raised more than $10,000.
April 22, 2024
The Arizona Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s three public universities, is holding a town hall on campus Wednesday so members of the Tucson community can share their input about the nationwide presidential search that began on April 15.
April 22, 2024
Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. A vigil was held Friday to remember the 13 victims who were murdered by two student gunmen.
April 20, 2024
The American Association for the Advancement of Science recently released its list of the 2023 class of fellows. All told, 502 scientists, engineers and innovators were recognized for their scientific and social achievements.
April 20, 2024
Arizona State University and four former members of its football coaching staff have reached an agreement with the NCAA on penalties for impermissible in-person contact with recruits during the COVID-19 dead period.
April 19, 2024
Not long ago, Arizona State University professor Dr. Neal Lester, Ph.D., was sitting in his office, when one of his grad students came in. As they talked, Lester noticed that the student seemed distressed.
April 19, 2024
The Tempe Union High School District has a program called TAPP, which provides support to pregnant and parenting teens enrolled in high school. As part of that, one high school is now offering trauma informed care training.
April 18, 2024
The search committee for the next president of the University of Arizona had its first meeting Wednesday. Current President Robert Robbins said he would step down at the end of his contract- which ends in 2026- or as soon as another candidate is ready to take his place.
April 18, 2024
A bill that would require schools to have separate showers for transgender students so that other students aren't exposed to them is on the way to Gov. Katie Hobbs' desk after the Senate gave it final approval on Wednesday.
April 18, 2024
A new study examined the effect of various factors on the health of Arizona adolescents that researchers divided into five main categories that include physical and mental health, education and workforce development, environment and climate, economic well-being, and family and community.
April 18, 2024
Professor Tsafrir Mor teaches in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State — but when he’s not in the lab or the lecture hall on campus, he can sometimes be found teaching in a very different type of classroom.
April 17, 2024
Students have a lot of factors to consider when they’re thinking about where they want to go to college — among them the cost, what programs a school offers and if they want a big school or a small one. Inside Higher Ed admissions and enrollment reporter Liam Knox has written about this.
April 17, 2024
The Arizona Board of Regents has put together an 18-member Presidential Search Advisory Committee to find the next president of the University of Arizona.
April 16, 2024
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott recently awarded million-dollar grants to more than 300 groups across the country that help people with the greatest need. One of them is based in Phoenix.
April 16, 2024
Diné College is one of 14 tribal grant recipients from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund projects that recognize the traumatic legacies of federally run boarding schools.
April 15, 2024
University of Arizona professor Amanda Wilson elaborates on how she'll spend the next five years and $750,000 to help prevent nurses from developing work-related asthma.
April 15, 2024
Arizona State University unveiled a statue of legendary baseball coach Bobby Winkles on Friday. He coached the Sun Devils until 1971, guiding the team to three national championships and amassing the highest winning percentage in school history.
April 13, 2024
