Kendall Kroesen, Outreach Coordinator for Mission Garden Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Kendal Kroesen returns to update us on Mission Garden, Tucson’s “living agricultural museum of Sonoran Desert-adapted heritage fruit-trees, traditional local heirloom crops and
Oct 5: “Ballot Propositions for Pima County Residents”
Cindy Soffrin, League of Women Voters Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Arizona is a state with a very active and legally powerful ballot initiative system. While out and about we are often approached and
Oct. 24: “Can Residential Rainwater Harvesting Truly Impact the Ability of Tucson to Sustain Its Growing Population?”
Brian Ellis, Certified Water Harvesting Practitioner; Frequent Rainwater Harvesting Workshop Volunteer and Sometime Consultant; Mechanical/Systems Engineer by weekday Monday, October 24, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room With one million plus residents, Tucson is the 3rd fastest warming city in
Oct 19: “Northwest Medical Center-Houghton, Part II: Cardiology and Family and Sports Medicine”
Bhavananda Reddy, MD, FHRS, and Patrick Ouzts, MD, NWMC Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Today’s session continues our introduction to the new hospital on Houghton at Old Spanish Trail. Kellyn Shaw, Director of Provider
Oct 17: “One Humanitarian Response: Working with Doctors Without Borders, 2005-2913”
Maureen Ann Orr, FNP, MSN, CTMCH; and Robert Allan Linden, MD, FACP, DTMH Monday, October 17, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Nurse practitioner Maureen Orr and internist Dr. Bob Linden practiced in rural Colorado
Oct 3: “Election Administration – Securing Democracy”
Constance L Hargrove, Director of Elections, Pima County Monday, October 3, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room At a time when election officials across America are being driven from their jobs by hostile social media, even threats, and being
Sep 26: “Genomes, Genome Evolution, and Genome Editing”
Rebecca Mosher, UA Associate Professor in the School of Plant Sciences Monday, September 26, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room In 1990 the international Human Genome Project was launched to sequence the 30 billion DNA nucleic acid pairs that
Sep 30: “Is the American Experiment with Democracy Coming to Its End?”
Jim Kolbe, Former Congressman from Arizona’s 5th District and public affairs consultant Friday, September 30, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm ASA Koffler Great Room In these days of fraught political events, politicized public life, and divided loyalties, it is no wonder that
Sep 21: “Reclaiming the Border Narrative: Storytelling and Cultural Power for Migrant Justice”
Javier D. Durán, Professor of Spanish and Border Studies and Director of the Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry, University of Arizona Verónica Reyes-Escudero, Katheryne B. Willock Head of Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm,
Sep 27: “Young, Blue and Isolated: A New Class of Stellar Systems”
David Sand, Associate Professor, Dept of Astronomy & Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory, UA Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Note Special Day and time! One of the discoveries of the now three-decades-old Hubble Space
Sep 19: “Meet the Tucson Wildlife Center”
Hubert Parker. Development Coordinator, Tucson Wildlife Center Monday, September 19, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Pursuing a dove, a hawk flies into your window and falls to the ground, injured. A Gila Monster has a foot crushed by a
SEP 13: “Climate Change and The Colorado River Basin”
Christopher L Castro, UA Associate Professor of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences Tuesday, Sept 13,2022 2:30-3:30 pm, the Great Room of the Arizona Senior Academy Note special day and time! For six million years the once mighty Colorado
Sep 14: “Planning for Urban Heat Resilience”
Ladd Keith, Assistant Professor, UA School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, associate faculty, the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Heatwaves; water, food, and energy shortages; wildfires; shrinking
Sep 12: “Medieval Art in the Southwest”
Albrecht Classen, University Distinguished Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona Monday, September 12, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Although southern Arizona is truly far away from medieval Europe in geographic terms, the Middle Ages are
Aug 29: “Exploring Thirteen with Artist Betsy Schneider”
Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography, UA Monday, August 29, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, The Koffler Great Room, ASA Rebecca Senf, who recently spoke at ASA about her book on Ansel Adams’ early work, will return to show us
July 26: “Pack Rat Biology Basics, and How NOT to be a Pied Piper”
Brian DeNomme, Arizona Pest Control Tuesday (note special day!), July 26, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room What is both the cutest and most hated critter that plagues Academy Village? Which critter inspires the most fervent and bitter happy
Aug 22: “Prickly Prospects for Cacti Under Climate Change”
Michiel Pillet, Researcher in UA’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program Monday, August 22, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room If you think that a cactus would be one of the plants least affected by global climate change, think again.
Aug 1: “Collecting, Rearing, and Representing Invertebrates”
Emma Califf, Invertebrate Keeper, The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Monday, August 1, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Every year during the monsoons, one of the largest beetles in North America at up to 3 ½inches, Derobrachus hovorei can
July 18: “Amerind’s History of Research”
Dr. Eric Kaldahl, President, CEO, & Chief Curator of the Amerind Foundation Monday, July 18, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room The Amerind Museum is just an hour southeast of Tucson, an easy drive and a fascinating place
Aug 15: “Political Cartooning 101”
Dave Fitzsimmons, Syndicated Editorial Cartoonist and Columnist Monday, August 15, 2020, 2:30-3:30 pm, The ASA Koffler Great Room Come, meet and be entertained by Tucson’s own award-winning, internationally syndicated weekly columnist and editorial cartoonist who has drawn fire, ire, and
Aug 8: “(Wo)Man the Hunter”
Dr. James Watson, Curator of Bioarchaeology (Arizona State Museum) & Professor of Anthropology (School of Anthropology), University of Arizona Monday, August 8, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, The ASA Koffler Great Room The “Man the Hunter” hypothesis–the idea that when early human
Introduction to Services and Specialties at the new Northwest Medical Center at Houghton and Old Spanish Trail
Kellyn Shaw, Director of Provider Relations and Business Development for Northwest Healthcare Monday, July 11, 2022, 2:30pm to 3:30pm ASA Koffler Great Room We watched it being built at the intersection of Houghton and Old Spanish Trail over the
June 13: “Curbside Recycling Continued, aka, ‘Can I Recycle That?’”
Jennifer N Wargo, Communications Director for the Four Corners Area, Waste Management Corporation Monday, June 13, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, a Special Zoom Only Presentation. In 2019, the previous Communications Director for our trash and recycling service here at Academy Village,
June 20: “Archaeology’s Deep Time Perspective on Environment and Social Sustainability”
Allen Dart, Executive Director, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson Monday, June 20, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, The Koffler Great Room, ASA Returning to ASA for another dive into Arizona archaeology, this time relating it directly to our current situation vis
June 15: “Becoming Ansel Adams”
Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, The Koffler Great Room of the ASA Dr. Senf, who published the first scholarly work on Ansel Adams in nearly 20 years
June 1: “Tales Out of School: Memoirs from My Life: Part II”
Michael Chriss, Astronomer and Storyteller, Academy Village Resident Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Great Room and Zoom Webinar Note: Because of a technical failure in the first scheduling of Michael Chriss’s reading, on April 4 of this year,
May 23: “Gift-Giving Etiquette and Negotiations with Iran”
Anne H. Betteridge, Director, UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies Monday, May 23, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, The ASA Great Room The protracted, on-again, off-again, negotiations between the US and Iranian governments since the 1979 revolution have yielded some steps
May 25: “Better Living Through Assistive Technology”
Gaye Champine, Program Coordinator and Heidi Lervik, Assistive Technology Specialist, Arizona Technology Access Program Wednesday, May 25, 2020 2:30-4:00 pm, The ASA Great Room Assistive technology consists of products, systems and services developed for people who, because of serious physical
May 18: “Summer Heat Is Not All the Same”
Melissa Guardaro, Assistant Research Professor, The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation at ASU Cancelled Wednesday, May 18, 2022 2:30-3:45 pm, ZOOM ONLY Melissa Guardaro writes, “While summers have become increasingly hot over the last fifty years,
May 16: “Binders Full of Women: Early Women Authors in The American Naturalist, 1867-1916”
Judith L. Bronstein, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UA Monday, May 16, 2022 2:30-3:30 pm, The ASA Great Room & ASA Zoom Webinar Prior to the 150th anniversary of The American Naturalist, the journal published a
May 4: “We Are What We Eat Especially As We Age”
Stephanie Neuman, Corrective Exercise Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer, and Precision Nutrition Coach Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 2:30-3:30pm, ASA Great Room and Zoom Webinar Eat, Move, and Live… Better: In fitness and nutrition, we’re saturated with information. Although we acquire knowledge,
May 11: “Winds, Fire and Floods: The More Extreme Nature of the North American Monsoon”
Christopher Castro, Associate Professor of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 2:30-3:30 p.m., the ASA Great Room and Zoom Webinar The North American Monsoon is a pattern of pronounced increase in rainfall over the
May 9: “Why All This ‘Stuff’ Matters: Climate Change and Consumer Behavior”
Sabrina Helm, Associate Professor, Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, UA Monday, May 9, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Great Room and Zoom According to UA Professor Sabrina Helm, the limits of the earth’s natural carrying capacity require us
Apr 27: “The Beginnings of Village Life and Sheep Domestication in Turkey in the Late Stone Age”
Mary C Stiner, Regents’ Professor, School of Anthropology, UA Wednesday, April 27, 4:00pm -5:00 pm, ASA Great Room and Zoom. Note special time! Recent archaeological findings from the first Neolithic settlements in Southwest Asia shine a light on the moment
Apr 25: “The Forgotten Botanist—Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art”
Wynne Brown, Freelance Writer, Editor and Graphic Designer Monday, April 25, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Great Room and Zoom Webinar Would you like to know more about a pioneering woman botanist and conservationist who successfully lobbied to make the
Apr 18: “Plundered, Displaced, and Missing: The Fate of Antiquities in the Nazi Era”
Irene Bald Romano, Professor of Art History and of Anthropology, UA Monday, April 18, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar ONLY Irene Bald Romano writes: Despite the important role antiquity—especially classical antiquity—and archaeology played in the ideology of
Apr 13: “Agrivoltaics: Co-location of Solar PV Panels and Agriculture”
Dr. Chad Higgins, Associate Professor, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 2:30 – 3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar ONLY The challenges of meeting people’s needs for food, energy and water (frequently
April 20: “Remember the Alamo…or Not: Bridging History and Foundational Myths in American History”
Michael M. Brescia, Ph.D., Curator of Ethnohistory, Arizona State Museum Affiliated Professor of History and Law, UA Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 2:30-4:30 p.m., ASA LIVE (ASA Great Room) and Zoom Webinar Much like the heated debates over Civil War monuments and
Apr 6: “Consumer Preferences in the World of Big Data—Let the Algorithm Decide?”
Derek Bamberger, Professor, James E. Rogers School of Law, UA Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, The Great Room at ASA and Zoom Webinar The rise of algorithm-driven decision making enabled by Big Data has generated widespread concern among
Apr 4: “Tales Out of School: Memoirs from My Life”
Michael Chriss, Astronomer and Storyteller, Academy Village Resident Monday, April 4, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Great Room and Zoom Webinar In this delightful and poignant collection of memories, AV resident and popular lecturer for ASA Michael Chriss looks back through
Apr 2: “Can Residential Rainwater Harvesting Truly Impact the Ability of Tucson to Sustain Its Growing Population?”
Brian Ellis, Certified Water Harvesting Practitioner; Frequent Rainwater Harvesting Workshop Volunteer and Consultant; Mechanical/Systems Engineer Saturday, April 2, 2022, 9-10 am, ASA North Seminar Room & ASA Zoom Webinar Note special time and location. With one million plus residents, Tucson
Mar 28: “Inside Views: Running A Bed & Breakfast”
Rosemary Brown & Sharon Scott – Recently Retired Bed & Breakfast Owners Monday, Mar 28, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, LIVE ASA Great Room & Zoom If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at a Bed & Breakfast,
March 30: “A Transborder Journey in Academia: Successful and Challenging Experiences”
Nadia Alvarez Mexia, Director of Transborder Education Initiatives, W.A. Franke Honors College, UA Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 2:30-3:30pm ASA Great Room and Zoom Webinar How do students negotiate the challenges of higher education from one side of the Mexico/US
Apr 11: “Military Wives in Arizona Territory”
Jan Cleere, Author and Independent Historian Monday, April 11, 2022, 2:30- 3:30 pm. ASA LIVE Lecture & Zoom Webinar The American past holds the record of many female movers and shakers, and Arizona yields more than its fair share.
March 23: “A Gathering of Poets”
Nancy Madison Fitzgerald, MFA Wednesday, March 23, 2:30-4:00 pm, ASA LIVE Lecture and Zoom Have you ever wanted to write a poem? Our resident poetry guru Nancy Fitzgerald has for many years offered poetry writing workshops through the ASA that
March 15: “Cooperation with Indigenous Food, Energy, Water”
Dr. Karletta Chief, Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences, U of A Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, Zoom Webinar ONLY* Note: Tuesday instead of Monday lecture! The greatest predictor of food insecurity in the United States is not your income or
Feb 21: “Are Our Brains Wired for Compassion?”
Dr. Jay Sanguinetti, Research Assistant Professor, UA Monday, February 21, 2022, 2:30-4:00 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar Jay Sanguinetti writes: “Our brains appear designed to respond to the suffering of others. In fact, our reward circuits fire when we
March 7: “From Great Royal Wife to Pharaoh: New Light on Nefertiti”
Marilyn Skinner, Professor Emerita of Classics, UA Monday, March 7, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar ONLY* The name of Nefertiti, Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled from approximately 1351 to 1334 bce, has
Feb 28: “What Does an Independent Film Producer Do?”
Vicky Westover – Award-winning film programmer, producer of film events and documentary films, instructor, photographer Monday, Feb 28, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA LIVE & Zoom Webinar* Independent films often challenge our ideas, entertain, educate, and encourage independent thinking. They are
March 2: “End-of-Life Care Planning- What You Need to Know”
McKenna Reinhard, Pima Council on Aging End-of -Life Specialist Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA LIVE & Zoom Webinar* The Pima Council on Aging promotes the idea that part of living well is preparing well for dying and