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