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Guy David Knoller, AV Resident and Mountaineer Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 2:30-3:30pm,  ASA Koffler Great Room, & Zoom         With a summit elevation of 20,320 feet above sea level, Mount Denali (formerly known as Mount McKinley) is

Denice Smith, Biologist and Water Harvester Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 2:30pm – 4:00 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom Tucson receives an average annual rainfall of eleven inches, often as torrential monsoon storms which cause flooding and erosion.  If

Moderated by Miles Orchinik, Academy Village photographer Photographs compiled by Charmaine Wellington Monday, February 27, 2023, 2:30pm – 4:45pm ASA Great Room and Zoom Webinar   Some of the very best photographs are taken by amateurs with an artistic bent

Bob Foucault, Filmmaker and Academy Village Resident Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom         Since moving to this part of Arizona, we have all gazed up often in wonder, struck

Susie Adams, Master Gardener Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room,  and Zoom   Food resiliency can seem like an esoteric or even unattainable goal with no clear paths to get there. But composting provides one way

Jade Beall, photographer and author Monday, February 13, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room, & Zoom Continuing the recent ASA series of lectures and activities focusing on photography as an art form, Tucson photographer Jade Beall will discuss the

Michael Nolan, Research Professor and OSIRIS-APEX Mission Deputy Principal Investigator, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom   As the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returns to Earth

Lawrence Lee, painter, philosopher of art Monday, February 20, 2023, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, ASA Koffler Great Room, &  Zoom         “Painting is like a dance:  you never know what your partner will do.”  Lawrence Lee Whether the

John Muniz, Associate Professsor of Music Theory at the University of Arizona Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom     Who has not been moved to tears by some great piece of music—say Samuel

Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography, UA Monday, February 6, 2023, 3:30pm – 4:30pm,  ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom   Dr. Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography, was enthusiastically received in

Jack Anderson, Writer and Academy Village Resident Monday, January 23, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom   Jack will talk about and read from the two novels he published in 2022, Havilah Daze and Fredegund and Brunhilde.  He will also

Professor Matthew Abraham, English Department, University of Arizona Wednesday, January 25, 2022, Note special time: 7:00-8:00 pm, Koffler Great Room & Zoom   Just how can people identify a demagogue and why is it important they be able to do

  Eleni Hasaki, Professor of Anthropology and Classics, University of Arizona Monday, January 16, 2023, 2:30-3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom An ancient city was a city of clay: from the architectural terracottas on roofs to the clay drainage

Caleb Simmons, Executive Director of Online Education, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Faculty Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Arizona Wednesday, January 18th, 2023, 7:00-8:00 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room, and Zoom                                                             Note special time!

Nove Meyers, Susan Meyers, and Lucas Southworth Wednesday, December 28, 2022, 2:30-4:00 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room &  Zoom         In a special holiday treat, Academy Village resident Nove Meyers will read from his new work-in-progress, joined

Alex La Pierre, Co-founder of Borderlandia, independent scholar and lecturer Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom   Even if you aren’t an historian, you’ve probably heard about Magellan at some point in your education. 

Marcia Neugebauer, Space physicist, UA Research Associate, and resident of Academy Village Wednesday, January 4, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom   Earth is but one of the many bodies that circle the Sun to form the

Alan Kruse, Tour Guide and Guru of Southern Arizona History and Culture Monday, January 9, 2022 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room &  Zoom     Residents of Academy Village and Vail live in the desert miles from historic downtown

Justin Chesebrough, Director, Beyond Textbooks, Vail United School District Monday, December 19, 2022, 2:30-3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom Contrary to what some might think, Beyond Textbooks is not an abandonment of textbooks, nor is it simply a “teacher

Dr. Professor and Chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UA Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom Bioeconomy has been proposed as a strategy to overcome many global and national challenges, from climate action to

Michael Brescia, Curator of Ethnohistory the Arizona State Museum Monday, December 12, 2:30-4:30 pm ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom Following up on Alex la Pierre’s recent lecture on the history of Sonoran cooking, and in a reprise and updating

Tim Schiffer, artist, retired Executive Director of the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom         In the past fifty years, women artists have risen from anonymity

Joel Sutherland, Director of Development, National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom This lecture was rescheduled from October 12. Ataxia.  It is a THIEF!  First it will steal your balance, then

Charles Tampio, Docent, Tucson Museum of Art, former president of Earth Force Monday, November 28, 2022, 2:30pm – 3:30pm   ASA Koffler Great Room and Zoom   In his latest art talk for ASA, Chuck Tampio will eschew Van Gogh’s biography

Captain Asa Pallette, Rincon Valley Fire District Wildland Fire Program Coordinator Monday, November 14, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom Wildfires are a natural part of many ecosystems across North America. However, suburban expansion, coupled with more

Bill McCourt, Academy Village Resident Monday, December 5, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom Bill learned to ride as a child and started cycling again as an adult when his sons got involved in the cycling merit

Dr. Felix Reyes, MD – Pulmonology and Dr. Tony Gaddi, MD – Urogynecology Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom Today’s talk is the third in our series introducing the specialties available at the new

Joela Jacobs, Asst Prof of German Studies, UA, and founder of the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network Monday, November 7, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room The discovery of the many ways in which plants can reproduce caused

Josephine Korchmaros, PhD, Director, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, UA Monday, October 31, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Josephine Korchmaros will describe the work of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), in which striving for

Alain-Philippe Durand, Dean of the College of Humanities, University of Arizona Judd Ruggill, Head of the Department of Public & Applied Humanities, UA David Galbraith, Director of the UA School of Plant Sciences Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 2:30-3:30,  ASA Koffler

Larry Allen, Docent, the UA Tree-Ring Laboratory Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Among the many unique and outstanding programs of the University of Arizona is its Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, established in 1937 by A.E.

Joel Sutherland, Director of Development, National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) Canceled Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room Ataxia.  It is a THIEF!  First it will steal your balance, then your gait, and ultimately, your ability to walk. 

Alex La Pierre, co-founder of Borderlandia Monday, October 10, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, ASA Koffler Great Room   Tucsonans have ample opportunity to enjoy foods with a distinctly “Sonoran” influence without a real understanding of how these influences developed over several

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.