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
Nov 30: “A Brief History of Women Artists: Revising the Canon”
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
Dec 7: “Stop that Thief!—Ataxia”
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
Nov 28: “Van Gogh: Sorrow and Joy”
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
Nov 14: “Wildfire Risk and Protection in 85747”
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
Dec 5: “Bicycling across the Southern United States”
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
Nov 16: “Northwest Healthcare – Houghton, Part III, Pulmonology and Urogynecology – How can these providers help you?”
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
Nov 7: “Vegetal Eroticism: Plants between Science and Fiction”
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
Oct 31: “Working with the Community to Address Grand Challenges Impacting Women & Families”
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
Nov 9: “Innovation in the Humanities and the STEMM: The BA in Applied Humanities”
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
Nov 2: “The Tree-Ring Laboratory at the University of Arizona”
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.
Oct 12: “Stop that Thief!—Ataxia”
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.
Oct 10: “The Gastronomy of Sonora According to the Jesuit Chronicles”
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
Oct 26: “Mission Garden Today”
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