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ENGAGED in AST offers stipends for housing, food and experiential learning in agricultural engineering for U of A and Central Arizona College students. Students gain this experience through hands-on activities at Arizona Experiment Stations.

A weanling racehorse was recently named after Arizona men's basketball coach Tommy Lloyd, marking the second horse named in honor of an Arizona coach.

Researchers from the U of A and ASU this week showcased new techniques to improve urban water use practices at the Campus Agricultural Center in Tucson.

Eleven speakers covered a wide variety of topics, and some included results of work completed and on-going at WGEW or SRER.

The Santa Rita Experimental Range held a 24-hour BioBlitz, bringing together scientists, students, and community members for a hands-on biodiversity survey.

Researchers from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University to receive Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects after research shows positive tree growth with nearly 60% less water usage.

The Cyber Experiment Station - in collaboration with UITS, the Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture, and Sun Corridor Network - launched 10GB internet service in Yuma to provide corner-to-corner in-field wireless internet.

Following a two-year nomination process with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, the University of Arizona's Campus Agricultural Center district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Campus Agricultural Center is home to the College of Veterinary Medicine's teaching herd, comprised in part of 26 horses and a donkey, the locally famous "Churro the Burro." Separate from the horses are 10 permanent, on-site cattle that are joined by several dozen more in the summer, and about 40 sheep.

The roughly 52,000-acres of Sonoran upland, mesquite savannah and oak woodland in the shadow of the Santa Rita Mountains have the distinction of being one of the longest continuously operating research areas in the world.