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Entertainer Ben Vereen, in Tucson to teach dance and for a March 31 performance, leads an effort to help young entertainers find their way.

Song, Dance Man Vereen Seeks Up and Comers

Visiting Tucson for concert, he stops at Tucson High, offers his help
Tucson Festival of Books, 2012

Tucson Festival of Books Wraps Up at UA

4th annual draws thousands to meet authors, browse books, celebrate reading

UA Club Helps With Campus Sustainability

Solar Cats was created to put solar panels on a UA dorm
Tucsonan David Shellouff on his visit to Libya, with posters depicting martyrs of the Arab Spring.

UA Student Visits Libya, His Father's Homeland

He vows to reconnect with Libyan roots and family after fall of Qaddafi
Jennie Grabel, executive director for the Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding, says anti-bullying, mental health support top the fund's agenda.

Civility Groups Forging Projects

Updates from two organizations formed after Jan. 8 shooting
Artists Patricia Katchur and Valerie Galloway share their new concepts of the valentine, which are showing in the U of A's Poetry Center exhibition.

Poetry Center Reinvents the Valentine

Artists paired off to take laces and hearts to new level
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UA President Finalist Named

Regents name Ann Weaver Hart, president of Temple University, as 'the candidate'
The Velocis bicycle developed by UA student Taylor Hedberg and his classmates as part of an entrepreneurial class.

Electric Bicycle: Creating an Innovative Solution

The UA's McGuire Entrepreneurship Program encourages business, social change

AZ Week: Water Legislation Needed, Expert Says

State faces 'critical threshold' in 2035, when usage will exceed supply
Gabrielle Giffords waving to the crowd at a Jan. 8, 2012 anniversary vigil of the shooting that took six lives and left her and 12 others wounded.

Tucson Remembers

2,000 welcome Giffords back home in joyful, emotional evening

Modest Bump Expected for Holiday Retail Sales

Amid growing competition, merchants diversify, add services and values
Thousands of migratory bats reside under Tucson bridges during the summer months.

Befriending the Bats Among Us

Historically maligned creatures gaining respect through education
Savannah Guthrie

Savannah Guthrie

The U of A welcomes home a prominent alumna to give the 2011 commencement speech. Hear how Savannah's successful career started, and about the big change in her future.
The University of Arizona and BICAS, Bicycle Inter-Community Arts and Salvage, are working on a project to try to recycle bicycles abandoned by students who leave for the summer.

How to Recycle a Bicycle

Bicycle organization and University of Arizona team up to collect and reuse unwanted bicycles
The Muslim community in Tucson is characterized by a broad diversity.

Meet Tucson's Muslim Diaspora

The local Muslim community boasts a broad diversity, and seeks to redress misconceptions about Islam.
Twenty veterans from around the U.S. will get a tour of the UA that includes athletics clinics and sessions on how to take advantage of their higher education benefits. At the 4-day camp, vets will attend athletic clinics and learn from coaches and student-athletes.

Web Feature: On the Playing Field, Life Goes On

An all-veteran, all-amputee softball team reconnects with their love for the game

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