CONTACT US
The Southwest Center
1052 North Highland Ave.
P.O.Box 210185
Tucson, AZ 85721-0185
Tel: (502) 621-2484
Fax: (520) 621-9922
Department Director
Joseph Wilder
1052 North Highland Ave.
P.O.Box 210185
Tucson, AZ 85721-0185
Tel: (502) 621-2484
Fax: (520) 621-9922
jwilder@email.arizona.edu
Welcome to the Southwest Center
The Southwest Center seeks to define, illuminate, and present, through research, teaching, and publishing, the character of the Greater Southwest: the heartland of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua, and its peripheries.
Department News
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A generous investment from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., is helping the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona’s (UA) College of Social and Behavioral Sciences create an endowed faculty chair to lead its new Sustainable Food Systems Program in Southwest Borderlands Food and Water Security. The $1,575,000 grant will enable the Southwest Center to focus on...
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Citizen science is in action at Tumamoc Hill, where hikers are helping researchers track changes in plant life. Gary Nabhan, a research scientist at the UA's Southwest Center, is overseeing the project. Participants receive a work sheet listing six desert plant species, including saguaro cacti, brittlebush, palo verde trees and others. In a typical week, dozens of walkers fill in the sheets with...
