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The University of Arizona extended head football coach Brent Brennan through the 2030 season. UA offensive coordinator Seth Doege and defensive coordinator Danny Gonzales are extended through the 2028 ...

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A few months ago, I pulled out a kids’ book for my 7-year-old to read to me. She opened the first page, shook her head and handed it back. “I can’t read this,” she said. “It’s in cursive.” First, I ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

I f there’s been one constant in the nearly 30 years Kerry L. Beckford has been teaching, it’s this: College students aren’t particularly excited to take a required composition course. So Beckford, a ...

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Next stop for Karen Read: Hollywood. Less than two weeks after her acquittal on charges including murder, Read and her defense attorney Alan Jackson are teaming up for a scripted film project being ...

Karen Read and her LA-based defense attorney Alan Jackson aren’t parting ways just yet. The two, fresh off an OUI verdict, are set to release new details in the blockbuster murder case as part of a ...