The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Time: 12–1 p.m., AZT
Where: Campus Store, Student Union, University of Arizona, 1303 E University Blvd., Tucson, AZ
Author Gregory McNamee will speak with Dr. Andrew Weil, founder of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at The University of Arizona, at the book launch for The University of Arizona: A History in 100 Stories. Dr. Weil is featured in the “Healing Arizona” section of the book that celebrates scientific and health care breakthroughs at The College of Medicine. Jonelle Vold, Vice President for Development at the University of Arizona Foundation will moderate the discussion. The discussion and book signing will take place in the brand new event center in the Campus Store at the UA Student Union.
About the book:
The University of Arizona: A History in 100 Stories is a celebration of the people, ideas, inventions, teaching, and structures that have been part of the school’s evolution from a small land-grant institution to an internationally renowned research institution. Drawing on half a century of connection with the University of Arizona as a student, staff member, and faculty member, Gregory McNamee presents a history through the lens of a hundred subjects.
That story begins in 1885, with the establishment of the school, which quickly proved itself to be a powerhouse in its foundational “four pillars”: agriculture and earth sciences, followed by astronomy and anthropology. In the years following World War II, those four pillars became ever more important to the University, even as countless other fields of study gained prominence: optical sciences, women’s studies, the humanities, mathematics, and more. This phenomenal institution has as its setting the Sonoran Desert, and, closer to home, to a built environment that is widely considered among the most scenic in the country, from the Historic District with its buildings that are more than a century old to the latest steel-and-glass constructions on the edges of the ever-expanding campus.
