IRVING, Texas, April 10 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news: * * * 2025 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Yearly Awards Announced The Conference announced the Big 12 Swimming and Diving yearly awards recipients on Wednesday. The recipients hail from Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Houston, Kansas and Utah. The Sun Devils led the way with five award winners. The All-Big 12 First and Second teams were also announced based on the results from the 2025 Big 12  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Arizona Game and Fish Commission to Consider Ban on Dog Pack Hunting PHOENIX-- The Arizona Game and Fish Commission will consider a petition from conservation groups Friday that would ban the use of dog packs to hunt mountain lions, bears, bobcats, foxes and other wildlife. The petition calls on the commission to modernize Arizona's regulations, as other states have done, to  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 10 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news: * * * Arizona Names Burke Women's Basketball Head Coach University at Buffalo's Becky Burke was named the 10th head coach in the history of Arizona Women's Basketball by Wildcats' Vice President and Director of Athletics Desiree Reed-Francois on Wednesday. This season, her third with the Bulls, saw UB post a program-record 30 wins, culminating with a WNIT title. "Our model centers  more

IRVING, Texas, April 10 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news: * * * ASU Duo Tabbed Big 12 Beach Volleyball Pair of the Week Arizona State's Ava Kirunchyk and Ava Williamson were selected as the Big 12 Beach Volleyball Pair of the Week. Kirunchyk and Williamson totaled four wins last week at the Wildcat Spring Challenge against Arizona, Pepperdine, No. 1 TCU and Utah. The Sun Devils finished with a 3-1 team record, with their only loss coming to t  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 9 -- Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication issued the following news: * * * The Howard Center and FRONTLINE collaborate on 'Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages' A new short documentary from FRONTLINE and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University reveals that parts of Alaska are warming at up to four times the rate of most of the rest of the world, leaving some Alaska Native villages fighti  more

TORONTO, Ontario, April 9 -- The University of Toronto issued the following news: * * * Researchers say 3D map project is changing our understanding of the universe Data gleaned from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument in Arizona suggest dark energy may be waning over time A team of astronomers has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date and tracked dark energy's influence on the evolution of the cosmos over the past 11 billion years. Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Ins  more