Dr. De Vore is the first Native American professor in engineering in the history of UA. Dr. De Vore is the co-advisor of the AISES UA chapter and a co-PI of the Native FEWS Alliance funded by NSF and involving 30 tribal entities.

A series of campus events celebrating the culture and sovereignty of the Hopi Tribe in northeastern Arizona, including honoring Judge Diane Humetewa, the first Native American woman and first enrolled tribal member to serve as a federal judge and the Hopi Recognition Football Game.

Big announcement at the 2025 Arizona Office of Indian Education Annual Summit which took place in Phoenix this week: a new state-wide Native American Code Writers Collaborative was formed to support computer science teachers and Native American students in the fields of coding and computer sciences, for the first time bringing together The University of Arizona, Arizona Science Center and Northern Arizona University!

A legacy of collaboration between university researchers and tribal communities has fueled investments aimed at creating solutions with and for Native Americans in Arizona and beyond.

University of Arizona professor Michael Kotutwa Johnson discusses how modern solutions to growing crops during the drought can be developed through traditional farming methods practiced on tribal lands.

UofA student Tori Johnson is a recent first-generation graduate from the University of Arizona who is preparing to pursue a master’s degree in Marketing at the U of A’s Eller College of Management.

The 2025 Haury Program Tribal Resilience Graduate Research Awards address a wide range of Indigenous Resilience topics relevant to water, energy and food, including studies of the intersection between the Covid 19 vaccine uptake and water security, water quality, impacts of frozen land tenure, access to healthy foods, environmental storytelling in picture books and science communication in water and soil quality research.

Keith Richotte, Director of the UA Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, has published The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution.

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law’s Veterans Advocacy Law Clinic has been named a winner of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Access to Justice Prize, a national competition recognizing innovative efforts to close the rural justice gap.

Now, after years of negotiations, the tribes are seeing their push for long-term solutions gain renewed momentum in Congress. The Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, reintroduced this year with bipartisan support, would resolve decades of legal disputes and devote $5 billion to delivering Colorado River water to the region through a new pipeline, pumping stations and storage systems.