Spring Arts and Culture Festival 2025 - Risk
Information and resources for the 2025 Spring Arts and Culture Festival
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Welcome to March Mammal Madness!
If you're learning, you're winning!
March Mammal Madness is hosted by Arizona State University and was inspired by the NCAA College Basketball tournament that occurs every March. Each year animals are selected, ranked, and added to this year's bracket. Then the animals face off head to head in simulated competitions - but you get to predict the winners!
How to play:
- Meet the combatants
- Research the combatants
- Fill out your bracket
- Join our League
- Pick up a paper bracket in the NWACC Library or the WC Info Commons
- Follow us on Instagram and Facebook (or the official Facebook, Bluesky, or ASU libguide) for updates!
Make Your Predictions
Join the NWACC March Mammal Madness League
Fill out your digital bracket (Make your picks by 7pm Monday, March 10)
Enter for a chance to win fun prizes! ๐ฆ๐จ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฆ
Get in the zone and listen to the Official March Mammal Madness Spotify Playlist ๐ถ๐ง
View the Official Bracket
- Bracket & Bracket Guide
All the key info for 2025 March Mammal Madness including the Common Name Bracket & the Latin binomial Bracket!
Research the Combatants
- Animal Diversity WebAnimal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.
- Oxford University Press Special Issue CollectionThe Journal of Mammalogy and Mammalian Species are once again pleased to participate in March Mammal Madness (MMM) with the addition of other related Oxford University Press published journals, including American Entomologist, Annals of Botany, Behavioral Ecology, BioScience, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Journal of Molluscan Studies, Mutagenesis, Ornithology, and Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesIncludes details profiles of species, as well as links to other information sources.
- Encyclopedia of LifeProvides knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria.
- Map of Life (MOL)The Map of Life assembles and integrates different sources of data describing species distributions worldwide.