Arts and Humanities

In Honor of Humanities | April 3, 2009
UANews | Humanities Week will feature a series of events, including a language fair, panel discussions and film screenings with some of the UA's most distinguished faculty members.  | Arts and Humanities
Classical Meets Hip Hop | April 1, 2009
UANews | Eric Ryan Costenbader, who is classically trained in the piano and is also drawn to hip hop music, infused the two genres to create a theme song for Zona Zoo. | Arts and Humanities | Sports | Teaching and Students
Library Exhibit Celebrates 50 Years of Publishing Excellence | March 31, 2009
UANews | Special Collections at The University of Arizona Main Library is hosting an exhibit honoring 50 years of publishing by the UA Press. | Arts and Humanities | Social Sciences and Education
Biosphere 2 Will Celebrate Earth Day With Music, Art and Science | March 31, 2009
UANews | The UA's Biosphere 2 will combine music and art with science, technology and business at its first Earth Day Festival. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology
Exhibition at UA Exploring Notions of Communication | March 26, 2009
UANews | New York sculptor Nick Georgiou, who is a visting artist at the UA this semester, will showcase works he has created during his stay in Tucson. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students
Arizona Stadium Concert Announced | March 25, 2009
UANews | Jay-Z, Kelly Clarkson, Third Eye Blind and the Veronicas will be featued during an upcoming Arizona Stadium concert organized by UA students. Tickets go on sale Friday. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students
Students Give Digital Voice to High School Freshmen | March 18, 2009
UANews | Four UA graduate students have helped high school students interested in learning new media and developing their writing skills. | Arts and Humanities | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
UA Press Author Wins National Book Critics Circle Award | March 17, 2009
UANews | The National Book Critics Circle Award committee, for the first time in its history, named two authors as their poetry award winner – one of them being UA Press author Juan Felipe Herrera. | Arts and Humanities
'Spheres' Exhibit Places Humans in Global Environment Context | March 17, 2009
UANews | Two Asian artists express views on the relationship between person and place in the exhibit "Spheres" at the UA's Joseph Gross Gallery this month. | Arts and Humanities
Student Earns Award From The Atlantic | March 13, 2009
UANews | Creative writing student Jonathan Walter earned the first place award in a fiction writing competition hosted by The Atlantic Monthly. One of his UA colleagues received an honorable mention. | Arts and Humanities | Teaching and Students
New Erasmus Fellows Named | March 13, 2009
UANews | Ana Christina DaSilva Iddings and Luis C. Moll were named Erasmus Circle Fellows, one of the highest honors that can go to UA College of Education faculty members. | Arts and Humanities
Hanson Institute Celebrates Mexican Cinema | March 11, 2009
UANews | Tucson Cine Mexico 2009 presents multi-award-winning films, an exclusive sneak preview, special guests and vintage science fiction during film screenings beginning Thursday, March 26.   | Arts and Humanities | General News
Rarely Seen Ritual Sand Painting Featured at Festival of Books | March 10, 2009
UANews | A cultural offering of peace and a visual depiction of the meditative path to enlightenment are offered to the Tucson community.  | Arts and Humanities | Social Sciences and Education
Festival to Revel in Words, Imagination | March 9, 2009
UANews | It was years in the making. The UA and Arizona Daily Star have partnered to host the Tucson Festival of Books, a two-day event that brings to Tucson authors, publishing companies and enthusiasts from across the nation. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Social Sciences and Education
UA Libraries, Regents' Professor Publish E-Journal | March 6, 2009
UANews | The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, an electronic peer-reviewed journal, has been created out a collaboration with UA faculty and the UA Libraries. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology
UA MFA Student Earns Writing Award | March 4, 2009
UANews | UA graduate student Cary Groner earned a first place award in the Glimmer Train Press Fiction Open competition. | Arts and Humanities | Teaching and Students
UA Faculty, Alumni Earn Art Commission Grants | March 3, 2009
UANews | The Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project allows writers to complete current projects. | Arts and Humanities
Arizona State Museum Aids in Nationwide Tour of Ancestral Human Fossil | March 3, 2009
UANews | The 3.2 million-year-old remains of Lucy, the oldest and most complete adult human ancestor discovered in Africa, is the focus of a month-long lecture series. | Arts and Humanities | Social Sciences and Education
In Honor of Women | March 2, 2009
UANews | The UA's Women Herstory Month events get kicked off on Tuesday and will include film screenings, panel discussions, workshops and a talent show. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students
Writer Gary Nabhan to Read for UA | February 26, 2009
UANews | Gary Nabhan, an award-winning poet and UA research social scientist, will read his work during the UA Prose Series. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students
Fine Arts to Join Colleges of Letters and Science | February 25, 2009
UANews | The new partnership of colleges will now be titled The Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science.  | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology
New Photography Exhibit Opens at UA Poetry Center | February 25, 2009
UANews | Photography by LaVerne Harrell Clark, the UA Poetry Center's first director, will be on display through May. | Arts and Humanities
Vaudeville Lives | February 25, 2009
UANews | The world’s largest Vaudeville memorabilia collection has been donated to the UA. The collection will be integrated into fine arts coursework. | Arts and Humanities | General News
Museum Documenting Jesuit Contact with American Indians | February 23, 2009
UANews | A project headed by the Arizona State Museum's ethnohistorical research office and the UA German studies department is their first joint attempt to transcribe and translate German text into English. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Social Sciences and Education
Biosphere 2 Will Hold Two-Part 'Survival of the Sphere' Event on UA Campus | February 23, 2009
UANews | Both the special seminar and the performance are free to the public. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
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