Social Sciences and Education

High School to College Program Begins This Week | July 22, 2008
The weeklong program gives high school students real-life experience on campus, plus facts to demystify the admissions and enrollment proess. | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
SkyCenter Launching Summer Science Program on Mt. Lemmon | July 21, 2008
The Mount Lemmon SkyCenter invites the public to DiscoveryDays to learn about the unique science taking place on the sky island. | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
Remembering an Empire | July 21, 2008
The UA Libraries is currently showing an exhibit that details the history of Empire Ranch, one of the largest cattle ranches in Arizona, and the West, during the territorial days. | General News | Social Sciences and Education
UA Lecture Series Follows European Missionaries | July 16, 2008
Four scholars from the UA history department will trace the steps and measure the impact of Christian missionaries from Europe on other lands. | General News | Social Sciences and Education
Researcher Finds Teaching Moments in Hypocrisy | July 14, 2008
Jeff Stone, who has studied hypocrisy, says that people may feel compelled to change  bad behaviors when they realize their beliefs and actions don't match. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
Journalism Professor, Student to be Honored at National Conference | July 11, 2008
Assistant professor David Cuillier and student Gabriela Rentería-Poepsel both won top honors from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
Arizona State Museum Director Hartman H. Lomawaima Passes Away | July 8, 2008
Lomawaima was only the sixth director, and the first American Indian, in the 115-year history of the Arizona State Museum. | Arts and Humanities | Campus News | General News | Social Sciences and Education
New Book by UA History Professor Examines Mexican National Identity | July 3, 2008
William Beezley examined how festivals, children’s games, almanacs and puppet theaters reflected Mexican national identity. | Arts and Humanities | Social Sciences and Education
UA Working to Boost American Indian Graduate Enrollments | July 1, 2008
The UA was selected by the American Indian Graduate Center to host a program that prepares American Indian students for graduate school. | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
Institute Working to Transform Education | June 30, 2008
The UA's College of Education is co-sponsoring the Institute for Transformative Education, which brings education experts to Tucson to teach educators about ways to improve classroom instruction. | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
Grant-Funded Students Researching, Training This Summer | June 25, 2008
The UA maintains numerous programs that enable students to spend their summers researching, training and getting ready for graduate school. | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
UA-Led Workshop to Teach Filmmaking to American Indian Youth | June 24, 2008
The UA’s Jack and Vivian Hanson Arizona Film Institute has partnered with numerous entities to launch the Native Youth Filmmaking Workshop, which will be held next month. | Arts and Humanities | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
UA Students Earn NSF Fellowships | June 18, 2008
Three UA graduate students have earned National Science Foundation fellowships, which award each student $90,000 over three years. | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
Solstice Celebration a Multicultural Treat | June 18, 2008
The Arizona State Museum hosts its eighth annual "Marking the Solstice" celebration with an array of entertainment, food and cultural demonstrations. | Arts and Humanities | Social Sciences and Education
University of Arizona Press Earns Top Honors | June 18, 2008
BookExpo America, the Association of American University Presses and the American Library Association have bestowed several honors on to the UA Press.   | Arts and Humanities | Social Sciences and Education
UA's Library Science School Receives $1M Grant | June 18, 2008
The grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support an existing program that is working to increase the number of American Indian and Hispanic library professionals. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
The Zombie: "A New Monster for a New World" | June 13, 2008
UA doctoral student Kyle W. Bishop argues that that while the zombie has become a hugely popular cinematic device, the creature is a remnant of an imperialistic and racist era. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
UA Faculty and Students On Leading Edge of Adult Autism Treatment | June 13, 2008
Non-profit adult residential program partners with the UA to teach independent living to 17 men and women on the high end of learning ability on the autism spectrum. | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education
UA Researcher Takes Energy Healing From the Laboratory to the Corral | June 12, 2008
Ann Baldwin's studies about the power of Reiki resulted in her becoming a practitioner and expanding her work to horses and dogs. | Health | Social Sciences and Education
Health Information Underload for Dial-Up Users | June 9, 2008
A UA communication professor suggests that another kind of inequity is forming in the digital age, one that creates have-nots among dial-up customers seeking health information online. | General News | Health | Social Sciences and Education
U.S. Religious Congregations Might 'Limp' But Don't Often Die | June 6, 2008
A team of UA doctoral students helped complete a study about religious congregations and determined that the national mortality rate for such organizations is 1 percent. | General News | Social Sciences and Education
The Nearest Thing to Mind Reading | June 5, 2008
UA psychology researchers studied the age-old literacy device known as stream of consciousness to determine its use as a more accurate measure of personality. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
UA to Train Iraqi Students | June 3, 2008
The UA has been named one of six host sites across the United States to hold an institute that will train Iraqi students to become socially conscious leaders. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
Middle School Students Work on Research Projects at the UA | June 2, 2008
The UA is collaborating with the Wildcat School, a charter school, to offer a summer camp where students will be presenting their own projects. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
American Indian Language Preservation at the Center of UA Institute | May 29, 2008
The American Indian Language Development Institute, now in its 29th year, is working to preserve American Indian languages by engaging educators. | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
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