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  • Imaging Laboratory Improving Telescopic Technology | May 30, 2008
    Companies from all over the world contract the services provded by the UA's Imaging Technology Laboratory provides. | General News
  • 20th Annual Waila Festival Brings O'odham Music and Dance to UA Campus | May 29, 2008
    Over 6,000 revelers are expected at the festival, which features dancing and music as well as traditional O'odham foods such as frybread, cholla buds, tepary beans, roasted 60-day corn soup and squash dishes. | General News
  • Space Posters Available | May 29, 2008
    Posters of paintings by noted space artist Robert McCall are on sale at a number of campus locations and online. | General News
  • Senior Thesis Becomes Flamenco Ensemble | May 28, 2008
    Danielle Mouw, who graduated from the UA in May with honors, created a flamenco ensemble for her senior thesis. The group has since offered classes and workshops for children and adults throughout Southern Arizona. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Campus Celebrates Successful Mars Landing | May 25, 2008
    Visitors to the UA campus erupted into applause today as scientists announced that the Phoenix Mars Lander had touched down on the Red Planet. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Don't Let Those Cool Temperatures Fool You | May 23, 2008
    Despite a cooler than normal Memorial Day weekend, UA forecasters are predicting slightly warmer than normal summer temperatures. | General News
  • Phoenix Spacecraft is Healthy | May 22, 2008
    The Phoenix spacecraft is only three days and three million miles away from entry, descent and landing on Mars. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Professor to Explore LGBT Suicide Risk | May 22, 2008
    UA professor Stephen T. Russell has received a two-year grant to look at the factors that may lead to suicide among LGBT youth. | General News | Health | Teaching and Students
  • UA Researcher's Study of Hispanic Youth Becomes New Book | May 21, 2008
    A UA associate professor spent years observing and interviewing Hispanic youth to understand the role education, culture, work and family affect future opportunities. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Social Sciences and Education
  • Librarian Leading UA Effort to Build Afghanistan's Libraries | May 21, 2008
    Atifa Rawan launched the UA into a project to help rebuild academic libraries in Afghanistan in 2002 and hasn't stopped working since. | General News | Social Sciences and Education
  • UA Ranks 22nd in Awarding Bachelor Degrees to Hispanics | May 20, 2008
    The UA ranks 22nd in The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education's top 100 Colleges for Hispanics, with the UA College of Education ranking fifth in the nation in degrees awarded to Hispanics.     | General News
  • Mars University | May 20, 2008
    Beginning on the day the Phoenix Mars Lander arrives on the Red Planet, the UA will provide public access to news and images  related to the mission. | General News | Science and Technology
  • UA Study: Tucsonans Favor Long-Range Planning for Water Use | May 19, 2008
    A survey of those with a stake in the future of southern Arizona shows most favor cooperative planning on water resources. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Arizona Public Media's Phoenix Mission Documentary Airing this Week on PBS | May 19, 2008
    "Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice" will air nationally on Thursday, May 22. It is Arizona Public Media's first stand-alone documentary to be picked up by PBS for national distribution. | General News | Science and Technology
  • A New Beginning | May 18, 2008
    Thousands of students complete their UA careers at commencement ceremony. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Astronaut Frank Borman Speaking at Today's Commencement | May 17, 2008
    The University of Arizona celebrates its 138th Commencement on Saturday. Astronaut Frank Borman will speak at the ceremony just eight days before the UA's Phoenix Mars Lander is scheduled to land.  | Campus News | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Landscape Architecture Director Honored | May 16, 2008
    The Arizona Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects has named UA professor Ronald Stoltz as the 2008 Outstanding Landscape Architect. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Willis E. Lamb Jr., 1955 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dies at 94 | May 16, 2008
    Lamb's legacy is to physics, colleagues and students. | Campus News | General News | Science and Technology
  • Peter Smith Named Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science | May 15, 2008
    A $2.5 million gift from the Thomas R. Brown Foundation establishes a rotating endowed chair in the UA College of Science. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Graduates Leave Devoted to Research | May 15, 2008
    Three undergraduate researchers are among those who intend to pursue advanced degrees and move into research-based fields. | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • Largest Honors College Class Includes Two Receiving Special Dean's Award | May 15, 2008
    Graduating seniors Derrick Goodrich and Binh Duong each received the Honors College dean's "Award for Excellence." | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • UA Holding 'Intense' Social Justice Retreat | May 14, 2008
    Equiss brings students from across the United States to Tucson to learn about the imbalance of justice and what they can do to fix it. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • ISPE Director Testifying Before Congress on Wednesday | May 13, 2008
    Jonathan Overpeck will speak to the House Committee on Science and Technology about managing water supplies. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Forecast: Wildfire Potential Above Normal in Arizona | May 9, 2008
    UA experts helped draft a report that indicates the wildfire season is likely to be busy through August. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Border Poverty the Focus of New Book | May 9, 2008
    The University of Arizona Press is publishing a co-authored book that takes a look at poverty along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and New Mexico. | Arts and Humanities | General News
  • Water: An 80-Year History, 40-Year Outlook | May 9, 2008
    The UA Water Resources Research Center's upcoming conference will focus on the Colorado River and discuss what the water situation will look like in 2048. | General News
  • UA Hispanic Alumni Club Celebrates Excellence | May 8, 2008
    UA Hispanic Alumni Club celebrates excellence during its annual recognition event which helps to fund student scholarhsips. | General News
  • Aid for AIDS in India | May 8, 2008
    UA students hope to raise upwards from $30,000 during a benefit Saturday to continue and expand their HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs in India. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Diné College President Resuming UA Studies After Securing 10-Year Accreditation | May 7, 2008
    Diné College also has been given the green light to offer its first bachelor’s degree. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • China, UA Create Mandarin Language Center | May 7, 2008
    The UA and the Office of Chinese Language Council International, or Hanban, will formally dedicate a Confucius Institute on campus. | Arts and Humanities | General News
  • Mexico's Former Minster of Health to Speak on Border Health Risks, Opportunities | May 6, 2008
    International health scholar Julio Frenk will give the inaugural lecture in the James E. Dalen Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series. | General News | Health
  • UA Athletes' Academics Show Improvements | May 6, 2008
    Ten sports show improvement in the NCAA's yearly academic progress report. | General News | Sports
  • Award-Winning Photography Graduate Ventures Into Video | May 5, 2008
    May 2008 UA graduate Tomiko Jones, who was praised for her black and white photography, recently won a national award for her work and will spend part of the year studying in France. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Dual MBA Program Graduates First Computer Science Student | May 2, 2008
    Jamie Samdal, who has accepted a job with Google, hopes to someday own her own software development company. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • UA South Faculty to Research Deaf Education in Chile | May 1, 2008
    Ruth Claros-Kartchner received an invitation from Chile to study the condition of deaf education, focusing on a number of the country's schools. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • Nobel Laureate, Mariachi Among Four to Receive Honorary Degrees | May 1, 2008
    The University of Arizona will confer honorary degrees upon Robert K. Barkley, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Lin Xu and Alfredo R. Valenzuela during its 138th Spring Commencement Ceremony to be held Saturday, May 17 at the McKale Memorial Center. | Campus News | General News
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