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  • Seven Graduate Students Win Prestigious NASA Fellowships | July 31, 2008
    The fellowship award selection is a competitive process; this year NASA received a total of 244 research proposals and only 79 students were selected to receive the fellowship. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Apogee Physicians Supporting Two UA Medical Students | July 30, 2008
    The privately funded scholarships are enabling two students to attend medical school without paying for tuition, fees or books. | Health | Teaching and Students
  • Proposed New Degree Programs Begin Application Process | July 25, 2008
    The UA has received regents approval to begin the application process to develop new undergraduate and graduate degree programs. | Arts and Humanities | Campus News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • Professor Darrel Goll Passes Away | July 24, 2008
    Goll will be remembered as the ultimate academic and a distinguished researcher who excelled in his service to the University. | Campus News | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Internationally Renowned Islet Cell Transplant Surgeon Joins UA | July 24, 2008
    Dr. Horacio L. Rilo's appointment is part of a vision to build a Cellular Transplantation Institute at the UA College of Medicine. | Campus News | Health | Teaching and Students
  • UA Receives More Than $4M in Fellowships From Science Foundation Arizona | July 23, 2008
    Fifty top graduate researchers were recruited to the UA through Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship program. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • UA Solar Race Team Finishes Grueling 2,400-Mile Race | July 22, 2008
    The UA solar race team perseveres to finish in 10th place.    | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • 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
  • Campus Librarians Teaching For-Credit Courses | July 21, 2008
    Librarians have been teaching various topics for years, but this is the first time that UA librarians have offered for-credit coursework. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • More than Two Dozen Arizona Athletes to Take Part in Olympics | July 18, 2008
    During the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, a group of 30 UA athletes, coaches and staff will try for the gold. | Campus News | Sports | Teaching and Students
  • Desert Laboratory Director Honored by Ecological Society of America | July 17, 2008
    UA Desert Laboratory Director Michael Rosenzweig has been elected Eminent Ecologist of the Year by the Ecological Society of America. | Campus News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • A Coca-Cola Campus | July 16, 2008
    The UA has selected Coca-Cola as its exclusive beverage provider.  | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Solar Race Team Begins Second Stage in 2,400-Mile Race | July 15, 2008
    The UA's solar race team and its car, Drifter 2.0, is one of only 15 teams to qualify to race in the American Solar Challenge. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • National Report: Unique Program Requires More Support | July 15, 2008
    A professional master's program that the UA introduced in 2000 is among those across the nation that the National Research Council says requires more support to make the U.S. more competitive. | Business and Law | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Camp Empowers Native American Youth | July 14, 2008
    Students participating in the camp gain real-world business experience and leave with business plans designed to help them start up their own enterprises. | Business and Law | Teaching and Students
  • 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
  • UA Nation's 2nd Top Producer of Peace Corps Fellows | July 11, 2008
    Fellows enrolled in the program at the UA contribute 500 hours of service each year to community-based organizations in southern Arizona. | General News | 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
  • Under New Management | July 9, 2008
    The University of Arizona is celebrating the completion of a tremendously successful first year of managing Biosphere 2. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • UA Introduces Outreach College | July 9, 2008
    The newly-designated college will be responsible for improving the UA's reach beyond the Tucson area. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • UA Student Leads Team to Zero Gravity | July 8, 2008
    NASA's Weightless Wonder, a modified McDonnell Douglas DC-9 jetliner, will take 3 UA students on 45-degree nosedives to simulate zero gravity. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • NSF Grant Helping UA to Transform Astronomy Education | July 7, 2008
    The Steward Observatory Center for Astronomy Education has received $2 million from the NSF to enhance astronomy education. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Top Tucson High School Students in UA Labs This Summer | July 3, 2008
    UA summer research program is enabling students to learn lab skills and participate in research projects. | Health | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • UA Alum in ABC Series | July 2, 2008
    Oscar Serrano, who earned degrees from the UA in 2000 and 2001, is one of the Johns Hopkins Hospital residents film crews followed for the ABC News series, "Hopkins." | General News | Health | Teaching and Students
  • 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
  • Solar Race Team Readies for 2,400-Mile Competition | July 1, 2008
    UA student team's Drifter 2.0 heads to Texas on July 4 for the American Solar Challenge. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
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