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  • Library Offers Expanded Services | January 30, 2009
    UANews | Library users at the UA now have the option to conduct a global search of bibliographic information. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Mount Lemmon SkyCenter Offers 'Diamonds in the Sky' and 'Astro Amore' | January 29, 2009
    UANews | Visitors can sign up for astronomical observing throughout February. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Super Bowl XLIII Does Not Mark First Arizona Connection | January 29, 2009
    UANews | The UA Marching Band performed at the first Super Bowl in 1967. | General News | Sports
  • Black History Month Events Get Kicked Off at the UA | January 29, 2009
    UANews | The UA and its off campus collaborators will begin celebrating Black History Month on Monday with numerous panel discussions, film screenings, workshops, art exhibition and other events. | Campus News | General News
  • Support for Higher Education Overwhelms the Capitol | January 28, 2009
    UANews | The leaders of Arizona's public universities  offered collaborative solutions to Arizona's budget crisis while students showed up in droves to voice their opposition to proposed cuts to university budgets. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Fruit Fly Brains Provide Clues to UA Autism Research | January 28, 2009
    UANews | Linda L. Restifo and her team at the UA are conducting research that may eventually identify drugs that will help combat the behavioral and cognitive symptoms that affect children with mental retardation and autism. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Cardinal Who Oversees the Vatican Observatory Will Visit Tucson | January 28, 2009
    UANews | The President of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State will visit Vatican Observatory astronomers in Tucson next month. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • BookStore's Storytime Hour Reaching out to Youngsters | January 28, 2009
    UANews | The Wildcats Advocating Literacy and Knowledge program offers children the opportunity to listen to popular children's books and meet a popular storybook character. | Campus News | General News
  • UA Press Publishes Two New Books | January 28, 2009
    UANews | Two books just published by The University of Arizona Press detail historical issues within American Indian communities. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Social Sciences and Education
  • University Presidents to Offer Budget Solutions at Press Conference | January 27, 2009
    UANews | The leaders of Arizona's public universities are stepping forward to offer collaborative solutions to Arizona's budget crisis. | General News
  • Union Gallery Sponsoring Workshop Series on Recycling | January 27, 2009
    UANews | The Union Gallery has announced dates for its first three workshops to teach participants how to make items from recycled materials. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Art Exhibition to Explore the Middle East | January 27, 2009
    UANews | Art work created by near 50 artists centered on topics related to issues in the Middle East are on display at the UA's Union Gallery. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Students Prepare to Protest at State Capitol on Wednesday | January 26, 2009
    UANews | More than 2,000 students are expected to protest at the Arizona State Capitol this Wednesday in opposition to cuts to university budgets proposed by legislative leaders. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Charles Darwin is Topic for Spring 2009 St. Albert the Great Forum | January 26, 2009
    UANews | The forum encourages the University community and the public to discuss current issues where faith and science share a common ground. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Steward Observatory Mirror Lab Offers Public Tours | January 23, 2009
    UANews | The Mirror Lab is making mirrors for the most powerful telescopes of the future. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Surgery Team Returns From Philanthropic Medical Training in Honduras | January 23, 2009
    UANews | UA physicians and students spent seven days performing more than 40 hand, elbow and shoulder operations at a teaching hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. | General News | Health
  • Record-Breaking Crowd at Regents Meeting Speaks Out Against Cuts | January 22, 2009
    UANews | The largest crowd ever to attend an Arizona Board of Regents meeting convened at the UA, many of them speaking out against a legislative budget proposal. | General News
  • Physical Impacts and Predictions: What Science Can Tell Us | January 22, 2009
    UANews | Experts are discussing the impacts of climate change in the Southwest during a conference that is being held in Tucson today and Friday. | Business and Law | General News
  • Advancing Senior Learning Opportunities Community by Community | January 22, 2009
    UANews | The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is 600-plus members strong, all of whom are interested in learning, teaching and sharing in social opportunties with other seniors in and around Tucson. | General News | Social Sciences and Education
  • Climate Change Conference Begins Thursday | January 21, 2009
    UANews | The Adaptation to Climate Change conference gets underway at the UA beginning Thursday morning. | Business and Law | General News | Science and Technology
  • Faculty to be Honored at Induction Ceremony | January 21, 2009
    UANews | A formal ceremony will mark the induction of three new Regents' Professors and two University Distinguished Professors at the UA. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • UA Press Celebrates 50 Years | January 21, 2009
    UANews | The University of Arizona Press, publisher of more than 800 books, is celebrating its 50th year in publishing. | Campus News | General News
  • College of Science Lectures Focus on "Next: Science That Transforms" | January 21, 2009
    UANews | Speakers to talk about large-scale science that will dramatically change our views of the universe and ourselves. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • National Political Research Center Wants UA Students | January 21, 2009
    UANews | Project Vote Smart, which opened a branch office at the UA in 2006, is seeking University students for internship positions this spring semester. | Business and Law | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • Regents Meeting at UA Expected to Draw Large Crowd | January 20, 2009
    UANews | Thursday's ABOR meeting expected to include large turnout of business leaders, parents, students and alumni speaking against proposed university cuts. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Architecture Program Among Tops in the Nation | January 20, 2009
    UANews | DesignIntelligence magazine has ranked the UA's undergraduate program in architecture as the nation's 12th best. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Australia Day at Arboretum Offers Hands-on Fun | January 20, 2009
    UANews | Australia Day at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum will feature a class on making and playing the digeridoo. | Arts and Humanities | General News
  • UA Enters National Recycling Competition | January 16, 2009
    UANews | The UA's Residence Life unit has participated in RecycleMania since 2001. This will be the first year the entire campus community has been involved. | Campus News | General News | Health | Social Sciences and Education | Sports | Teaching and Students
  • ArtWorks Program Collaborates With Local Gallery | January 16, 2009
    UANews | A UA art therapy program that works with developmentally disabled adults has partnered with a local gallery to showcase the work of its artists. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students
  • UA President Robert Shelton's Statement Regarding Proposed Cuts to University Budgets | January 15, 2009
    UANews | Shelton issued a statement upon learning of a legislative proposal that would make crippling cuts to the UA budget. | General News
  • UA Units Hosting Inauguration Day Events | January 15, 2009
    UANews | African American Student Affairs, Arizona Public Media and UApresents are hosting public views of the Inauguration Day event on Tuesday. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Star of Documentary to Speak at UA | January 15, 2009
    UANews | The Women's Resource Center will screen a documentary about Shelby Knox, who will also visit the UA to speak about her experience. | General News
  • UA Working to Increase Ph.D.s Among Minorities, Low-Income Students | January 15, 2009
    UANews | Students have until Feb. 1 to apply to the McNair Achievement Program, which is one of several programs attempting to increase the number of students who are low-income, first-generation and students of  color in master's level programs.  | Arts and Humanities | Business and Law | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • UA Employess Encouraged to Participate in Walk Across Arizona | January 14, 2009
    UANews | The statewide walking campaign promotes exercising for health. UA President Robert N. Shelton will be hosting a walk in March. | Campus News | General News
  • Arizona Student Unions Makes New Additions | January 14, 2009
    UANews | The Arizona Student Unions has made new additions at both the Student Union Memorial Center and the Park Student Union. | Campus News | General News | Health | Teaching and Students
  • Record Number of New Companies Launched by UA Researchers | January 13, 2009
    UANews | In the last fiscal year, a record number of startup companies were launched as an outcome of research conducted by UA faculty. | Business and Law | General News
  • Music Under the Dome | January 13, 2009
    UANews | Several local music groups will perform for Biosphere 2 visitors Jan. 25. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology
  • Former UA Student Joining National Tour of Broadway musical 'Wicked' | January 12, 2009
    UANews | Recent UA graduate credits the University's School of Theater Arts for opening doors to Broadway. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Space-Bound Astronaut is a UA Alum | January 12, 2009
    UANews | Joseph M. Acaba graduated from the UA in 1992 and is now set to be one of the crew members scheduled to depart Earth next month for the International Space Center. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • How Martian Winds Make Rocks Walk | January 9, 2009
    UANews | Wind and erosion caused the regular spacing of rocks seen in images from the Mars Rover Spirit, according to new research from UA geoscientist Jon Pelletier and his colleagues. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Students to Remain Enrolled Despite Nonpayment | January 9, 2009
    UANews | The UA has instituted a new process that will avoid dropping University students from courses if they are unable to pay their tuiton and fees on time. Instead, they'll be placed in a payment plan. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • International Friends Seek Friendship-Building Community Members | January 8, 2009
    UANews | International students get to know the Tucson community through the time volunteered by International Friends and its members.  | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Undergraduate Research Program Turns 20 | January 7, 2009
    UANews | The Undergraduate Biology Research Program began at a time when there was not a coordinated effort to involve undergraduates in scientific research. Now, 20 years later, the effort is a mainstay at the UA. | Arts and Humanities | Business and Law | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • UA Among Nation's Best in Granting Doctoral Degrees to American Indians, Hispanics | January 6, 2009
    UANews | The Survey of Earned Doctorates reports the UA is fifth in the country in doctoral degrees granted to Native American students from 2003-2007, and sixth nationally in degrees granted to Hispanic students. | General News | Teaching and Students
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