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  • Solar-Powered Gate Installed at Arizona Stadium |
    UANews | Arizona Athletics has installed an automatic, solar-powered gate at one of the high-activity areas at the Arizona Stadium. | | |
  • Campus Using Six Sigma to Improve Business Operations |
    UANews | Teams are using the Lean Six Sigma program to search for ways to streamline University processes. |
  • Employees Asked to Review Drug-Free Workplace Policies |
    UANews | Employees can read the UA Statement on Drug Free Schools and Campuses and learn about various University drug and alcohol abuse programs online. |
  • Program Offers Sick, Emergency Child Care |
    UANews | The UA's Sick Child/Emergency Back-Up Care Program provides low-cost, in-home care for children of UA students and benefits-eligible employees in the event of a an illness or emergency. |
  • Leslie Porter to Receive Phenomenal Woman Award |
    UANews | Former UA women's basketball player Leslie Porter, Human Resources director of recruitment and employee advising, is the recipient of the 2009 Phenomenal Woman Award, given by the Arizona Alumni Association Black Alumni Club. | |
  • National Legends Meet Local Legends in Women Physicians Exhibition |
    UANews | Several AHSC physicians are being recognized in conjunction with a traveling exhibition at the Arizona Health Sciences Library. | |
  • Mummies Lure Professor to Chile |
    UANews | Jim Watson, assistant professor of anthropology and assistant curator of bioarchaeology at the Arizona State Museum, will travel to Chile next month to study oral health of the Chichorro culture, one of the first known populations to mummify its dead. | |
  • Volunteers Needed for Cats in the Community Day |
    UANews | About 400 UA community members are needed to help make over the site of Project YES, an after-school tutoring and mentoring program in South Tucson. |
  • Gyurko Honored With Ringing of USS Arizona Bell |
    UANews | Lanin A. Gyurko, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese, was honored with the ringing of the USS Arizona Bell. |
  • Web Portal Provides UA Licensing, Copyright Info |
    UANews | The UA's Office of External Relations has developed a Web portal to help employees and others find tools and information related to UA branding, logo use, trademarks, product licensing, technology transfer, copyright laws and more. |
  • Shelton Speaks Before Special House Committee on Education |
    UANews | Shelton outlined the immediate effects the $77 million in budget cuts have had on the University and warns that further cuts are still pending. | |
  • UA to Turn Off Fountains, Forgo Replanting |
    UANews | In a cost-cutting effort, the UA will turn off its water fountains and go without replanting campus flowers. |
  • Continuum Celebration to Mark Inauguration of Graduate Art Lab |
    UANews | The UA School of Art will host an art sale and celebration to inaugurate the new Visual Arts Graduate Research Laboratory. |
  • UA Cares Awards New Kind of Trophy |
    UANews | UA Cares, the annual campus campaign for community giving, awarded UA Libraries with a kinetic trophy for its fundraising efforts. |
  • Faculty Mentors Go the Extra Mile |
    UANews | Faculty in departments across campus volunteer their time to support students with their academic and career aspirations.  | |
  • Shelton to Use Private Funding From 1885 Society for Faculty Retention |
    UANews | Faculty who are appointed to the position of 1885 Society Presidential Chair will receive an annual stipend of $40,000 from a donor-supported discretionary fund.  |
  • UA Faculty and Staff Winners in UA FotoCat Contest |
    UANews | Three University employees were winners in the UA FotoCat contest, a joint project of the UA and the Arizona Daily Star. |
  • Video: Office of Student Financial Aid Dares to Care |
    UANews | The Office of Student Financial Aid raised more than $500 for UA Cares through its Dare Jars challenge. |
  • UA Provost to Lead a Campus Walk |
    UANews | The campus community is encouraged to join UA Provost Meredith Hay in a short walk on Tuesday. |
  • Shelton Explains Furlough Decision |
    UANews | UA employees will be required to take five unpaid days off next year in a measure President Robert N. Shelton says could help deal with future budget cuts. |
  • Prof Recalls Geology Alum Who is Headed for Space Station This Month |
    UANews | By the time Joseph M. Acaba completed his master's degree in geology from the UA in 1992, his academic adviser and thesis director knew that Acaba had "the right stuff." | |
  • Support Group Helps Employees Balance Work With Caring for Loved Ones |
    UANews | The UA Caregiver Support group offers practical and emotional resources to employees who are caring for an elderly loved one. |
  • Technology Support Center Offers 24/7 Computer Help |
    UANews | The 24/7 IT Support Center assists UA students and employess with computer questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week. |
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