Top Vatican Official Visits Vatican Astronomers at UA | February 27, 2009
UANews | Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo accepted an invitation to visit the Vatican Observatory astronomers based at Steward Observatory. | General News | Science and Technology

Solar-Powered Gate Installed at Arizona Stadium | February 27, 2009
UANews | Arizona Athletics has installed an automatic, solar-powered gate at one of the high-activity areas at the Arizona Stadium. | Campus News | General News | Sports

Stuart Flynn Named Dean of UA College of Medicine - Phoenix in Partnership with ASU | February 26, 2009
UANews | Flynn has been serving as interim dean of the Phoenix expansion of the medical school since last May. | General News | Health

UA Already Recycled 483,000 Pounds in National Competition | February 26, 2009
UANews | The UA is participating in a nationwide recycling competition that will run for another five weeks. | General News | Teaching and Students

Writer Gary Nabhan to Read for UA | February 26, 2009
UANews | Gary Nabhan, an award-winning poet and UA research social scientist, will read his work during the UA Prose Series. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students

Student Taken Into Custody by UAPD | February 25, 2009
UANews | Sophomore Sarah Tatum was taken into custody by UAPD detectives upon release from University Medical Center, and booked into the Pima County Jail. | General News

Fine Arts to Join Colleges of Letters and Science | February 25, 2009
UANews | The new partnership of colleges will now be titled The Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science.  | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology

Leslie Porter to Receive Phenomenal Woman Award | February 25, 2009
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. | Campus News | General News

Vaudeville Lives | February 25, 2009
UANews | The world’s largest Vaudeville memorabilia collection has been donated to the UA. The collection will be integrated into fine arts coursework. | Arts and Humanities | General News

Institute Hosts Benefit Dinner to Keep Language Revitalization Alive | February 24, 2009
UANews | The American Indian Language Institute is helping to ensure that language revitalization and maintenance efforts are not lost to the economic downturn. | General News

UA Officials Emphasize Commitment to Military Personnel | February 24, 2009
UANews | Several UA officials attended a luncheon with officers and sailors of the USS Tucson and further emphasized the UA's commitment to aiding veterans who would like to pursue a higher education. | General News | Teaching and Students

New Restaurant Opens at PSU | February 24, 2009
UANews | Having originally opened in the Student Union Memorial Center, Core will soon open at Park Student Union. | General News | Health | Teaching and Students

Equiss Social Justice Experience Coming to UA | February 24, 2009
UANews | Students across the nation are invited to register to attend Equiss, a UA student-led social justice retreat. | General News | Teaching and Students

UA Videos, Students Earn ADDY Awards | February 23, 2009
UANews | UA students and several of the University's collaborators were honored this month for various marketing videos and advertisements. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students

UA Chemist Named Sloan Foundation Research Fellow | February 23, 2009
UANews | Assistant Professor Jeffrey Pyun is among the new class of Alfred E. Sloan Foundation research fellows.  | General News | Social Sciences and Education

Biosphere 2 Will Hold Two-Part 'Survival of the Sphere' Event on UA Campus | February 23, 2009
UANews | Both the special seminar and the performance are free to the public. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students

Museum Documenting Jesuit Contact with American Indians | February 23, 2009
UANews | A project headed by the Arizona State Museum's ethnohistorical research office and the UA German studies department is their first joint attempt to transcribe and translate German text into English. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Social Sciences and Education

Peace Corps Week Begins and Ends with Service to Community | February 22, 2009
UANews | The UA Peace Corps Fellows program is the second largest program in the U.S. and celebrates service and community outreach during Peace Corps Week, which begins today. | General News | Teaching and Students

Biosphere 2 to Host International Year of Astronomy Program Saturday | February 19, 2009
UANews | An image being unveiled at the event has been described as "using your eyes, night vision goggles and X-ray vision all at the same time." | General News | Science and Technology

Helios Education Foundation Donates $2 Million to UA’s Arizona Assurance Scholarship Program | February 19, 2009
UANews | The jointly public-private funded financial aid program addresses a key priority of UA President Robert N. Shelton, to increase state residents' access to higher education. | General News | Teaching and Students

Honors College Student Researchers to Present their Work | February 19, 2009
UANews | The Spirit of Inquiry is an annual symposium the UA Honors College hosts to showcase the research of its students. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students

Criminal Law Expert to Speak During UA Law Lecture Series | February 18, 2009
UANews | Former UA faculty member Bernard E. Harcourt, who is now a professor at the University of Chicago, will speak at the law school this month. | Business and Law | General News | Teaching and Students

A Mind Wide Open | February 18, 2009
UANews | UA master's of fine art student Margaret Kimball, who produces intricate images of seemingly random thoughts and ideas, is showcasing her work at a UA gallery.  | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students

Cancer Center’s Better Than Ever Program Kicks Off Spring Season | February 16, 2009
UANews | The Arizona Cancer Center's Better Than Ever fitness training program is recruiting participants for the spring season. | General News | Health

Shelton Speaks Before Special House Committee on Education | February 13, 2009
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. | Campus News | General News

Goals Gone Wild | February 13, 2009
UANews | The benefits of goal-setting by managers are often overstated, and the harm created in their wake has been largely ignored, according to a new report from a professor in the UA Eller College. | Business and Law | General News

Spring 2009 Biosphere 2 'Let's Talk Science' Public Lectures | February 13, 2009
UANews | Topics during spring lecture series at Biosphere 2 include solar energy, hunting hazardous space rocks, probing atoms. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students

Public Forums on Economy Being Held on Campus | February 13, 2009
UANews | U.S. House Representative Gabrielle Giffords will host four public forums to serve as an overview of the various provisions of the U.S. economic stimulus bill and its expected impact for Arizona. | General News

Positive Self-Image Advocate to Speak, Screen Film at UA | February 13, 2009
UANews | UA's Campus Health Service will screen the award-winning documentary, "America the Beautiful," and host its filmmaker during a postive body image event this month. | General News | Health | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students

Law Dean Finalists Named | February 12, 2009
UANews | The committee searching for a new James E. Rogers College of Law dean has narrowed its selection down to five finalists. | Business and Law | General News

UA Multicultural Programs Increase Success and Retention | February 11, 2009
UANews | Students traditionally at risk for dropping out of college are retained at higher rates after participating in student success programs offered by The University of Arizona's division of Multicultural Affairs and Student Success. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students

WRRC Conference Focuses on Stakeholders in Water Planning | February 11, 2009
UANews | The annual conference sponsored by the UA Water Resources Research Center will focus on engaging stakeholders on water issues. | General News | Science and Technology

Arizona Public Media Announces New Radio Show | February 11, 2009
UANews | KUAZ-FM radio has introduced a new weekend show and a new Saturday schedule. | Arts and Humanities | General News

Rainy Day Partnership Adds Beauty to Neighborhood Sourrounding UA | February 10, 2009
UANews | A non-profit organization, a neighborhood association and the UA will help with the beautification, storm water management and sustainability of a university neighborhood. | General News

Plants Take a Hike as Temperatures Rise | February 10, 2009
UANews | A unique collaboration between two UA researchers and a local naturalist mined 20 years of data collected during the naturalist's 1,024 hikes along the Finger Rock and Pima Canyon trails in the Santa Catalina Mountains. | General News | Science and Technology

Marshall Foundation Fellowships Awarded to Six UA Students | February 9, 2009
UANews | The Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship goes to UA doctoral degree candidates who have nearly completed their dissertations. | General News | Teaching and Students

Career Services Offering New Resources During Economic Challenges | February 9, 2009
UANews | In these hard economic times, one UA department wants to remind University students that its role is to help them find jobs and internships.  | General News | Teaching and Students

Science Cafe: Tumamoc Director to Discuss Reconciliation Ecology | February 6, 2009
UANews | Michael Rosenzweig will explain how incorporating nature into the human landscape works better for both. | General News | Science and Technology

Hopi Artistry Celebrated at Arizona State Museum | February 6, 2009
UANews | Try your hand at making a woven basket plaque and learn about the history of Hopi baskets during the opening celebration for the "Circles of Life: Katsina Imagery in Hopi Basketry" exhibition. | Arts and Humanities | General News

Research Symposium to Pull Together UA Experts in Science | February 5, 2009
UANews | A symposium will be held on Monday to discuss translational environmental research efforts across the University campus. | General News | Science and Technology

US-Mexico Border Research Initiative Announced | February 4, 2009
UANews | The director general of the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology has announced continued funding for various binational research initiatives at the UA. | General News | Social Sciences and Education

36th Annual President's Concert Features the Best from the UA School of Music | February 4, 2009
UANews | Student competition winners are violist Amber Reed, pianist Rouzbeh Tebyanian, bass baritone Seth Kershisnik and flutist Tori Hauk. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students

Student-Run Leadership Conference to Draw Hundreds | February 4, 2009
UANews | The National Collegiate Leadership Conference trains students from across the United States to become active, engaged and effective leaders. The three-day program runs this month. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students

Noted First Nations Professor to Deliver Deloria Lecture | February 4, 2009
UANews | John Borrows is regarded as one of the leading leading scholars in affairs relative to American Indian populations. | Business and Law | General News | Teaching and Students

UA South Hosting African Film Festival | February 3, 2009
UANews | A traveling film series that shows films directed and produced by African filmmakers will begin at UA South and Cochise College this week. | General News | Teaching and Students

Shelton, Hay Respond to Massive Higher Education Budget Cuts | February 2, 2009
UANews | The UA president and provost sent a message to the UA campus community outlining steps the University will take to respond to a $57 million budget cut. | General News

UA Bringing Diversity to the U.S. Library System | February 2, 2009
UANews | The UA School of Information Resources and Library Science is currently recruiting American Indian and Hispanic students for its Knowledge River program. | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education

Renowned Researcher Dr. Fernando Martinez to Lead UA's BIO5 Institute | February 2, 2009
UANews | Martinez is one of the most highly regarded researchers worldwide in childhood lung diseases. | Business and Law | General News | Health | Science and Technology