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  • Free Flu Shots for Employees This Weekend |
    UANews | Employees who come to the clinic will be able to get their shots without leaving their cars. |
  • UAccess Employee System Now Live |
    UANews | The UAccess Employee system, which replaces Employee Link, became available online this week. |
  • Employee Q&A: Smokers' Helpline Director Stephen Michael |
    UANews | Stephen Michael is director of the Arizona Smoker's Helpline, Arizona's official quit-smoking hotline, which served more than 10,000 people last year. |
  • Magnetic Tape Research Earns Award for UA Chemist |
    UANews | Jeffrey Pyun has been developing nanostructured thin films that resist corrosion and store more data on magnetic tape. | |
  • DRC Strengthening Collaboration With Faculty |
    UANews | The Disability Resource Center is taking a more proactive approach to aiding faculty in curriculum development while working to reinvent the ways in which people think about those with disabilities. | | | |
  • UA Students and Dance Mentor Featured During Arizona Cardinals Halftime Show |
    UANews | A UA team of dancers and mariachi musicians along with their UA mentor and other students will take the field on Sunday at the Arizona Cardinal Football game to perform a Hispanic Heritage Day Halftime Show. | |
  • UA Marks Banned Books Week With Exhibit, Discussion, Screenings |
    UANews | The UA will celebrate the freedom to read with several events during Banned Books Week. | | | |
  • Shelton Takes Questions on Budget, Benefits, Governance |
    UANews | In an open forum, UA President Robert N. Shelton answered questions from appointed personnel about the University's budget crunch, benefits and more. |
  • Steward Astronomer Doubles as Bon Vivant | UANews | |
  • Employee Q&A: Assistant Librarian/Archivist Chrystal Carpenter |
    UANews | Chrystal Carpenter facilitates the acquisition and processing of a variety of historical materials, from congressional papers to personal journals, for University Libraries' Special Collections. |
  • Budget, Pay Raises Discussed at Staff Town Hall With Shelton |
    UANews | UA President Robert N. Shelton answered staff members' questions about the budget, pay raises and more at the Staff Advisory Council's annual Staff Town Hall. |
  • Faculty Senate Defines 'Academic Freedom' |
    UANews | The Faculty Senate voted Monday to approve a written definition of academic freedom, a concept that has not previously been formally defined at the UA. |
  • New Payroll System DebutsThis Month |
    UANews | The first phases of the UA's Mosaic Enterprise System Replacement Project will be launched later this month. |
  • Employee Q&A: Postal Equipment Operator Olga Espinoza |
    UANews | Olga Espinoza, a University employee for 25 years, helps make sure large UA mailings are properly addressed, sealed and prepared to meet U.S. Postal Service regulations before they hit the mailbox. |
  • Campus Community Invited to Preview New UA Home Page |
    UANews | The redesigned home page will offer easier access to information for university audiences. |
  • Music Professor Creates Jazz Dream Team |
    UANews | UA music professor Jay Rees has brought together his favorite musicians to form the Sylvan Street nu-jazz ensemble, which will celebrate its debut CD release with a concert at Centennial Hall. |
  • Employee Q&A: UA Facilitator Ryan Windows |
    UANews | UA facilitator Ryan Windows is there to answer any questions about campus that may stump students, parents or community members.  |
  • Network Matches Current, Former Employees With Temporary Campus Work |
    UANews | As several UA departments struggle to fill openings, a new internal talent network is matching current and former University employees with temporary job opportunities on campus. |
  • Biosphere 2 Looks to Enhance Research Through Outreach |
    UANews | Biosphere 2 education and outreach coordinator Matt Adamson comes from a family of educators and began his own career as a kindergarten teacher. |
  • Back to School: Start Planning Now |
    UANews | UA employees intending to pursue their undergraduate or graduate degrees in the spring can find applications and information on resources like reduced tuition online. |
  • Back to School: Juggling School and Work Can be Stressful But Manageable |
    UANews | Some full-time employess at the University of Arizona are successfully juggling work, school and family, as they go from home to the office to the classroom. |
  • Back to School: Degrees Offer UA Employees a Ticket to the Next Level |
    UANews | Some University of Arizona employees, like Kathy Stollberg-Zagar, are heading back to class to get degrees that will help them advance in their campus careers. |
  • Employee Q&A: Piano Technician Cassie Van Gelder |
    UANews | Cassie Van Gelder spends her days tuning and repairing pianos in the UA School of Music, ensuring they are pitch-perfect for perfomances. |
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