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  • Diving Accident Claims UAPD Officer |
    UANews | Fifteen-year veteran Daniel Forchione died while scuba diving off the San Diego coast. |
  • UA Hosts Conference on Timing of Biological Events |
    UANews | Recent research on the study of the seasonal cycles of plants and animals will be presented during an Oct. 2 symposium that is free and open to the public. | |
  • UA Poetry Center to Host Annual High School Corrido Contest |
    UANews | On Saturday, the UA Poetry Center will host the Bilingual Corrido Contest for high school students during its Education Field Day. | |
  • Campus Memorial for Kris Weatherly Scheduled |
    UANews | A memorial service is scheduled for Oct. 5 in memory of Kristopher A. Weatherly, former associate director of the University Teaching Center. |
  • 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 Leads National Discussion on Veterans in Higher Education |
    UANews | The UA hosted disability resource personnel, admiistrators, veteran advocacy groups and policymakers to discuss how best to serve the boom of veterans accessing higher education. |
  • Faculty Exhibition Opens at the UA Museum of Art |
    UANews | The UA Museum of Art is inviting members of the public to meet University faculty artists during an opening reception that will be held Thursday. | |
  • UA Art Students Hosting Workshop Series |
    UANews | UA students Chris Broduer and Roy Young are co-hosting a workshop series at the Union Gallery to help people tap into their inner artist. | |
  • UA Rodeo Club 70 Years Strong |
    UANews | The UA's Rodeo Club raised $30,000 to build a practice arena and facility to aid in recruitment and improve the skills of its members. | | | |
  • Timing is Everything |
    UANews | The UA Eller College of Management offers several programs leading to a master's in business administration. | | |
  • UA Professor Helps Organize Major Meeting on Climate |
    UANews | Diana Liverman, co-director of The University of Arizona's Institute of the Environment, helped organize "4 Degrees and Beyond," a conference currently meeting abroad. | |
  • Near-extinct Gorillas Offer Clues to Family Dynamics in Humans |
    UANews | H. Dieter and Netzin Steklis have been studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda for 15 years, work that has drawn the attention of family studies researchers in the UA Norton School. | |
  • Researchers Discuss Chronic Pain in Scientific American Mind |
    UANews | UA researchers Frank Porreca and Theodore Price, both UA pharmacology professors, have co-authored a newly published article about chronic pain. | | |
  • Lesbian Looks Gets Kicked off Next Week |
    UANews | The UA Lesbian Looks film series, now in its 17th year, will have its first screening on Oct. 9. | | |
  • 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. | | | |
  • WISE Holding Leadership Certificate Program |
    UANews | The Women in Science and Engineering Program will focus on leadership development covering topics such as gender and diversity, also within the context of the STEM fields. | |
  • Regents Discuss FY10 and FY11 Budgets |
    UANews | The Arizona Board of Regents approved the fiscal year 2011 operating budget requests for the three state universities at its meeting in Flagstaff on Thursday. |
  • Documentary Shows the Best of the Southwest's National Parks |
    UANews | "Southwestern Gems: Our Desert National Parks," a one-hour documentary from Arizona Public Media, showcases the best of the four major North American deserts. |
  • CLAS Lecture Series Starts With Local Food Advocate |
    UANews | Food conservationist and UA social scientist Gary Paul Nabhan will talk about the role of local food in maintaining food security. | | |
  • Water Researchers, Managers Meet in Tucson This Week |
    UANews | The ninth SAHRA Annual Meeting will be held this year Sept 23-24 at the Doubletree Hotel, 445 S. Alvernon Way in Tucson.  | |
  • UA Press Poet Juan Felipe Herrera wins Beyond Margins Award |
    UANews | Juan Felipe Herrera, whose recent collection was published by the UA Press, has earned the 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. | |
  • Hundreds of Majors, Countless Careers |
    UANews | UA's Career Services and Center for Exploratory Students are each hosting events to aid students in choosing a major and finding a career. | | |
  • UANews, KUAT Earn Emmy Nominations |
    UANews | The majority of UA nominees this year already have taken home an Emmy award in ceremonies in the past. |
  • UA Press Has Four Finalists in 2010 ONEBOOKAZ Competition |
    UANews | Four of the six finalists in the ONEBOOKAZ book competition are published by the UA Press. | |
  • UA Wins Grant, Recognition for Work With Latino Families |
    UANews | The UA received a $50,000 award for an innovative program designed to reach out to potential first-generation college students. |
  • Washington Monthly Ranks UA Among Nation's Top 50 |
    UANews | The Washington Monthly has ranked the UA among the top 50 institutions nationwide. The rankings are based on service, research and recruting and graduation of low-income students. |
  • Flu Care Kits Available to UA Hall Residents |
    UANews | The UA has a list of items to help flu victims living in campus residence halls deal with their symptoms. | |
  • Hispanic Heritage Game Day Celebration This Saturday |
    UANews | The UA Hispanic Alumni Club and UA Athletics kick-off Hispanic Heritage Month with pre-game and halftime festivities on Saturday, Sept. 12. | |
  • Rep. Pastor, Shelton Team Up for College Accessibility Event |
    UANews | UA President Robert N. Shelton was joined by U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor and hundreds of Phoenix-area high school students and their families to discuss ways to make accessibility to a higher education a reality. |
  • Transformation Initiatives to Support Environment, Translational Medicine |
    UANews | The Office of the Provost has announced two major faculty hiring initiatives that will provide $12 million to support environmental science, engineering and policy and translational medicine. | | |
  • University Libraries' Tuesday Talks to Explore UA Research |
    UANews | The goal of the series is to invite discourse, generate ideas and inspire collaboration. |
  • Call for Tucson Community to Befriend International Students |
    UANews | More than 200 international students are waiting to be paired with volunteers willing to share a few hours each month in the name of friendship. | |
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