Writing Centers Focus on Peer to Peer Learning | October 14, 2009 UANews | UA GEAR UP staff, which include master's and doctoral students from the College of Humanities, are helping develop peer to peer writing skills for Sunnyside Unified high school students. | Teaching and Students
Science Cafe Serves up Bugs | October 12, 2009 UANews | Carl "Bug Man" Olson shares the importance of the insect species found in Arizona and will help people to identify and live with insects around their homes. | Science and Technology
UA Professor Elected to Institute of Medicine of the National Academies | October 12, 2009 UANews | Dr. Setsuko K. Chambers has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Election to the Institute is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. | Health
UA Hosting, Screening LGBT Storytelling Project | October 12, 2009 UANews | The UA's Institute for LGBT Studies is collaborating with local award-winning filmmaker, Jamie A. Lee, on a project that is intended to become a statewide archive of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community members' oral histories. | Arts and Humanities
Improving the Sleep Cycle | October 9, 2009 UANews | Dr. Richard R. Bootzin, a nationally known sleep expert, will talk about about research related to treatment of sleep disorders and practical ways people can improve their sleeping patterns. | General News | Science and Technology
Researchers to Study How Dogs Decrease Asthma Susceptibility | October 9, 2009 UANews | Researchers at the UA aim to learn more about how the presence of dogs at home seems to reduce the risk of children contracting asthma and its related conditions later in life. | Health