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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | DecUANews | Library users at the UA now have the option to conduct a global search of bibliographic information.
UANews | Visitors can sign up for astronomical observing throughout February.
UANews | The UA Marching Band performed at the first Super Bowl in 1967.
UANews | The UA and its off campus collaborators will begin celebrating Black History Month on Monday with numerous panel discussions, film screenings, workshops, art exhibition and other events.
UANews | The leaders of Arizona's public universities offered collaborative solutions to Arizona's budget crisis while students showed up in droves to voice their opposition to proposed cuts to university budgets.
UANews | Linda L. Restifo and her team at the UA are conducting research that may eventually identify drugs that will help combat the behavioral and cognitive symptoms that affect children with mental retardation and autism.
UANews | The President of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State will visit Vatican Observatory astronomers in Tucson next month.
UANews | The Wildcats Advocating Literacy and Knowledge program offers children the opportunity to listen to popular children's books and meet a popular storybook character.
UANews | Two books just published by The University of Arizona Press detail historical issues within American Indian communities.
UANews | The leaders of Arizona's public universities are stepping forward to offer collaborative solutions to Arizona's budget crisis.
UANews | The Union Gallery has announced dates for its first three workshops to teach participants how to make items from recycled materials.
UANews | Art work created by near 50 artists centered on topics related to issues in the Middle East are on display at the UA's Union Gallery.
UANews | More than 2,000 students are expected to protest at the Arizona State Capitol this Wednesday in opposition to cuts to university budgets proposed by legislative leaders.
UANews | The forum encourages the University community and the public to discuss current issues where faith and science share a common ground.
UANews | The Mirror Lab is making mirrors for the most powerful telescopes of the future.
UANews | UA physicians and students spent seven days performing more than 40 hand, elbow and shoulder operations at a teaching hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
UANews | The largest crowd ever to attend an Arizona Board of Regents meeting convened at the UA, many of them speaking out against a legislative budget proposal.
UANews | Experts are discussing the impacts of climate change in the Southwest during a conference that is being held in Tucson today and Friday.
UANews | The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is 600-plus members strong, all of whom are interested in learning, teaching and sharing in social opportunties with other seniors in and around Tucson.
UANews | The Adaptation to Climate Change conference gets underway at the UA beginning Thursday morning.
UANews | A formal ceremony will mark the induction of three new Regents' Professors and two University Distinguished Professors at the UA.
UANews | The University of Arizona Press, publisher of more than 800 books, is celebrating its 50th year in publishing.
UANews | Speakers to talk about large-scale science that will dramatically change our views of the universe and ourselves.
UANews | Project Vote Smart, which opened a branch office at the UA in 2006, is seeking University students for internship positions this spring semester.
UANews | Thursday's ABOR meeting expected to include large turnout of business leaders, parents, students and alumni speaking against proposed university cuts.
UANews | DesignIntelligence magazine has ranked the UA's undergraduate program in architecture as the nation's 12th best.
UANews | Australia Day at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum will feature a class on making and playing the digeridoo.
UANews | The UA's Residence Life unit has participated in RecycleMania since 2001. This will be the first year the entire campus community has been involved.
UANews | A UA art therapy program that works with developmentally disabled adults has partnered with a local gallery to showcase the work of its artists.
UANews | Shelton issued a statement upon learning of a legislative proposal that would make crippling cuts to the UA budget.
UANews | African American Student Affairs, Arizona Public Media and UApresents are hosting public views of the Inauguration Day event on Tuesday.
UANews | The Women's Resource Center will screen a documentary about Shelby Knox, who will also visit the UA to speak about her experience.
UANews | Students have until Feb. 1 to apply to the McNair Achievement Program, which is one of several programs attempting to increase the number of students who are low-income, first-generation and students of color in master's level programs.
UANews | The statewide walking campaign promotes exercising for health. UA President Robert N. Shelton will be hosting a walk in March.
UANews | The Arizona Student Unions has made new additions at both the Student Union Memorial Center and the Park Student Union.
UANews | In the last fiscal year, a record number of startup companies were launched as an outcome of research conducted by UA faculty.
UANews | Several local music groups will perform for Biosphere 2 visitors Jan. 25.
UANews | Recent UA graduate credits the University's School of Theater Arts for opening doors to Broadway.
UANews | Joseph M. Acaba graduated from the UA in 1992 and is now set to be one of the crew members scheduled to depart Earth next month for the International Space Center.
UANews | Wind and erosion caused the regular spacing of rocks seen in images from the Mars Rover Spirit, according to new research from UA geoscientist Jon Pelletier and his colleagues.
UANews | The UA has instituted a new process that will avoid dropping University students from courses if they are unable to pay their tuiton and fees on time. Instead, they'll be placed in a payment plan.
UANews | International students get to know the Tucson community through the time volunteered by International Friends and its members.
UANews | The Undergraduate Biology Research Program began at a time when there was not a coordinated effort to involve undergraduates in scientific research. Now, 20 years later, the effort is a mainstay at the UA.
UANews | The Survey of Earned Doctorates reports the UA is fifth in the country in doctoral degrees granted to Native American students from 2003-2007, and sixth nationally in degrees granted to Hispanic students.