UA News

UANews | Arizona Athletics has installed an automatic, solar-powered gate at one of the high-activity areas at the Arizona Stadium.

UANews | Teams are using the Lean Six Sigma program to search for ways to streamline University processes.

UANews | Employees can read the UA Statement on Drug Free Schools and Campuses and learn about various University drug and alcohol abuse programs online.

UANews | The UA's Sick Child/Emergency Back-Up Care Program provides low-cost, in-home care for children of UA students and benefits-eligible employees in the event of a an illness or emergency.

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.

UANews | Several AHSC physicians are being recognized in conjunction with a traveling exhibition at the Arizona Health Sciences Library.

UANews | Jim Watson, assistant professor of anthropology and assistant curator of bioarchaeology at the Arizona State Museum, will travel to Chile next month to study oral health of the Chichorro culture, one of the first known populations to mummify its dead.

UANews | About 400 UA community members are needed to help make over the site of Project YES, an after-school tutoring and mentoring program in South Tucson.

UANews | Lanin A. Gyurko, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese, was honored with the ringing of the USS Arizona Bell.

UANews | The UA's Office of External Relations has developed a Web portal to help employees and others find tools and information related to UA branding, logo use, trademarks, product licensing, technology transfer, copyright laws and more.

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.

UANews | In a cost-cutting effort, the UA will turn off its water fountains and go without replanting campus flowers.

UANews | The UA School of Art will host an art sale and celebration to inaugurate the new Visual Arts Graduate Research Laboratory.

UANews | UA Cares, the annual campus campaign for community giving, awarded UA Libraries with a kinetic trophy for its fundraising efforts.

UANews | Faculty in departments across campus volunteer their time to support students with their academic and career aspirations. 

UANews | Faculty who are appointed to the position of 1885 Society Presidential Chair will receive an annual stipend of $40,000 from a donor-supported discretionary fund. 

UANews | Three University employees were winners in the UA FotoCat contest, a joint project of the UA and the Arizona Daily Star.

UANews | The Office of Student Financial Aid raised more than $500 for UA Cares through its Dare Jars challenge.

UANews | The campus community is encouraged to join UA Provost Meredith Hay in a short walk on Tuesday.

UANews | UA employees will be required to take five unpaid days off next year in a measure President Robert N. Shelton says could help deal with future budget cuts.

UANews | By the time Joseph M. Acaba completed his master's degree in geology from the UA in 1992, his academic adviser and thesis director knew that Acaba had "the right stuff."

UANews | The UA Caregiver Support group offers practical and emotional resources to employees who are caring for an elderly loved one.

UANews | The 24/7 IT Support Center assists UA students and employess with computer questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week.