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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | DecUANews | Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo accepted an invitation to visit the Vatican Observatory astronomers based at Steward Observatory.
UANews | Arizona Athletics has installed an automatic, solar-powered gate at one of the high-activity areas at the Arizona Stadium.
UANews | Flynn has been serving as interim dean of the Phoenix expansion of the medical school since last May.
UANews | The UA is participating in a nationwide recycling competition that will run for another five weeks.
UANews | Gary Nabhan, an award-winning poet and UA research social scientist, will read his work during the UA Prose Series.
UANews | Sophomore Sarah Tatum was taken into custody by UAPD detectives upon release from University Medical Center, and booked into the Pima County Jail.
UANews | The new partnership of colleges will now be titled The Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science.
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 | The world’s largest Vaudeville memorabilia collection has been donated to the UA. The collection will be integrated into fine arts coursework.
UANews | The American Indian Language Institute is helping to ensure that language revitalization and maintenance efforts are not lost to the economic downturn.
UANews | Several UA officials attended a luncheon with officers and sailors of the USS Tucson and further emphasized the UA's commitment to aiding veterans who would like to pursue a higher education.
UANews | Having originally opened in the Student Union Memorial Center, Core will soon open at Park Student Union.
UANews | Students across the nation are invited to register to attend Equiss, a UA student-led social justice retreat.
UANews | UA students and several of the University's collaborators were honored this month for various marketing videos and advertisements.
UANews | Assistant Professor Jeffrey Pyun is among the new class of Alfred E. Sloan Foundation research fellows.
UANews | Both the special seminar and the performance are free to the public.
UANews | A project headed by the Arizona State Museum's ethnohistorical research office and the UA German studies department is their first joint attempt to transcribe and translate German text into English.
UANews | The UA Peace Corps Fellows program is the second largest program in the U.S. and celebrates service and community outreach during Peace Corps Week, which begins today.
UANews | An image being unveiled at the event has been described as "using your eyes, night vision goggles and X-ray vision all at the same time."
UANews | The jointly public-private funded financial aid program addresses a key priority of UA President Robert N. Shelton, to increase state residents' access to higher education.
UANews | The Spirit of Inquiry is an annual symposium the UA Honors College hosts to showcase the research of its students.
UANews | Former UA faculty member Bernard E. Harcourt, who is now a professor at the University of Chicago, will speak at the law school this month.
UANews | UA master's of fine art student Margaret Kimball, who produces intricate images of seemingly random thoughts and ideas, is showcasing her work at a UA gallery.
UANews | The Arizona Cancer Center's Better Than Ever fitness training program is recruiting participants for the spring season.
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 | The benefits of goal-setting by managers are often overstated, and the harm created in their wake has been largely ignored, according to a new report from a professor in the UA Eller College.
UANews | Topics during spring lecture series at Biosphere 2 include solar energy, hunting hazardous space rocks, probing atoms.
UANews | U.S. House Representative Gabrielle Giffords will host four public forums to serve as an overview of the various provisions of the U.S. economic stimulus bill and its expected impact for Arizona.
UANews | UA's Campus Health Service will screen the award-winning documentary, "America the Beautiful," and host its filmmaker during a postive body image event this month.
UANews | The committee searching for a new James E. Rogers College of Law dean has narrowed its selection down to five finalists.
UANews | Students traditionally at risk for dropping out of college are retained at higher rates after participating in student success programs offered by The University of Arizona's division of Multicultural Affairs and Student Success.
UANews | The annual conference sponsored by the UA Water Resources Research Center will focus on engaging stakeholders on water issues.
UANews | KUAZ-FM radio has introduced a new weekend show and a new Saturday schedule.
UANews | A non-profit organization, a neighborhood association and the UA will help with the beautification, storm water management and sustainability of a university neighborhood.
UANews | A unique collaboration between two UA researchers and a local naturalist mined 20 years of data collected during the naturalist's 1,024 hikes along the Finger Rock and Pima Canyon trails in the Santa Catalina Mountains.
UANews | The Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship goes to UA doctoral degree candidates who have nearly completed their dissertations.
UANews | In these hard economic times, one UA department wants to remind University students that its role is to help them find jobs and internships.
UANews | Michael Rosenzweig will explain how incorporating nature into the human landscape works better for both.
UANews | Try your hand at making a woven basket plaque and learn about the history of Hopi baskets during the opening celebration for the "Circles of Life: Katsina Imagery in Hopi Basketry" exhibition.
UANews | A symposium will be held on Monday to discuss translational environmental research efforts across the University campus.
UANews | The director general of the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology has announced continued funding for various binational research initiatives at the UA.
UANews | Student competition winners are violist Amber Reed, pianist Rouzbeh Tebyanian, bass baritone Seth Kershisnik and flutist Tori Hauk.
UANews | The National Collegiate Leadership Conference trains students from across the United States to become active, engaged and effective leaders. The three-day program runs this month.
UANews | John Borrows is regarded as one of the leading leading scholars in affairs relative to American Indian populations.
UANews | A traveling film series that shows films directed and produced by African filmmakers will begin at UA South and Cochise College this week.
UANews | The UA president and provost sent a message to the UA campus community outlining steps the University will take to respond to a $57 million budget cut.
UANews | The UA School of Information Resources and Library Science is currently recruiting American Indian and Hispanic students for its Knowledge River program.
UANews | Martinez is one of the most highly regarded researchers worldwide in childhood lung diseases.