UA News

UANews | While the undergraduate programs are slated for elimination, the college will expand its masters-level secondary certification programs.

UANews | The Frances McClelland Institute conference will center on several issues relative to adolescents, including topics related to health and development.

UANews | UA alumna and longtime Arizona business leader Frances McClelland will become the namesake of a new research institute dedicated to the well-being of children and families.

UANews | Assistant Professor Jeffrey Pyun is among the new class of Alfred E. Sloan Foundation research fellows. 

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 | 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 | 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 | 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 UA is helping to take Integrated Pest Management model nationally.

UANews | University of Michigan anthropologist Andrew Shryock will discuss the rise of the Arab-American enclave in Detroit and how it has flourished this decade.

UANews | Kevin G. Welner will speak at the UA this month about the positive and negative effects of tuition vouchers for families.

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 | 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 | With support from an endowment, University faculty members are training teachers and counselors with an updated drug prevention curriculum.

UANews | The UA School of Information Resources and Library Science is currently recruiting American Indian and Hispanic students for its Knowledge River program.

UANews | A three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education has bolstered the skills of TUSD history teachers and UA graduate students.