UA News

UANews | The UA's rehabilitation counseling program  is meeting the need for master's degree-level rehabilitation counselors for state government and within the private sector.

UANews | Students participating in the Math, Engineering, Science Achievement program, which is administered by the UA, placed at the top in a nationwide design competition.

UANews | Mitchneck will oversee the college as it transitions into the new UA College of Letters, Arts and Science.

UANews | The weeklong BioME Summer Institute marked the beginning of a year-long partnership between Tucson teachers and UA graduate students.

UANews | A group of 27 bilingual high school graduates will spend the month of July learning translation and interpretation skills as part of the Professional Language Development Project.

UANews | The American Indian Language Development Institute's 30-year anniversary symposium gets kicked off on Monday with a full week of workshops, demonstrations, films, poetry readings and other programs.

UANews | A UA study on diversity in the workplace finds women and minorities are more successful and have better career opportunities when their companies offer self-directed work teams and cross-training programs.

UANews | A group of 25 college and university faculty members are taking part in a summer institute that is focusing on environmental and borderlands history.

UANews | The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair has recognized a Tucson High Magnet School student for research conducted at The University of Arizona's BIO5 Institute.

UANews | The Resplendor International Cultural and Education Center, a new UA-sponsored community development center, recently opened in Guanajuato, Mexico. 

UANews | The Web-based application features data on more than 40,000 officials at the presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative levels and is captured in part by UA students.

UANews | A new analysis of the current swine-origin H1N1 influenza A virus suggests that transmission to humans occurred several months before recognition of the existing outbreak.

UANews | Reid Fontaine and his collaborators have studied a group of young people from childhood through early adulthood looking for clues to antisocial behavior.

UANews | Navajo Times publisher Tom Arviso Jr. is this year's winner of the Zenger Award, given by the UA School of Journalism and the Arizona Newspapers Foundation.

UANews | Thanks to a number of dedicated astronomy volunteers, Flandrau's telescope will remain open for public viewing.

UANews | The UA's Southwest Institute for Research on Women has earned the National Council for Research on Women's inaugural Diversion and Inclusion Award.

UANews | The UA's Center for English as a Second Language is turning 40 and has also received national accredidation from the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation for the maximum 10-year term.

UANews | Fifteen high school students from Metro Phoenix and Tucson are attending a journalism "boot camp" to learn multimedia and other skills to make them better journalists.

UANews | Christina Vasquez, a doctoral degree student in the UA department of special education, rehabilitation, and school psychology, has earned a minority fellowship from the American Psychological Association.

UANews | UA Professor Richard Healey, an authority on the phillosophy of science, has won the Lakatos award for his book on gauge theories.

UANews | Donnerstein has served as dean since September 1, 2002, and also is a professor of communication.

UANews | Four doctoral students will discuss significant religious pilgrimages at the annual summer lecture series at St. Phillip's in the Hills Episcopal Church.

UANews | G-TEAMS, a project at the UA that was initiated with National Science Foundation funding, aims to improve math instruction and learning in K-12 classrooms by placing UA graduate students in schools to  serve as mathematics experts.