Browse Teaching and Students stories - December, 2009

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  • A New Take on Extra Credit
    UANews | Students from two UA classes team up to support the Tucson Community Food Bank.
  • New Office to Centralize Faculty Support in Instruction and Assessment
    UANews | The new Office of Instruction and Assessment will offer support to the UA teaching community in the areas of pedagogy, assessment and technology.
  • UA Students Funded to Study Abroad
    UANews | More than one dozen UA students have been named Gilman Scholars, earning a collective $70,000 in scholarship funds to conduct research and study abroad during the spring and summer semesters of 2010.
  • Professor Dennis Ray Receives Regional Teacher Award
    UANews | The award recognizes outstanding faculty members on the basis of their ability as classroom teachers, use of innovative teaching methods, service to students and their profession and scholarship.
  • UA Top Scholars Earn Nationally Competitive Awards
    UANews | Among them are history, international studies, engineering and mathematics students whose committment to research, leadership and service has earned them some of the most competitive scholarships in the country.
  • Student-Run Conference Honored With Ringing of USS Arizona Bell
    UANews | The bell of the USS Arizona was rung in honor of the University of Arizona's National Collegiate Leadership Conference, one of teh largest student-run leadership conferences in the nation.
  • Seven Students Selected for New York Times Student Journalism Institute
    UANews | Students from across the country are hand-picked for the session, held every other year at the UA, and taught by some of the best in the profession.
  • Doctoral Students Using Advanced Technology to Study Forests
    UANews | UA doctoral students Tyson Swetnam and Christopher "Kit" O'Connor are using LiDAR data to offer a better understand the historical cycles and a clearer picture of what is growing in southern Arizona mountain ranges. 
  • Student Creates Alternative Digital Music Web site
    UANews | UA undergraduate John Rushworth has hopes of teaming up with record labels to eventually host artists on his newly launched Web site.
  • Biosphere 2 Pilots Virtual Lessons to Australian Students
    UANews | A UA scientist has been teaching a class at Dubbo Public School, Australia, from Biosphere 2.
  • Centennial Award Winners Announced
    UANews | The awards recognize students who have demonstrated integrity, overcome enormous challenges to achieve a college education and made a contribution to self, community and family.
  • Winter Commencement Details Announced
    UANews | The UA will celebrate its graduating students during the Winter Commencement Ceremony, to be held Dec. 19 at 9:30 a.m. at McKale Memorial Center.
  • Persona Magazine Going Strong After Three Decades
    UANews | The goal of the UA student-run Persona magazine to help writers strengthen their pieces for publication in the magazine and in other publications in the future.