UA News

UANews | Bob Woodruff, ABC reporter, author and brain trauma advocate, will speak during the UA's undergraduate Commencement ceremony and beloved Dean Emeritus Toni Massaro will speak during the graduate commencement ceremony.

UANews | Richard Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, will speak at the UA on March 30.

UANews | UA alumnus Stewart L. Udall, an avid conservationist who served as a Congressman and Interior secretary, died this month.

UANews | The Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, an educational oasis run through a partership between the UA's College of Education and the Tucson Unified School District, is celebrating its 45th year this month.

UANews | The activity-filled weekend that draws approximately 1,500 familes each year has been rescheduled to Oct. 8-10.

UANews | UA Provost Meredith Hay outlines the outcomes of the UA Transformation Plan, a process that is ongoing.

UANews | The UA is seeking applicants for the Pat Tillman Foundation based scholarship which is open to current or new student veterans through the end of April.

UANews | UA music professor and composer Daniel Asia is one of the recipients of the 2010 Music Award given by members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

UANews | Top-level retail executives, strategists and entrepreneurs headline this year's Global Retailing Conference, April 8-9 in Tucson, sponsored by the UA Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing.

UANews | David Cuillier, a UA assistant professor of journalism, will provide House members with information about new research in cultures of openness and secrecy among federal agencies.

UANews | The Arizona Board of Regents approved the appointment of B. Glenn George.

UANews | The Arizona Board of Regents approved tuition and fees for the 2010-11 academic year.

UANews | The season features performances by legendary singer Liza Minnelli, classical violinist Joshua Bell, Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis and the Japanese performing art group KODO.

UANews | Faculty and students from the new UA School of Mind, Brain and Behavior will lead activities and provide information to the young and old on how to keep their minds sharp at the Science Pavillion on the UA Mall this weekend.

UANews | The Tucson Festival of Books kicks off at the UA on Saturday and features a diverse range of workshops.

UANews | Sarah Smallhouse, president of the foundation, hopes the gift will inspire others to support higher education and contribute to the innovative financial aid program.

UANews | This year, the Tucson Festival of Books expanded the offerings for youth and their families. 

UANews | Norma González, who has spent years studying children and families living in borderlands communities, has received an award from the American Educational Research Association for her body of work. 

UANews | The 36th Annual African Literature Association Conference will include lectures, presentations and film screenings.

UANews | The Arizona Nutrition Network at the UA was honored for his work with Tucson Parks and Recreation.

UANews | UA biologist Travis Huxman will offer some insights on Biosphere 2's role in studying climate science.

UANews | Three hundred volunteers will work on the middle school campus on Saturday to provide renovations for the soon to be K-8 school that provides science and technology education to low-income students.

UANews | Joel Valdez, who graduated from the UA in 1959, went on to become Tucson's first Hispanic city manager, a post he held for 16 years, is retiring after 20 years at the helm of the UA's business affairs.

UANews | Elliott Cheu, a physics professor and member of UA's Large Hadron Collider-ATLAS team, will discuss the symmetry between matter and antimatter and what happened to the antimatter that was produced by the Big Bang at a public lecture on March 10.

UANews | Sudha Ram, a UA Eller College of Management professor, links Wikipedia contributors' collaborative patterns to data accuracy. Well-rounded wiki authors who contribute in several ways make for better quality articles than editors specializing in just writing sentences or providing links, for example.

UANews | University of Arizona President Robert N. Shelton delivered his State of the University Address Wednesday in Phoenix – the first time he has given the speech outside of Tucson.

UANews | Research shows a correlation between happiness and deeper rather than superficial conversations.

UANews | The director of the Hanson Institute's experience with the film industry and close ties with the Mexican film industry has led to the annual Cine Mexico festival which features the best in Mexican film seen together only in Tucson. 

UANews | Robert McCall, whose work influenced both artists and scientists, died Feb. 26, leaving a substantial collection to the UA Museum of Art.

UANews | Spike Lee, who directed acclaimed films like "Do the Right Thing," "Malcolm X" and a range of other films and documentaries will be speaking at the University of Arizona on March 31 during a public lecture.

UANews | Tune in to KUAT/Channel 6 to watch UA planetary scientists talk about Pluto’s status as a planet and landing on the ice of Mars.

UANews | The UA's BIO5 Institute will present the Ventana/Roche Science Pavilion at Tucson Festival of Books, which will be held March 13-14 at various locations on the University campus.

UANews | The National Congress of American Indians on Monday recognized the UA's Native Nations Institute and its partner, the Harvard Project at the Kennedy School of Government, for groundbreaking research on isses central to Native populations worldwide.

UANews | The UA Press has published a new book about conservation along the U.S.-Mexico border featuring several UA researchers who served as co-editors.