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  • Fellowship Awardees Completing Arizona-Centered Research Projects
    Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Education March 26, 2010
    UANews | Six graduate students at the UA have received scholarships from the Marshall Foundation that will help each of them complete their dissertations.
  • Lifelong Steward of the Earth Dies
    General News, Social Sciences and Education March 25, 2010
    UANews | UA alumnus Stewart L. Udall, an avid conservationist who served as a Congressman and Interior secretary, died this month.
  • Cooper Center Celebrates 45th Anniversary
    General News, Social Sciences and Education March 25, 2010
    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.
  • Student-Run Journals Encourage Scholarship, Creative Endeavors
    Business and Law, Social Sciences and Education, Teaching and Students March 24, 2010
    UANews | The Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy is among the most recent UA-student run publications to be launched.
  • Evidence Indicates Humans' Early Tree-dwelling Ancestors Were Also Bipedal
    Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Education March 19, 2010
    UANews | Experiments by a UA anthropologist and his colleagues show that fossil footprints made 3.6 million years ago are the earliest direct evidence of early hominins using the kind of efficient, upright posture and gait now seen in modern humans. 
  • Journalism Graduate Selected for Prestigious New York Times Fellowship
    Social Sciences and Education March 16, 2010
    UANews | Stephen Ceasar, a 2009 UA School of Journalism graduate, is one of only five students picked for the James Reston Reporting Fellowship given by The New York Times.
  • Journalism Professor to Testify in Congress Regarding Government Transparency
    General News, Social Sciences and Education March 15, 2010
    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.
  • U.S. Undersecretary of Education to Speak at UA
    Social Sciences and Education March 15, 2010
    UANews | Martha J. Kanter, who is responsible for policies, programs and other activies related to the nation's education system, will speak at the UA later this month.
  • Program to Train Teachers as Mentors, Leaders
    Social Sciences and Education March 10, 2010
    UANews | The Teacher Ment2Lead program at the UA was created for teachers who want to become experts in mentoring and teacher leadership.
  • Education Faculty Earns Major Award
    General News, Social Sciences and Education March 8, 2010
    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. 
  • African Literature Conference Opening
    Arts and Humanities, General News, Social Sciences and Education March 5, 2010
    UANews | The 36th Annual African Literature Association Conference will include lectures, presentations and film screenings.
  • UA's Native Nations Institute Honored
    General News, Social Sciences and Education March 1, 2010
    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.