UA News

UANews | The Associated Students of the University of Arizona will host an on-campus early voting site May 3-14. All Pima County registered voters will be allowed to vote.

UANews | The Arizona Board of Regents is expected to discuss the potential impacts of Proposition 100 and to hear from university presidents on their plans for meeting a directive to reduce their state salary expenditures during a special board meeting in Phoenix this weekend.

UANews | Members of the campus community are asked to review the UA's policy on travel to countries under Department of State travel warnings, after a warning was issued regarding travel to Mexico.

UANews | The publicity committee for the Women's Plaza of Honor has launched an "Honoring Our Own" campaign to encourage UA departments to honor their employees and students by adding their names to the plaza.

UANews | The UA's Technologies Showcase explores the use of new tools in distance and blended learning and is free and open to employees and students.

UANews | The UA is seeking a highly qualified individual to step into the position of senior vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer.

UANews | A transition team will begin working in the coming weeks to create a more formal University organization to address issues of campus sustainability and guide use of the newly approved "green fee."

UANews | All members of the campus community are welcome to attend Monday's reception for Joel Valdez, the UA's senior vice president for business affairs, who will retire this summer after 20 years at the University.

UANews | President Robert N. Shelton has established, through the help of donations, the UA Academic Leadership Institute to educate emerging campus leaders on how to navigate the challenges facing universities.

UANews | Custodian Ricardo "Richard" Saldivar is considered an  honorary member of the College of Medicine's obstetrics and gynecology department because of his hard work keeping the department's labs and offices clean.

UANews | Departments across campus will recognize their administrative employees with cards, lunches and other tokens of appreciation in celebration of Administrative Professionals Day.

UANews | The Arbor Day Foundation has named the UA as a Tree Campus USA university, an honor shared by just over 100 schools across the country.

UANews | Hundreds of UA students will present their research April 20 during the First Year Writing Showcase.

UANews | Marvin A. Stokes, a UA professor who studied tree rings in ancient Navajo sites and in Spanish Colonial mission churches, died April 7. He was 82.

UANews | Several student groups have coordinated "Take Back the Night," an annual awareness event, at the UA on April 15.

UANews | UA employees making more than $40,000 a year will be required to take between one and three unpaid days off of work beginning July 1 in order to help fill a $5.2 million cut to salary expenditures mandated by the Arizona Board of Regents.

UANews | The "On Our Own Time" staff art exhibit, featuring artwork by UA employees, runs through April 22 in the Union Gallery.

UANews | Six outstanding UA faculty members were honored at a luncheon celebrating excellence in teaching.

UANews | UA fans are showing their Wildcat support in a Facebook challenge that bets Arizona can find 100,000 fans before rival Arizona State University.

UANews | Proceeds from the sale of Schiffer's creations go into a scholarship fund that benefits students in the UA School of Anthropology.

UANews | Five recipients were chosen based on essays describing their motivation to apply for scholarships from outside donors.

UANews | Caltech Astronomer J. Davy Kirkpatrick will give this year's Marc Aaronson Memorial Lecture at UA's Steward Observatory. In his presentation, which is free and open to the public, the former Steward Observatory graduate will explain the bizarre nature of brown dwarfs, celestial bodies that defy classification as stars or planets.

UANews | Employees furloughs would be a possibility if Proposition 100 doesn't pass in May, President Robert N. Shelton told the senate.

UANews | Chris Schafer helps professors place textbook orders, schedule book signings and more.

UANews | Several UA employees will be recognized for their contributions with University Staff Awards for Excellence at a ceremony next week.

UANews | Admission to the student-run event is free for UA employees and students.