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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | DecUANews | 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 projects are among 60 by UA engineering students to be showcased May 4 at Engineering Design Day, the UA College of Engineering's premier showcase of student design.
UANews | Katharine Martinez's areas of expertise are 19th and early 20th century visual culture, particularly the intersection of high art and popular taste and the reception of images. She starts at the UA in July.
UANews | UA students in Martha Few's class have spent the semester investigating student involvement during the Mexican Revolution, the medical school's founding and the origins of Wilbur and Wilma Wildcat. Students will present their projects during a research forum May 5.
UANews | The insects known as aphids can make their own essential nutrients called carotenoids, which are the building blocks for molecules crucial for vision, healthy skin, bone growth and other key physiological functions.
UANews | Ander Monson, an assistant professor of English, has received the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation fellowship to write a book and build a related website.
UANews | ABC reporter Bob Woodruff will be the undergraduate commencement speaker. Dean Emeritus Toni Massaro of the UA's James E. Rogers School of Law will give the graduate commencement speech.
UANews | Jonathan Lunine's research involves spacecraft missions and the exploration of planets, moons and other celestial bodies in our solar system and beyond.
UANews | U.S. and Mexican water agencies, universities and non-governmental organizations are collaborating to find out whether operating the Yuma Desalting Plant changes the largest wetland on the Colorado River Delta.
UANews | The UA's student government will raise money for Diamond Children's Medical Center with its Diamonds in the Sky event on April 30.
UANews | The final symphony and choir concert of the year features music of the French masters as well as a chance to help two local charities.
UANews | The Regents' professor joins one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Established in 1780 by John Adams and other founders of the nation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences celebrates the 230th anniversary of its founding this year.
UANews | A new study sheds light on how proposed legislation to curb greenhouse gases could affect farmers and ranchers in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
UANews | Apollo 17 astronaut Capt. Eugene "Gene" Cernan is slated to speak May 3. The Friends of the University Libraries, which raises money for the UA's library division, is organizing the event.
UANews | Silly, ironic, vulgar and a little bit offensive, the UA student-run sketch comedy group is gearing up to present its unique brand of humor this week during its 18th annual comedy showcase.
UANews | About 450 youth will visit the UA on Saturday to compete in a design competition hosted by the UA's Office of Early Academic Outreach.
UANews | Asian Pacific American Student Affairs is hosting a number of events in celebration of the heritage and contribution of Asians and Pacific Islanders.
UANews | David Cuillier, a UA journalism professor and a nationally respected authority on First Amendment issues, will offer advice on accessing public information at stops in more than 30 states.
UANews | The Arizona women's golf team erased a 3-shot deficit to post a 3-stroke victory.
UANews | Armin Sorooshian, an assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering, is one of only 17 scientists chosen nationally by the Navy to receive a Young Investigators Program grant.
UANews | Eller College of Management students received a $6,000 award in a national competition for producing a public service announcement emphasizing the need for cash donations during disaster relief efforts.
UANews | Martin Reed, a graduate of the UA Eller entrepreneurship program, has started a company that ships high-quality, sustainable seafood anywhere in the country.
UANews | Beyond Bridging, run by the UA's College of Education, is increasing the time students spend in local classrooms while emphasizing learning and mentoring.
UANews | Gabrielle Miller and her mother, Moni, have moved their unique cosmetics and clothing store, Cry Baby Couture, to University Boulevard.
UANews | The UA tops 679 public and private universities in funding for the physical sciences, according to a new National Science Foundation report.
UANews | Researchers the in the UA nutritional sciences department have begun a study to see if resveratrol in the maternal diet can reverse the risk of future breast cancer due to exposure to dioxin.
UANews | The National Science Foundation grant will fund a program at the UA to link graduate engineering students to local classrooms.
UANews | Hundreds of UA students will present their research April 20 during the First Year Writing Showcase.
UANews | Roberta I. Shaffer will discuss challenges facing the legal field brought on by digitization.
UANews | UA researcher Catherine A. Marshall is the lead author on a three-part book series about people with disabilities that has been named an outstanding title by the American Library Association's scholarly journal.
UANews | The conference features researchers from across the U.S. and Northern Mexico, and is free and open to the public. A number of presentations will be delivered in Spanish.
UANews | Eller College of Management students are finalists in the PSAids voter-driven competition.
UANews | The event will bring together artists, scientists, students and visitors to explore Biosphere 2 and see the environment in new ways. Activities include new exhibits, an art and science sculpture project thematic tours and live music.
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 | Jordin Mayes and Jesse Perry have signed National Letters of Intent to attend the UA and play basketball.
UANews | First Things First evaluators at the UA and the two other state universities have begun recruting thousands of children and their families for a new study to understand how they use child care services.
UANews | Transient Events, a new iPhone application for amateur and professional astronomers and anyone interested in the universe, highlights cosmic events such as exploding supernovae, comets traveling through the solar system or blazars – plasma jets erupting from supermassive black holes.
UANews | On April 24, a UA cultural nutrition class will serve a healthy breakfast, provide cookbooks, showcase the nutritional values of traditional foods and how to prepare them, and provide a food fight pitting Tofu Girl and Soyrizo Woman against Sonora Hotdog Man and Chorizo Man free to interested community members.
UANews | The UA School of Information Resources and Library Science, which is hosting a series of public events this month, has reorganized its undergraduate digital information studies program to focus more on contemporary issues facing librarians.
UANews | Regents' Professor Michael Cusanovich has died. Cusanovich, who spent his entire academic career at the UA, held several key administrative posts while managing his laboratory and mentoring students.
UANews | Kirsten Limesand is using an NIH Challenge Grant to investigate the cellular mechanics of salivary glands.
UANews | Men's basketball coach Sean Miller and his wife, Amy, donate $250,000 to new strength training facility.
UANews | A new study by researchers at the UA Economic and Business Research Center finds that a yes vote on Proposition 100 would save more than 13,000 jobs and preserve more than $442 million in federal matching funds for Arizona.
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 | Jim Furyk, Rory Sabbatini and Ricky Barnes – all standout golfers at the UA – will tee it up tomorrow at the storied Masters tournament.
UANews | Dale Kunkel will advise a national task force that's developing a federal plan to address childhood obesity.
UANews | Troy J. Comi, Beryl Jones, Stacy Marla Shiffler and Jennifer Sierchio are all UA Honors College students and each have been named a recipient of the prestigious national Goldwater Scholarship.
UANews | UA education graduate student Susan Baker seeks support to build a library and maintain programs and services for children and families in rural Mexico.
UANews | Chris Segrin, who heads the communication department, is among the many faculty, staff and students at the UA whose volunteer efforts will be recognized later this month.
UANews | The UA will now assume full responsibility for operations of the college.
UANews | Registration is still open for the Women's Leadership Conference, an annual training event for UA undergraduate and graduate female students.