UA News

UANews | The UA has been consistently named one of the nation's top producers of Fulbright Scholars. This year, the University was named to the top 20 category overall and top 10 among public institutions.

UANews | The 75-member UA Wind Ensemble is comprised of students who are on the path toward becoming professional musicians or music teachers. The ensemble is performing with UA faculty musicians and American composer David Maslanka during a Nov. 30 concert on campus.   

UANews | Students are getting their appetites ready for the annual Fall Harvest, organized in recognition of Native American Heritage Month. The event is designed to unite cultures while encouraging people to share how they are thankful.

UANews | UA professor Sharon B. Megdal and alumna author Judith Ann Jance will be recognized for their community outreach and professional achievements, respectively, during the Winter Commencement Ceremony.

UANews | The UA will celebrate its graduating students during the Winter Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 18, in McKale Memorial Center. A total of 2,708 undergraduate student degrees will be conferred, plus 328 master's degrees and 610 doctoral degrees.

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.

UANews | Community leaders Phil Gordon, Naomi Karp, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and Martin C. Bowen will receive honorary degrees from the UA during the Winter Commencement Ceremony.

UANews | Natalie Youngbull, a UA doctoral student, has been elected as a student board member for the National Indian Education Association to help promote higher education for Native American students. 

UANews | The UA BookStores and the College of Humanities have collaborated to launch a campus-wide reading group. To start: Luis Alberto Urrea's "Into the Beautiful North."

UANews | Street artist Melanie Stimmell will spend three days creating an extreme perspective painting at the UA Museum of Art. The work is part of the museum's new exhibition, "The Aesthetic Code: Unraveling the Secrets of Art."

UANews | The Chamber Players, comprised of some of the best students in the UA's School of Music, offers talented music students opportunities to work in a smaller ensemble.

UANews | Hacène Chaouch and Kevin Newman of the UA's College of Optical Sciences have received scholarships from an international optics laser company to follow their passion for research and development in the field.

UANews | The UA has launched its Scholarship Universe, a Web-based program that will deliver scholarship information directly to students based on their academic and personal interests. Meanwhile, ASUA is co-hosting financial aid workshops.

UANews | The Hunger Banquet, now in its 16th year, invited students to refrain from eating to help them understand what it's like to be hungry and live in poverty. Participants had the option to fast for up to 30 hours.  

UANews | Beichuan Zhang, a UA assistant professor of computer science, is part of a team receiving up to $8 million from the National Science Foundation to investigate ways to revolutionize the Internet's architecture.