UA News

UANews | Árbol de la Vida and Likins halls are the first residency projects in the state to receive platinum LEED certification, joining the UA Campus Recreation Center. The halls provided 1,088 new beds and sustainable new communities for students in the 2011-12 academic year.

UANews | The UA is recommending no base tuition increase in 2012-13 for all continuing undergraduate resident students – despite years of declining state support and steep budget cuts. No new mandatory fees are being recommended.

UANews | The UA has earned gold for its campus-wide sustainability efforts, joining the ranks of 30 institutions in the U.S. and Canada. The rating comes from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, a group that measures and encourages sustainability.

UANews | The UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has installed its new leadership group. Four new associate deans have been appointed, Dean Shane Burgess has announced.

UANews | The UA's Research Data Center offers researchers access to powerful high-performance computing capabilities benefiting scientific, engineering, social, economic and cultural research.

UANews | The UA's National Institute for Civil Discourse has announced that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been named to its National Board of Advisors. Fred DuVal, chair of the institute's Working Board, and Eugene G. Sander, president of the UA, made the announcement Tuesday.

UANews | The Arizona Board of Regents voted today to approve the contract of Ann Weaver Hart as the next president of the UA. Hart, who replaces President Eugene G. Sander, will begin her term on July 1.

UANews | The UA's strengths include an array of academic fields, research and campus safety, University officials told the Arizona Board of Regents Feb. 16 at its meeting on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe.

UANews | Temple University President Ann Weaver Hart, who is a candidate for the UA's top administrative position, spoke on campus Feb. 13 in one of a series of events to introduce her to the community.

UANews | In honor of the 100 year anniversary of Arizona receiving its statehood on Feb. 14, 1912, the UA is involved in number of events on and off campus this weekend.

UANews | A UA astronomy research team was awarded a $600,000 grant for technology development in the NASA’s Explorer mission program. The EXCEDE mission involves a new space telescope for studying the dusty regions near stars to learn how planets form and evolve.  

UANews | Temple University President Ann Weaver Hart will visit campus Feb. 13 to meet students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members. The public event will take place at 4:30 p.m. at Gallagher Theater.

UANews | Hart is currently the president of Temple University and has served as president of the University of New Hampshire. She will be introduced to the UA campus community on Feb. 13.

UANews | Biologists have discovered a bizarre and beautiful reproductive process in diving beetles. What they found challenges the paradigm that sexual selection is mostly driven by males competing against each other.