What can the UA Libraries do for you?

The UA Libraries held a video contest during the spring semester to answer that question and to promote its offerings. 

Magda Mankel looks at immigration from a unique perspective, not only because her mother was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States, but also because she is a major in the UA School of Anthropology who is fascinated with human migrations. 

As the UA sends off its most recent group of graduates, one University program has graduated nearly 80 Tucson-area parents who now are more adept at preparing their children to start college in the next decade.

In addition to graduating its parent advocates in April, the UA College Academy for Parents, or CAP, celebrated its 10th anniversary, marking one decade of promoting a college-going culture among families in the Tucson region.

When that first step is briskly taken onto the University of Arizona campus, we undoubtedly feel the air of excitement, a sense of independence and a desire to leave our own marks on the UA by getting involved, making new friends and discovering more about ourselves, our world and our passions. 

For language learning, “the younger, the better.”

Saguaro National Park in Arizona. (Photo credit: Hugh Mason, via Wikipedia)

What is a Ferocactus?

May 1 was the 12th annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

During this time, we are being asked to remember that teenagers are too immature, poor, uneducated or unstable to carry healthy pregnancies or raise children with positive outcomes.

Felled mesquite beans – you see them most everywhere around the UA campus during the summer months.

In 1998 I was a 23-year-old white, Pentecostal woman. I was married to a pretty great guy and I was about to become the first person in my family to earn a college degree.