Imaging Laboratory Improving Telescopic Technology | May 30, 2008
Companies from all over the world contract the services provded by the UA's Imaging Technology Laboratory provides. | General News

20th Annual Waila Festival Brings O'odham Music and Dance to UA Campus | May 29, 2008
Over 6,000 revelers are expected at the festival, which features dancing and music as well as traditional O'odham foods such as frybread, cholla buds, tepary beans, roasted 60-day corn soup and squash dishes. | General News

Space Posters Available | May 29, 2008
Posters of paintings by noted space artist Robert McCall are on sale at a number of campus locations and online. | General News

Senior Thesis Becomes Flamenco Ensemble | May 28, 2008
Danielle Mouw, who graduated from the UA in May with honors, created a flamenco ensemble for her senior thesis. The group has since offered classes and workshops for children and adults throughout Southern Arizona. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students

Campus Celebrates Successful Mars Landing | May 25, 2008
Visitors to the UA campus erupted into applause today as scientists announced that the Phoenix Mars Lander had touched down on the Red Planet. | General News | Science and Technology

Don't Let Those Cool Temperatures Fool You | May 23, 2008
Despite a cooler than normal Memorial Day weekend, UA forecasters are predicting slightly warmer than normal summer temperatures. | General News

Phoenix Spacecraft is Healthy | May 22, 2008
The Phoenix spacecraft is only three days and three million miles away from entry, descent and landing on Mars. | General News | Science and Technology

Professor to Explore LGBT Suicide Risk | May 22, 2008
UA professor Stephen T. Russell has received a two-year grant to look at the factors that may lead to suicide among LGBT youth. | General News | Health | Teaching and Students

UA Researcher's Study of Hispanic Youth Becomes New Book | May 21, 2008
A UA associate professor spent years observing and interviewing Hispanic youth to understand the role education, culture, work and family affect future opportunities. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Social Sciences and Education

Librarian Leading UA Effort to Build Afghanistan's Libraries | May 21, 2008
Atifa Rawan launched the UA into a project to help rebuild academic libraries in Afghanistan in 2002 and hasn't stopped working since. | General News | Social Sciences and Education

UA Ranks 22nd in Awarding Bachelor Degrees to Hispanics | May 20, 2008
The UA ranks 22nd in The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education's top 100 Colleges for Hispanics, with the UA College of Education ranking fifth in the nation in degrees awarded to Hispanics.     | General News

Mars University | May 20, 2008
Beginning on the day the Phoenix Mars Lander arrives on the Red Planet, the UA will provide public access to news and images  related to the mission. | General News | Science and Technology

UA Study: Tucsonans Favor Long-Range Planning for Water Use | May 19, 2008
A survey of those with a stake in the future of southern Arizona shows most favor cooperative planning on water resources. | General News | Science and Technology

Arizona Public Media's Phoenix Mission Documentary Airing this Week on PBS | May 19, 2008
"Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice" will air nationally on Thursday, May 22. It is Arizona Public Media's first stand-alone documentary to be picked up by PBS for national distribution. | General News | Science and Technology

A New Beginning | May 18, 2008
Thousands of students complete their UA careers at commencement ceremony. | General News | Teaching and Students

Astronaut Frank Borman Speaking at Today's Commencement | May 17, 2008
The University of Arizona celebrates its 138th Commencement on Saturday. Astronaut Frank Borman will speak at the ceremony just eight days before the UA's Phoenix Mars Lander is scheduled to land.  | Campus News | General News | Teaching and Students

Landscape Architecture Director Honored | May 16, 2008
The Arizona Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects has named UA professor Ronald Stoltz as the 2008 Outstanding Landscape Architect. | General News | Teaching and Students

Willis E. Lamb Jr., 1955 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dies at 94 | May 16, 2008
Lamb's legacy is to physics, colleagues and students. | Campus News | General News | Science and Technology

Peter Smith Named Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science | May 15, 2008
A $2.5 million gift from the Thomas R. Brown Foundation establishes a rotating endowed chair in the UA College of Science. | General News | Science and Technology

Graduates Leave Devoted to Research | May 15, 2008
Three undergraduate researchers are among those who intend to pursue advanced degrees and move into research-based fields. | General News | Science and Technology | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students

Largest Honors College Class Includes Two Receiving Special Dean's Award | May 15, 2008
Graduating seniors Derrick Goodrich and Binh Duong each received the Honors College dean's "Award for Excellence." | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students

UA Holding 'Intense' Social Justice Retreat | May 14, 2008
Equiss brings students from across the United States to Tucson to learn about the imbalance of justice and what they can do to fix it. | General News | Teaching and Students

ISPE Director Testifying Before Congress on Wednesday | May 13, 2008
Jonathan Overpeck will speak to the House Committee on Science and Technology about managing water supplies. | General News | Science and Technology

Forecast: Wildfire Potential Above Normal in Arizona | May 9, 2008
UA experts helped draft a report that indicates the wildfire season is likely to be busy through August. | General News | Science and Technology

Border Poverty the Focus of New Book | May 9, 2008
The University of Arizona Press is publishing a co-authored book that takes a look at poverty along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and New Mexico. | Arts and Humanities | General News

Water: An 80-Year History, 40-Year Outlook | May 9, 2008
The UA Water Resources Research Center's upcoming conference will focus on the Colorado River and discuss what the water situation will look like in 2048. | General News

UA Hispanic Alumni Club Celebrates Excellence | May 8, 2008
UA Hispanic Alumni Club celebrates excellence during its annual recognition event which helps to fund student scholarhsips. | General News

Aid for AIDS in India | May 8, 2008
UA students hope to raise upwards from $30,000 during a benefit Saturday to continue and expand their HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs in India. | General News | Teaching and Students

Diné College President Resuming UA Studies After Securing 10-Year Accreditation | May 7, 2008
Diné College also has been given the green light to offer its first bachelor’s degree. | General News | Teaching and Students

China, UA Create Mandarin Language Center | May 7, 2008
The UA and the Office of Chinese Language Council International, or Hanban, will formally dedicate a Confucius Institute on campus. | Arts and Humanities | General News

Mexico's Former Minster of Health to Speak on Border Health Risks, Opportunities | May 6, 2008
International health scholar Julio Frenk will give the inaugural lecture in the James E. Dalen Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series. | General News | Health

UA Athletes' Academics Show Improvements | May 6, 2008
Ten sports show improvement in the NCAA's yearly academic progress report. | General News | Sports

Award-Winning Photography Graduate Ventures Into Video | May 5, 2008
May 2008 UA graduate Tomiko Jones, who was praised for her black and white photography, recently won a national award for her work and will spend part of the year studying in France. | Arts and Humanities | General News | Teaching and Students

Dual MBA Program Graduates First Computer Science Student | May 2, 2008
Jamie Samdal, who has accepted a job with Google, hopes to someday own her own software development company. | General News | Teaching and Students

UA South Faculty to Research Deaf Education in Chile | May 1, 2008
Ruth Claros-Kartchner received an invitation from Chile to study the condition of deaf education, focusing on a number of the country's schools. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students

Nobel Laureate, Mariachi Among Four to Receive Honorary Degrees | May 1, 2008
The University of Arizona will confer honorary degrees upon Robert K. Barkley, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Lin Xu and Alfredo R. Valenzuela during its 138th Spring Commencement Ceremony to be held Saturday, May 17 at the McKale Memorial Center. | Campus News | General News