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  • Students Win $7,000 in Cash Awards During Engineering Design Day | May 16, 2008
    Winning projects included a device that automatically maintains air pressure in vehicle tires, a handheld sensor for detecting harmful bacteria in food, a security robot and other high-tech devices. | Science and Technology | 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
  • 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
  • Native American Student Affairs Celebrates Graduates | May 14, 2008
    The UA's Native American Student Affairs  hosts its graduation convocation on Thursday with a culturally relevant celebration to honor students and program supporters. | Teaching and Students
  • Doctoral Student Awarded 2008 Udall Dissertation Fellowship | May 14, 2008
    Jennifer Rice is the first Udall Fellow from the UA. | 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
  • Top Greek Men Graduating | May 13, 2008
    Cameron Warner and Mark L. Herchold each spent much of their time at the UA working to improve the academic and social lives of fraternity and sorority members. | Teaching and Students
  • Solar Concentrator Shows Promise for Bringing Electricity to Remote Villages | May 12, 2008
    Student engineers design a robust system that tracks the sun and focuses sunlight on a Stirling engine to provide enough energy for a small building or several homes. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • 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
  • UA Graduate Focuses on Minority Health Care | May 6, 2008
    Mai-Ly Duong, who graduates from the UA this month, organized the University's first known walk to raise funds for hepatitis research. | Health | Teaching and Students
  • UA to Honor LGBTQ Graduates With Historic First Convocation Ceremony | May 5, 2008
    The UA Office of LGBTQ Affairs will honor and recognize LGBTQ and allied students who will  graduate in May during its first convocation ceremony since the office's establishment in 2007. | Teaching and Students
  • Text Undergoes Digital Transformation in Writing Showcase | May 5, 2008
    UA writing students have turned their research papers into electronically based displays of information for the First Year Writing Showcase. | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • 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
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific Honors UA Astronomer for Excellent Teaching | May 2, 2008
    Chris Impey is nationally known as a top astronomy teacher. | Science and Technology | 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 Mining Engineering Student Wins $3,000 in Michelin Essay Contest | May 2, 2008
    Daniel Marsh, a junior in mining engineering, was the first runner-up in the Michelin Essay Contest. | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Future Leaders Grapple With Ethics Dilemmas | May 1, 2008
    More than 50 area high school students will grapple with ethical problems on Friday, part of a forum sponsored by the UA Eller College of Management. | Business and Law | 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
  • Six UA Graduates to be Awarded Medals of Honor | May 1, 2008
    Merril P. Freeman Medals will be awarded to Adeel Yang and Laurel Cox, Robie Gold Medals will be awarded to Matthew Hall and Grace Hsieh and  Robert Logan Nugent Medals will be awarded to Abbas Tuli  and Ruth Fesahazion during the UA's 138th Commencement Ceremony May 17.  | Campus News | Teaching and Students
  • Astronaut Frank Borman to Speak at UA's 138th Commencement | May 1, 2008
    The University of Arizona celebrates its 138th Commencement on May 17. 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
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