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  • Budget Reductions, Construction Funding Passed by ABOR | July 30, 2008
    While the UA must reduce its fiscal year 2009 budget by $19.6 million, it has received a $170 million allocation for construction and building renewal. | Campus News | General News
  • National PBS Program Featuring the Phoenix Mission | July 29, 2008
    "NOVA scienceNOW" will air a segment about the mission during its July 30 program. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Tumamoc Hill to Close Briefly for Buffelgrass Eradication | July 28, 2008
    Experts will work to contain the grass in the popular hiking site, also the location of the UA’s Desert Laboratory. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Professor Darrel Goll Passes Away | July 24, 2008
    Goll will be remembered as the ultimate academic and a distinguished researcher who excelled in his service to the University. | Campus News | General News | Teaching and Students
  • UA Receives More Than $4M in Fellowships From Science Foundation Arizona | July 23, 2008
    Fifty top graduate researchers were recruited to the UA through Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship program. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • Arizona Public Media Launches New Series | July 23, 2008
    "WaveLengths" is a new series exploring a number of research projects that are working to improve the lives of people in southern Arizona and around the world. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Arizona Governor Visits Phoenix Mars Team Working at UA | July 22, 2008
    The lander was working a 33-hour workshift on Mars when Gov. Napolitano visited its science operations center in Tucson. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Campus Librarians Teaching For-Credit Courses | July 21, 2008
    Librarians have been teaching various topics for years, but this is the first time that UA librarians have offered for-credit coursework. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Remembering an Empire | July 21, 2008
    The UA Libraries is currently showing an exhibit that details the history of Empire Ranch, one of the largest cattle ranches in Arizona, and the West, during the territorial days. | General News | Social Sciences and Education
  • Gov. Napolitano to Visit Phoenix Mission Operations Center | July 18, 2008
    Gov. Janet Napolitano will tour the Phoenix Mars Mission Science Operations Center with UA President Robert N. Shelton and receive a briefing from Phoenix Mission Principal Investigator Peter Smith. | General News | Science and Technology
  • A Coca-Cola Campus | July 16, 2008
    The UA has selected Coca-Cola as its exclusive beverage provider.  | General News | Teaching and Students
  • UA Lecture Series Follows European Missionaries | July 16, 2008
    Four scholars from the UA history department will trace the steps and measure the impact of Christian missionaries from Europe on other lands. | General News | Social Sciences and Education
  • UA Computers Really Fast, and Green | July 15, 2008
    UA research computing's newest high-performance computers are many times faster and more energy efficient than the less than four-year-old computers they replaced. | General News | Science and Technology
  • Researcher Finds Teaching Moments in Hypocrisy | July 14, 2008
    Jeff Stone, who has studied hypocrisy, says that people may feel compelled to change  bad behaviors when they realize their beliefs and actions don't match. | General News | Social Sciences and Education | Teaching and Students
  • Stay-Cation at the UA | July 11, 2008
    The UA campus offers numerous attractions for those staying close to home during their summer vacations. | Arts and Humanities | Business and Law | General News
  • UA Nation's 2nd Top Producer of Peace Corps Fellows | July 11, 2008
    Fellows enrolled in the program at the UA contribute 500 hours of service each year to community-based organizations in southern Arizona. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Under New Management | July 9, 2008
    The University of Arizona is celebrating the completion of a tremendously successful first year of managing Biosphere 2. | General News | Science and Technology | Teaching and Students
  • UA Introduces Outreach College | July 9, 2008
    The newly-designated college will be responsible for improving the UA's reach beyond the Tucson area. | General News | Teaching and Students
  • Arizona State Museum Director Hartman H. Lomawaima Passes Away | July 8, 2008
    Lomawaima was only the sixth director, and the first American Indian, in the 115-year history of the Arizona State Museum. | Arts and Humanities | Campus News | General News | Social Sciences and Education
  • UA Alum in ABC Series | July 2, 2008
    Oscar Serrano, who earned degrees from the UA in 2000 and 2001, is one of the Johns Hopkins Hospital residents film crews followed for the ABC News series, "Hopkins." | General News | Health | Teaching and Students
  • UA Announces Restructuring Plans for Health Sciences | July 1, 2008
    As part of the restructuring, a new vice president for health affairs position has been created. | Campus News | General News | Health
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