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Browse Teaching and Students stories - January, 2009

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  • Library Offers Expanded Services |
    UANews | Library users at the UA now have the option to conduct a global search of bibliographic information. | |
  • Civil Rights Advocate Giving Black History Month Keynote Address |
    UANews | Bernard LaFayette Jr., who has devoted his live to the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., will be at the UA in February to speak and lead nonviolence training workshops. | |
  • Support for Higher Education Overwhelms the Capitol |
    UANews | The leaders of Arizona's public universities  offered collaborative solutions to Arizona's budget crisis while students showed up in droves to voice their opposition to proposed cuts to university budgets. | |
  • Cardinal Who Oversees the Vatican Observatory Will Visit Tucson |
    UANews | The President of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State will visit Vatican Observatory astronomers in Tucson next month. | | | | |
  • Union Gallery Sponsoring Workshop Series on Recycling |
    UANews | The Union Gallery has announced dates for its first three workshops to teach participants how to make items from recycled materials. | |
  • Art Exhibition to Explore the Middle East |
    UANews | Art work created by near 50 artists centered on topics related to issues in the Middle East are on display at the UA's Union Gallery. | | |
  • Students Prepare to Protest at State Capitol on Wednesday |
    UANews | More than 2,000 students are expected to protest at the Arizona State Capitol this Wednesday in opposition to cuts to university budgets proposed by legislative leaders. | |
  • Giffords, Burger Will Speak at Math Educators Appreciation Day |
    UANews | More than 400 teachers will convene for Math Educators Appreciation Day Saturday, Jan. 24. |
  • Faculty to be Honored at Induction Ceremony |
    UANews | A formal ceremony will mark the induction of three new Regents' Professors and two University Distinguished Professors at the UA. | | | | |
  • College of Science Lectures Focus on "Next: Science That Transforms" |
    UANews | Speakers to talk about large-scale science that will dramatically change our views of the universe and ourselves. | | |
  • Richard 'Dick' Roberts Memorial Scholarship Honors Former Budget Director |
    UANews | ASUA has established a memorial scholarship in honor of the late Richard J. "Dick" Roberts, former UA assistant vice president and budget director. | |
  • National Political Research Center Wants UA Students |
    UANews | Project Vote Smart, which opened a branch office at the UA in 2006, is seeking University students for internship positions this spring semester. | | | |
  • Regents Meeting at UA Expected to Draw Large Crowd |
    UANews | Thursday's ABOR meeting expected to include large turnout of business leaders, parents, students and alumni speaking against proposed university cuts. | |
  • UA Enters National Recycling Competition |
    UANews | The UA's Residence Life unit has participated in RecycleMania since 2001. This will be the first year the entire campus community has been involved. | | | | | |
  • ArtWorks Program Collaborates With Local Gallery |
    UANews | A UA art therapy program that works with developmentally disabled adults has partnered with a local gallery to showcase the work of its artists. | | |
  • Poetry Center Spring Series Set to Begin |
    UANews | The UA Poetry Center kicks off its spring series this month. | |
  • UA Units Hosting Inauguration Day Events |
    UANews | African American Student Affairs, Arizona Public Media and UApresents are hosting public views of the Inauguration Day event on Tuesday. | |
  • UA Working to Increase Ph.D.s Among Minorities, Low-Income Students |
    UANews | Students have until Feb. 1 to apply to the McNair Achievement Program, which is one of several programs attempting to increase the number of students who are low-income, first-generation and students of  color in master's level programs.  | | | | | |
  • Arizona Student Unions Makes New Additions |
    UANews | The Arizona Student Unions has made new additions at both the Student Union Memorial Center and the Park Student Union. | | | |
  • Former UA Student Joining National Tour of Broadway musical 'Wicked' |
    UANews | Recent UA graduate credits the University's School of Theater Arts for opening doors to Broadway. | | |
  • Space-Bound Astronaut is a UA Alum |
    UANews | Joseph M. Acaba graduated from the UA in 1992 and is now set to be one of the crew members scheduled to depart Earth next month for the International Space Center. | | |
  • Students to Remain Enrolled Despite Nonpayment |
    UANews | The UA has instituted a new process that will avoid dropping University students from courses if they are unable to pay their tuiton and fees on time. Instead, they'll be placed in a payment plan. | |
  • International Friends Seek Friendship-Building Community Members |
    UANews | International students get to know the Tucson community through the time volunteered by International Friends and its members.  | |
  • Undergraduate Research Program Turns 20 |
    UANews | The Undergraduate Biology Research Program began at a time when there was not a coordinated effort to involve undergraduates in scientific research. Now, 20 years later, the effort is a mainstay at the UA. | | | | | |
  • UA Among Nation's Best in Granting Doctoral Degrees to American Indians, Hispanics |
    UANews | The Survey of Earned Doctorates reports the UA is fifth in the country in doctoral degrees granted to Native American students from 2003-2007, and sixth nationally in degrees granted to Hispanic students. | |
  • New Grant-funded Project Meant to Improve Educational Technology |
    UANews | A UA-led team of researchers has just earned a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a tutoring system that can tailor teachings based on individual progress. | | |
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