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Browse Social Sciences and Education stories - July, 2009

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  • UA Acquires Up with People Archives |
    UANews | The UA Libraries has acquired the organizational archives belonging to Up with People and its alumni association. | | |
  • Camp Aims to Spark Girls' Visions of Careers in Science, Math |
    UANews | Girls will explore the UA and myriad career opportunities at MISS Adventures Camp. | |
  • STEM Program Works to Retain Math, Science Teachers |
    UANews | A new program at the UA is helping to improve the retention of math and science teachers in the K-12 system. |
  • Nutrition Network Working to Counter Childhood Obesity |
    UANews | The Arizona Nutrition Network trains teachers and other youth workers on ways to help students make healthy choices about the foods they eat. | |
  • Interpretation Institute Draws Professionals Nationwide, Abroad |
    UANews | The Agnese Haury Institute for Interpretation has grown its internationally renowned training program to fill a growing need for qualified medical, court and business interpreters. |
  • UA Libraries Publishes First E-Book |
    UANews | The UA Libraries has published "Latino Politics: A Growing and Evolving Political Community," which was co-authored by a UA political science professor. |
  • Ford Foundation Awards Grant to Fund UA Research on Gender and Sexuality Norms |
    UANews | The researchers will study perceptions among youth as they relate to school safety and harassment based on gender and sexual orientation. |
  • Arizona STEM Teachers Training at Biosphere 2 |
    UANews | Dozens of science and mathematics teachers are convening at the UA's Biosphere 2 for the Summer Institute of the Arizona Center for Science Teachers. | |
  • Homosexual Haitian Migrants Focus of UA Doctoral Student's Research |
    UANews | Erin Durban, a doctoral degree candidate in the UA's gender and women's studies department, is spending part of the summer in Haiti, where she will study the decisions homosexual Haitians make when moving to and from the United States. |
  • Archaeologists Mark 75-year Anniversary of Seminal Hohokam Excavations |
    UANews | Much of what archaeologists know about the ancient Hohokam civilization came from the 1934 excavations at Snaketown by Emil Haury and others. | |
  • UA Co-Hosting Transformative Education Conference |
    UANews | A four-day conference that will bring prominent education researchers to the UA is being presented by the UA's College of Education and the Tucson Unified School District. |
  • Researcher Studying Alternative Economies in Colombia |
    UANews | Brian Joseph Burke is among a few doctoral degree candidates across the nation to receive a dissertation research fellowship that will take him to Latin America where he will study barter systems. | |
  • New Project Intends to Empower Impoverished Women |
    UANews | The Southwest Institute for Research on Women is partnering with the Primavera Foundation under a newly funded grant to train impoverished women to be politically involved self-advocates. |
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