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Browse Social Sciences and Education stories - October, 2009

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  • UA Education Program Offers Hybrid Option |
    UANews | Those on the path to becoming principals and superintendents in the state of Arizona now have the option of enrolling in UA's educational leadership program's hybrid option. |
  • Anthropologists Call for Improved Global Response to Animal-Borne Infectious Diseases |
    UANews | UA Regents' Professor Mark Nichter was part of a panel of experts calling for improved coordination between countries to help stem disease outbreaks brought on by animal-borne pathogens. | |
  • Education Launches New Lecture Series |
    UANews | Luis C. Moll, a UA teaching, language and sociocultural studies professor, is presenting the inaugural speech in the Ernest W. McFarland Lecture Series. | |
  • School of Mind, Brain, and Behavior to Offer New Teaching and Research Avenues |
    UANews | The school, which includes psychology, speech, language and hearing sciences, neuroscience and cognitive science, will also offer new undergraduate majors and collaborative projects between researchers. | | |
  • Philosophy Student Wins Greek Studies Prize |
    UANews | The Phi Beta Kappa Society awarded its annual Sibley Fellowship to Michelle Jenkins for her dissertation on Plato. | |
  • Education Professor Honored for Body of Work |
    UANews | Luis C. Moll, whose research contributions are credited with advancing the understanding of ways that Hispanic students learn, is being honored by the American Educational Research Association. | | |
  • Project Vote Smart Hosting Debate Series |
    UANews | More than 20 scholars, researchers, elected officials and business executives will take part in a debate series that has been organized by Project Vote Smart, which is housed at the UA. | |
  • UA Students Learning to Teach About the Holocaust |
    UANews | UA elementary education students are learning about ways to appropriately teach about the Holocaust during a conference being held in Tucson this week. | |
  • Journalism Students to Honor Zenger Award Winner |
    UANews | Navajo Times publisher Tom Arviso Jr. will be honored at a traditional ceremony on Oct. 19. |
  • Church Attendance, Marital Status Can Affect Mood of Older Adults |
    UANews | UA graduate student Rita Law's study to evaluate long-term effects of marital status and church attendance is among very few that have considered such a correlation. |
  • Regents' Professor John Pollock, 1940-2009 |
    UANews | UA Regents' Professor John Pollock helped establish the UA philosophy department and cognitive science program among the premier units in the country. |
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