The Ecology of Voter Signs

  • UANews
  • November 16, 2012
Students in Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman's UA ecology class have canvassed Tucson streets collecting data on everything from plant cover and bird diversity to political signs. The data will go into a five-year study investigating Tucson's urban ecology trends, including how residents' political views could shape how they interact with the environment around them.

After Expanding UA Interpretation Center, Director Retires

  • UANews
  • November 15, 2012
With the support of Agnese Haury, Roseann Dueñas González founded the UA Agnese Haury Institute for Court Interpretation and went on to direct the UA's National Center for Interpretation Testing, Research & Policy. After investing her entire career in informing policy and advocating for improvements in language and interpreter training, González has retired from the UA.

UA Alumnus Makes $1M Pledge to LGBT Institute

  • UANews
  • November 13, 2012
UA alumnus James J. Leos has made multiple financial contributions to the University's Institute for LGBT Studies, including a major bequest that recently was announced. His contributions are expected to transform the UA institute, which works to promote research related to gender and sexual diversity.

Book Festival $200K Award Going to UA, 2 Literacy Groups

  • Arizona Daily Star
  • November 8, 2012
Representatives of the Tucson Festival of Books will present a $200,000 check today to the UA and two other literacy organizations at an international celebration of literacy. Since 2009, the Tucson Festival of Books has contributed $700,000 to organizations dedicated to improving literacy efforts in the Tucson community.

UA ROTC Students Learn Arabic to Prepare for Deployment

  • KVOA-TV
  • October 30, 2012
UA ROTC students are learning Arabic through Project GO, a Department of Defense initiative. The students learn to read and write in Arabic, and they learn about the culture. Said UA Middle East Language Programs coordinator Sonia Shiri: "The goal is to help these future officers be better prepared in terms of language and culture for the so-called critical languages."

Princess by Proxy: When Child Beauty Pageants Aren’t About the Kids

  • UANews
  • October 26, 2012
A new paper in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry takes a critical look at children's glitz beauty pageants. Author Martina M. Cartwright, UA adjunct professor of nutritional sciences, suggests that some parents who enter their children in pageants do so to serve their own needs rather than the needs of the child, exhibiting what she calls "princess by proxy."

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