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April 6, 2023
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Professor Jiang Wu Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
University of Arizona Department of East Asian Studies Professor and Center for Buddhist Studies Director Jiang Wu is one of 171 scientists, writers, scholars and artists awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.Read More
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April 10, 2025
Congratulations to Jiang Wu, Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies, on being named a Regents Professor! Interim Provost Ron Marx introduced Wu to the Arizona Board of Regents as the “…
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April 8, 2025
The College of Humanities is proud to announce the following recipients of the Spring 2025 COH Scholarships.Please join us in congratulating them on their outstanding achievements! Alene Kelsey Metcalf Family ScholarshipDaniela Gonzalez |…
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April 2, 2025
A sociolinguist who studies the unique aspects of bilingual speakers in border regions, Ana Carvalho has conducted research for decades in Portuguese-speaking communities of northern Uruguay. But Carvalho sought to tell the story of those…
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April 1, 2025
The UA Poetry Center received an award at this year’s Tucson Festival of Books for outstanding service and dedication to the festival. The Poetry Center has played an integral role in the festival since it began in 2009, helping to identify…
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March 31, 2025
Suzanne Panferov Reese, director of the Critical Languages Program and chair of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching, has received the 2025 James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL. Founded in…
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March 27, 2025
We are pleased to announce our 2024-2025 Inaugural Humanities Fearless Scholars (listed with their College of Humanities majors)! Jezaniah Allen (Major: Africana Studies)Bryanna Alvarado (Majors: Spanish, Applied Humanities)Dorian…
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March 6, 2025
The College of Humanities has designed a Recruitment Workshop to provide GATs and faculty with hands-on instruction in the college’s progress and vision for recruitment, as well as strategies and best practices for recruiting in and out of the…
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March 4, 2025
There are more than 7 million humanities graduates in the U.S. workforce, in every occupation.
As Jenna Finfrock, Manager of Alumni and Donor Affairs, has connected and cultivated relationships with College of Humanities alumni over the…
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March 4, 2025
The UA Poetry Center’s renowned library collection, which began more than 60 years ago with a personal donation of about 500 volumes, has now reached 60,000 books.
The 60,000th book itself is an artist’s book titled Rescuing Q: Quandaries and…
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Feb. 27, 2025
The College of Humanities is proud to announce the following recipients of the Spring 2025 Fearless Inquiries Abroad ScholarshipsEach of the following students will receive $2,000 to participate in a College of Humanities Study Abroad program.…
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Feb. 24, 2025
Beyond his natural talent, the root of Sean Elliott’s successes on the basketball court came from the unwavering support of two people: his mother Odiemae Elliott and Coach Lute Olson.
Before chasing his basketball dreams into the NBA, Sean made…
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Feb. 5, 2025
Twenty years after the introduction of the Africana Studies degree at the University of Arizona, the program maintains the same strong ties to Tucson’s tight-knit Black community that brought it to life in the first place.
A direct product of the…