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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…
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Feb. 5, 2025
When Paul Adamsbaum was in college in the late 60s and early 70s in New York, he had a job delivering LPs and 45s to record stores throughout the city. Visiting as many as a dozen stores a day, he got to know the neighborhoods, their music and the…
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Feb. 5, 2025
Frank Whitehead, Graduate Services Coordinator for the School of International Languages, Literatures and Cultures, is the recipient of the Graduate Program Coordinator Outstanding Contributions Award.
The Graduate College created the award in 2024…
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Feb. 5, 2025
A new National Center for Interpretation program is being offered to assist University of Arizona departments and other units that might have a need for translation, interpretation or bilingual assistance.
NCI, founded at the U of A in 1979, offers…
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Feb. 4, 2025
Early on in his career as an assistant basketball coach, Tommy Lloyd started making a name for himself as one of the first to start recruiting international players.
It was a move that led to enormous success on the court, but one that Lloyd could…
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Jan. 30, 2025
Robert Stephan, Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics, has received the Archaeological Institute of America’s 2025 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
The award, presented at the AIA’s 126th…
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Jan. 30, 2025
Eddy White, Professor of Practice in the Department of Public and Applied Humanities, is one of three new members on the Arizona Humanities Board of Directors.
White follows Dorrance Dean Alain-Philippe Durand and Albrecht Classen, University…
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Dec. 20, 2024
For Yalitza Ramírez, choosing to pursue her degree while staying in Nogales gave her a new vision for how she could make a difference in the community she’s always loved.
“Nogales, with its unique border culture and close-knit community, has always…
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Dec. 19, 2024
By Kelsi Vanada
Program Director, American Literary Translators Association
A poem in translation is a rewriting of the original—at once the same poem and a new poem. “It’s a sibling. It’s not a twin,” as described by Danish translator Katrine…
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Dec. 19, 2024
Having seen the potential and effectiveness of interactive theater in addressing challenges and difficult issues, Aurélia Mouzet is launching a new project to use theater as a forum for developing new ideas for inclusivity in education.
Mouzet,…
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Dec. 18, 2024
Germans love the Southwestern United States.
At Kartchner Caverns State Park, the spectacular limestone cave about 60 miles southeast of Tucson, German tourists are among the most frequent international visitors. Last spring, park rangers realized…
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Dec. 18, 2024
Octreyvian Killian, an honors student triple majoring in German Studies, Philosophy and Literacy, Learning, and Leadership, has received the 2024 Centennial Achievement Undergraduate Award.
The annual awards, established in 1984, recognize students…