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Jan. 31, 2024
After years spent in hard-to-find offices – converted old houses on Helen Street and then upstairs in the Geronimo building in Main Gate Square – the Writing Skills Improvement Program has relocated to the heart of campus. …
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Jan. 31, 2024
Classroom teachers across the state can enroll in free Humanities Seminars Program courses through a scholarship program that seeks to expand opportunities for educators.
Since its founding in 1984, the Humanities Seminars Program has…
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Jan. 31, 2024
Typically, global philanthropy and development have operated according to a top-down model, often unresponsive to actual community needs and ideas.
With a project designed to reorient that focus to one more responsive to community…
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Jan. 26, 2024
Kelsi Vanada, program director of the American Literary Translators Association, is one of 18 translators selected by the National Endowment for the Arts to receive a Literature Translation Fellowship.
Vanada is a poet and translator…
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Dec. 18, 2023
Excellence breeds excellence, or so the saying goes. In Tucson, perhaps Qualität bedingt Qualität is more appropriate.
This fall, the German program at University High School joined those at the University of Arizona and Empire High School…
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Dec. 15, 2023
Congratulations to the College of Humanities’ Outstanding Senior for Winter 2023, Alexandra Doe!
Doe is graduating Magna Cum Laude with a dual degree, a B.A. in Spanish and a B.S. in Physiology and Medical Sciences, plus a minor in Sports…
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Dec. 13, 2023
Dorrance Dean Alain-Philippe Durand is pleased to announce the recipients of the College of Humanities 2023 Helen H. Chatfield Awards.
The awards, which recognize exemplary teaching, research and service, were created in 2021 to honor the…
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Dec. 11, 2023
Two College of Humanities seniors are the recipients of the Centennial Achievement Undergraduate Awards.
Grayson Agrella, a triple major in French, Anthropology and Art History, and Emily Wright, a double major in Religious Studies and…
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Nov. 9, 2023
Listen to a global hip-hop playlist curated College of Humanities faculty, on YouTube or Apple Music.
Fifty years after it began in the Bronx, hip-hop has become the world’s most popular musical genre, incorporating local sounds…
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Nov. 9, 2023
Interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist and entrepreneur Favianna Rodriguez was selected as the 2023 Dorrance Dean’s Scholar/Specialist-in-Residence.
While on campus, Rodriguez created the large-scale art installation Desert Symphony…
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Nov. 9, 2023
The Center for East Asian Studies has received a federal grant to fund a summer Chinese language immersion program designed for high school students and college freshmen and sophomores.
The STARTALK grant, about $340,000 for a two-year…
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Nov. 7, 2023
Even for a physician, the humanities is a lifelong journey, according to Dr. Ross Schwartzberg.
As a University of Arizona undergraduate student with his sights set on medical school, Ross Schwartzberg carved out space in his schedule to…