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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 working from…
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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 in…
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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 memory…
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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 Journalism…
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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, styles and…
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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, which…
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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 cycle, is…
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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 follow…
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Nov. 6, 2023
As a true “voice for the voiceless,” and a bilingual one at that, Jessie Bustamante has dedicated her career to being an advocate, supporter and fundraiser for individuals who have disabilities.   Bustamante, who graduated in 2006 with a degree in…
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Oct. 3, 2023
The College of Humanities has created a new scholarship that will award 30 students $2,000 each for study abroad programs.   The Fearless Inquiries Abroad Scholarships will support eligible students participating in transformative study abroad…
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Oct. 3, 2023
What began as a course in "Spanish for the Spanish Speaking" in the fall of 1965 has grown into the oldest and most extensive Spanish as a Heritage Language program in the country. The University of Arizona, along with the University of New Mexico,…