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May 3, 2024
One professor in the Department of German Studies has been promoted, demonstrating excellent performance in teaching, service and research.   Dr. Janice McGregor is promoted from Assistant Professor to tenured Associate Professor.   Also a faculty…
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May 3, 2024
Four faculty members in the Department of French & Italian have been promoted, demonstrating excellent performance in teaching, service and research.   Dr. Kris Knisely is promoted from Assistant Professor to tenured Associate Professor; Dr.…
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May 3, 2024
One professor in the Department of East Asian Studies has been promoted, demonstrating excellent performance in teaching, service and research.   Dr. Sunyoung Yang is promoted from Assistant Professor to tenured Associate Professor.   Yang directs…
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May 3, 2024
Chantelle Warner, Professor of German and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, has been named Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs.   Warner, who has been serving as Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, will start July 1. She…
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April 22, 2024
Call it a forward pass of a different sort.   When Nic Griffin was an Applied Humanities major, he began putting his education into action as an intern for the Tucson Sugar Skulls. Now the football team’s Director of Ticket Operations, Griffin…
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April 3, 2024
THE COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING RECIPIENTS OF THE SPRING 2024 COH SCHOLARSHIPS Please join us in congratulating them on their outstanding achievements!   Alfred and Mary Beigel Memorial ScholarshipEmma LaPointe |…
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April 3, 2024
A Quechan (Kwatsáan) translation focusing on the act and experience of sharing poetry now graces the Poetry Center’s building sign.   The inscription—Shanyíitsq a’ íim aatsuu’ ávk, “In the Silence We Listen”—was dedicated at a ceremony March 11,…
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March 6, 2024
The College of Humanities is proud to announce the following recipients of the Spring 2024 Fearless Inquiries Abroad Scholarships Each of the following students will receive $2,000 to participate in a College of Humanities Study Abroad program.…
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Feb. 1, 2024
The University of Arizona Poetry Center is excited to be partnering for a second year with the College of Science Lecture series in February.  The poets Julie Swarstad Johnson, Bojan Louis, Alison Hawthorne Deming, and Katherine Larson will read an…
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Feb. 1, 2024
Peter Ecke, Professor in the Department of German Studies, has received a $15,000 Award for Faculty from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct research and revise an undergraduate course on multilingualism.   Ecke developed “Becoming…
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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.     Now on the first floor…
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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 offered non-…