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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-…
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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 needs, Jasmine…
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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…