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Tuesday
There are more than 7 million humanities graduates in the U.S. workforce, in every occupation.
As Jenna Finfrock, Manager of Alumni and Donor Affairs, has connected and cultivated relationships with College of Humanities alumni over the last decade…
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Tuesday
The UA Poetry Center’s renowned library collection, which began more than 60 years ago with a personal donation of about 500 volumes, has now reached 60,000 books.
The 60,000th book itself is an artist’s book titled Rescuing Q: Quandaries and…
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Feb. 27, 2025
The College of Humanities is proud to announce the following recipients of the Spring 2025 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. 24, 2025
Beyond his natural talent, the root of Sean Elliott’s successes on the basketball court came from the unwavering support of two people: his mother Odiemae Elliott and Coach Lute Olson.
Before chasing his basketball dreams into the NBA, Sean made…
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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…