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The University of Arizona ranks among the top 10 universities in the nation for producing graduates with foreign language degrees.
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Zy Mazza, a Religious Studies senior, is the recipient of the 2018 Humanities Matters Scholarship, with a winning essay arguing that the humanities have become more vital than ever in a world of rapidly advancing technology. In his essay, Mazza...
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The UA’s National Center for Interpretation is awarding grants and tuition funding to five graduate students in the College of Humanities. 
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Congratulations to College of Humanities faculty and staff members who were honored for employment milestones at the UA’s 2018 Annual Service Awards Reception. 
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The UA Poetry Center's Rare Book Collection houses and preserves important and unique books of poetry.    
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Dino Kadich (class of ‘18) is an Honors senior majoring in Geography and Africana Studies, with a minor in North Eastern and North African Studies. His hard work has culminated in him being named a 2018 Gates Cambridge Scholar. 
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Erika Gault, an assistant professor of Africana Studies, has been selected as a 2018 recipient of the Louisville Institute’s First Book Grant for Minority Scholars. Gault’s award of $40,000 will fund research over the coming academic year as she...
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The College of Humanities is one of six institutions participating in the Software Preservation in Libraries and Archives grant. The overall goal is to give librarians, archivists, and curators better methodology for the preservation of digital...
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Edgard Ore-Giron, an instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, won the prestigious 2018 Margaret M. Briehl and Dennis T. Ray Five Star Faculty Award.
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Four College of Humanities students will receive scholarship funds to study abroad as winners of the 2018 SILLC Global Award.
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The UA Humanities Seminars Program summer courses feature subjects from Hopi archaeology to classical art to Shakespeare and international detective fiction. Founded in 1984, the university’s premier adult education series has enrolled more than 21,...
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Gloria Rivera, one of the top medical interpreter trainers at the UA's National Center for Interpretation, has received the 2018 Trainer of the Year Award from the California Healthcare Interpreter Association.  Rivera, a certified medical...
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Tani D. Sanchez, associate professor of Africana Studies, is a featured author at the Tucson Festival of Books. Her 2017 book, Didn't Come From Nothing: An African-American Story of Life, presents a genealogical narrative that traces family roots...
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As a professor at Michigan State University, Malcolm Compitello was part of a very good program in Spanish. But what he saw at the University of Arizona was a setting and a community where Spanish was everywhere. The UA had a learning environment...
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In 2017, Melissa Fitch of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese was selected as a University Distinguished Professor and now Fitch is the subject of a new profile video that looks at her work inside and outside of the classroom.  "University...
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The College of Humanities and Africana Studies Program extend a heartfelt thanks to KXCI Community Radio for the partnership to celebrate Black History Month.