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March 9, 2023

Aguirre Scholarship Connects Tomorrow’s Leaders with Arizona History

In their lifetimes, Mary Bernard Aguirre and her grandson Pedro Joab Aguirre bridged different countries, cultures, languages and peoples.  

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April 3, 2019
The popular Cyclovia Tucson will pass through the UA campus on Sunday, April 7, and in celebration of National Poetry Month, the UA Poetry Center aims to get all 40,000 expected attendees to interact with a poem in some way.  Cyclovia, a program of…
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March 20, 2019
The Center for Digital Humanities has selected six faculty research projects for development awards. The projects will  combine research in a humanities discipline with cutting-edge technology, like data visualization, digital storytelling, motion…
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March 19, 2019
Sarah Kortemeier, Library Director at the UA Poetry Center, is the recipient of the 2019 Felix Pollak Prize, awarded by the University of Wisconsin Press. Kortemeier is recognized for Ganbatte, a collection of poems that follows its speaker around…
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March 18, 2019
A new collaboration between the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and the College of Humanities is focusing on teaching medical students empathy and compassion.   Most days, first-year medical students spend their time in classrooms and…
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March 15, 2019
A delegation of UA faculty members joined with colleagues from around the country in Washington D.C. this week for Humanities Advocacy Day. Organized by the National Humanities Alliance, the Advocacy Day coordinates the growing number of humanities…
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March 15, 2019
Join us at an international party and get to know the wide range of languages taught at the UA! The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) will host the UA Language Fair, an event designed to raise the visibility…
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March 14, 2019
Three Religious Studies majors presented papers at the American Academy of Religion/Western Region annual conference. This was just the second year that undergraduate papers have been accepted and the University of Arizona is the only university to…
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March 7, 2019
Professors in the UA College of Humanities shared music and topics related to Black History Month with KXCI Community Radio during the month of February. Invited on air during KXCI’s Home Stretch program, the professors discussed their research and…
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Feb. 22, 2019
Congratulations to the 2018-19 COH Teaching and Outreach Grant awardees!    2018-19 COH Teaching and Outreach Grant Awardees Carine Bourget French and Italian Project: French Language and Cultural Skills Development for Students in Health…
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Feb. 22, 2019
Congratulations to the Spring 2019 COH Graduate Student Research Grant awardees!    Spring 2019 COH Graduate Students Research Grant Awardees Marina Cárcamo García Spanish and Portuguese Project: Portuguese Language Acquisition in the Venezuelan…
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Feb. 20, 2019
The University of Arizona Poetry Center is among the beneficiaries of a $1 million grant to the Academy of American Poets from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, one of the largest investments in poetry ever made by the leading cultural institution.…
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Feb. 19, 2019
A sold-out Humanities Seminars Program lecture by OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta is more than just a chance to learn the latest about the asteroid sample return mission. The event doubles as a fundraiser for students, now and in…