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Feb. 18, 2019
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UA Among Top Producers of Foreign Language Degrees
The University of Arizona ranks among the top 10 universities in the nation for producing graduates with foreign language degrees. According to a new Chronicle of Higher Education analysis of U.S. Department of Education data for the 2016-17 academic year, the UA conferred 216 bachelor’s degrees in foreign languages, literatures and linguistics, ranking 10th among all universities.Read More
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Oct. 17, 2018
The UA College of Humanities is establishing a scholarship in honor of 2018 Alumnus of the Year M. André Goodfriend, to support students in the new Applied Humanities major.
After graduating from the University of Arizona in 1979 with a quadruple…
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Oct. 9, 2018
The College of Humanities inaugural Young Professional Achievement Award will be presented to Autumn DiGaetano-Fedoruk, who credits her double major in Spanish and economics for opening doors to professional opportunities that she is still…
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Oct. 1, 2018
M. André Goodfriend, whose UA studies in language and culture paved the way for a career in diplomacy that’s spanned more than three decades, is the College of Humanities 2018 Alumnus of the Year.
Currently serving as the director of the U.S.…
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Sept. 28, 2018
The UA’s College of Humanities is continuing to expand its community outreach in lifelong learning, with an agreement to deliver Humanities Seminars Program courses to residents of Watermark Retirement Communities.
The University of Arizona’s…
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Sept. 26, 2018
If knowledge is power, how powerful are secrets?
The 2018 Tucson Humanities Festival will look into hidden identities, clandestine rituals, mysterious escapes and encoded meanings, examining how information that's withheld and obscured has impacted…
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Sept. 17, 2018
Five UA colleges collaborate on innovative interdisciplinary degree designed to give students a global focus
A new career-centered degree in the College of Humanities will give students an educational path that integrates professional training and…
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Sept. 10, 2018
Jiang Wu, director of the UA’s Center for Buddhist Studies, has received the inaugural Tianzhu Book Prize for Excellence in Chan Studies.
The award recognizes Wu’s book Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity…
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Aug. 17, 2018
Recent news events, from high-level diplomatic relations to immigrant detention, have placed a spotlight on the role that interpreters and translators perform in an increasingly interconnected world. However, the importance and parameters of that…
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Aug. 14, 2018
Jaime Fatás Cabeza, Director of the Translation and Interpretation Program in the UA's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, discussed the fundamentals of interpreting in an interview with the Spanish newspaper Heraldo.
Undergraduate students in…
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Aug. 14, 2018
The UA’s premier adult education series launches its 35th year with a slate of 10 fall classes that span topics from literature and art to hot-button Supreme Court issues to the complexity of the human brain.
Founded in 1984, the Humanities Seminars…
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July 25, 2018
Though Westminster Abbey is the final resting place for Stephen Hawking’s remains, in a fitting tribute, the iconic cosmologist’s voice is continuing into space, beamed toward a black hole.
For a delegation of professors and students from the…
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July 18, 2018
The American Literary Translators Association will have a new home in the University of Arizona College of Humanities.
Without literary translators, Don Quixote would never be known outside La Mancha, Yuri Zhivago wouldn’t have brought his…