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March 28, 2018
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.
Ore-Giron is the third consecutive College of Humanities faculty member to win the…
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March 13, 2018
Four College of Humanities students will receive scholarship funds to study abroad as winners of the 2018 SILLC Global Award.
Created in 2010 by Lehman Benson, UA associate professor of management who was then acting director of Africana Studies,…
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March 12, 2018
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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March 8, 2018
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…
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March 7, 2018
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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March 7, 2018
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…
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March 5, 2018
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.
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Feb. 28, 2018
Congratulations to the Spring 2018 COH Graduate Student Research Grant awardees!
Spring 2018 COH Graduate Students Research Grant Awardees
Adolfo Bejar Lara
Spanish and Portuguese
Project: Community Beyond the State…
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Feb. 28, 2018
The College of Humanities and Africana Studies Program extend a heartfelt thanks to KXCI Community Radio for the partnership to celebrate Black History Month.
Each Monday during February, KXCI's Home Stretch program hosted a professor from…
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Feb. 23, 2018
The Tucson Weekly published an interview with Religious Studies Professor Alex Nava, who will speak about the spiritual dimensions of hip-hop at the Tucson Hip Hop Festival on Saturday, Feb. 24. Both the College of Humanities and the Africana…
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Feb. 15, 2018
The new Undercover Arts magazine from the Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance features an article about the Learning Games Initiative:
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA’S LEARNING GAMES INITIATIVE IS BUILT ON A…
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Feb. 14, 2018
The Friends of HSP Endowment fund has surpassed the $1 million milestone, which will support the long-term interests and continuity of the UA’s premier adult education series.
Founded in 1984, the Humanities Seminars Program has enrolled more than…