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Turki Allugman / Arizona Daily Wildcat Samuel M. Edelman speaks at the Congregation Ashei Isreal on Nov. 5, 2012.

CSU Professor hosts Jewish Studies event on perceptions of Israel in universities

Yara Askar
November 6, 2012
Jordin O'Connor / Arizona Daily Wildcat UA students and alumni celebrate the beginning of Home Coming Week with the lighting of A Mountain on Nov. 4, 2012.

98th Homecoming week kicks off with “A” Mountain lighting

Yara Askar
November 5, 2012
Hailey Eisenbach / Arizona Daily Wildcat UMC emergency room Dr. Arthur B. Sanders was elected into the high ranking Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Professor recognized for work in emergency medicine, elected into medical institute

Yara Askar
November 5, 2012
Courtesy of Darci L. Slaten

Elks foundation promises $2.5M in next 10 years for UA research center

Yara Askar
October 31, 2012
Ernie Somoza / Arizona Daily Wildcat

Pride Alliance holds discussion for students, community to address Daily Wildcat comic

Yara Askar
October 25, 2012
Kevin Brost / Arizona Daily Wildcat Dr. Stephen Russell, interim director at the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, speaks to an audience about bullying in Tucson Public Schools on Monday.

Tucson youth survey reveals bullying statistics from local public schools

Yara Askar
October 23, 2012

Family Weekend: Alumni Association holds luncheon for past generations of Wildcats and children

Yara Askar
October 19, 2012
Hailey Eisenbach/ Arizona Daily Wildcat Dr. Yi Zeng makes her way to UAMC's pediatric cancer unit.

New physician at Diamond Children’s Medical Center breaks cancer diagnoses to parents

Yara Askar
October 18, 2012

Q&A with Vice President of Health Sciences Andrew Comrie

Yara Askar
October 17, 2012
Noelle R. Haro-Gomez/Arizona Daily Wildcat Carissa Pastuch, left, is tutoring Emily Smith, right. Smith is in the Airforce ROTC

The UA offers ROTC students Arabic course, focus on speaking

Yara Askar
October 16, 2012
Noelle R. Haro-Gomez/ Arizona Daily Wildcat From the left, Sarah Naves, Mariana Valencia, Jayme Gosney and Kelsey Hill, vollunteers for UA Students for Organ Donation, to register new donors. The booth will be out all week infront of the administration building by the UA mall.

Student club holds campus challenge informing students on becoming organ donors

Yara Askar
October 16, 2012
Kevin Brost / The Arizona Daily Wildcat

While studying abroad, architecture students get hands on experience revitalizing neighborhoods

Yara Askar
October 9, 2012

Proposed program would offer veterinary science degree

Yara Askar
October 8, 2012
Robert Alcaraz / Arizona Daily Wildcat Michael Jacobs, left, David Orr and Hector Rosales explain the specifics about their new mobile app, SociaLink. The three UA students expect to launch it in early November.

India trip sparks social networking app idea for UA student

Yara Askar
October 8, 2012
The University of Arizona Medical Center

UAMC nationally commended as a top teaching hospital

Yara Askar
October 3, 2012

Campus Health launches body image program for female students

Yara Askar
October 2, 2012

Health Notes

Yara Askar
September 25, 2012
Colin Prenger / Arizona Daily Wildcat

Space shuttle Endeavour flies over UA on last flight

Yara Askar
September 21, 2012
Alex Kulpinski / Arizona Daily Wildcat Greg Collins, a public administrations senior, is attempting to create a club on campus that advocates the allowance of fire arms on campus. Collins is searching for an advisor to start the club.

Pro-concealed carry club seeks recognition from ASUA

Yara Askar
September 19, 2012
Noelle R. Haro-Gomez/ Arizona Daily Wildcat Miriam Sigala, 18, works in the clothing department in the UA Bookstore.

Project Search Arizona prepares disabled young adults to enter workforce

Yara Askar
September 18, 2012
Turki Allugman / Arizona Daily Wildcat Matthew J Gallek has recieved a $350,000 award to promote his academic career and support his research.

Nursing professor receives $350K grant

Yara Askar
September 13, 2012
Courtesy of Carrol Mclaughlin

Collaboration aims to find correlation between music and medicine

Yara Askar
September 11, 2012
Jordin O'Connor / Arizona Daily Wildcat Lynne Wood, senior deputy general counsel

Former university attorney bows out after 33 years

Yara Askar
September 5, 2012

UAMC receives $1.7M grant research

Yara Askar
September 4, 2012
Kyle Wasson/Arizona Daily Wildcat Barbea Williams, adjunct faculty at the UA, instructs students on dancing at an African-American Affairs open house on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012.

Black students get boost from office

Yara Askar
August 30, 2012
Turki Allugman / Arizona Daily Wildcat A plaque in memory of Kemper Marley hangs in the Marley building on the UA campus.

Marley Building namesake helped fund UA and organized crime

Yara Askar
August 29, 2012
Press Photo Courtesy of UA College of Medicine -  Phoenix

New building welcomes Phoenix med school students

Yara Askar
August 27, 2012
Hailey Eisenbach/Arizona Daily Wildcat Ron Barber meets with the UA chapter of the Young Democrats at Espresso Art on Thurs., August 24.

Barber talks congressional issues with UA Young Democrats

Yara Askar
August 24, 2012
Jordin O'Connor / Arizona Daily Wildcat ASUA holds their first board meeting in the Ventana Room in SUMC on Wed., Aug. 22, 2012.

Outreach, fees on ASUA’s plate

Yara Askar
August 23, 2012
Kevin Brost/Arizona Daily Wildcat Old Main will be going through renovations, which will be finished in roughly two years.

Old Main to be empty for long-term renovation

Yara Askar
August 22, 2012
Undeclared majors allow for exploration

Undeclared majors allow for exploration

Yara Askar
May 24, 2012
Alex Kulpinski / Arizona Daily Wildcat "_______" speaks about the history of Ethnic Studies in the Tucson Unified School District.

Huppenthal: Universities should ban ethnic studies

Yara Askar
May 2, 2012
Will Ferguson / Arizona Daily Wildcat James Wilson, a freshman mechanical engineering major, donates blood. Members of the Red Cross collect blood from volunteers on the University of Arizona campus. The photos were taken on Friday, April 27, 2012.

Blood drive attendance up thanks to digital reminders

Yara Askar
May 2, 2012
Amy Webb/ Arizona Daily Wildcat Ronald W. Marx, the dean of the College of Education, received an endowed chair, giving him more funding for his research in Early Childhood Development.

College of Ed dean gets endowed chair

Yara Askar
April 25, 2012
Will Ferguson / Arizona Daily Wildcat Chief Anthony Dakin and Sgt. Juan Alvarez speak at an award ceremony held by the University of Arizona Police Department for members of the community who have helped officers in the line of duty. The event took place on the UA campus on April 24, 2012.

UAPD awards 8 UA affiliates for partnership

Yara Askar
April 25, 2012
Tim W. Glass / Arizona Daily Wildcat Sally Stevens recently won the University Distinguished Outreach Faculty Award. Stevens, the executiv director of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, was quick to recognise the work of research assistants who helped her win th award.

2 UA faculty get nod for outreach contributions

Yara Askar
April 24, 2012
Colin Prenger/ Arizona Daily Wildcat Several graduate students received awards from the GPSC for their outstanding academic achievement in their degrees. A ceremony was held on Friday in the Student Union Memorial Center's Tucson Room. Colin Prenger/ Arizona Daily Wildcat Several graduate students received awards from the GPSC for their outstanding academic achievement in their degrees. A ceremony was held on Friday in the Student Union Memorial Center's Tucson Room.

Graduate students take home awards for efforts in education

Yara Askar
April 23, 2012
Colin Prenger / Daily Wildcat Keynote speaker and professor of political science Dr. Jo Beld speaks at the UA Assessment Showcase 2012 held in the Rincon Room of the Student Union Memorial Center.

Educators assess student productivity

Yara Askar
April 18, 2012
Alex Kulpinski / Daily Wildcat Professor Paul Blowers of the University of Arizona Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering was named the 2012 University Distinguished Professor.

Pair of professors get distinguished awards for research, teaching skills

Yara Askar
April 17, 2012
Will Ferguson / Arizona Daily Wildcat The University of Arizona Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing held the 16th annual Innovating Customer Engagement Global Retailing Conference at the JW Marriott Resort at Starr Pass on April 12-13, 2012. The Conference featured speakers such as Terry J. Lundgren, CEO of Macy's, INC., and Frank Blake, CEO of Home Depot.

CEOs, experts stress new retail strategies

Yara Askar
April 13, 2012
UA College of Medicine - Tucson graduates pursuing family medicine residencies include (counterclockwise from the top at the map): Christine Pham, UA College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education Program, Tucson; Anna Landau, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, Calif.; Crysta Clemente, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix; Jessica Blower, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas; Danielle Draper (below Jessica's arm), Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Martinez, Calif.; Natasha Bhuyan, Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix; and Kim Le, UA College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education Program, Tucson. (Photo by Mark Thaler, AHSC BioCommunications)

Medical students get matched up

Yara Askar
April 10, 2012
Two accepted into M.D.-Ph.D. program

Two accepted into M.D.-Ph.D. program

Yara Askar
April 3, 2012

Experts: Evolving gonorrhea may resist treatment

Yara Askar
March 29, 2012
Lydia Stern/Daily Wildcat New medical radiology goggles allow patients to stream movies and television shows to watch while undergoing various procedures.

CinemaVision goggles help MRI patients to ease nerves

Yara Askar
March 28, 2012
Juni Nelson / Arizona Daily Wildcat A recent survey shows that fewer law students are interested in running for politics.

Survey: Number of law students eyeing political office has fallen

Yara Askar
March 21, 2012

Study to improve seizure treatments

Yara Askar
March 21, 2012
Student leaders fear funding for gun storage could come from tuition

Student leaders fear funding for gun storage could come from tuition

Yara Askar
March 19, 2012
Lydia Stern / Arizona Daily Wildcat Thirty-six kindergartners from John B. Wright Elementary travel to the UA for a field trip. The students are from all over the world and are all English Language Learners. Wilbur pays them a surprise visit at the Education WOW library as Elementary Education majors read to them about animals since they will be visiting the zoo next week.

International kindergarteners visit to get taste of student life

Yara Askar
March 7, 2012
Photo courtesy of Breathable Foods Inc.

Inhalable caffeine pending approval for potential risks

Yara Askar
March 6, 2012
Gordon Bates / Arizona Daily Wildcat ASUA and GPSC hosts Colin Goddard, a survivor of the 2007 shooting incident at Virginia Tech, for a showing of Goddards documentary Living for 32 on Mar. 2 in the Gallagher Theater. With sponsorship from the Brady Campaign, Goddard is making efforts, including the making of his documentary, to have existing rules on gun sales more strictly enforced.

Shooting survivor spurs guns-on-campus debate

Yara Askar
March 5, 2012
Arizona Daily Wildcat/ Annie Marum University of Arizona College of Medicine. Nicole Smith a 3rd year currently on Surgery Rotation hoping to pursue Emergency Surgery leaves the College of Medicine after a long day that started at 4am.

Psychology, sociology now added to admissions exam

Yara Askar
March 1, 2012

Online Exclusive: Students in an advertising class do campaigns for clients

Yara Askar
February 28, 2012
Alex Kulpinski / Daily Wildcat University of Arizona students dance the night away at the Honors Student Council "Dance for a Cause" even last Friday night. The theme of the dance was "It Used to be Cool" and was designed to help give back to the community.

Taking steps against violence

Yara Askar
February 27, 2012
Gordon Bates / Arizona Daily Wildcat Suhda Ram, a McClelland proffesor of Management Information Systems, regularly uses computers in her classroom to analyze social media and business intelligence. Ram has a facebook group for her class that she encourages her class to use during the lecture so she can demonstrate the uses of social media.

UA creates new data mining center

Yara Askar
February 23, 2012
The UAconnect system is migrating back to campus servers. Keith Hickman-Perfetti/ Arizona Daily Wildcat

UITS creates email system for employees

Yara Askar
February 21, 2012
Astronomers receive NASA grant, develop telescope to orbit Earth

Astronomers receive NASA grant, develop telescope to orbit Earth

Yara Askar
February 17, 2012
Student develops bill-paying website

Student develops bill-paying website

Yara Askar
February 15, 2012

Health Sciences hosts humanism celebration

Yara Askar
February 15, 2012
Alex Kulpinski / Daily Wildcat UA students take part in the Tunnel of Oppression, an interactive experience where participants move through a "tunnel" and become part of scenes depicting racism, border issues, sexism, etc. in the Student Union Grand Ballroom on Monday.

Digging into ‘Tunnel of Oppression’

Yara Askar
February 14, 2012
Gordon Bates / Daily Wildcat Sairam Parthasarathy, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Sleep Disorders, shows one of the rooms used for in patient sleep studies. During the course of one study session, nurses score 720 to 900 pages of polysomnographic data in the form of graphs, which Dr. Parthasarathy reviews and attempts to diagnose the specific disorder.

New Center for Sleep Disorders opens at UMC

Yara Askar
February 13, 2012
Tim W. Glass / Daily Wildcat 5-year-old Arrianna West strings beads on her strength bracelet during a Beads of Courage event in the lobby of the Diamond Childrens Medical Center on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. West has been a patient of the hospital her entire life as she battles a genetic heart defect, and, accompanied by her mother, will take part in the heart festival this Saturday from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. in front of the Student Union Memorial Center.

Charity helps patients tell stories

Yara Askar
February 8, 2012
Alex Kulpinski / Arizona Daily Wildcat Greg Collins, a public administrations Junior, is attempting to create a club on campus that advocates the allowance of fire arms on campus. Collins is searching for an advisor to start the club.

Concealed carry club seeks adviser

Yara Askar
February 6, 2012
Alex Kulpinski / Arizona Daily Wildcat Barbara Ebeling works as a supervisor at the Park Avenue Market in the Park Student Union on Monday.

The Park Avenue Super-viser

Yara Askar
February 2, 2012

Men still a minority in nursing program

Yara Askar
January 27, 2012
Tim Glass / Daily Wildcat Devin Bembnister, a political science freshman, and an intern with Arizona Students Association, briefly describes the history and mission of the ASA during the annual lobby event Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. ASA representatives tried to impress the importance of student involvement in shaping public education policy to those attending.

ASA kick off touts voter registration

Yara Askar
January 26, 2012
Colin Darland / Daily Wildcat Service dog in training, Jenai, is nearing the end of her time with student trainer Morina Piece. Piece, a veterinary science junior, has been with Jenai for one year.

Students volunteer to train service dogs

Yara Askar
January 25, 2012

Campus Health, UAPD work to reduce bullying

Yara Askar
January 23, 2012
Student hoofs it to national title

Student hoofs it to national title

Yara Askar
January 20, 2012
Janice Biancavilla/ Daily Wildcat Robert Miller, director of the School of Architecture, stands in his office on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012.

Architecture yields highest unemployment rate

Yara Askar
January 17, 2012
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