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The University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson’s 21st annual White Coat Ceremony was held in Centennial Hall on Friday. Following the recessional, the new students gathered outside to take a group photograph.

UA College of Medicine welcomes class of 2018 with White Coat Ceremony

Hannah Plotkin
August 11, 2014

Police Beat: August 11

Hannah Plotkin
August 11, 2014

Police Beat: August 6

Hannah Plotkin
August 6, 2014
Screenshot by Hannah Plotkin An online petition that calls for Dr. Suzanne Sisley to be re-hired at the UA, addressed to Arizona Board of Regents chair Mark Killian, has gained more than 100,000 signatures. Since receiving notice of her contract non-renewal, Sisley has gained support from U.S. veterans, who are eager for her post-traumatic stress disorder study be conducted.

Sisley won’t be rehired at UA, PTSD study still on hold

Hannah Plotkin
August 6, 2014
The Faculty Salary Benchmark Report, an annual report produced by the UA’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning Support, compared UA faculty member’s salaries with data from the Association of American Universities Data Exchange. This graph compares the compensation of professors at several UA colleges with the AAUDE averages.

Majority of UA profs make less than their peers, report shows

Hannah Plotkin
August 6, 2014
The Phi Gamma Delta house has been converted into student housing for the upcoming school year after the fraternity was placed on interim suspension by the UA. FIJI’s international leadership has closed the UA’s chapter while a decision is made over whether to revoke the fraternity’s charter.

UA FIJI chapter closed, house being converted into student housing

Hannah Plotkin
August 5, 2014
Tyler Besh/Arizona Daily Wildcat Students receive free campus transportation from the university provided Cat Tran shuttle.

Campus Guide: Transportation Basics

Hannah Plotkin
July 30, 2014
Customers wait in line at Panda Express in the Studnet Union Memorial Center. The student union food court includes a Papa Johns, Chick-fil-A, On Deck Deli, IQ Fresh, Einsteins Bros. Bagels, Pinkberry and Burger King.

Campus Guide: Find healthy eats, good atmosphere at the student unions

Hannah Plotkin
July 30, 2014
Jonathan Rothschild (center), mayor of Tucson, along with Donna DiFiore (left of Rothschild), owner of Delecables, and Kurt Tallis (left of DiFiore), events and marketing director for 4th Avenue Merchants Association, cut the ribbon during the fourth stop, 4th Avenue and 7th st., of the Sun Link Streetcar opening ceremony Friday morning. Activities celebrating the opening of the streetcar will take place from Friday to Sunday including free rides on the streetcar. Activities celebrating the opening of the streetcar will take place from Friday to Sunday including free rides on the streetcar.

Tucson streetcar begins operations after grand opening ceremony

Hannah Plotkin
July 25, 2014
A newly adopted UA policy will prohibit the use of tobacco products on the main UA campus beginning on August 25, 2014. The current policy proposal disallows the use of any tobacco or nicotine-containing products, including e-cigarettes. 

UA adopts policy to ban the use of tobacco products on campus

Hannah Plotkin
July 23, 2014

Police Beat: July 23

Hannah Plotkin
July 23, 2014
Screenshot by Rebecca Marie Sasnett / Arizona Summer Wildcat: After Dr. Sue Sisley’s termination from the UA, veterans started a Facebook page to support her return to the UA. The Facebook page, as of Tuesday afternoon, has more than 5,000 likes.

Veterans, medical researchers outraged at firing of UA marijuana researcher

Hannah Plotkin
July 16, 2014

Police Beat: July 16

Hannah Plotkin
July 16, 2014

Police Beat: July 9

Hannah Plotkin
July 9, 2014
Rebecca Marie Sasnett / The Daily Wildcat Wildcat fans clash with the Tucson Police Department on University Boulevard on Saturday after Arizona lost 64-63 to Wisconsin in the NCAA Touramanet Elite Eight on Saturday evening at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

Inquiry into post-Elite Eight incident finds police action justified

Hannah Plotkin
July 3, 2014

Police Beat: July 2

Hannah Plotkin
July 2, 2014
Courtesy of Arizona Telemedicine Program

UA marijuana researcher fired unexpectedly

Hannah Plotkin
July 2, 2014
The ASUA Senate and ASUA president Issac Ortega discuss the 2014-2015 ASUA budget in a meeting inside the ASUA offices on Thursday. The senate voted to approve the proposed budget.

ASUA Senate votes on 2014-15 budget

Hannah Plotkin
June 28, 2014

Police Beat: June 25

Hannah Plotkin
June 25, 2014

In Brief: June 25

Hannah Plotkin
June 25, 2014
Screenshot by Hannah Plotkin/ Arizona Summer Wildcat David Karp (left), founder of microblogging platform and social networking site Tumblr, and President Barack Obama (right) discuss financial issues such as student loan debt facing American college students on June 10. Obama answered questions submitted by users of the website during an online Q-and-A.

President Obama takes on student loan debt with new legislation

Hannah Plotkin
June 18, 2014
Savannah Douglas / Arizona Summer Wildcat Ammon Naone (right), historian of the Student Veterans of America club on the UA campus, represented the V.E.T.S club while donating computers to the International School of Tucson on Wed. 11. **Check spelling with Hannah please :)**

UA student veterans continue service at home

Hannah Plotkin
June 18, 2014

DREAMers take a stand at board of regents meeting

Hannah Plotkin
June 11, 2014
Screen shot by Hannah Plotkin / Arizona Summer Wildcat Eileen Klein, president of the Arizona Board of Regents, speaks at a board meeting at Northern Arizona University on Thursday. Klein discussed several issues, including the board's financial decisions for the upcoming school year.

Promises of fee reform fall short at Arizona Board of Regents meeting

Hannah Plotkin
June 11, 2014
Rebecca Marie Sasnett/ The Daily Wildcat On the west side of Arizona Stadium, 4,000 graduates line up before the start of The University of Arizona’s 150th Commencement. Graduates complained of standing in hot, cramped conditions with little access to water.

Graduates complain of poor conditions at commencement ceremony

Hannah Plotkin
May 19, 2014
Kaleigh Chabra places glasses on Duncan, a patient at the Sunrise Pet Clinic, on Friday. Chabra works as a veterinarian technician and is being trained on how to use a laser to assist in the healing process for scar treatment, arthritis and spinal injuries for dogs.

Despite difficult job market, opportunities still abound for college grads

Hannah Plotkin
May 14, 2014

Police Beat: May 7

Hannah Plotkin
May 7, 2014
Stephanie Casanova / The Daily Wildcat George Gehrels, Undergraduate Council chair, and Robert Mitchel, vice chair of the faculty, moderate a discussion regarding the new undergraduate law degree during Monday's Faculty Senate meeting. Faculty Senate approved the new major, making the UA the only university in the nation to offer a BA in law.

UA adds undergraduate law degree

Hannah Plotkin
May 6, 2014
Construction workers remove the floor of McKale Memorial Center during the McKale renovation project on Tuesday afternoon. The McKale renovation project is set to conclude by the start of the 2014 fall semester and will include a new court, new locker rooms, new score board and new seats.

Renovations begin for McKale Center

Hannah Plotkin
April 30, 2014
Leah Chen, a sophomore studying Eastern Asian studies and anthropology, talks with a student customer in the Park Avenue Market on Sunday.

Student workers to face cuts in working hours

Hannah Plotkin
April 28, 2014

Police Beat: April 24

Hannah Plotkin
April 24, 2014
Rebecca Marie Sasnett / Daily Wildcat Muhammad Bin Khnain, freshman english major from Saudi Arabia, performs a traditional Lebanese folk song on the Oud during the Center for English as a Second Language International Festival on Wednesday on the UA Mall. The Oud, an instrument similar to a guitar with no frets, is commonly used in music from Arabic, Jewish, Greek, Armenian and other eastern countries.

International Festival celebrates cultural diversity

Hannah Plotkin
April 24, 2014
Rebecca Marie Sasnett / Daily Wildcat Ahva Sadeghi, junior philosophy, politics, economics and law major and an intern with the Colibr

Students share experiences in identifying migrants’ remains

Hannah Plotkin
April 23, 2014
Courtesy of University Relations Kimberly Andrews Espy, senior vice president for reasearch and innovation at the University of Oregon, was appointed senior vice president of research at the UA last week by UA President Ann Weaver Hart.

UA appoints new vice president for research

Hannah Plotkin
April 22, 2014

Finalized state budget shortchanges UA on funding

Hannah Plotkin
April 16, 2014

Police Beat: April 16

Hannah Plotkin
April 16, 2014
University Information Technology Services launched a new optional program April 7, in the effort to provide better internet security to NetID users.

University adds optional security increase to online accounts

Hannah Plotkin
April 14, 2014

UA aims to raise $1 billion in fundraising

Hannah Plotkin
April 10, 2014
Devin Means/ The Daily Wildcat Jim Van Arsdel talks on the university revisions to me non enrolled minor policy. The intrum policy is being revised for felxibility and safety of minors involved within university sponsored events.

UA revises policy on interaction with minors

Hannah Plotkin
April 7, 2014

UA funding declines with House of Reps budget

Hannah Plotkin
April 2, 2014

Police Beat: April 2

Hannah Plotkin
April 2, 2014
Rebecca Marie Sasnett/ The Daily Wildcat University of Arizona students sit on pillows and sing songs at the start of their worship at Campus Christian center on Tuesday.

Religious policy draft up for public review

Hannah Plotkin
March 27, 2014
Wildcat fans riot on fourth avenue after the Arizona Wildcats lost 82-72 to Duke University in the National Championship in 2001. Local police departments are preparing for the possibility that the Wildcats will make the Championship game again this year.

Police prepare for possible riots over NCAA Championships

Hannah Plotkin
March 24, 2014

Police Beat: March 14

Hannah Plotkin
March 13, 2014
Savannah Douglas / The Daily Wildcat The UA's 149th commencement ceremony was held at the end of last fall semester in the McKale center. The first hour consisted of a series of speeches by representatives from the Arizona Board of Regents, Student Affairs and others. The last half hour was full of cheers as each of the college

UA to cancel fall commencement ceremony

Hannah Plotkin
March 13, 2014
Grace Pierson/The Daily Wildcat Kyle Schoch (right), a pre-business sophomore and active member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, walks out of the fraternity with other UA students on Monday. Sigma Alpha Epsilon will no longer have pledges.

SAE ends pledging process due to hazing problems

Hannah Plotkin
March 11, 2014
Rebecca Marie Sasnett/ The Daily Wildcat Photo Illustration

Phone apps could be dangerous to data security

Hannah Plotkin
March 5, 2014
Carlos Herrera / The Daily Wildcat UAPD Cmdr. Brian Seastone, who was served since 1980, has become the new UAPD chief. .

UAPD names new police chief

Hannah Plotkin
March 4, 2014
Shane Bekian / The Daily Wildcat Dr. Kenneth Bedell, Senior Advisor for the US Department of Education discusses the importance of schooling for young adults at the Department of Education Discussion at the Student Union on Monday.

UA political groups discuss Obama’s education plans

Hannah Plotkin
February 25, 2014
Kimberly Cain / The Daily Wildcat Dana Pattison (left), creative writing sophomore, and Maya Heilman-hall (right), photography sophomore, work on french homework outside the UA library on Monday.

UA increases enforcement of scholarship’s GPA requirement

Hannah Plotkin
February 18, 2014
Carlos Herrera / The Daily Wildcat Brittany Santini, Celine Tang, and Dhillon Sandhu hand out free condoms as Nicholas Plumlee models a 6 foot condom suit during Campus Health Service's annual Sexual Health Resource Fair on Wednesday.

Sex, Condoms on the UA Mall

Hannah Plotkin
February 13, 2014
Shane Bekian / The Daily Wildcat Professor Marlena Goodsit gives her class a writing assignment at the Center for English as a Second Language building on Monday. Goodsit is a lecturer in ESL writing for foreign students.

Students, TAs try to break language barriers

Hannah Plotkin
February 11, 2014
Grace Pierson/ The Daily Wildcat UAPD chief candidate Gregg Jacquin gives a presentation on his law enforcement qualifications during a town hall meeting at the Student Union on Monday. Jacquin has served with the Chandler Police Department since 1995.

University police chief candidate holds town hall

Hannah Plotkin
February 11, 2014
Rebecca Noble/ The Daily Wildcat Evan Wesley gives a presentation on the Thirst Project, the largest youth founded water resource program, in the Student Union Memorial Center on Monday.

UA club bringing freshwater to developing countries

Hannah Plotkin
February 5, 2014
Courtesy of Partners of the Americas Department Head of Mining and Geological Engineering in the College of Engineering, Mary Poulton, shakes hands with Vice President Joe Biden during a ceremony in Washington D.C.

UA named partner in global exchange initiative

Hannah Plotkin
February 3, 2014
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