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Danielle Geller, a soon-to-be UA graduate, has flourished in the UA's creative writing program.

Q&A: Danielle Geller

Shaq Davis
December 12, 2017
Arizona high school students interact with different research experiments at the Meet MCB! event at the University of Arizona Life Sciences building on Oct. 31. 

Arizona High School Students get up close with college research

Shaq Davis
November 3, 2017
A view of Biosphere 2 located in Oracle, Arizona. UA President Dr. Robert Robbins called Biosphere 2 “a one-of-a-kind facility where our researchers are answering questions about the interconnectedness of food, water and energy security.” 

Endowment allows important research to continue at Biosphere 2

Shaq Davis
October 1, 2017
A rainwater cistern at the University Of Arizona Community Garden, located on 1400 E. Mabel St. The garden is a community effort to grow plants that can thrive in the desert environment, including peppers, sunflowers and corn.

UA community collaborates on growing sustainable campus

Shaq Davis
September 18, 2017
This year's freshman class is said to be the most diverse at the UA yet.

UA engagement with new students brings most diverse class

Shaq Davis
September 1, 2017
Victoria Navarro Benavides, L, and Robert McCune, R, discuss the game plan for the evening.

Hundreds of students partake in event to help find communities

Shaq Davis
August 25, 2017
Meg Hagyard, the newly appointed interim director of the UA Museum of Art. Hagyard, who took the position this month, plans to continue major exhibits as part of her upgraded role. 

UA Museum of Art welcomes interim director Meg Hagyard

Shaq Davis
August 23, 2017
Participants of the 2016 Finding Community Welcome event. The purpose of the event is to show students the diversity of communities available on campus.

Campus Guide ’17: Discover the communities of the UA cultural centers

Shaq Davis
July 31, 2017
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center, located on Second Street and Mountain Avenue, houses the African American Student Association. Renovations to the African American Student Services office were completed this summer.

Campus Guide ’17: Renovations at Martin Luther King Jr. Building give students sense of home

Shaq Davis
July 31, 2017

Students, community rally around support for Mexican American Studies on day trial begins

Shaq Davis
June 28, 2017

Symposium on free speech on college campuses details efforts to encourage civil discussion

Shaq Davis
June 24, 2017
Amani Lewis shows her solidarity with the #OurLivesMatter demonstration on the UA Mall. 

UA symposium to explore constitutional issues within universities

Shaq Davis
June 18, 2017
The Arizona Board of Regents await comments from the public at their meeting on April 6 in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center. The regents met at Northern Arizona University during their June meeting to approve budgets and strategic plans. 

Arizona Board of Regents approves deferred maintenance project, in-state tuition for veterans, land acquisitions

Shaq Davis
June 9, 2017
Fireworks explode over Arizona Stadium during the 2015 commencement ceremony on May 16, 2015. Roughly 5,000 students are expected to attending this year's graduation ceremony..

Graduation 101: What to expect

Shaq Davis
May 10, 2017
UA international students feel impact of Trump policies

UA international students feel impact of Trump policies

Shaq Davis
May 3, 2017
Presidential nominees Hillary Clinton (left) and Donald Trump (right) at their rallies in Arizona leading up to Election Day. The NICD has launched a campaign to heal the rhetoric that has become common in political discourse since the election.

Revive Civility Month kicks off in Tucson

Shaq Davis
May 2, 2017
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center located on Second Street and Mountain Avenue. The center is under renovations and will have a soft-opening on May 3.

African American Student Affairs renovate center under new director

Shaq Davis
April 24, 2017
VeloVets provides cycling opportunities for all

VeloVets provides cycling opportunities for all

Shaq Davis
April 19, 2017
UA to highlight digital media literacy as an Adobe Creative Campus

UA to highlight digital media literacy as an Adobe Creative Campus

Shaq Davis
April 1, 2017
Yekaterina Kharitonova, a computer science Ph.D student, working with the Semantically Linked Instructional Content project interface. The project utilizes the Interdisciplinary Visual Intelligence lab and is researching how the presentation and interactivity of a slide show effects how a student retains information.

Coding boot camp preparing graduates for web development workforce begins

Shaq Davis
March 30, 2017
President Donald Trump signing executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 24. Trump's revised executive order barring entry from several Muslim countries will go into effect March 16.

Trump signs revised executive order limiting refugees, Middle East travel

Shaq Davis
March 7, 2017
Petition seeks clarification on red tag rules

Petition seeks clarification on red tag rules

Shaq Davis
February 18, 2017
Pouye Khoshkoo, a Ph.D. candidate in Middle Eastern and North African Studies and an Iranian immigrant, poses for a photograph in the Marshall Building on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Khoshkoo immigrated to the U.S. eight years ago and is now an American citizen, but regardless is feeling the effects of Pres. Trump's purposed travel ban.

Definitions of humanity: Pouye Khoshkoo describes life after Trump’s immigration ban

Shaq Davis
February 8, 2017
An anti-Trump protester joins along in a chant of "Whose streets? Our streets!" outside a rally for President Donald Trump at the Phoenix Convention Center, Aug. 31, 2016. Many have spoken out since Trump signed an executive order beginning construction of the wall.

Trump executive orders on immigration, border wall met with apprehension

Shaq Davis
January 26, 2017
A view of the Student Union Memorial Center on Jan. 18. UA Online ranked in the top 25 percent of online degree programs in its first year of operation.

UA ranks 81, top 25 percent of online degree programs by U.S. News and World Report

Shaq Davis
January 23, 2017
One of many currency exchange locations where Idali Casas works in Nogales, Sonora on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.

Global Next Door report encourages study abroad in Mexico

Shaq Davis
December 2, 2016
The UA will soon start construction on a the South Stadium parking garage to replace previous parking areas that have been lost over time.

UA set to construct new 900-space parking garage on Sixth and Warren

Shaq Davis
November 17, 2016
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UA grad knocks out election with new app

Shaq Davis
November 2, 2016
UA re-forms Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee

UA re-forms Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Shaq Davis
October 19, 2016
UA students walk with a sign reading "Speak Up. Speak Out. Against Sexual Assault." in the Take Back the Night March on Tuesday, April 12. The Dean of Students Office, Women's Resource Center and Students Promoting Empowerment and Consent are hosting the Fearless Conference, a free one-day conference to empower the movement to end sexual violence.

UA hosts Fearless Conference to help “empower the movement to end sexual violence”

Shaq Davis
October 19, 2016
A chain of red and blue links symbolizing intentional acts of kindness lay on the grass of the UA Mall. Tucson charity organization Ben's Bells challenged various departments at the UA to complete 1,000 acts of kindness. UA Cares is an opportunity for UA employees to provide donations through the UA Foundation, which in turn go to student and faculty programs.

UA Cares kicks off campaign for community donations

Shaq Davis
October 14, 2016
Courtesy Tania Martínez Cruz

UA alumna Tania Martínez Cruz wins 2016 National Youth Prize for Academic Achievement

Shaq Davis
October 9, 2016
Nicolette Teufel-Shone, professor and Chair of the Family and Child Health section of the Health Promotion Sciences, recently won the Native Research Network Award for Excellence in Training for her commitment to mentoring as co-director of the Center for American Indian Resilience.

UA professor wins award for commitment to Native American communities

Shaq Davis
September 23, 2016
UA graduate student Patrick Ploschnitzki poses in front of the camera on September 13, at the Learning Services building on UA campus. Ploschnitzki is among one of the new grad students appointed into the University Fellows Program.

UA Grad Center names 24 university fellows

Shaq Davis
September 16, 2016
Two Cubresa researchers insert a mouse into the NuPET system on Thursday, July 28.

UA receives NuPET, innovatice medical imaging technology

Shaq Davis
September 14, 2016
Documentary Co-Director Eva Romero discusses her inspiration for making the documentary as well as how she will go about putting it all together at Mercado San Augustin on Thursday, Aug. 6.

UA graduate co-directs Kuña, a Paraguayan documentary celebrating women

Shaq Davis
August 22, 2016
Scholarship Universe Project Manager Ken Downs discusses the future of Scholarship Universe and the benefits that come from the resource on Monday, Aug. 1.

UA’s Scholarship Universe becomes commercially licensed

Shaq Davis
August 4, 2016

Mike Pence answers questions about veterans affairs and being a part of a ‘dynamic duo’ at Tucson rally

Lauren Renteria and Shaq Davis
August 3, 2016

GOP vice presidential running mate Mike Pence rallies in Tucson

Shaq Davis
August 2, 2016
Potential new members line up outside of Delta Gamma on Aug. 20, 2015. Negative stereotypes are frequently associated with students involved in Greek Life on campus, but they are often just misconceptions.

Timeline: UA greek life throughout the years

Shaq Davis
July 21, 2016
Madison Eich, a member of the Wildcat Archery Club, aims down range on Saturday, Jan. 30 at PSE Archery.

How to get involved and find your place at UA

Shaq Davis
July 18, 2016
Accounting Specialist Dena Engel (Left) and Finance and Administrative Services Associate Director Patti Waters (Right) review credit card transactions on Tuesday, June 7 in the Student Union Memorial Center Administration Office.

UA’s first institution-wide pay increase in three years will add $500 to employees’ base pay

Shaq Davis
July 4, 2016
Citizens sign in at a zoning hearing on Thursday, June 16 at City Hall in Tucson, Arizona.

Zoning examiner recommends Main Gate balcony ban to Tucson City Council in his report

Shaq Davis
June 25, 2016

Trump in Phoenix: The GOP nominee talked about the border, the Orlando shooting and foreign trade

Lauren Renteria and Shaq Davis
June 18, 2016
Chris Gans, president of the West University neighborhood, speaks at the zoning examiner hearing on Thursday, June 16.

Zoning commissioner to give Tucson City Council his recommendation about proposed Main Gate balcony ban

Shaq Davis
June 17, 2016
A view of the Administration building on Sunday, June 5, which houses the offices of many university employees. The university announced a plan to invest in employee salaries and graduate student stipends for the upcoming academic and fiscal year.

UA to increase the wages of faculty, staff and graduate assistants

Shaq Davis
June 5, 2016
Jacob Borcover and Inyene Udoinwanganswer questions from incoming freshman and parents during the UA Orientation Fair on Monday.

Arizona tuition increases not affecting student enrollment

Shaq Davis
May 1, 2016
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