October/November 2016
SBS in the Community
Homecoming Bash
Please join the College of SBS for our annual homecoming celebration! Come to The Shanty (401 E. 9th St.) at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29 for food and festivities. Our homecoming chair is Bobbie Jo Buel (Journalism, '79), former editor of the Arizona Daily Star. Our student speaker is Anna Alejandra Urrea, who is majoring in political science.
SBS Features
Corporate Data Collection: What Are We Willing to Give?
Next Wednesday's 6:30 p.m. privacy conversation at the Fox Tucson Theatre is about corporate data collection. Companies collect information from customers to provide customized services and stay competitive. Customers can find value in exchanging their information for personalized services. What are the trade-offs you make when you pay for services with personal information? The panel will also delve into the future of corporate data collection and digital advertising, including facial recognition technology, mobile location analysis, and the "internet of things." More
 
If you missed the 10/19 lecture on "Relationships and Privacy in a World of Tinder and Twitter", you can watch it online
here. Today's (10/26) lecture on "Fame and Shame in the Digital Age" will be posted here within a few days!
Photo by Moses Thompson
ITKI UNESCO City of Gastronomy Conference
In early November, international experts in food and water systems will arrive in Tucson to meet with UA scholars and community members invested in food and water sustainability.
The conference, which is organized by the College of SBS, is titled " Food and Water in Arid Lands: Dialogues across Contemporary and Traditional Knowledge" and will incorporate Traditional Knowledge, academic science, and citizen science. The conference is free, but registration is required. More here and here.
Noam Chomsky at the UA
Noam Chomsky to Teach Politics Course in Spring
This spring, students of all ages will have the exciting opportunity to learn about and discuss politics with one of the greatest public intellectuals of our time, Noam Chomsky. Chomsky and UA emeritus professor Marv Waterstone will co-teach a seven-week class titled "What Is Politics?" that is both a general education course for UA undergraduates and a Humanities Seminar class for community members. Connecting students from multiple generations and political outlooks, this course is sure to stimulate ideas, debate, and dialogue. More
Anna with her Emmy
SBS Alum and Employee Wins Rocky Mountain Emmy Award
UA alumnus Anna Augustowska won a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award this month for her short documentary "Donnie." Anna, who received her master's degree in 2014 from the School of Journalism, is a multimedia design specialist for the College of SBS. "Donnie' tells the story of Donnie Cianciotto, a transgender man living in Tucson, and his struggle to obtain reassignment surgery. More
Clown Hoaxes Given Life by Social Media
October is the season of Halloween and tricks and treats, but American university campuses recently have fallen prey to a social media hoax in which a dangerous clown is reported. Catherine F. Brooks, director of the  Center for Digital Society and Data Studies, was quoted in the popular press about the role of social media in perpetuating clown hoaxes. More
Ancient Burials Suggestive of Blood Feuds
Analysis of ancient graves by James Watson, associate professor of anthropology, provides new insight into the social and biological factors that might have motivated violent killings and atypical burials thousands of years ago--and how some of those factors may still be relevant today. More 
Four Questions: Communities and Rising Disaster Costs
Hurricane Matthew, Hurricane Earl, Tropical Storm Fiona, Hurricane Gaston, Hurricane Hermine, and Tropical Storm Nicole are among the 14 named storms this Atlantic hurricane season. Laura Bakkensen, an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, investigates natural disaster losses as well as disaster readiness and response. In this article, Bakkensen answered questions about concerns associated with natural disasters and the need to improve community resiliency.
SBS News Briefs 
Ada Wilkinson-Lee
* Ada Wilkinson-Lee, an assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies, is working with community partners to create a bicycle program in Ajo, Ariz., with the goal of increasing physical activity among Ajo community members. More here and here.
 
* Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies, was quoted in the story "5 takeaways about Hispanic heritage you probably didn't know." More
Jennifer Jenkins' new book
* English Associate Professor J ennifer Jenkins has a new book published by UA Press titled Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest. More
 
* The Warren Avenue Underpass was dedicated to Tom Volgy, a professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, who was mayor of Tucson from 1987-91. More

* UA sociologist Corey Abramson writes about the need for a stronger and more complete definition of what exactly constitutes a "culture of health."  More 
Greg Barron-Gafford
* Geographer Greg Barron-Gafford published a paper in Nature Science Reports that was profiled on the front page of the Arizona Daily Star. The paper examines the heat island effect of large-scale solar installations. More

* Jennifer Cyr, an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, co-wrote an article on the unexpected rejection of a peace agreement by Colombian voters. More
Shirley Reilly
* Shirley Reilly, a UA undergraduate student in the School of Government and Public Policy, received the Bronze medal for Team USA in the 800-meter race in the 2016 Paralympic Games! More 
 
 * Anthropologist Evan MacLean is leading cutting-edge research at the UA's new Canine Cognition Center, which studies the behavior and thought processes of dogs.  More  
Carolyn Lukensmeyer
* Carolyn Lukensmeyer, executive director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, answers questions about civility (or lack thereof) in the presidential debates. More

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Samara Klar and Chris Weber, both professors in the School of Government and Public Policy, offer an analysis of the presidential debate and talk about the importance of the youth vote. More

* Political scientist Barbara Norrander wrote an op-ed about the U.S. Senate race between John McCain and Ann Kirkpatrick.  More  
David Raichlen
* Anthropologist David Raichlen is quoted in a article from Shape Magazine about the role of endocannabinoids in post-exercise euphoria. More 
 
 
* Jos Charles, who received their MFA in creative writing last spring, received the prestigious Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, which is among the largest awards offered to young poets in the United States. Charles is a trans poet and the author of  Safe Space. More  
Photo by Moses Thompson
* The Community and School Garden Program is discussed in the AZPM story "Feeding our future: The Manzo model for growing a school garden." More
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* Gökçe Günel, an assistant professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, is quoted in The Guardian story " Peak salt: Is the desalination dream over for the gulf states?" More
David Yetman
* David Yetman, a research social scientist in the Southwest Center, won the 2016 Western National Parks Association Stewart L. Udall Award.

*Betsy Williams, a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Digital Society and Data Studies, wrote an opinion piece titled "Better representation in tech would help society," which was published in The New York Times. More
David Cuillier
* Geographer Beth Mitchneck is quoted in the story "Nobel Prize: What will it take to have more women as winners in science." More

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Journalism School Director David Cuillier won the Wells Memorial Key-- the highest honor for a member of Society of Professional Journalists. 
Dept News
Upcoming Events
"Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Jewish Responses to Accusations of Jewish Criminality in Early Twentieth-Century America"
Presented by the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies
Oct. 31, 4 p.m.
Location: UA Hillel
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CMES Fall Film Series: "The Fish Fall in Love"
Presented by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Nov. 2, 7 p.m.
ILC 150
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Tinker Symposium
Presented by Center for Latin American Studies:
Nov. 3, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Location: Student Union Ventana Room
Featuring graduate student field research in Latin America. The keynote speaker is John Gibler, who writes from and about Mexico.
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"Decolonize your Diet: Recipes to Sustain Revolutionary Love"
Presented by the Institute for LGBT Studies
Nov. 3
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"USS Arizona: Memorials and Memories"
Presented by University Libraries
Nov. 3, 6 p.m.
Location: Special Collections
Speaker: Susan Crane, UA Department of History
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"Another Mexico is Possible"
Presented by UNAM
Nov. 4, 12 noon
Location: ENR2, Room S225
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"Israel, Jordan and Palestine: What is Their Place in the New Middle East"
Presented by the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies
Nov. 7, 7 p.m.
Location: The Tucson Jewish Community Center
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"An Evolutionary Medicine Perspective on Physical Activity and Inactivity"
Presented by the Division of Endocrinology
Nov. 8, 3-4 p.m.
Location: UA College of Medicine, Room 5403
Speaker: David Raichlen, UA School of Anthropology
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"Pressing the Reset Button for U.S.-Saudi Arabia Relations: Establishing Cooperation Beyond Oil and the Military into Agriculture, Food, Education and Society"
Nov. 9, 1 p.m.
Marshall 490
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Downtown Series on Privacy: "Bodies & Health: Wearing Your Doctor on Your Wrist"
Presented by the College of SBS
Nov. 9, 6:30 p.m.
Location: Fox Tucson Theatre
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Downtown Series on Privacy: "Government Surveillance: Finding the Right Balance for Democracy"
Presented by the College of SBS
Nov. 16, 6:30 p.m.
Location: Fox Tucson Theatre
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