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Beezley speaking at the award ceremony. Photo by Jordan Stinnett/Office of Global Initiatives. |
UA Historian Honored by Government of Mexico
History Professor
William Beezley
has joined the ranks of prominent artists, politicians, and athletes to receive the Ohtli award, one of the highest honors granted by the Government of Mexico. The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs typically presents the Ohtli award to members of the Mexican American community who promote Mexican culture, but they deemed Beezley's contributions to the field so great, they gave him the honor! More
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Sweet Success
Students in the School of Information course ISTA 303 Creative Coding were able to showcase their gadget-design and computer-programming skills in a friendly candy-sorting competition with biomedical engineering students at the end of spring semester. The challenge: accurately sort the highest number of Skittles in the least amount of time. First- and second-place honors went to iSchool teams. More
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Photo by Anna Augustowska
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Annual Poverty Project Focuses on Financial Literacy
During the third annual community forum, students in a School of Sociology course presented data from the Tucson Wellbeing Survey. The students interviewed 296 households from nine high-poverty census tracts in Tucson. They found that 32.4 percent of those living in extreme poverty lacked access to either savings or checking accounts. The most common reasons listed were that they didn't trust banks and they don't have enough money for a bank account. In addition, 64 percent of respondents were "underbanked," meaning that they use nontraditional methods to get access to finances, such as pawn shops, title loans, and money orders. More
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Humanizing, Harmonizing Effects of Music
Jake Harwood, professor in the Department of Communication, has found that listening to music from other cultures makes you value diversity more and seeing multicultural musical collaborations reduces prejudice. "We must think about music as a human, social activity rather than a sort of beautiful, aesthetic hobby," Harwood said. "We can then begin to see people from other groups as more human and begin to recategorize one another as members of the same group." Harwood's research has been posted in outlets ranging from The Indian Express to Yo-Yo Ma's Facebook page! More
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UA architecture students will travel to Italy with the Arizona in Italy Orvieto Study Abroad Program. While there, they will develop plans for a museum and exhibition center in the town of Lugnano. |
Italian Museum Inspired by UA Archaeology Discoveries
The UA is partnering with an Italian town to create a museum and exhibition center showcasing the area's storied history -- a history that includes a devastating disease outbreak, witchcraft, and magic. The museum project was conceived by
David Soren, Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Classics. Since 1986, Soren has worked on archaeological excavations in the Lugnano area, where his efforts have earned him honorary Italian citizenship.
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Ambos Nogales
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Journalists Report on Border Towns
"Bordering 110 Degrees," a project reported and produced by UA journalism students, investigates the relationship between two key points along the country's southern and northern borders. Each student produced multimedia stories, which included drone footage, 360-degree video, audio, and in-depth reporting that focused on the people who live and work along the 110th meridian during a time of political transition. You can read student stories here.
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Passion for Indigenous Art
Professor Allan Ryan, who received his master's degree in anthropology from the UA, received the 2017 Professional Achievement Award from the UA Alumni Association. Ryan holds the New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture at Carleton University. Learn more about Ryan (and hear the song "PM Pierre" about Pierre Trudeau that Ryan recorded for Capitol Records in 1968) here.
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Arizona Canine Cognition Center
Anthropologist Evan MacLean is leading cutting-edge research at the UA's new Canine Cognition Center, which studies the behaviors and thought processes of dogs. There are only a handful of other canine-research facilities in the U.S., at universities such as Duke, Tufts, and Yale.
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Arizona Canine Cognition Center
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Cecile McKee
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* UA linguist Cecile McKee explores the early stages of language development with five of the first words that English-speaking children say. More
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Journalism Professors
Michael McKisson and
William Schmidt will combine their multimedia and reporting courses, allowing more time to work with students on stories with new 360-degree cameras.
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Laura Bellante
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Laurel Bellante, a graduate student in the
School of Geography and Development, found that local and organic farmers in the Mexican state of Chiapas are crucial in driving the localization of food production, improved consumer health, and organic farming.
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* Sociology Professor Kathleen Schwartzman spoke about her book
The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas, in which she examines the impact of global trade deals like NAFTA on the North American poultry industry. You can watch the C-SPAN video
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Galvez at his exhibit in NY
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Journalism alum
José Galvez recently had two major exhibitions of his photography. In March, his exhibit "Los Angeles Uprising 1992" opened at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN. In April, his exhibit "Latina" opened at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY. Galvez was the first Mexican American photographer to have a solo exhibition at these museums.
* The College of SBS announced a timeline and launched a fundraising campaign for the Castro Center for Border Studies and Outreach. More
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Chris Weber
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* Christopher Weber, an associate professor of political science, wrote an op-ed about the growing salience of authoritarianism in American politics. More
* Barbara Norrander, professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, was interviewed on C-SPAN about her book The Imperfect Primary. You can view it here.
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Laura Lenhart
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* Laura Lenhart, an associate professor in the School of Information, is quoted in the story "
Drivers: We know phones are distracting. We use them anyway." More
* The paper "Desalination and water security in the US-Mexico border region: assessing the social, environmental and political impacts"
was awarded the Water International Honorable Mention paper for 2016. Authors include Margaret Wilder and Christopher Scott from the School of Geography and Development.
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Anna Ochoa O'Leary
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Anna Ochoa O'Leary, head of the Department of Mexican American Studies, was quoted in the Time magazine article "This graphic shows why a border wall won't stop immigrants from crossing." More
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Albert Alan, who just earned his B.A in
sociology, was featured in the story "Once-homeless man received 3 degrees at Friday's UA Commencement."
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Jennifer Cyr
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* Jennifer Cyr, a professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, received the best Comparative Politics paper award
from the Midwest Political Science Association for "Anti-Identities in Latin America: Chavismo, Fujimorismo, and Uribismo in Comparative Perspective." Check out the related blog post here.
* Tucson teacher Julie Kasper wrote an op-ed about Arizona's low teacher salaries. Patricia MacCorquodale, a professor of gender and women's studies, contributed to the article. More
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Summer Lecture Series: "The Aftermath of the Reformation: Women, Minorities, Refugees, and the Demand for Social Justice"
Presented by the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies
Four Sundays in Aug.
Location: St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church
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Reforming the Virgin, the Wife, and the Widow: Changing Visions of Womanhood in the Sixteenth Century
Aug. 6, 10:15 a.m.
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'Strangers in a Strange Land': Religious Refugees and Exiles in the Reformation
Aug. 13, 10:15 a.m.
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'We take it for granted that you will release us from serfdom as true Christians': The Reformation and the Peasants
Aug. 20, 10:15 a.m.
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Persecution and Tolerance: How Anabaptists, Jews, and Roma ('Gypsies') fared in the Reformation Era
Aug. 27, 10:15 a.m.
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