Education

April 3, 2019

CAPLA Studio Honored With Studio Prize, Sloan Award

A UA undergraduate architecture studio was honored as one of the best examples of architectural investigation taking place in colleges and universities today.

"Kate mapped where the rising sea water was projected, and then she took all that land and floated it out. Obviously at first she didn't think she would end up with this floating community, but she was doing different mapping exercises of the area, just g

April 1, 2019

Startup Licenses UA Libraries E-learning Platform

Inventors at the UA Libraries developed a new e-learning platform for creating easy-to-build tutorials. Now, startup Sidecar Learning is taking it to the world.

Jason Dewland and Yvonne Mery of the UA Libraries and Sidecar Learning.

March 27, 2019

CAPLA Builds for a Changing Urban World

In "Building a Changing World," the UA College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture's studies of the built environment include how future urban design and planning projects must work hand in hand with surrounding natural environments.

Jennifer Moscato said the Underwood Family Sonoran Landscape Laboratory was a significant source of inspiration for her team's 2018 Liba Wheat Memorial-award-winning project.

March 15, 2019

UA Professor Featured in Journalism on Screen Series

“Witnesses to Democracy” examines the pro-democracy movement in South Korea through the eyes of UA Journalism Professor Kim Newton and the mother of a slain student protester in 1987.

Journalism professor Kim Newton was a photojournalist based in South Korea when he snapped this photo of student protesters in 1987. That experience led to his participation in the documentary film "Witness to Democracy."

Feb. 14, 2019

UA Among Top Producers of Foreign Language Degrees

The Chronicle of Higher Education has ranked the colleges that grant the most bachelor’s degrees in foreign languages, with the UA finishing among the top 10 in the nation.

Nov. 9, 2018

Startup Expands Impact of UA Critical Languages Program

Since 1996, the University of Arizona Critical Languages Program in the College of Humanities has been developing interactive multimedia systems for less commonly taught foreign languages. To expand the impact of these expert-designed courses, the UA has licensed 13 of the courses to startup Language Canvas, which is taking them forward and making them available to schools, programs, and individual learners everywhere.

Scott Brill, CEO of Language Canvas and former research engineer with the UA Critical Languages Program.

Oct. 30, 2018

US News: UA a 'Top Global University'

A top-10 ranking by the UA space science program led a strong overall showing by the university in the U.S. News & World Report 2019 Best Global Universities rankings.

Sept. 27, 2018

The Butterfly Effect and the Future of Teaching Biology

In a cross-country collaborative class, a UA professor and a data science specialist help arm students for biology’s big data revolution by incorporating coding into the scientific method.

An adult two-tailed swallowtail butterfly in Texas. Nearly 900 observers have uploaded more than 1,300 images of this species of butterfly to iNaturalist.

Sept. 26, 2018

National Ranking Shines Spotlight on UA Theater, Dance and Design Programs

The UA's Bachelor of Fine Arts programs in dance, musical theater, and theater design and technology each placed in the top 10 among public universities in the latest rankings from OnStage.

UA Dance Ensemble members Maxwell Foster and Lydia Marbach.

Sept. 19, 2018

Endowment Will Support Children's Literature Collection at UA

A $1 million gift from Kathy and Jerry Short will support the UA's Worlds of Words, the nation's largest collection of global literature for children and young adults.

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