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The Arizona Queer Archives, the first archive in Arizona to capture the histories and stories of LGBTQI+ communities, has a new home in the University Libraries Special Collections.
The Ford Foundation has awarded UArizona $1.18 million to to create a community-led archive that offers a more comprehensive portrayal of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The four projects include a documentary about the Indigenous Rarámuri people of northern Mexico, a project documenting the experiences of asylum seekers, an archive of newspapers from around the borderlands, and an oral history project on forensic citizenship.
The $750,000 grant to University Libraries will allow researchers to produce open-access humanities research from the border for both academic and popular audiences.
In response to shortages amid the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty and staff are designing and manufacturing face shields, intubation hoods, respirators and more.
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.
Katheryne "Kate" Willock, who died in January 2017, was an archaeologist whose investment in UA Libraries already has had a significant impact on many students.
Halloween's ghosts are a reminder of the day's origins in Celtic history. Despite its pagan start, or perhaps because of it, Halloween also played a role in religious history as Reformation Day.
Erin O'Meara, head of the UA Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship, will serve on a task force formed to help archives determine how to preserve electronic correspondence records.
Starting with a Special Collections exhibit that opens in two weeks, the UA will host several fall programs to commemorate this year's 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The University has one of the world's largest collections of USS Arizona memorabilia.