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The written word changed forever the way people learn and think. Movies and television had a similar effect. Professor Craig Caldwell, media arts, predicts that interactive media will do the same.
Richard Arum, assistant professor of sociology, believes students today require not only education but also training to succeed in the field of sociology.
Faculty members in the College of Engineering are offering students an opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind, liberal arts-engineering course of study.
It was like pulling teeth. That's how chemistry Professor Jaquelyn Gervay described teaching her Honors Organic Chemistry class. But now, after incorporating a student-centered angle to her teaching approach, her students are not only eager to learn about the importance of chemistry in every day life but are acquiring skills they can apply outside the classroom
Professors in the College of Engineering and Mines redesigned their course by replacing nearly 50 percent of their lectures with computer labs and extensive use of the web.
While the campus is seemingly quiet, a basement studio of KUAT radio is abuzz with students from Lydia Fossa's Spanish 350 class - Introduction to Literary Genres - who are eager to share their newly acquired knowledge of Latin American and Spanish literature, history and culture.
The state university system is worth $2.8 billion, according to the Arizona Board of Regents staff. Keeping all those buildings and structures up and running is a major challenge say the universities.The gross figures, developed through national formulas for infrastructure categories, would total about a billion and a half dollars over the next decade. Those are formula numbers but it did give the regents some idea of what it takes to keep campuses operating.The universities emphasized the critical importance of state buiolding renewal money.
Kingery was widely recognized as the 20th century's most influential figure in ceramics education, research and technology.
Sales assistant positions for the Order Textbook Electronically program are open at the UofA Bookstore. Sales assistant positions will be hired before mid July. Cashiering and sales assistant positions will begin after Tuesday, Aug. 1 with hiring in the weeks prior to that date.
The UA College of Medicine psychiatry department will present its fourth lecture on Parkinson's Disease on Monday, July 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the University Medical Center, DuVal Auditorium at 1501 N. Campbell Avenue to discuss the new directions in treatment.