Social Sciences

Funded by a three-year, $1.5 million grant, the university's new Language Training Center will provide language and culture training to U.S. Department of Defense personnel.

With the Department of Health and Human Services grant, UArizona experts will work with a Virginia school district to develop programs to improve students' mental health.

Sociologist Jennifer Carlson has spent over a decade examining the politics of guns in American life. She is one of 25 selected this year for a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as a "genius grant."

President's Postdoctoral Fellow Carlos Parra is working on a book about the rise of Spanish-language television in the United States. The first Spanish-language station in the U.S. was established in 1955.

President's Postdoctoral Fellow Carlos Parra is working on a book about the rise of Spanish-language television in the United States.

Reproductive justice, 19th-century sex scandals and the cultural impacts of drag performance are among the topics speakers will address in the free series at the Fox Tucson Theatre.

A $2.3 million grant will allow the College of Education to help three school districts in central Arizona better support children who may have fallen behind during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.    

El Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry de la Universidad de Arizona ha formado una asociación binacional para apoyar a los artistas de Nogales en la interpretación visual de las realidades de ser y vivir en la frontera entre los EE. UU. y México.

The university's Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry has formed a binational partnership to support Nogales artists in visually interpreting the realities of being from and living on the U.S.-Mexico border.

School of Journalism director Jessica Retis talks about the creation of the bilingual journalism master's degree program and how UArizona is uniquely positioned to train bilingual journalists in an evolving media industry.