Social Sciences and Education

Social forces on Wall Street help shape more lucrative compensation packages for men than women.

Internationally renowned scholars from the United States, Canada and Mexico, including local author Tom Sheridan, will address the history and consequences of the 1853 Gadsden Purchase during a two-day conference.

Indigenous language and education rights is this year's theme to the annual conference and classes.

Research shows that merely being aware can be a handicap, but also that strategies for overcoming stereotyped behavior can be devised as well.

UA anthropology and geosciences Professor Vance T. Holliday and others are examining alternative routes to North America during the last ice age.

Known for his stories on immigrants, Quinones will also speak to Pueblo High School students about his experiences and observations.

Carol Barnes, a psychology and neurology professor at the UA since 1990, has been elected president of the Society for Neuroscience.

Ben Zuniga will be the secretary-general for the 2004 United Nations Association of the United States of America Model United Nations Conference next year in New York City.

University of Arizona psychology professors Varda Shoham and Michael Rohrbaugh are the principal investigators of a five-year, $2.3 million study of how and for whom 'Brief Strategic Family Therapy' is an effective technique in reducing adolescent drug abuse.

UApresents is jointly sponsoring this lecture with the UA's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the UA Committee on Judaic Studies.