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Diana Liverman, professor of geography and regional development and director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, has been appointed to a new National Research Council (NRC) committee that will review the United States government's new strategic plan for global change and climate change studies.
Monique Wittig, a professor in Women's Studies and French at the University of Arizona, died Jan. 3, 2003 in Tucson.
Mark Chaves, professor and head of the Department of Sociology, is the speaker for the Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series. The title of the presentation is Congregations and Social Services: Myth and Reality.
A new dean, generous gifts and faculty and student honors highlight the year in the UA's largest college.
Aaron D. Farnsworth, a senior in the journalism department, is among the 20 finalists in the photojournalism competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
President Peter Likins has donated the first gift to kick off a campaign to memorialize the recently killed nursing professors, Cheryl McGaffic, Barbara Monroe and Robin Rogers, in the University of Arizona Women's Plaza of Honor.
History major Matthew Kruer in the UA Honors College earned the National Collegiate Honors Council 'Portz Prize' as one of the top three papers in the nation.
UA archaeologist Michael Brian Schiffer will again sell some of his own ceramic creations to raise scholarship funds for the UA anthropology department.
$5 million from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will go to educating low-income Hispanic women in Pima County and young Hispanics in Maricopa County about avoiding problems with drugs and sexual habits that foster HIV, tuburculosis and other infectious diseases.
UA Mexican American Studies Professor Andrea Romero has a $950K grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration that aims to prevent drug abuse, spread of AIDS among teens.
