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A symposium sponsored by the Tinker Foundation also will feature a lecture by anthropologist Suzana Sawyer on the legal battle between Ecuadoran peasants and Indians against a global oil giant.
The Women's Plaza of Honor will publicly and permanently celebrate women who have made significant contributions to the history of Arizona or whose lives have otherwise enriched the lives of others.
The $8M from Richard Diebold and the Salus Mundi Foundation will strengthen a number of programs.
Scott Whiteford joins The University of Arizona as the new director of the Center for Latin American Studies.
Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve as United States Supreme Court Justice, will be speaking on her life as part of The University of Arizona department of women's studies 5th annual "Conversation with An Extraordinary Women" event.
The UA history department's Division of Late Medieval and Reformation Studies will host a four-lecture series in August on the difficulties in delivering a Bible for common use.
Raul H. Castro, Arizona's first Mexican American governor and a UA law grauduate, is the namesake of a scholarship for students in the Center for Latin American Studies.
"Skipping Stones" magazine has given its 2005 Honor Award to "The Good Rainbow Road," a tri-lingual children's book in the Native American storytelling tradition.
Thomas Bever, along with Shadung University Professor Zenqian Liu, was recently awarded by the Society for Foreign Language Teaching in China a prize for the best work of 2004.
The annual event features family activities and entertainment at the Arizona State Museum on the evening of Saturday, June 18.
