Social Sciences and Education

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.

Nancy Sullivan, an anthropology student at the UA more than 40 years ago, willed nearly two-thirds of a million dollars to the department.

Latinos in the United States and their culture are arousing the interest of Latin American intellectuals.

Workshop coordinators want to provide examples of how American Indian community members view research and describe methods that are effective when conducting research in American Indian communities.

The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute has pledged $300,000 to the UA's Near Eastern studies department to create a graduate fellowship endowment for Persian and Iranian studies.