The University of Arizona’s COVID-19 virtual university status update team met on Monday for its last briefing of the semester. It reflected on the efforts of community volunteers at the state POD site and the recent decline in COVID-19 transmission. Read more
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| 378 | 3 | 0.8% |
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| 270,694 | 4,359 | 1.6% |
This year, the University of Arizona set a university record for most Fulbright Scholar awards among its faculty. This placed the UA as the third highest Fulbright Scholar-producing research institution in the U.S. Read more
The Coalition for Academic Justice at UArizona released an open letter to University of Arizona administration expressing their concerns about reentry in the fall. Read more
The Daily Wildcat recently spoke with Ana Astiazaran, a fourth-year architecture student and recent winner of a 2021 American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment Top Ten for Students Award, about her futuristic studio project “Undefined Boundaries.” Read more
For more than 10 years, the University of Arizona’s Think Tank has been the go-to tutoring center for UA students. As the center finds itself consistently evolving, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, Think Tank has no plans to slow down when it comes to ensuring students’ academic success. Read more
The University of Arizona is participating in a nationwide COVID-19 post-vaccination study to help determine whether or not vaccinated individuals who are exposed to COVID-19 are still able to transmit the virus to others. Read more
Since its inception, the University of Arizona’s reentry task force attempted to lighten the massive load of uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic by keeping members of the university community informed with data analysis, changes to university procedures, developments in new testing and treatments and more. Read more
Nothing can make up for the fact that this school year was beyond difficult, with online classes, socially distanced interaction and an abnormally empty campus. Fortunately, our favorite campus entertainment, police beat, didn’t stop when everything else did. Read more
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona held meetings over Zoom during the 2020-21 school year. Its major accomplishment was the passage of resolutions concerning diversity, equity and inclusion. Read more
The University of Arizona’s 2021 graduates and their families can look forward to safe in-person commencement ceremonies held from May 11 to May 18 this year. Read more
Amidst a pandemic and major social justice issues, election year raged on as one of the most intense our generation has ever seen. Read more
COVID-19 vaccine recipients at the University of Arizona’s POD vaccination site now have the chance to participate in a new global poetry project created by the UA’s Poetry Center. The Global Vaccine Poem project is a collaboration between the UA Poetry Center and Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center. The project hopes to encourage individuals to “share their voices and promote COVID-19 vaccination through the imaginative language of poetry,” according to a UA press release. Read more
Taking classes during the pandemic has not been easy, but we have gotten through it. For the year in review edition of the Daily Wildcat, the enterprise desk presents eight stories out of the many lived this year that show the variety of experiences people had in online and COVID-19 precautioned classes. In our print edition there are four out of eight stories — with the rest posted online — from a student and a professor each in four University of Arizona colleges/schools: the College of Nursing, the School of Dance and the School of Theatre, Film and Television from the College of Fine Arts and the James E. Rogers College of Law. Read more
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