It's always better to be safe than sorry. This week, the University of Arizona College of Medicine — Tucson announced it will allow its fourth-year students to graduate early in order to increase the number of physicians able to combat the COVID-19 pandemic — on a volunteer basis. Read more
Two University of Arizona College of Nursing professors, Timian Godfrey and Michelle Kahn-John, were accepted to the American Indian Health Research and Education Alliance’s Native Research Ambassador Program. Both of the women are members of the Navajo Nation. Read more
Faculty, staff and graduate students overwhelmed with work and in need of a break or an outlet can turn to the University of Arizona Faculty/Staff Choir. UA’s Faculty and Staff Choir is a volunteer organization that started in 1990 where faculty, staff, graduate students and retired affiliates can sing and perform as one group. Read more
Students at the University of Arizona have recently been spammed with an influx of scams coming through their university email addresses. These scams have fooled many students, causing them to lose up to thousands of dollars. Read more
Roy Chavez, a lifelong resident of Superior, Ariz., a small mining town approximately 60 miles east of the Phoenix metropolitan area, grew up wondering why they couldn’t grow grass in their front yard and why they played on a dirt football field. Read more
Students entering through the front doors of Teenage Parent High School, walking with both a backpack and a baby in tow, can expect to hear the sound of wailing infants and young mothers trying to hush them on the other side of the door. This is just another morning for the pregnant and parenting high school students of Teenage Parent High School, or TAP, in the Tucson Unified School District. Read more
While he nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as if some masked man gently rapping, rapping at his dorm room door. “’Tis that visitor,” he muttered, “tapping at my dorm room door. Only him — again — and nothing more.” Read more
The University of Arizona has removed recognition of the fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi as of Nov. 12. The fraternity had been under investigation for hazing since September, according to a UA News release. Before that, Alpha Epsilon Pi was under university probation for alcohol-related events for violations of the fraternity code of conduct. Read more
University of Arizona Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences students have partnered with UA BookStores to create a completely student-run online store. 58 students in an e-commerce class were tasked with creating a with theme revolving around anything they want. Read more
The usual walk from one class to another will have any student see an assortment of empty Juul pods, vape cartridges and possibly even a semi-functional vaping device. Within the past few years, vaping and e-cigarette use has been on the rise among college students. Read more
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona, UA’s undergraduate student government, approved Students for Sustainability funding and reviewed their election funding caps at their Nov. 13 senate meeting. Read more
The participants in the 2019 SlutWalk sought to reclaim the word “slut” through community action, colorful posters and powerful chants that centered around the idea that women should be free to choose their clothing without fear of shaming or sexual assault. Read more
Last month, the University of Arizona received approval from the American Veterinary Medical Association that they would be able to open the first public College of Veterinary Medicine in the state of Arizona. Read more
