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Fiesta Bowl Goes to Rehab

Can the big-time sports organization recover from its season of scandal?
Savannah Guthrie

Savannah Guthrie

The U of A welcomes home a prominent alumna to give the 2011 commencement speech. Hear how Savannah's successful career started, and about the big change in her future.

Episode 17: Jobs Picture Improves for College Grads

Arizona universities report increased recruitment activities by employers big and small
The University of Arizona and BICAS, Bicycle Inter-Community Arts and Salvage, are working on a project to try to recycle bicycles abandoned by students who leave for the summer.

How to Recycle a Bicycle

Bicycle organization and University of Arizona team up to collect and reuse unwanted bicycles
The Muslim community in Tucson is characterized by a broad diversity.

Meet Tucson's Muslim Diaspora

The local Muslim community boasts a broad diversity, and seeks to redress misconceptions about Islam.
Twenty veterans from around the U.S. will get a tour of the UA that includes athletics clinics and sessions on how to take advantage of their higher education benefits. At the 4-day camp, vets will attend athletic clinics and learn from coaches and student-athletes.

Web Feature: On the Playing Field, Life Goes On

An all-veteran, all-amputee softball team reconnects with their love for the game
Arizona struggles to draw large corporate employers, says state Board of Regents Chair Anne Mariucci.

Episode 9: Business and the Skilled Workforce

Another round of funding cuts to the state's public universities bodes ill for the economy, regent chair says
We talk to a person who required heart surgery due to her Lupus and now sits on the board of directors for the Lupus Foundation of Southern Arizona. We also speak to a research assistant professor at the UofA who is working on this topic.

Living with Lupus

Researchers and survivors in Tucson raise awareness of an often misunderstood disease

Peace Corps Turns 50

UA fellows say international volunteer program continues to have relevance in the world
Dr. John Galgiani, director of the UA Valley Fever Center for Excellence, has studied Valley Fever for 30 years.

Valley Fever: Common, Yet Misdiagnosed

Improper diagnosis is common and can cost patients their health, or their lives
National Institute on Civil Discourse director Brint Milward and co-director Sally Rider discuss the new institute's mission.

Bush, Clinton to Chair New National Institute for Civil Discourse

Organization aims to advance the national discussion that arose in the wake of the Jan. 8 shooting and develop constructive solutions
One laboratory on the University of Arizona campus explores the skeletal secrets animals leave behind.

A Visit to the Bone Lab

The Arizona State Museum's Stanley J. Olsen Laboratory of Zooarchaeology explores the skeletal secrets that animals leave behind
Kimberly Craft interviews Ron Marx Ph.D., the Dean of the UA College of Education.

Mending the Pipeline

University of Arizona Dean of Education searches for ways to connect students to higher education
The University of Arizona Poetry Center has become a valued resource in the community, and its recognized nationally and internationally, as one of the best of its kind. Since 1962 the center has hosted thousands of readings by most major contemporary U.S. poets, significant international visitors and emerging artists. Now, a new exhibit at the center features vintage poetry posters and it chronicles the early years of these public readings.

When Poetry Met Art

Vintage posters put literary legacy on exhibit at UA Poetry Center
Tucson's Chapel Haven school teaches students with autism spectrum disorders and mild disabilities to live independently.

A Haven for the Different

Students with autism spectrum disorders and other conditions learn independent living in Tucson
Marie Chisholm-Burns, a professor at the University of Arizona's College of Pharmacy, discusses the value of involving pharmacists in patient care.

Rx to the Rescue

When pharmacists take part in patient care, patients fare better--and their care costs less

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