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  • John Maciejewski has visited 16 countries and continues to add stamps to his own passport while helping others get passports for the first time.

    Name
    John Maciejewski

    Position
    Passport Agent, Passport Acceptance Facility

    Number of years at the UA
    4

    Favorite thing about working at the UA
    "The people that I work with. The... Read More

  • The University of Arizona joins only 11 other universities in gaining certification from the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics in recognition of meeting or exceeding national standards in its support for student-... Read More

  • If you don't let UAccess know your furlough plan by June 3, any remaining furlough days will automatically be submitted for you at the end of next month.

    For fiscal-year employees, planned furlough days between now and June 30... Read More

  • The University of Arizona's plan for dealing with an upcoming $78 million budget cut from the state will need to be revised because of a tuition rebate that will reduce the expected amount of tuition dollars coming into the University... Read More

  • Wondering how the University of Arizona plans to deal with impending budget cuts? Or whether an early retirement incentive program like the one offered to UA faculty members earlier this year will be available to staff in the future?... Read More

  • The UA's graduate and undergraduate ceremonies will take place on May 13 and 14.

    As the school year winds to a close, University of Arizona employees are invited to tip their hats to graduating Wildcats at the 2011 graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies this month. NBC News correspondent and UA alumna... Read More

  • Below are excerpts from comments submitted by Lo Que Pasa readers. To submit a comment on something you read in Lo Que Pasa, please send an email to lqp@email.arizona.edu. Emails must be sent from UA or UA Foundation accounts. Please... Read More

  • Paul Matson, director of the Arizona State Retirement System, spoke to UA employees and retirees on campus.

    Despite recent media coverage that paints a grim picture of the fiscal health of public pension funds throughout the nation, Arizona's pension fund is doing well, the head of the state retirement system told University of Arizona... Read More

  • When UA researchers share with their peers around the country, the data flows can become quite large. Computational graphics? Virtual reality? Video? Telepresence? High-performance computing? These kinds of data need large bandwidth if... Read More

  • Beth Weinstein, assistant professor in the School of Architecture, is the 2011 winner of the George H. Davis Travel Fellowship.

    Architecture and dance may not seem to the average person to have a whole lot in common. We think of one being all about movement, the other stability. But the connection between the two disciplines can actually be very real and... Read More

  • Martin Kim manages the Arizona State Museum's Native Goods store, where the mission is more about education than moving merchandise.

    Name
    Martin Kim

    Position
    Sales Operations Manager, Arizona State Museum

    Number of years at the UA
    16

    Favorite thing about working at the UA
    "My wife expressed it as, ‘It's like... Read More

  • From left: Dean Iman Hakim, Dr. Cecilia Rosales and Phoenix Business Journal Editor Ilana Lowery. (Photo courtesy of the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health)

    Dr. Cecilia Rosales' interest in public health began at a young age when she lived with family in the U.S.-Mexico border regions of Arizona/Sonora and El Paso/Juarez.

    As a medical student, Rosales learned about the issues that... Read More

  • Alice Goddard, assistant administrator in the UA's pediatrics department, is this year's winner of the Billy Joe Varney Award for Excellence.

    The University of Arizona has seen a lot of changes over the past few years, with the University's Transformation Plan and a $100 million cut in state funding altering the way many campus units do business. Several recipients of this... Read More

  • Paul Matson, director of the Arizona State Retirement System, will address employee concerns about retirement during a special presentation on campus.

    University of Arizona employees with questions about retirement will have a chance to hear from the head of the Arizona State Retirement System next week.

    Paul Matson, director of the ASRS, will speak to UA employees and... Read More

  • Are you the person in your office that always insists your co-workers recycle their Coke cans and reuse the backs of old reports for scratch paper? You may want to sign up for the Office of Sustainability's new EcoOps project, a... Read More

  • From left: Cindi Gilliland, Stacey Oberly, Tom Wilding, Heidi Harley, C. Eugene Settle and<b> </b>Nicholas J. Strausfeld. (Photo by Beatriz Verdugo)

    For their classroom creativity, masterful mentoring and innovative outreach, a few outstanding University of Arizona instructors were honored last week at the annual Awards of Distinction luncheon in the Student Union Memorial Center... Read More

  • Geoff Bret Harte, with the finished glass sphere in the Museum of Optics. (Photos by Beatriz Verdugo, UA News)

    Among the displays in the new Museum of Optics in the College of Optical Sciences is a large optical glass sphere resting atop a steel tripod inside the west wing lobby of the Aden Meinel Building.

    The polished sphere looks out... Read More

  • The Internet offers us a world of information, and often distractions from what we really should be doing. From social networking to political blogs to countless hours of comedic cat antics caught on video, you can find just about... Read More

  • The UA Toastmasters Club gives University employees a chance to practice their public speaking skills. Shown here, Susan Richards, campus business intelligence leader for the Mosaic Project, recently presented a brief talk on leadership to the group. (Photo by Gavin Ng)

    Garth Perry shows up at every UA Toastmasters Club meeting feeling a little anxious. He knows there's a chance he might be called on to face his fear of public speaking, as was the case Friday afternoon when he was asked to give an... Read More

  • A survey created by graduate students in the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management is exploring the charitable giving habits of UA employees.

    The survey, available online now, looks at what factors most influence... Read More

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