Research
Spanish Professor Wins Book Prize
Violeta Lorenzo Feliciano, an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures and a faculty member of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, has won the 2024 PEN de Puerto Rico Internacional's National Essay Prize...
U of A Humanities Center Names First Fellows, New Project Funding
The U of A Humanities Center is delighted to announce the selection of recipients for their fall 2024 funding competitions. HUMANITIES CENTER FELLOWS This year the center's selection committee chose its inaugural group of two UAHC Fellows from a group of nine...
U of A to Host Celtic Studies Conference in Spring
The 2025 Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Conference will take place on the U of A campus April 3-5. Registration is free and open to the public. This will be the first time the university hosts the conference. Past conferences have been hosted by,...
U of A Ranked No. 13 for Innovation Impact Among Mid-Sized Schools
The U of A is ranked No. 13 for “innovation impact productivity” among mid-sized universities by the George W. Bush Institute. The “Engines of Opportunity” report recognized the economic contribution of university research in creating new products and services,...
New Paper Examines the Elusive Nature of Liquid Brines on Mars
More than a hundred years ago, astronomer Percival Lowell made the case for the existence of canals on Mars designed to redistribute water from the Martian ice caps to its lower, drier latitudes. This necessarily meant the existence of Martians to build the canals....