The QT

E-mail and Webmail systems continue to experience intermittent service delays since Monday morning, Nov. 2. At 9:20 p.m., Monday, all e-mail queues were cleared and all e-mail was delivered. Service delays began again Tuesday morning at approximately 10 a.m.

UITS has formed an incident team to identify and resolve the e-mail problems as quickly as possible. In order to diagnose the problem more efficiently and eliminate all possible causes, several internal processes, including the CatMail Opt In and migration processes, have been temporarily suspended.  read more »

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The Graduate College is pleased to issue a Call for Nominations of awards to acknowledge teaching and mentoring excellence in graduate education. Two such awards will be given.  read more »

Anyone with a new or lightly used sweater can carry on the giving spirit of children's television pioneer Fred Rogers in the first week of November.

The "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" sweater drive is collecting sweaters for school children and their families citywide as part of a drive to help fill local school district clothing banks with family clothing appropriate for milder Arizona winters. The goal for the drive is 10,000 sweaters.  read more »

Arizona Soccer hosts Oregon and Oregon State this weekend in the last home series of the 2009 season. The action starts on Friday at 7 vs. Oregon and then on Sunday the Cats take on OSU at 11am. Come out and support your Wildcats!

Parking & Transportation Services (PTS) is pleased to announce a new garage parking pass option.
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Mark your calendars now to bring your elementary and middle school children to the seventh annual Junior Scientists Kids' Day 2009 (JSKD) on Saturday, November 7 from 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the Science-Engineering Library on the UA Main Campus. JSKD is a hands-on, fun and educational event planned to inspire excitement in children and their families about the importance of science, engineering, and education in general.  read more »

Why do we need to reduce spending on Library acquisitions?

Despite campus efforts to hold the Libraries' Information Access Budget harmless, the cost of information resources (books, journals, bibliographic databases, etc.) increases each year, necessitating a reduction in our purchases.  read more »

Amy Blackburn, photographer and author of the book "Caring for Cynthia" will speak at the UA BookStore Tuesday, October 27 at 4:30 p.m. as part of our celebration of National Breast Cancer Awareness month.

About the book:

"Caring for Cynthia" is a photographic essay about breast
cancer, community and caring. This visual educational tool illuminates private moments of breast cancer survival from a caregiver's
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Faculty Senate Meeting 

November 2, 2009

3:00 - 5:00 p.m. in Law 168

Join us the first Tuesday of every month for Tuesday Talks @ the University Libraries, an exciting lecture series that offers the campus community an opportunity to be exposed to research interests across campus.

In honor of National American Indian Heritage Month, the featured speaker for November will be Ofelia Zepeda, noted Tohono O'odham poet, MacArthur Fellow and Regents' Professor of Linguistics reading from her latest book "Where Clouds are Formed." The Nov. 3 talk is free and open to everyone!

Columbia University, Creighton, Colorado State, Hawaii Pacific, Utah State, Pepperdine, American University of Antigua, New Mexico State, UC Riverside, University of San Diego and USC are just some of the grad schools that will have tables at the Career Services-sponsored UA Graduate School Day.  read more »

A Fellowship for Southern Arizona Poets, the Mary Ann Campau Fellowship, will be receiving applications until its deadline on November 20. This fellowship provides a $1,000 stipend and an opportunity to read in the Poetry Center Reading Series. All Southern Arizona poets are invited to apply. Please visit http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/contest/campau.shtml for more information and eligibility requirements.

Take a look around you. You recognize people who are dedicated to The University of Arizona, who are always ready to help, and who make the University a great place to work. Now, take a moment and nominate those people for an Award for Excellence so that the rest of the University can appreciate them also.

The Staff Advisory Council, the Appointed Professionals Advisory Council, the President’s Cabinet and I sponsor these awards. I urge you to take advantage of this opportunity.  read more »

Lunch and Learn

Presented by: UA Life & Work Connections and Arizona Center on Aging

Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 11:30a - 1:00p. Student Union Memorial Center, Santa Rita Room

Guest Speaker: Mr. Robert Fleming, a well-known Tucson elder law attorney and partner in the law firm of Fleming & Curti.  read more »

The UA BETA networking group is hosting its annual Open Enrollment dinner on Thursday, October 15 from 5-8pm in the Rincon Room of the Student Union.

The keynote speaker will be Leslie D. Porter, Director of Recruitment and Employee Advising in the UA Human Resources Department. Her address is titled, "Starting Fresh Without Starting Over: Taking Charge of Your Career."

Keynote Address:  read more »

During Open Access week, Oct. 19 -23, academic institutions around the globe explore Open Access - the ideal of free, full-text, immediate, online access to peer-reviewed scholarship so news ideas and information can be obtained rapidly and freely by everyone.  read more »

The University of Arizona Police Department is pleased to announce the 2009 edition of the Campus and Security Report can be accessed on October 1, 2009 at the UAPD web site located at: www.uapd.arizona.edu.  read more »

Each year the Classics Department organizes a wonderful spring break tour of Italy – an antipasto of the country! This year the sites include Venice, Florence, San Gimignano, Rome, Pompeii, and Capri. Our group is between 35-45 members of the U of A community: graduates, undergraduates, staff, professors, spouses, and their friends and family. The trip is congenial, academic, and thrilling! To learn more please visit http://www.classics.web.arizona.edu/spring_break_italy.  read more »

Please join the Arizona Center on Aging On October 17, 2009 for a Community Aging Forum "Breaking the Aging Barriers."

Hear experts share new information about Living Longer - Living Better.

Join us for healthy snacks at 8:45 a.m. Talks begin at 9:00 a.m. and include lots of time for questions and answers by our expert panelists.

Our Forum will end around noon, in time for you to enjoy your active day!

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