The Arizona Area Health Education Center (AzAHEC) Program at the UArizona Health Sciences recently selected the Arizona Advisory Council on Indian Health Care to develop a new American Indian Health AHEC Regional Center dedicated to developing health profession education initiatives and expanding access to health care for tribal communities in Arizona.

The University of Arizona Health Sciences-based Arizona Area Health Education Center Program, also known as AzAHEC, will work with the Arizona Advisory Council on Indian Health Care to develop the new American Indian Health AHEC Regional Center. The center, dubbed AIH-AHEC, will be dedicated to developing health profession education initiatives and expanding access to health care for tribal communities in Arizona.

This year’s sessions will explain why and how race and CRT are being deployed in current legislative assaults on honest and inclusive education and what advocates need to understand about the disinformation campaign. We will also analyze why the particular assaults on CRT and racial justice education land differently to even those whom we count as our allies. By carefully analyzing the series of distortions and misdirections about CRT, we hope to educate constituents about what CRT is and what it was before right-wing operatives distorted and defamed it.

A University of Arizona College of Education program that provides mentorship and educational resources to Arizona's Indigenous communities will extend its reach thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the Arizona Department of Education.

Jennifer Martin, a librarian in the Health Sciences Library and clinical instructor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, has been named to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Library Advisory Board.

Four new graduate students from the University of Arizona have joined the cohort of Native Pathways awardees established by the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice in 2021. The award, created by the Haury Program to strengthen UArizona programs and assist people devoted to Native and Indigenous resilience education, research, and outreach, supports the research of graduate students who bring knowledge and experience on matters relevant to Native Americans. 

Gabriel S. Galanda (‘00) has been named a recipient of the 2022 ABA Spirit of Excellence Award, presented to the lawyers who personify excellence on the national and international level and have demonstrated a commitment to racial and ethnic diversity in the legal profession.

The Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program (IPLP), within the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, recently launched the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNSRIP) website. The site is designed to be user friendly and accessible to grassroots Indigenous communities and organizations, researchers, human rights defenders, and stakeholders around the world.

The Haury Program is pleased to announce an open call for proposals to support the research of graduate students who bring knowledge and experience on matters relevant to Native American and Indigenous resilience. Special consideration will be given to applications to support graduate students,

A University of Arizona doctoral student asked in her 2019 dissertation how universities recruit and which students they tried to woo.

Her findings inspired a program to connect students from a local majority Hispanic, low-income school district to University of Arizona recruiters.