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.

The two grants establish the foundation for the Native Center for Disabilities, administered by the Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities in the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Family and Community Medicine. The Native Center for Disabilities will provide on-site and virtual trainings, continuing education, workshops, community events and other disability and culturally related services.

A historic partnership between the Arizona Community Foundation and the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix will provide $306,000 in grant funding to support nine Native American students — three students per year for three years — on their journey through the Pathway Scholars Program and into medical school.

This fall, Alex Soto, who received his master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Arizona’s Knowledge River Program in 2020, was appointed director of Arizona State University Library’s Labriola National American Indian Data Center.

Felisia Tagaban Gaskin, former graduate assistant for Native SOAR, recently transitioned from the Native SOAR team to a full-time Student Relations Coordinator and Recruiter for The University of Arizona Office of Admissions, College of Education and Sunnyside Unified School District.