SBS Developments 2008

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Message from Dean Donnerstein

Welcome to SBS Developments.

While I was reviewing two of

the major stories in this issue,

I was reminded of the powerful

need many of us have to leave a

legacy for future generations.

Emory Sekaquaptewa, a research anthropologist in the Bureau of Applied Research

in Anthropology who died recently, made it his life’s work to preserve Hopi culture.

His legacy to his people was to give them the tools to revitalize their language. The

Hopi Children’s Word Book, a project that Emory started and which his colleagues

will complete, will help Hopi children improve their Hopi literacy.

The Harelson family has donated to the Department of Journalism, namely to a

reporting laboratory and technology, to ensure that the late Hugh Harelson’s legacy

to future generations — high quality, ethical journalism — lives on in perpetuity.

Another feature story spotlights the 50th anniversary of the Department of

Geography and Regional Development (GRD) — a department which has grown

dramatically over the last several years and which is doing some of the most

interdisciplinary, topical work in the University.

Please review the article on our Magellan Circle. This year, 24 students received

scholarships due to the generosity of our Magellan Circle patrons! We also have

exciting trips planned to the Galápagos Islands and to Israel and Jordan.

I hope you enjoy this issue of SBS Developments. And please keep us in mind

when you consider your own legacy. Whether you support the next generation by

contributing to student scholarships, or to research on depression or environmental

conservation, you will be helping to make the world a better place.

Sincerely,

Edward Donnerstein, Dean

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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A Publication for Alumni and Friends of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

http://www.sbs.arizona.edu

Lori Harwood, editor-in-chief and writer

Christine Scheer, design and layout

Writing contributions by Gail Godbey and J.P. Jones

Ginny Healy, senior director of development Gail Godbey, associate director of developmentJennifer Rascon, accounting assistant, senior

Liz Oviatt, office assistant

Inquiries may be addressed to: SBS DEVELOPMENTS The University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences P.O. Box 210028 Tucson, Arizona 85721 520-626-3846

The University of Arizona is committed to equal opportunity in education and employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation and is committed to maintaining an environment free from sexual harassment and retaliation.

Cover art: “Biota Imprint the Phase Change” by Erik Goetze. Goetze, a geography student at Portland State University, writes that “many of my works are inspired by the incredible range of textures and colors in nature, the spiritual impact of sacred places, and/or a lifelong fascination with maps and geography.” Goetze’s company is called “The Art of Geography.” http://www.artofgeography.com.Go to page 16 to read about the exciting developments in the UA Department of Geography and Regional Development.

Photo by Christine Scheer.

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Emory Sekaquap-tewa received the Lifetime Achieve-ment Award at BARA’s 52nd anniversary in 2004. Photo courtesy of Bill Havens.

Research anthropologist Emory Sekaquaptewa believed that a Hopi Children’s Word Book is critical to achieving Hopi language and culture revitalization. The work of committed colleagues and gifts from Gordon Krutz and Arch and Laura Brown will help his vision become a reality.

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qöötsa (white)

lööyö’ (two)

pàayo’ (three)

suukya’ (one)

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Emory Sekaquaptewa, a Hopi elder and a research anthropologist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA), worked tirelessly throughout his life to preserve the Hopi language for future generations.

One of his major accomplishments dur-ing his 38 years at the UA was the Hopi Dictionary, published by the UA Press in 1998. The dictionary, which took more than 10 years to put together, is an incredible achievement, and one which, according to BARA Director Tim Finan, “will certainly mark Emory’s legacy.”

As important as the dictionary was in training teachers and increasing literacy among the Hopi people, it wasn’t tar-geted to children. And teaching children to be literate in Hopi is essential to the future vibrancy of the language.

When Emory died on Dec. 14, 2007, he was in the middle of creating a Hopi Children’s Word Book. His colleagues and supporters are determined to realize his vision for this project.

A Passion for Hopi LiteracyEmory, who was reportedly the first in-digenous American to receive a J.D. from the University of Arizona College of Law, was born on Third Mesa on the Hopi Res-ervation in Arizona and stayed involved in all aspects of the Hopi community, both modern and traditional.

Throughout his life, Emory watched with dismay as each generation of the Hopi people seemed to suffer greater rates of language loss.

“Loss of the Hopi language in the com-munity would definitely be against the Hopi teaching of our belief in our destiny in this world,” said Emory in an interview conducted shortly before his death. “The Hopi religion teaches the survival of the Hopi people, and if we lose the language, we will no longer be Hopi.”

“Emory was convinced, and the literature supports him, that a language commu-nity able to read Hopi and with access to a wide range of reading materials in Hopi will be able to preserve its language and its culture,” says Finan.

An early hurdle that Emory faced was the belief among some Hopi that the lan-guage did not need to be written down. Most previous attempts at documenting

the language had been done by non-Hopi people.

“The young people felt very offended by having non-Indians delving into their lan-guage and writing it,” said Emory. “Young Indians were very much threatened by a white man taking their language away, in their mind, as the white man has taken away things from the Indian in the past. They felt that the language is sacred, and it should not be written down.”

Emory said that the Hopi no longer have that attitude. “After all of these years, most people have accepted the idea that writing the Hopi language is the best way to preserve their language.”

Early in his career, when Emory began reviewing the existing Hopi ethnogra-phies, he was dissatisfied with some of the listed meanings for Hopi words. He started writing down Hopi words and their various meanings on 5 x 7 index cards. Before long, he had thousands of cards in shoe boxes. Colleagues at the UA encouraged him to find a more formal way to document the words, and the Hopi Dictionary project was born. He worked with linguist Ken Hill and anthropological linguist Mary Black, as well as with Northern Arizona University Professor Ekkehart Malotki. Numerous

naalöyö’ (four)

muuyaw (moon)

kuuyi (water)

yöngösona (tortoise)


At left: Arch and Laura Brown. Below: Gordon Krutz. Photos by Lori Harwood. Inset: Photo of Emory Sekaquaptewa courtesy of Bill Havens.

Illustrations: The drawings in this article were done by Emory Sekaquaptewa (to be shown to the Hopi artist who will illustrate the book).

Hopi speakers worked as consultants on the project, including two panels of older speakers, and helped to resolve ques-tions regarding dictionary entries and their usage, suggested new entries, and provided example sentences, until more than 30,000 words had been recorded.

“The Hopi Dictionary is still considered to be the most scholarly, complete Native American language dictionary in exis-tence,” says Finan.

Reaching the Children Today, Hopi children (except for a small minority) are no longer learning the Hopi language as a first language. Because of the presence of television and radio in Hopi homes and other outside modern influences, there is considerably less ex-posure to the language on a daily basis. Children, however, are still exposed to the language in the cultural practices of the Hopi, such as kachina ceremonies.

The Hopi schools are beginning to offer an opportunity for children to hear Hopi consistently and to learn Hopi as a sec-ond language.

Emory and his students worked on in-structional materials for Hopi teachers. In fact, Emory taught in Hopi classrooms to help him develop more effective lessons.

Incorporating the teaching of Hopi into

the classroom remains an ongoing struggle because of a general education policy that does not give priority, much less support, to teaching a non-English language. The primary funding support of Hopi schools is the federal government, which puts emphasis on the state school curriculum requirements.

“We are arguing that by teaching the Hopi language in our Hopi schools we are not undermining the three R’s,” said Em-ory. “We are simply adding self-esteem to Hopi children so that they find some pride in being able to learn Hopi at the same time that they are learning their three R’s. That is our argument. It is the same argument for teaching of the arts and humanities…these are all important for the whole education of the child.”

The Hopi Dictionary has been the primary tool for teacher training; however, the Hopi teachers find this dictionary in its technical treatment of the Hopi vocabu-lary to be beyond the comprehension of elementary school children.

Emory believed the teachers were in critical need of a Hopi children’s book that could attract the attention of chil-dren. The book will be modeled after the popular Richard Scarry children’s books.

The work on the project is sufficiently advanced that Emory’s colleagues — Tim

Finan, Ken Hill, Mary Black and Sheilah Nicholas (a former student of Emory’s, who is also Hopi) — will see the project through to completion.

“The Hopi Children’s Word Book — by its very existence — will demonstrate to the children in a tangible way that the language is valued and can be both read and written,” says Black. “By bringing the printed Hopi word to children in their classrooms, we hope to get them excited and engaged in ultimately creating and recording their own stories in the lan-guage that is their cultural heritage.”

The Hopi Children’s Word Book will incorporate words and sentences with drawings depicting typical Hopi scenes and activities, as well as a pronuncia-tion guide that includes the sounds of the letters in their representation of Hopi speech sounds. The Hopi alphabet is much the same as that used for writing English, with a few additions (such as the vowel ‘ö’) and some omissions (for example, ‘p’ is used rather than ‘b’ to depict the Hopi sound that is somewhere in-between). Because the writing system is completely phonetic, there are no spelling “tricks”; Hopi words are spelled exactly as they sound.

Emory’s colleagues plan to hire a Hopi artist to do the illustrations. Emory felt that it is not only important for children


to see their language in its written form, it is important for them to see pictures of children that resemble them.

Supporting a VisionThe lead gifts for this project have come from two different sources: a former colleague of Emory’s and a Tucson couple who met him on a Hopi tour.

Gordon Krutz hired Emory to be the assistant coordinator of Indian Programs at the UA in 1970. The program represented The University of Arizona to the tribes.

“Emory was an anchor for Hopi students who came here. He was a symbol. He made himself available,” says Krutz.

He recalls well the years when Emory was writing Hopi words on index cards. “In the beginning he had a lot of trouble with people on the Hopi reservation. Some felt that the language is sacred and should never be written,” says Krutz. “I remember one time we went to the Hopi mental health conference, and we passed around printed Hopi. He showed them you could read the Hopi language if you could speak it.”

Krutz remained friends with Emory after retiring in 1992 and was one of the first to give financial support to this project.

Laura and Arch Brown have followed and financed Emory’s work since they met him on a tour of the Hopi Reservation in 2001.

“We were extremely impressed with Emory, his enthusiasm and dedication to his people, his education skills, his intelligence and his family hospitality,” says Laura Brown. “These attributes left us determined to support whatever programs Emory de-cided would help his people.”

Laura Brown adds that they were drawn to Emory’s “twinkle.” “I have never met a man with a more amazing expression. He had a twinkle. His twinkle was hope. His twinkle was ‘thank you for helping me with this.’ His twinkle was just pure Emory.”

The Browns, who have lived in Tucson since 1972, have a long history of philanthropy. They support activities and organiza-tions in the community that represent education, conservancy, theatre and breast cancer.

When the Browns were asked to donate to Emory’s project, they didn’t hesitate. “This project is important because the Hopi language and history have historically been oral only, and we agreed with Emory that the foundation of a written language is important for the long-term survival of the language and the culture of the Hopi people,” says Arch Brown. “This project will ground the young to support the written word from infancy.”

To support this project, please send a check in the enclosed en-velope (put Hopi Children’s Word Book on the memo line), give online at www.sbs.arizona.edu (select “Quick Links” and then “Make a Gift to SBS”), or contact Ginny Healy at 520-621-3938.

Tutuqayhoya penta. (A student is writing.) Pam Hopìikwa penta. (He is writing in the Hopi language.) Pam Hopilavayit tutuqayi. (He is learning the Hopi language.)

Tutuqayhoya túngwanta. (A student is reading.) Pam Hopìikwa túngwanta. (He is reading in the Hopi lan-guage.) Pam pu’ Hopilavayit tuuqayta. (He speaks in Hopi now.)


Harelson Family Members Honor the Late Hugh Harelson Through Their Generosity to the Department of Journalism.

Above: Jan Harelson and her son Matt Harelson. Photo by Christine Scheer.

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ollowing journalist Hugh Harelson’s death in 1998 at age 67, the Arizona Daily Star wrote: “One of (Arizona’s) most humane, respected, most valuable citizens…It is hard to think of Hugh Harelson without becoming

aware of the possibilities of people to be decent, committed, accomplished.” One of Hugh’s accomplishments didn’t happen until after his death.

“Shortly before Hugh died, he was thinking of things he had planned to do, and thought he had years to do, and now he was down to days,” says Jan, his wife. “He said he wanted to give money to the journalism department.”

During his life, Hugh was very involved with the UA journalism department. Jan knew that Hugh wanted the department to stay on top of modern technology, so she helped fund the department’s first Internet-ready computer lab.

Friends and community members were part of that effort. “We took the wonderful gifts that had come into a memorial for Hugh, which turned out to be a hefty amount of money,” says Jan. “There were some large gifts, but there were also gifts of $10 and $15 from all over the state. Gifts from people who had never met him, but had admired him.”

The creation of the Hugh Harelson Reporting Laboratory could not have come at a better time. A technological revolution was occurring in the field of journalism. The Harelson lab set the standard for the future development of the department’s instructional computing infrastructure.

The Harelson lab holds 20 computer stations and an instructor’s station, and offers full interactivity as well as high-speed Internet access. This laboratory is used to teach skills courses offered by the department and to create the newspapers El Independiente and the Tombstone Epitaph.

“When I think about Jan and her family’s contribution to the department, I think of them as having given the department a new heart for a new century,” says Jacqueline Sharkey, head of the Department of Journalism. “It was a harbinger of the future direction of the department in terms of its curriculum and instruction. It was also a tremendous inspiration to other alumni on the power of gift-giving.”

A Portrait of a ManA portrait of Hugh hangs in the laboratory. Underneath it is a plaque describing Hugh as a “reporter, editor, news director, graduate and loyal friend of the UA, a man of ethics and integrity, a gentleman.”

Indeed, listening to stories about Hugh, one has the impression that he was, above all else, a gentleman: a man who was kind, tough when he needed to be, and unfailingly ethical. He was a terrific role model for today’s youth or tomorrow’s journalists.

Hugh received his bachelor’s degree in journalism at the UA in 1952. He was the editor-in-chief of the Arizona Daily Wildcat in 1951. Hugh began his journalism career at the Bisbee Daily Review in 1955, then moved to The Arizona Republic, where he was a reporter, sports editor and city editor in the 1950s and ‘60s. Hugh was also news director of KPNX-TV in Phoenix, and director of UA public relations.

Hugh’s commitment to the field of journalism was an integral part of who he was.

“When he would travel, he would get off the bus or train or plane, and — this was true all his life — he would get the local newspaper and read it,” says Jan.

One of Hugh’s gifts was his ability to solve problems.

“No matter where Hugh was, they put him into places where there was turmoil — it could be financial turmoil, relationship turmoil, quality of product turmoil — and he just set things right, and he would do it with grace and skill and always wit,” recalls Jan. “One year a friend gave him a plastic fireman’s hat for his birthday because that was what he was always doing, putting out a fire in one job or another.”

In 1982, Hugh was chosen by former Gov. Bruce Babbitt to run Arizona Highways magazine, which was suffering from declining circulation. Within a year, Hugh had turned the magazine around and created new revenue by introducing Arizona Highways videos, travel books and souvenirs.

Wynn Holden, a colleague of Hugh’s from Arizona Highways, wrote, “Hugh Harelson brought to any situation, challenge or simple conversation an insightful mind, compassionate style, a remarkable wit and a paternal approach that encouraged the best in others to blossom. He was usually gentle, occasionally forceful, but always gracious. He was famous for running as

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far and fast as possible from technology, but he was equally renowned for never shunning a tough problem or turning away from a friend in need.”

It’s a bit ironic that a technology lab is named after a man who avoided technology. But according to Jan and her son Matt, once Hugh recognized the importance of technology, he embraced it.

“He totally skipped the electric typewriter era,” says Jan. “He just had a Royal standard typewriter that he had in a black case. That typewriter was heavy and it went every place we went.”

After he began work at Arizona Highways, Hugh abandoned his allegiance to his sturdy typewriter and moved to computers. Hugh realized that modern technology was key to the success of the magazine.

“He sat up at night — and, I’m sure during the day at work — and read everything he could get his hands on about computers and technology. He trained himself,” says Jan.

Hugh had a journalist’s long hours but always made time to spend with his family. When his sons, Scott and Matt, were young, he worked at a morning newspaper, which meant he had to work nights. He always came home for dinner and to play with his sons. He then returned to work, and sometimes didn’t arrive home until 3 a.m.

Scott followed in his dad’s footsteps, becoming a journalist. He is now a media representative for the Salt River Project in Phoenix. Matt, president of Capstone Headwear, says his dad instilled in him a strong work ethic and the importance of excellent writing skills.

“In school, I would ask him to read something I had written, because I knew what a great writer he was. Invariably, it would come back to me with red ink all over the piece of paper, and I would be frustrated and a bit sensitive. But over the course of the years, it helped me become a better writer,” Matt says. “Now I’m a father — I’ve got three girls — and the oldest one in middle school is already frustrated with the red pen.”

The “red pen” is just a small example of Hugh’s influence on his family.

“It’s hard to believe he’s been gone for 10 years,” says Matt. “He has an impact on our lives on a daily basis and on my children’s lives.”

“He was an excellent reporter; he was an even better editor; and he was an even better person.” ~ Jan Harelson

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Planning for the Future

Hugh’s impact on future generations will extend to budding journalists, thanks to the continued generosity of his family. Jan, her sons, their spouses and Matt’s in-laws, Bernard and Judy Briskin, have continued to donate to the department in Hugh’s name. They established the Hugh and Jan Harelson Excellence-in-Teaching Award. Jan, a former school teacher, is a key member of the department’s external advisory council.

The Harelson family now has established an endowment so there will be a funding stream for the lab in perpetuity. The funds will be used to update the computers and software on a regular basis. One immediate goal is to update the visual technology so students can gain more experience with multiple media platforms.

“My wife, Julie, and I felt that it was important to build an endowment that will support the future needs of the lab,” says Matt.

“I’ve had the good fortune to have had success in my career and a lot of that I owe to how I was raised by my parents,” adds Matt. “On top of that, my family and my wife’s family have always been incredibly philanthropic and have taught me the importance of giving back with one’s time and, when possible, with money. So it was really kind of a natural step for us to start this endowment in honor of my father and his relationship with the University.”

It is heartening to know that journalism students who see the portrait of Hugh in the Harelson lab are being touched by his generosity and are part of his legacy.

“Thousands of students have been trained in that laboratory,” says Jacqueline Sharkey. “I keep thinking of how pleased Hugh must be at the way in which that laboratory has enabled the department to train the next generation of journalists the way he knew and strongly believed that they should be trained.”

“When I think about Jan and her family’s contribution to the department, I think of them as having given the department a new heart for a new century.” ~ Jacqueline Sharkey, head of the Department of Journalism

Above and at left: Jan and Matt Harelson visit the Hugh Harelson Reporting Laboratory. At right: Students at a class in the Harelson laboratory. Photos by Christine Scheer.

On Magellan Circle excursions, members get to travel alongside a professor who is an expert in the region or topic, as well as with other friends of SBS who share their love of learning and exploration! As always, Magellan Circle members receive priority

booking.

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a passport to discovery UPDATE: Canyon de Chelly, ArizonaOctober 19-21, 2007 SBS teamed up with the College of Engineering for a road trip to Canyon de Chelly, one of Arizona’s most famous destinations.

Chinle, Ariz., on the Navajo Reservation, was the home base for this three-day tour. Highlights included a 4WD open-air tour of the bottom of the canyon, a hike to the White House Ruins, a visit to the historic (and still active) Hubbell Trading Post, and a walk through the ancient Hopi pueblo of Walpi (on First Mesa).

Excursion guests included Engineering Dean Tom Peterson and his wife, Shannon; Greg and Lisa Fahey; Gary and Barbara Cropper; Jerry and Pam Hogle; and Leo A. Roop.

UPCOMING: Galápagos Islands with Dr. David YetmanMay 20-30, 2008 SBS and the Southwest Center’s David Yetman, who is also the host of PBS-TV’s “The Desert Speaks,” have partnered up to take members on the trip of a lifetime — to the Galápagos Islands, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Situated 600 miles off the Ecuadorian coast, this remote volcanic island chain has been called a “unique living museum and showcase of evolution.”

Traveling aboard the 70-foot charter yacht, the Daphne, Yetman will accompany guests to a new island every day, and they will go face-to-face with some of the world’s most strange and fascinating wildlife, such as the celebrated giant Galápagos tortoises, marine iguanas and blue-footed boobies.

Included in this excursion is a side trip to Quito and Otavalo, Ecuador.

UPCOMING: Archaeological Treasures of Israel & Petra, Jordan with Professor J. Edward WrightApril 2009 Make plans now to join Dean Ed Donnerstein and Professor Ed Wright, director of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, for an unforgettable excursion to Israel and Jordan.

Some of our visits will include Jerusalem, Galilee, Tiberias, Katzrin, Capernaum, and the ruins of Petra, Jordan.

The Wailing Wall and the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

The Famous Galápag

os Marine

Iguana

Opposite page: The 800 foot-high formation Spider Rock is one of the most familiar symbols of Canyon de Chelly. Inset photo taken by Gail Godbey.


Teaching Awards 2007Jennifer Roth-Gordon, Assistant Professor in AnthropologyRoth-Gordon’s research focuses on language and culture; she has conducted extensive field studies over the past decade on slang and definitions of race, language and power in Brazil. Toni Schmader, Associate Professor in Psychology Schmader’s research explores the interplay between self and social identity, particularly when one’s social identity is accorded lower status or is targeted by negative group stereotypes. Steve Yool, Associate Professor in Geography and Regional DevelopmentYool’s research interests include biogeography, remote sensing and geographic information systems, with particular applications to the study of fire (pyrogeography), vegetation disturbance and disease.

Fall 2007• Sallie Marston, professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Development, received $1,750 in support of her project, “Collaborative Teaching and Learning across the Graduate/Undergraduate Divide.”• Thomas E. Sheridan, professor in the Southwest Center and the Department of Anthropology, received $1,500 for “Moquis y Kastiilam: A Documentary History of the Hopi Indians and the Spaniards.” • Sociology Professors Kraig Beyerlein and Jeff Sallaz received $1,000 to help fund the graduate student conference, “Lives on the Edge: Immigration and Politics along the Arizona-Mexico Border.” • History Professor William H. Beezley received $700 for an educational excursion to Cananea, Sonora. Spring 2008 • The Department of Journalism received $5,000 to help send approximately 12 students to Argentina with Professor Alan Weisman as part of the International Journalism Program. • History Professor Katherine

Morrissey received $2,000 for the “2008 Southwestern Environmental History Field Institute: The Natural & Human History of Cataract Canyon.”• Women’s Studies Professor Kari Boyd McBride received $1,000 to support graduate student research in the Group for Early Modern Studies (GEMS). • Stephanie Buechler, research associate in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA), received $500 for the project, “Gendered Livelihood Effects of Water Scarcity and Climate Change in Agricultural, Migrant-sending Communities in Sonora.”• Sociology Professor Jim Shockey received $500 to help support undergraduate student Stephanie Cordova’s project, “Mega-Church Membership.”• Jarita Holbrook, assistant research scientist in BARA, received $500 for the project, “The Sky in our Lives: A Scientific Study of People’s Sky Knowledge in the United States and the United Kingdom.”• Laura Huntoon, associate professor in the Planning Degree Program, received $240 for the project, “The Scholarship of Engagement: Creating a Green Land Use Guide.”

2007-2008 Fellowship Awards

These faculty and student projects were supported by Magellan Circle funds.

Filmstrip: A team of UA international journalism students looked at the history and politics of Puerto Rico last spring and produced a series of articles that ran in the Green Valley News. Professor Alan Weisman led the trip, which was supported by the Magellan Circle. Photos courtesy of student Gaby Renteria-Poepsel.


2007 Magellan Circle ScholarsWe are pleased to announce our 2007 Magellan Circle scholars! Due to the generosity of their Magellan Circle patrons, each scholar received $500.

Aneet Singh Bains, JournalismPatrons: Bill Wing & Jacqueline Sharkey

Andrew Bess, JournalismPatrons: Paul & Rhian Evans Allvin

Crysta Clemente, PsychologyPatron: Gwen Weiner

Stephanie Cordova, SociologyPatron: Mary A. Goodman

Mai-Ly T. Duong, PsychologyPatron: Susan E. Newman

Sarah Frazier, PsychologyPatrons: Al Kaszniak & Mary Ellen Beaurain

Kyle Hartfield, Geography & Regional DevelopmentPatron: Bonham C. Richardson

Courtney Johnson, PsychologyPatrons: Bert Falbaum & Margaret Houghton

Krystalyn Kinsel, Political SciencePatrons: Bruce & Edythe Gissing

Kristina Koenig, CommunicationPatrons: Anthony & Joan Vuturo

Lance LaRue, LinguisticsPatrons: Chuck & Pat Pettis

Randi Lee, PsychologyPatrons: Earl & Louise Carroll

Jimmy Mack, Geography & Regional DevelopmentPatrons: Jerry & Sandra DeGrazia

Alexis Marshall, PsychologyPatrons: Arch & Laura Brown Mónica Martínez, Political Science/Near Eastern StudiesPatrons: Alberto & Gesine Moore

Shannon O’Malley, CommunicationPatron: Pam Grissom

Steve Penner, Political SciencePatrons: George & Anna Kennedy

Natalie Ramsdell, PsychologyPatrons: Dick & Mary Rose Duffield Bruce Riccardi, EconomicsPatron: Leo A. Roop

Stephanie Sams, HistoryPatrons: Todd & Carole Lundmark

Angela Seidler, Near Eastern StudiesPatrons: Adib & Entisar “Vivi” Sabbagh

Kristin Seifert, CommunicationPatrons: Michael Chihak & Hilda Oropeza Chihak

Kieren Smyers, Anthropology/PsychologyPatrons: John & Helen Schaefer

Yusra Tekbali, Journalism/Near Eastern StudiesPatron: Michael Bonine

Above: Scholars at a luncheon at the Arizona Inn on Nov. 30, 2007. Below, (l-r): Steve Penner with Anna and George Kennedy; Jerry DeGrazia and Jimmy Mack; Gwen Weiner and Crysta Clemente. Photos by Christine Scheer.


2007 Magellan Circle Honor RollA BIG thank you to our Magellan Circle members for their ongoing support of SBS faculty and students!

Circumnavigators (Lifetime members)Anonymous (2)Paul and Alice BakerTom and Olga BeverLarry and Jana BradleyEarl and Louise CarrollJoseph and Ruth CramerDonald and Joan DiamondRichard DieboldAgnese HauryFrederick W. Henninger, Jr.Jim and Joanne HunterLessner Family TrustWilliam LongacreJames and Beverly RogersRon and Karen RoseSherwin ScottIrving SilvermanDuane and Linda Whitaker Patrons — $1,500 (Student scholar donors)Paul Allvin and Rhian Evans AllvinMichael BonineArch and Laura BrownRaúl and Patricia CastroMichael Chihak and Hilda Oropeza ChihakJerry and Sandra DeGraziaRichard and Mary Rose DuffieldGerald and LaDona GeiseBruce and Edythe GissingMary A. GoodmanPam GrissomAl Kaszniak and Mary Ellen BeaurainGeorge and Anna KennedyTodd and Carole LundmarkSusan E. NewmanCharles and Patricia PettisBonham RichardsonLeo A. RoopAdib and Entisar “Vivi” SabbaghJohn and Helen SchaeferDonald and Luda SoldwedelDavid A. SteinAnthony and Joan VuturoGwen WeinerBill A. Wing and Jacqueline Sharkey

Explorers — $1,000Briggs and Patricia AckertTonya D. AdamsAnn Frost BaileyDennis and Sherrill BambauerTheodore and Karen BorekEsther N. Capin M. Virginia ClydeSteve and Ruth DicksteinEdward Donnerstein and Deborah Levine DonnersteinRosemary EmeryAntonio and Barbara EstradaGreg and Lisa FaheyBert Falbaum and Margaret HoughtonPaul E. FarrierLillian FisherAdel GamalAlan Gelenberg and Patty Weiss Father Andrew GreeleyMarcia M. GregoryFrederic and Gayle JaffreyJohn Paul Jones, IIISusan Karant-NunnDale Kunkel and Leslie Kent KunkelAnnmarie F. LopezSteve and Nancy LynnJ. Christopher Maloney and Judith NantellS. James ManillaRoy Mankovitz and Kathleen A. BarrySelma Paul MarksTerry MazanyBenjamin Ware MengesAlberto Piña Moore and Gesine MooreEleanor L. OlsenJohn W. Olsen and Ovadan Amanova-OlsenRevell RayneMarjory C. SlavinJames Studwell and Ginny HealyJ. Edward WrightCarla Zingarelli-Rosenlicht

Corporate MembersAllegra Print & ImagingCanyon RanchGannett Company, Inc.Nature’s Art Florists

Judge Earl Carroll has made a $50,000 donation to the Magellan Circle. Half of the gift will be used to award Magellan Circle Fellows — faculty mem-bers who are conducting ground-breaking research. The other $25,000 will go into an endowment to fund student scholarships.

“My deepest thanks to Earl Carroll for his incredibly generous gift. This money will help us support students and retain the faculty that make our college so great.” ~ Ed Donnerstein, Dean of SBS

Magellan Scholar Mai-Ly T. Duong with her Patron,

Susan E. Newman


Since 1996, Dr. Vuturo has served as senior vice president of Canyon Ranch Health Resorts. Previously, he worked at The University of Arizona in the College of Medicine and was associate dean of Health Affairs and head of the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

In his position at Canyon Ranch, where his responsibilities include philanthropy oversight, Dr. Vuturo helped SBS obtain the largest corporate gift in its history — $300,000 to the psychology depart-ment.

This gift to psychology went toward the study of energy and healing touch. “At Canyon Ranch, which focuses on health and wellness, we try to identify a wide range of techniques used all over the world, and to make them available to guests who come to Canyon Ranch for a better way to live,” says Dr. Vuturo.

Dr. Vuturo’s personal passion for international issues, an interest which began in his childhood, is also a good fit with the research of SBS. Raised by his Italian father and Lebanese mother in a diverse neighborhood in Kentucky,

Dr. Vuturo was exposed to a variety of cultures, especially when helping his mother cater events. “Catering a wed-ding or first communion or bar mitzvah, you start to understand the cultures and how people live.”

Dr. Vuturo went on to do extensive medical work all over the world, estab-lishing and administering health projects in more than 20 countries, including China, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.

He and his wife, Joan, believe students should study abroad, learn other lan-guages and experience other cultures. One of the reasons he enjoys their membership in Magellan Circle is that he “loves the notion of Magellan and exploration.”

“This whole idea of globalization means that if you are not mixing it up in the world, you are not going to be able to participate fully,” says Dr. Vuturo. “I be-lieve SBS is about training a new gen-eration of citizens of the world — world citizens who work and live comfortably outside of the United States and share the values of our country wherever he/she may be.”

Profile: Anthony Vuturo, M.D., M.P.H., SBS Advisory Board and Magellan Circle Member

lovingthe notion of exploration

“I have always had an interest in the breadth of issues that SBS covers,” says Dr. Anthony Vuturo, a prominent local physician. This fascination with several areas of research, as well as Dr. Vuturo’s extensive management and operational experience, make him an invaluable member of our SBS board.

50 Years Young for Geography and Regional Development

The department is a key player in the College, the University,

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enrollments, award-winning

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The fourth floor of Harvill is buzzing these days as the Department of Geography and Regional Development (GRD) prepares for the March 2008 celebration of the 50th anniversary of its first graduate. The celebration will also be a time to acknowledge the exciting things currently going on in GRD.

The department boasts the second largest GRD undergraduate program in the United States; its graduate students regularly win grants and fellowships from some of the most competitive funding organizations in the country; and its faculty are internationally recognized for their quality research and education.

“What is particularly striking about this department compared to others I know,” says J. P. Jones, head of GRD, “is the extent to which its excellence emerges from both the special integrative character of the discipline and from its faculty connections to a host of other areas of excellence at The University of Arizona.”

GRD faculty and graduate students research such disparate topics as: the ecological factors affecting the distribution of Valley Fever; the spatial

diffusion of buffelgrass in the Sonoran Desert; the different amounts of human capital that migrants bring to the urban hierarchy; the maintenance of community identity among refugees in world conflict zones; the optimal placement of cell phone and emergency response towers; the best way to engage citizens in designing large public infrastructure projects; and suburbia’s obsession with green, weed-free lawns.

What holds all these topics together? For Jones, it is the idea that “there is no object, event, or natural or social process that does not occur in and through space. Not only is everything located in particular contexts, but they all have connections that are inherently geographic.”

Jones summarizes the discipline’s expansive character by noting that “space — in the sense of geographic settings and connections — is never an inert foundation, but an active force in shaping all objects and events. This means that geography is not just ‘where’, but ‘how’ and ‘why’.”

This integrative perspective makes GRD’s faculty one of the most interdisciplinary on campus. Not



Photo: Geography students do water sampling at Aravaipa Creek, Ariz. Photo by David Fornander.


“Geographers study causal processes in their spatial contexts, and they recognize that those contexts are in part determinant in explaining how the processes unfold. Any explanation of social or natural science that ignores these contexts is akin to doing science on the head of a pin.” ~ J.P. Jones, head of the Department of Geography and Regional Development

only does it collaborate with other units in SBS, it has formal affiliations with Atmospheric Science, BIO5, the College of Public Health, the graduate certificates in GIS and in Water Policy, the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, the Office of Arid Lands Studies, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, the Water Resources Research Center, and the graduate interdisciplinary programs of Statistics, Global Change, Arid Lands, and Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis.

These sorts of connections provide GRD’s faculty and students with a unique opportunity in the history of the discipline: to envision a new type of geography department that brings multiple interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to bear on important social and environmental problems, and to work toward solutions that bridge the

traditional chasms between the natural and the social sciences.

“Work in the department on mosquitoes is one example,” says Jones. Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the GRD team includes Jones and faculty members Andrew Comrie and Paul Robbins. Their goal is to both map the ecology of the insect in Arizona and, at a higher resolution, Pima County, as well as to understand the geographic strategies — or “geographic imaginaries,” as Jones puts it — that inform responses by state and local health and environmental agencies. “In a nutshell, the spatial question is this: Does the geography of the insect in any way match the geography of agency responses to their growth and spread over the past decade, and what are the implications for any ‘spatial mismatch’

between the two?”

Another example can be found in the department’s

recent hiring of three faculty focused on water. “Our faculty specializing in water run a continuum from social science and policy perspectives to more biophysical approaches, but they work in tandem in generating a better understanding of how societal and environmental processes interact in place to affect the quality and availability of water,” says Carl Bauer, one of the new ‘water hires’ within GRD. The other two are Connie Woodhouse and Christopher Scott (see “New Faces” on pg. 19).

“Without a doubt, these three faculty members, together with the University’s traditional emphasis on water, make GRD the best department in the country in the study of water, society and environment,” Jones says.

A final aspect that makes GRD unique, according to Jones, is the adoption of social and environmental justice as a central component of the department’s mission statement. “Working toward common betterment of our places and peoples is one of the reasons we do geography for a living. Justice is a

Images, (l-r): This image, provided by Professor Steve Yool, shows fire risk in the Jemez Mountains, N. M.; Geographer Paul Robbins doing fieldwork with colleagues in India; Map from the UA Geology Survey showing which states are collecting and submitting West Nile virus and mosquito data; Internally displaced people in Kutaisi, Georgia discussing with Professor Beth Mitchneck (not pic-tured) the ways they attempt to gain the attention of government officials; Photo of sand dunes by M. Hiza-Redsteer. Graduate student Casey Thornbrugh, work-ing with Professor Andrew Comrie, identified the roles of climate and vegetation change in sand dune development.

goal that unites physical and human geography — better environments, natural and social, for everyone.”

STUDENT SUCCESS Excitement for GRD’s programs is increasingly evident among under-graduate students. The department’s two undergraduate degrees, the B.A. in geography and the B.S. in regional development, have now attracted over 400 majors, which is more than a doubling over the past five years.

“We have a department where both geography and regional development students understand the pressures of population growth and change, know that the earth has a finite number of resources, and have the conceptual, methodological and technological tools necessary to develop sustainable cities and environments,” says GRD Professor Sallie Marston.

The department is in the process of adding a Bachelor of Science degree in geography, in which students will be able to focus on geo-technologies, water and

society, or environmental science. The B.S. option is designed to serve students who will fare best in the job market with a science degree, particularly with respect to government jobs.

Part of the growth is due to the impact that geo-technology has had on the field. Research and teaching now routinely involve the use of geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, spatial modeling and spatial statistics, and spatial optimization and cartography.

“When I started, we had pen and ink cartography,” says Marston. “We now teach hundreds of students a week in the larger field of geo-visualization in a state-of-the-art computer lab.”

GIS is a huge growth area. In fact, the US Department of Labor reports that geo-technology is one of the three most important emerging and evolving career areas, along with biotechnology and nanotechnology. (continued on next page)

THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

“Geographers study causal processes in their spatial contexts, and they recognize that those contexts are in part determinant in explaining how the processes unfold. Any explanation of social or natural science that ignores these contexts is akin to doing science on the head of a pin.” ~ J.P. Jones, head of the Department of Geography and Regional Development

50th Anniversary Celebration

In May of 1958, the depart-ment awarded its first BA/BS degree with a major in “Area Development.” To commemorate this event, the department is holding a 50th anniversary celebration during the weekend of March 27-29, 2008.

Activities include a get together on Thursday night at The Shanty. On Friday, GRD will have tours of the University and the department, and networking sessions in four areas: GIS and its relevance to the public and pri-vate sectors; land development and re-gional growth and change; human and environmental system interactions; and social justice and community outreach. A gala dinner will be held on Friday evening at the Manning House. Saturday’s activities are organized around local field trips. Go to http://geog.arizona.edu/ for the most updated information.


(continued from previous page) The increased globalization of the world has also had an immense impact on the department and has raised interest in the field. Marston points to the project she did with her students in a recent class on American landscapes. The students interviewed merchants and non-profit leaders in the historic Fourth Avenue District in Tucson.

“There is an entirely global set of connections that populate that street. For example, the Guatemalan restaurant is connected to the refugee population that left during the civil war,” says Marston. “Studying one of the key objects of geography — landscape — is about understanding the world, and understanding that it’s small and it’s big. We live in our corners, but our corners are not isolated; they are connected to other corners in other parts of the planet.”

At the graduate level, success is measured by such things as publications, grants and fellowships, and student placement, and in this arena GRD is also succeeding. Last year, all four Fulbright-Hays scholarships received by The University of Arizona were given to GRD students, and there are currently five students with prestigious National Science Foundation dissertation research grants. Students also regularly win national and regional awards for research papers and posters.

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE Jones is clear about his aim for the department: “Our number one goal is to be a top 10 geography department and to train Ph.D. students to take academic jobs in institutions as good as ours. Many will also become leaders in government and international agencies.”

In order to achieve that goal and to continue to provide a first-rate education to the growing number of students, the department has stepped up its fundraising efforts. (Please see the next page for GRD’s targeted funds.)

Despite the need for more funds, GRD is approaching its 50th anniversary celebration with all the advantages of top talent, focus and momentum. The research in the department has never been more relevant to the issues facing the world in the 21st century.

SPOTLIGHT: Scholarships for Geography and Regional Development Students

Local businesses and organizations have stepped up to provide internships and scholarships for geography, regional development and planning students. Below are a few of these scholarships:

George H. Amos Scholarship This $2,500 scholarship is for a student with an interest in urban growth and development issues who wants to pursue a career in real estate. The scholarship has been awarded to UA students for more than 20 years. The award is in honor of George H. Amos, Sr., who served Tucson Realty & Trust Company for over 60 years, and was funded by donations from Albert W. Gibson, former president of Tucson Realty & Trust Company, and George H. Amos, Jr., former president and chair-man of the company.

Selected students participate in an internship at Tucson Realty & Trust Company. The most promis-ing intern receives the scholarship.

George “Hank” Amos, III, current CEO of Tucson Realty & Trust and former president of the Arizona Board of Regents, is pleased that his company can support the UA through internships and the scholarship in his grandfather’s name.

“I’ve always been a big proponent of higher education,” says Amos. “It’s important to have a college degree, but I understand that it’s difficult today with the cost of education getting higher. We are glad of anything we can do, even in a small way, to alleviate some of that burden.”

Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) ScholarshipThis $1,000 scholarship is awarded on a merit basis to students interested in pursuing careers in land development, real estate and the planning of sustainable cities. With more than 2,800 members in 20 countries, SIOR is the world’s leading as-sociation of commercial and industrial real estate professionals.

Urban Land Institute (ULI) ScholarshipThis $1,000 scholarship is intended to help stu-dents seeking careers in the responsible use of land and enhancing and protecting natural and social environments. ULI’s nonpartisan research and education has made it one of the world’s most respected and quoted organizations in urban plan-ning, land use and development.

“Geography is about space, place and land-scape. We create spaces and those spaces change who we are.” ~ Sallie Marston, profes-sor in the Department of Geography and Regional Development

At right: Graffiti art as street protest in Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo by J.P. Jones.


new facesof the UA Department of Geography

and Regional Development

The past several years have seen a number of new faculty in GRD, including:

• Keiron Bailey is working with colleagues on the $3.5 billion Louisville to Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges project. They gathered data from hundreds of participants in public meetings, which was used to create multidimensional models of community preferences.

• Carl Bauer is recognized for his books on water privatization in Latin America, particularly Chile. The country is on the leading edge of a trend in which water is changed from a human right to a commodity like any other, and this shift in thinking has profound implications for water law and social justice.

• Sandy Dall’erba studies regional economic growth patterns in Europe, especially among the EU countries. He is focusing on different growth policies; in particular, what causes policies to work in some places and not in others, and how can they be more effectively developed and applied.

• Sarah Moore examines the “politics of garbage” in Oaxaca, Mexico, as part of a broader research program on urban ecology. She shows how garbage is the beginning of an entirely new com-modity chain with its own peculiar path marked by recycling, reuse and disposal.

• Paul Robbins, a political ecologist, has examined chemical use on suburban lawns in the United States, elk management in Montana, forest product collection in New England, wolf conser-vation in India, and mosquito management in Arizona — all with the goal of understanding how institutions “think” about nature.

• Christopher Scott, who comes to the University with ex-tensive field experience in Mexico and India, has been recently examining “water stressors” along the U.S.-Mexico border region. He is finding that rapid urban expansion, coupled with climate variability, drives water scarcity and quality deterioration in unique ways.

• Daoqin Tong specializes in spatial statistics and methods of spatial optimization. Her current research examines algorithms for optimizing the placement of cell phone towers and emergency response warnings, with applications to any number of other geo-graphic problems in two dimensions.

• Wim van Leeuwen uses RangeView, a web-based geo-spatial decision support tool, to analyze and understand post-wildfire erosion, vegetation dynamics, and ecosystem recovery for arid and semi-arid regions around the world.

• Connie Woodhouse is a tree-ring expert whose work has been in the news repeatedly since her arrival last year. She and her colleagues have worked to reconstruct 1600 years of stream-flow records on the Colorado River. The research is important to western water managers planning for prolonged drought.

If you would like to donate to the Department of Geography and Regional Development, below are various department funds:

• Strabo Student Research Fund. Born in what is today central Turkey, Strabo (circa B.C. 64–A.D. 20) had an enormous impact on our knowledge of ancient geographers. This account is directed to student research projects.

• Varenius Technology & Infrastruc-ture Fund. Named for the European scholar Benhardus Varenius (1622-1650), who made significant contributions to geography in his short life, this account is directed to technol-ogy and related infrastructure.

• Von Humboldt Faculty Research Fund. Named after the great German geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), this account provides faculty with seed money for field and laboratory research.

• Ptolemy Development Fund. Named for the last of the great Greek geographers Claudius Ptolemaeus (A.D. 90-168), this is a general fund for strategic purchases.

• The Janice Monk Visiting Distin-guished Professor in Feminist Geog-raphy. This fund celebrates renowned geographer and department faculty member Jan Monk’s lifelong contributions to feminist geography. It supports the annual visit of a prominent feminist geographer to campus.

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Many of the stories in the news — the Presidential election, the Iraq war, global warming, Alzheimer’s disease, immigration, violence in the media — are related to research done in SBS. Below are some examples of faculty research in recent news:

Spotlight:

Men talk as much as womenUA Psychology Professor Matthias Mehl’s research, pub-lished in Science, challenged the notion that women talk significantly more than men. The findings generated an overwhelming response from news organizations worldwide. Mehl made appearances on “Good Morn-ing America,” “MSNBC News Live,” Na-tional Public Radio and many other news programs, and his research was cited in The New York Times, USA Today and hundreds of newspapers around the world.

Spotlight:

Journalism professor has best-selling book In his best-selling and critically acclaimed book The World Without Us, Journalism Professor Alan Weisman looks at how the planet would respond if humans sud-denly disappeared.

The World Without Us was named by TIME magazine, as well as Entertainment Weekly, as the #1 nonfiction book of 2007. The book has been on The New York Times bestseller list since late July and is listed among Amazon.com’s bestsellers. The book’s popularity landed Weisman interviews with The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and Matt Lauer of the Today Show.

NEAR EASTERN STUDIES “Scholar: Jesus Tomb ‘Publicity Stunt’”Tucson CitizenWilliam Dever

“Turkish Scholar Challenges Penal Code”Chronicle of Higher EducationElif Shafak

“Bush Seeks Permanent Military Bases in Iraq”New American MediaCharles Smith

JUDAIC STUDIES “Israeli Affairs, the Middle East, and Iran”New York TimesShlomo Aronson

“UA Hosts ‘Dignified’ Religious Dialogue Series”Tucson CitizenDavid Graizbord

“UA Prof Offers A Look at the Other Jesus Christ”Arizona Daily StarEd Wright

ANTHROPOLOGY “Climate Change Rocked Tibetan Culture 700 Years Ago”NewKerala.com, IndiaMark Aldenderfer “Modern Humans Moved from

Africa 5,000 Years Earlier than Believed”KVOA-TV NewsVance T. Holliday

“Stone Age Feminism? Females Joining Hunt

May Explain Neander-thals’ End”

Boston GlobeSteven L. Kuhn and Mary Stiner

“The Skinny on ‘Fat Talk’”Dallas Morning NewsMimi Nichter COMMUNICATION“New Book Examines Communication and Aging”Medical News TodayJake Harwood “TV Station Ownership, Kid Shows Linked”USA TodayDale Kunkel

“Psychologists Seek Strict Guidelines for Fast-Food Ads”Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionDale Kunkel

“For Lonely Hearts, 1 Can Be an Unhealthy Number” USA Today

Chris Segrin

GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT“Website Checks Your Home’s Climate Change Risk”USA TodayAndrew Comrie

“Green Building”KUATPlanning Degree Program

“Could Climate Change Herald Mass Migration?”Toronto StarChristopher Scott

“Ancient ‘Megadroughts’ Struck US West, Could Happen Again”National GeographicConnie Woodhouse

JOURNALISM “Latinos in the Media”La Buena Onda 1190 AM-KNUV-PhoenixCeleste González de Bustamante

“Sound the Alarm on These Intruders”Arizona Daily StarKevin R. Kemper

LINGUISTICS “Native Voices Symposium: a Three Day Gathering”Arizona Daily StarOfelia Zepeda

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Spotlight:

Energy efficiency reason for evolution of upright walking Anthropology Professor David Raichlen was part of a team that provided support for the hypothesis that walking on two legs, or biped-alism, evolved because it used less energy than quadrupedal knuckle-walking. Their research was reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The find-ings received international news coverage.

BARA (Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology) “Biodiesel Project To Fuel Border Fire Engines”Arizona Daily StarDiane Austin

“Universities Create Partnership to Improve Disaster Risk Management”AllAfrica.comTim Finan

“Time Catches Up with Hopi-Language Savior”Arizona Daily StarEmory Sekaquaptewa

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES “Drought in the Southwest, Borderlands, and the Colorado River Basin”CBC Radio OneMargaret Wilder

“A Call for Citizen Empowerment”American ScientistSylvia Tesh “Militarization of the Border”Channel 7, WXYZ-TV Scott Whiteford

PSYCHOLOGY “Inside the Terrorist Brain”WCBD-TV, SCJohn Allen

“Doctors Discuss Theories on Aging Brains” Los Angeles TimesCarol Barnes

“Even Lawyers Get the Blues: Opening Up About Depression”The Wall Street JournalConnie Beck

“New Clues about Parkin-son’s and Impulsiveness”The Associated PressMichael Frank

“Study: Naptime Could Help Infants Learn”NBC4-TVRebecca Gomez and Lynn Nadel

“Research Tries to Measure How We Find Life’s Meaning”Chicago TribuneJeff Greenberg

“Speed of Thought Guides Brain’s Memory Consolidation”Life Science WeeklyBruce McNaughton

“Breaking Up is Hard to Do, But Need It Destroy You?”Arizona Daily StarDavid Sbarra

MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES“A Grim Summer Routine in Arizona’s Deadly Desert”Scripps News, DCRaquel Rubio-Goldsmith

PHILOSOPHY“Ethical Choices”NPR ‘Talk of the Nation’Rachana Kamtekar

POLITICAL SCIENCE “Democratic Shift Could Bring Political Changes, Some Say”Arizona Daily Star John Garcia

“Bill Adds Fuel to Flames in a Divided Border State”Tuscaloosa NewsEdward J. Williams

“Project Vote Smart: Web Site Helps Voters Keep Eye On State Lawmakers”KVOA-TVWilliam Dixon

A masked American soldier withstands a sandstorm in Baghdad, Iraq. Photo by Brian Myhr. Maggy Zanger of the Department of Journalism argued that “U.S. Troops Must Not Withdraw” in an article published in the Arizona Daily Star.

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This year, our homecoming celebration on Nov. 2 was held in the Women’s Plaza of Honor. Alumni and friends strolled through the beautiful Plaza, sipped on a beverage from the coffee bar, and ate tasty Mexican food from Lerua’s. Thanks to Bill Nugent, owner of The Shanty, for hosting this event! And thanks to Espresso Art owners, Cherie and Danny Mannheim, for donating a portion of the coffee.

Manny Molina was our homecoming chair this year. Molina, a well-respected business and Hispanic marketing professional, founded Molina Media Group, which includes Molina Outdoor, LLC and Latino Future magazine. Molina was previously an executive with Clear Channel Outdoor and senior vice president for Circle K Corporation.

Molina has served the Phoenix, Tucson and Atlanta business and Hispanic communities for more than 20 years. He is the Chairman of the Board for the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Molina studied criminal justice administration and sociology at the UA. He was named an Honorary Letterman in 1999. His wife, Jennifer, received her BS in rehabilitation from the UA. The Molinas are members of the UA Foundation President’s Club, and he is on the UA Foundation Board of Directors.

The Molinas have three children: Matt, a UA communication alum, Michelle, and Michael, a current UA student.

Our student speaker this year was Nathan R. Olivarez-Giles. Nathan, a journalism and Mexican American studies double major, has been asking tough questions on a busy crime beat for the last year with the Arizona Daily Star. As the Star’s Metro Intern Reporter, Nathan has also written about the culture and people of Tucson’s south side for the paper’s Thursday Neighbors feature.

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f. Edna Meza Aguirre hangs out with Ron Rose (Political Science, Class of ’72) and his wife, Karen. The Roses are members of the Magellan Circle. g. Dede and David Areghini stand next to a staircase they purchased in the WPOH to honor Ethel May Fisher Sullivan. h. LaToya Tewawina (Journalism, Class of ’03), with her husband, Anthony, and children Dana (age 11), Tylar (age 10), and Gabriel (age 8).

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Anthropology Last summer, the Department of Anthropology received a $2 million donation from the Salus Mundi Foundation in recognition of its excellence in teaching and research. Several initiatives will be supported by this gift, including student scholarships and faculty and student research travel. Within the area of student support is a scholarship for students of applied anthropology, one of the fastest-growing areas of research and employment in anthropology. This award will be made in conjunction with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology.

Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) BARA has recently concluded an agreement with the Organisation du Mise en Valeur du Fleuve du Sénégal (OMVS), the multinational authority that manages the Senegal River through four west African countries (Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal). OMVS has committed $1.5 million over the next year to support the development of a dynamic decision- support system that will assist the OMVS in its effort to promote socio-economic development among the millions of Africans dependent upon the waters of the Senegal River. BARA, through its Africa Program, will manage this project, which includes the participation of several other departments from SBS, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering.

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) CLAS has received a Department of Education Title VI grant, which will allow the Center to renew its focus on the U.S.-Mexico border, enhance its undergraduate program, and promote international education and study abroad. The Center will be offering a new freshman colloquium course, as well as other seminars focusing on border studies. Last year, CLAS was privileged to present the Governor Raúl Castro Scholarship to two undergraduate honors students, Melissa Pitts and former Magellan Circle scholar Deyanira Nevarez. This year, CLAS is excited to announce production work on a documentary film about Raúl Castro, Arizona’s first and only Hispanic Governor. In addition, the Center has named their main conference room in honor of the Governor. Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) This past fall, CMES offered many Middle East-related outreach activities for K-12 teachers. The Center created CDs of lesson plans to give to teachers, collaborated with the Center for Latin American Studies on an educator workshop on natural resources and conflict, and put together an extensive lending library of materials. CMES also sponsored visiting author Ibtisam Barakat’s presentations at the UA bookstore and two area schools, several presentations at the National Council for the Social Studies in San Diego, and

a collaborative program with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Upcoming events include two spring workshops for teachers — one of them in rural southeastern Arizona, and an intensive summer institute for teachers and high school students.

Cognitive Science The Cognitive Science Program is at the center of a new interdisciplinary effort at the UA, called Mind, Brain and Society. As behavioral and brain scientists gain new understandings of the human mind and its neurological underpinnings, they must be increasingly aware of how their findings could and should influence thinking in related domains, including medicine, business and the law. The Cognitive Science Program has begun a series of workshops and talks to explore these issues and how the UA could become the home of the Center for the Study of Mind, Brain and Society. The first lecture, held in the fall of 2007, was about biomedical ethics in the neurosciences.

Communication The Department of Communication’s graduate programs in interpersonal communication and mass communication are ranked in the top

At left: GRD Professor Connie Woodhouse with research assistants and students near Monarch Pass, Colo.; they are getting ready to sample dead and living trees for a dendroclimatic study. Photo by Mark Losleben.Bottom: Communication Professor Dana Mastro (right) presents Ph.D. candidate Alesia Hanzal with the 2007 Department of Communication Disserta-tion Scholarship for her research on communica-tion patterns and adjustment to stressors in newly married couples.

Each SBS unit has chosen a departmental update to share with alumni and friends of the College.

departmental updates


15 and top 20, respectively, in the United States. The department strives to maintain this excellence by recruiting top graduate students and providing them with the best training and research experiences possible. To facilitate this goal, the department has recently developed a Ph.D. dissertation scholarship program to provide research funding to students who plan to conduct cutting-edge research for their Ph.D. dissertation. These scholarships are particularly effective at enabling top students to design and conduct research projects that will significantly advance our understanding of human communication processes.

Geography and Regional Development (GRD) Four GRD Ph.D. students received prestigious Fulbright-Hays scholarships to support their international field research during 2007-08. Heidi Hausermann, Katie Meehan, Brian Marks and Sara Smith received funds for between six to 12 months. Hausermann is studying how small-scale coffee farmers have organized to secure rights to natural resources in the wake of the coffee market collapse in Veracruz. Meehan is investigating the socio-ecological impacts of recycled wastewater in Tijuana. Marks is studying the role of household economies in export-oriented shrimp aquaculture in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. And Smith will explore religious differences in marriage and birth control decisions among women in Ladakh, northern India.

Planning Degree Program in GRD Planning students working with the U.S. National Park Service ran a Foundation Planning Workshop in El Paso for Chamizal National Monument, a binational park that celebrates cultural exchange. This monument commemorates the diplomatic resolution of a long-standing boundary dispute. Another student project — a redevelopment plan for Bridgewater Channel at Lake Havasu

Delegates from Organisation du Mise en Valeur du Fleuve du Sénégal (OMVS) met with UA President Shelton. BARA, along with other UA units, will be working with the OMVS to promote socio-economic development among the millions of Africans dependent upon the Senegal River.

— won honorable mention at the annual Arizona Planning Association meetings. And finally, as part of student and faculty research into policy barriers to the development of green infrastructure, Planning organized two seminars on sustainable planning for professionals. The seminar “The Green Building Revolution” looked at trends in commercial and residential real estate.

History Paul Milliman, a new assistant professor in the department, received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, where he specialized in Medieval European history. His dissertation, “Disputing Identity, Territoriality, and Sovereignty: The Place of Pomerania in the Social Memory of the Kingdom of Pomerania and the Teutonic Ordensstaat,” examines the origins of Polish national identity amid the religious conflicts of the 14th century on the Baltic frontier. Milliman also has expertise in the history of medieval games, including chess, and pre-modern Islamic history. He will teach a variety of courses in medieval and early modern history and contribute to the work of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies.

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CMES sponsored visiting author Ibitsam Barakat’s presentation at the UA bookstore. Barakat is the author of “Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood.”

Journalism The Gannett Foundation has continued its commitment to the Department of Journalism with a $10,000 grant for curriculum development, travel and technical support. The revolution in digital communication technology during the past decade has compelled journalism programs around the country to take major steps to revise and update curricula. This grant boosts Gannett’s giving to the UA journalism department to more than $70,000. The funding will cover travel costs for faculty to attend conferences where curriculum development is the central focus. The additional technical support enables the department to maintain the hardware and software needed to continue providing students with the opportunity to learn professional skills utilizing multiple media technologies.

Judaic Studies Beth Alpert Nakhai, associate professor in the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, spent a month at the William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. She was an associate senior fellow, and her work focused on the publication of the Tell el-Wawiyat Excava-tion Project. Tell el-Wawiyat is a small Bronze and Iron Age site in Israel’s Lower Galilee, particularly important for its contribution to the problem of the transition from the Canaanite to the Israelite period, and to the question of Israel-ite ethnicity. This excavation is co-sponsored by the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies.

Late Medieval and Reformation Studies The High Country Seminar, hosted by Bazy Tankersley at her scenic ranch in Williams, Ariz., offered participants a weekend of historical lectures and lively discussion. The distinguished speakers included Professors Tracy Fessenden (ASU, Religious Studies), Susan Karant-Nunn, Roger Nichols and Thomas Brady, Jr., who is the first Heiko A. Oberman Visiting Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History. In other good news for the Division, an anonymous donor has renewed the offer to match gifts to the endowment of the Oberman Chair/Library for a period of two years, beginning in August

2007, to an aggregate maximum of $300,000. The successful completion of this challenge gift will advance the endowment to within reach of its ultimate goal of $2 million.

Linguistics Rapid growth of modern electronic commu-nication, particularly the Internet, has greatly increased the demand for professional problem-solvers in the domains of information science, inspiring UA linguistics faculty to develop a Human Language Technology (HLT) Master of Science program. Aiming for a four student incoming class, HLT Director Sandiway Fong is excited by the program’s immediate popularity. Linguistics Ph.D. students also have the option to receive an M.S. in HLT along the way to the Ph.D. The new HLT program is one of four graduate programs in linguistics you can sup-port — just check “Linguistics” on the enclosed envelope.

Mexican American Studies & Research Center (MASRC) In 2004, Bob Majors, along with his son, Bob Jr., established a scholarship in MASRC in memory of his wife, Renée Jácome Majors, to support undergraduate students. This fall, Majors met


UA journalism graduate Savannah Guthrie was named an NBC News correspondent. Guthrie, who also has a law degree, will be based in Wash-ington D.C. Photo courtesy of NBC News.

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four recipients of the Renée Jácome Majors scholarship at a lunch at the Arizona Inn. Majors spoke to the students about his wife, telling them about her passion for life. He related the problems Renée encountered with toler-ance when they moved to Alabama, and how important it is for the students to have an open mind as they gradu-ate and go into the world. Majors said this scholarship was his way of memorializing Renée’s spirit in a way that helps others.

Near Eastern Studies (NES) Two new dual degree programs in Near Eastern Studies capitalize on its interdisciplin-ary nature and the increased interest in Middle East studies. The dual Ph.D. program with the anthropology department results in a Ph.D. in each program and fully prepares students for an academic career in either discipline. The dual M.A. with the School of Information Resources and Library Science prepares graduates for careers with a Middle East focus in libraries, archives, publishing, the Internet and technol-ogy companies.

Philosophy Professor Michael Gill serves as a member of the Medical Ethics Committee at the University Medical Center. In that capacity, he has helped construct several crucially important hospital policies concerning patient care. He helped write the hospital’s “Allow Natural Death” form, which gives patients the opportunity to forgo ag-gressive treatment at the end of life. Gill helped draft the hospital’s policy on organ donation. He was part of a team that constructed a plan for dealing with large-scale medical disasters (such as occurred in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina). Gill has also worked with local hospice patients.

Political Science Project Vote Smart, a national non-partisan research organization, now has a branch at The University of Arizona. Project Vote Smart, re-ferred to as the “Voter’s Self-Defense System,”

has affiliations with the College of SBS and the political science department to provide UA students with the opportunity to study practical American electoral politics. Interns and student volunteers compile legislative voting records, congressional ratings and other factual data on candidates and incumbents. Project Vote Smart and the political science department are also sponsoring forums on American democracy and elections. Call (520) 621-7600 for more information. Psychology New Professor Gene Alexander, who has held positions at the National Institutes of Health and Arizona State University, employs sophisticated brain imaging and neuropsycho-logical technologies in his ongoing research on Alzheimer’s disease and memory aging. He is a distinguished contributor to the state-wide

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Opposite page, middle: Last summer, Journalism Professor Maggy Zanger took a group of students to Egypt. The project, funded by a Fulbright-Hays scholarship, allowed students to live and do field work in Cairo for eight weeks while studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo. Photo courtesy of Meredith Serevino.Opposite page, bottom: Ed Wright, director of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, gave a keynote presentation and led a private tour of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the San Diego Natural History Museum this past summer. The event was sponsored by SBS, Hillel, the UA Alumni Association, and the UA Foundation. (l-r): Cedric Dempsey, June Dempsey, Ed Wright, Ed Donnerstein, Michelle Blumenberg and Chris Vlahos. Photo by Gail Godbey. At left: An image from a paper co-authored by Psychology Professor Gene Alexander showing how PET brain mapping was used as part of the process of revealing the progression of Alzheimer’s in the human brain.

At left: Bob Majors met the recipients of the Renée Jácome Majors scholar-ship at a lunch at the Arizona Inn. (l-r): Daniela Becker, Teresa Bravo, Bob Majors, Irma Flores and Manuel Alejandro Rivera. Below: Bazy Tankersley supported the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies by holding a weekend seminar at her ranch in Wil-liams, Ariz. related to religious conflict in the western world from 17th century Europe to modern Ireland and present-day America. (l-r): Susan Karant-Nunn, Luise Betterton, Bazy Tankersley and Hester Oberman. Photo by Katherine G. Brady.

Alzheimer’s Disease Center, and he will be joining the newly established Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute. Alexander is initiating a new NIH-funded study of memory and brain physiol-ogy changes following a physical exercise program for older adults. Alexander adds to the department’s established research and teaching strengths in the clinical and cognitive neurosci-ences, aging and Alzheimer’s disease. SBS Research Institute (SBSRI) The SBSRI Summer Proposal Development Program teaches students and faculty how to develop winning grant proposals. Participants receive small grants to take grant writing work-shops, write draft proposals, review each others’ proposals, collect preliminary results and submit

their improved proposals to outside agencies. The seven graduate students and seven faculty members who took part in the summer 2006 program have already won over half a million dollars worth of grants since taking the training. On an investment of less than $45,000, that’s a 1,000% return. In addition, the grants make valuable research possible. Budget cuts are threatening this successful program. Please help SBS Research Institute keep it alive. School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS) SIRLS is making plans for ongoing capacity-building and financial support for the internation-ally acclaimed Knowledge River center for the study of Hispanic and American Indian library and information issues, now in its sixth year. With Knowledge River’s third round of grant funding coming to a close this summer, SIRLS is focusing on developing new sources of support that will sustain critically needed scholarships as well as expand faculty and administrative resources. Knowledge River’s highly regarded national advisory committee met this fall to welcome several new committee members and to brainstorm how to shape the program in the coming years.

Sociology Assistant Professor Kraig Beyerlein is conduct-ing research on humanitarian aid and advocacy efforts in southern Arizona for immigrants from Central America and Mexico. His research fo-

cuses on two core questions. First, why do some Arizona residents but not others participate in these efforts? He is particularly interested in the role of religious convictions and practices for explaining this differentiation. His second question is about the consequences of these efforts. Among other things, he will examine the personal transformations of activists and how the humanitarian aid and advocacy groups shape how the public views immigrants from these countries. This project has received both internal and external funding. The Southwest Center Two books in the Southwest Center (SWC) Series edited by SWC Director Joseph Wilder at the UA Press have won 2007 Arizona Book Awards: Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto, by SWC research associate Bill Broyles (photographs by Michael Berman), won the “Best Embodying Arizona Book and Best Na-ture/Environment Book;” and Picturing Arizona: The Photographic Record of the 1930s, edited by UA historian Katherine Morrissey and Kirsten Jensen, won honorable mention for “Best His-tory/Political Book.” In addition, SWC research social scientist David Yetman won a Rocky Mountain region Emmy award for a segment of “Arizona Illustrated,” produced locally by KUAT-TV.


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Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) SIROW is excited to be working with the Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona to develop and disseminate a report on the status of women in southern Arizona. This report will include data on education attainment, poverty, labor force participation and earnings, health and safety, and political involvement of women and girls in Cochise, Pima and Santa Cruz Counties. The report will be a useful tool for researchers, policy makers and others who are interested in the existing inequities and progress of women and girls in southern Arizona.

Women’s Studies This year, the Department of Women’s Studies is working hard to sell the remaining naming opportunities in the Women’s Plaza of Honor (WPOH). As part of this final campaign — which they hope will bring their endowment to $1 million — they are holding “house parties” at the homes of donors. Those house parties introduce people from the com-munity to the department and the WPOH. Cathy Mendelsohn,

Pam Grissom and Betsey Bayless have all hosted parties. President Robert Shelton also hosted a men’s breakfast at the Women’s Plaza of Honor on Nov. 1; prominent men in the com-munity were asked to honor the women in their lives or to donate to the department’s ongoing effort to raise $25,000 to dedicate an arch to Arizona’s Native American women.

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Faculty in the Southwest Center do extensive field work on the border. Director Joe Wilder (pictured above) led a field trip for new SBS faculty to Magda-lena, Sonora, Mexico. Photo on opposite page is of a border fence.Opposite page, top: Student studying on UA campus. At right, (l-r): Ken Dildine, Gene Sander and Thomas Keating at the Women’s Plaza of Honor. Sander, who is UA executive vice president and provost, honored his wife in the Plaza with a bench. Keating and his wife, Reenie, purchased a tiled seat wall bench in the WPOH. Photo by Christine Scheer.


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SIRLS(School of Info. Resources & Library Science)“Estudiaran Rendimiento de Alumnos en Studio”Arizona Daily StarPatricia Montiel Overall

“Literacy Grant Helps Add to School Library”Arizona Republic

SOCIOLOGY “The Importance of Friendship”Portsmouth Herald News

“Studies from UA have Provided New Information about Terrorism”Bioterrorism WeekA.J. Bergesen

“Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs”International Herald Tribune, FranceKieran Healy

“Women on Wall Street Are Getting Short-Changed”Smartmoney.comLouise Marie Roth

SOUTHWEST CENTER “Naturalist-author is Coming Home to Southern Arizona”Arizona Daily StarGary Nabhan, Joe Wilder, David Yetman

“Cactus Book a Must for Desert Lovers”The Desert SunDavid Yetman

SIROW(Southwest Institute for Research on Women) “Providing Help in Labor Rights for Women”Tucson Citizen

“UA Offers Teen Substance Abuse Program”Latino Perspectives

“Buscan Tartar a Jovenes Con Problemas de Drogas”Arizona Daily Star

WOMEN’S STUDIES “Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin”Arizona IllustratedJudy Nolte Temple


givingWAYSLast year, the IRS allowed individuals over 70 to donate up to $100,000 from their IRAs tax free. Three donors generously gave to SBS: Earl Carroll gave $50,000 to the Magellan Circle; John and Helen Schaefer gave $50,000 to the Divison for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies; and an anonymous donor gave $50,000 to fund the Rabbi Marcus Breger distinguished lecture in the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. Breger founded the Judaic Studies program at the UA. Several friends of SBS hosted “house parties” for SBS: Arch and Laura Brown to raise money for the Hopi Children’s Word Book, and Cathy Mendelsohn, Pam Grissom and Betsey Bayless to raise funds for the Women’s Plaza of Honor. In addition, the City of Scottsdale Economic Development and Colliers International hosted a salon for the Department of Geography and Regional Development at the Galleries at Turney, a green residential development. ONLINE GIVING You can now give to SBS online! Just go to www.sbs.arizona.edu, select “Quick Links,” and then select “Make a Gift to SBS.”

Gwen Weiner donated to the Clinical training program in the Department of Psychology. Her gift will bring nationally recognized experts to Tucson and will enhance clinical supervision capacities and the department’s library.

Leo A. Roop has funded a summer study program in Latin American Studies for first-generation college students and their faculty mentors. The purpose of the program is to help students participate in special career-path defining programs, such as professional internships with NGOs, the private sector or government agencies.

Donna Landon has established a $250,000 memorial fund for her late husband, Louis F. Landon, to support a scholarship in SBS. The first recipient of that $15,000 scholarship is Conor Cash, an undergraduate in the Department of Geography and Regional Development (GRD).

Louis Landon, who died in 1994, was dedicated to higher education, believ-ing every person deserves the oppor-tunity to develop their potential. He wanted to help students attend college who might not otherwise afford it.

Landon’s mother was a single mom, raising two children with a high school education. Watching how hard it was for his mom to get a job planted the desire in Landon to go to college. He obtained his B.A. in business manage-ment and went on to great success in his business endeavors.

After he came to Tucson, Landon started the Oro Valley Country Club and Estates and developed and owned Mountain View Plaza in Oracle. His

philanthropy included supporting the Kiwanis Club of the Desert.

“Louis believed that young people should get a college degree, because that was certainly the way he got ahead,” says Donna Landon. “He really loved to see young people learn.”

Scholarship recipient Cash dropped out of high school at age 16. He participated in movements for social justice and in youth culture, ranging from the anti-globalization protests of 2000/2001, to the founding of a youth-led, non-profit arts and activism center in Long Island, NY.

Cash is interested in the micro-po-litical analysis of organizations and “grassroot modernization,” and plans to pursue a M.A. in geography.

“I love the department and can’t say enough good things about the faculty,” says Cash. Professor Sallie Marston, in particular, has been a valuable mentor. “She’s my superhero. She’s incredibly supportive of her students.”

“I’m a big fan of his,” says Marston, who recommended that Cash apply for the scholarship. “Conor is a person deeply committed to social justice, and he found a place that supports that commitment in GRD.”

Cash is very grateful to have re-ceived this scholarship: “I was very quickly plunging myself into a massive amount of debt,” says Cash. “There has been an incredible improvement in the quality of my life because of the scholarship. It is further proof that returning to school for me — a person who is low income and has been out of school a long time — is one of the best decisions I’ve made.”

SPOTLIGHT: Louis Landon Memorial Scholarship Fund

NEW VIDEO SBS has a new video, which features several undergraduate students talking about their education and hands-on experiences in SBS. Check out the video at this web address: http://www.sbs.arizona.edu/alumni/video_files/video_online.php

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Departments and UnitsAnthropologyJohn W. [email protected]://anthro.web.arizona.edu/

Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA)Tim [email protected] 520-621-6282http://bara.arizona.edu/

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)Scott [email protected]://clas.arizona.edu/

Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)Anne [email protected] 520-621-5450http://www.cmes.arizona.edu/

Cognitive ScienceLouAnn [email protected]://web.arizona.edu/~cogsci/

CommunicationChris [email protected]://www.comm.arizona.edu/

Geography and Regional Development (GRD)(with Planning Degree Program)John Paul Jones, [email protected]://geog.arizona.edu/

HistoryKevin [email protected]://history.arizona.edu/

JournalismJacqueline [email protected] 520-621-7556http://journalism.arizona.edu/

Judaic Studies, Arizona Center forEd [email protected]://fp.arizona.edu/judaic/

Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, Division forSusan [email protected] 520-626-5448http://web.arizona.edu/~dlmrs/

Linguistics Michael [email protected] 520-621-6897http://linguistics.arizona.edu/

Mexican American Studies & Research Center (MASRC)Antonio [email protected] 520-621-7551http://masrc.arizona.edu/

Near Eastern Studies (NES)Michael [email protected] 520-621-8013http://fp.arizona.edu/neareast/

PhilosophyChristopher [email protected] 520-621-5045http://web.arizona.edu/~phil/

Political ScienceWilliam [email protected] 520-621-7600http://web.arizona.edu/~polisci/

PsychologyAl [email protected] 520-621-7447http://www.psychology.arizona.edu/

SBS Research Institute (SBSRI)Camilla [email protected]://web.arizona.edu/~sbsri/

School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS)Jana [email protected]://www.sir.arizona.edu/

SociologyAlbert [email protected] 520-621-3531http://sociology.arizona.edu/

The Southwest CenterJoseph [email protected] 520-621-2484http://web.arizona.edu/~swctr/

Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW)Sally [email protected]://sirow.web.arizona.edu/

Women’s StudiesJennifer [email protected]://ws.web.arizona.edu/

Advisory Board2007-2008Alberto Moore, ChairEd Donnerstein, DeanMichael ByrneEsther N. CapinEarl H. CarrollRichard DuffieldAntonio EstradaGerald GeiseAndrew M. GreeleyPam GrissomGeorge KennedySteve LynnS. James ManillaSelma Paul MarksBeth MitchneckBill NugentJohn W. OlsenEntisar “Vivi” SabbaghDonald SoldwedelRobert ValenciaAnthony VuturoGwen WeinerPatty Weiss (Honorary)

Winter 2008

Preserving Culture: Hopi Children’s Word Book

Hugh Harelson Reporting Laboratory:

Creating a Legacy

Magellan Circle: A Passport to Discovery

Spotlight: Anthony Vuturo

50th Anniversary:

Geography and Regional Development

SBS In the News

Homecoming 2007

Departmental Updates

Giving Ways

The Louis Landon Memorial Scholarship Fund

P.O. Box 210028 Tucson, AZ 85721-0028

SBS Developments 2008

Documents

Transcript of SBS Developments 2008