Recent events in Paris have prompted a number of questions, including: Why has global terrorism advanced so quickly? What part does religion play? And what actions should the United States and other countries take against the threat?

In the video below, Alex Braithwaite and Faten Ghosn, from the School of Government and Public Policy, offer some context and perspective on terrorism in light of the attacks in Paris.

The UA has received a $500,000 grant to extend its Arabic language program for ROTC students for another year. The program is funded through Project Global Officers, known as Project GO, a Department of Defense initiative aimed at improving the language competency, regional expertise, and intercultural communication skills of ROTC students. The UA is the only institution in the country funded to offer Project GO Advanced Arabic language training. More

Over the past year, 20 women from the UA and Tucson community have played a leading role in public discourse by sharing their expertise, thanks to training from the Tucson Public Voices Fellowship Program, which is co-sponsored by the College of SBS. Building on the success of the first two years of the program, a 2015-2016 cohort has begun meeting to learn op-ed writing and to discuss ideas about leadership and public impact.  More

Keith James began his job as the head of the Department of American Indian Studies this fall, and he is already working to expand the department's curriculum to better prepare students to meet the needs of tribal communities. With a focus on tribal health and indigenous entrepreneurship, James is aiming to build on existing strengths at the UA that complement workforce development priorities of Native Nations. More

Chris Segrin, the Steve and Nancy Lynn Endowed Professor and the head of the Department of Communication, collaborates with UA Nursing Professor Terry Badger on studying the role of communication on the health and well-being of cancer patients and their partners. The newest grant received by the researchers will allow them to target Latinas with breast cancer who live in rural areas. More

Travis Hirschi, an emeritus Regents' Professor in the School of Sociology, has received the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology for helping to answer the question: How can parents prevent their children from committing crimes? Hirschi's research on the topic began in 1965, when he gathered data on 4,077 teenagers, testing and developing his "Social Bonding Theory" of crime. More