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The endowment from alumni Jacquelynn and Bennett Dorrance will support the fearless spirit of open inquiry. By Eric Swedlund, College of Humanities Wednesday Standing, from left: University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins, Jacquelynn Dorrance and College of Humanities Dean Alain-Philippe Durand. Seated: Bennett Dorrance. The Dorrances gift will help further the ideals of free speech and unity and strengthen the integration of traditional and cutting-edge approaches to humanities teaching and learning, they said. Ruben Aguirre
Alumni Jacquelynn and Bennett Dorrance have made a gift commitment of $5.4 million to endow the deanship of the University of Arizona College of Humanities in support of efforts to integrate traditional and cutting-edge approaches into humanities teaching and learning.
A decades-long effort by faculty, student and community groups succeeded in establishing the new minor. By Eric Swedlund, College of Humanities April 28, 2021
The University of Arizona is launching a new minor in Asian Pacific American studies, centered on what has become the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the United States.
The new minor, housed in the Department of East Asian Studies in the College of Humanities, is the result of more than two decades of work and comes at a time of highly visible anti-Asian racism and violence in the United States, related in part to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The UArizona Center for Digital Humanities project will create immersive scenarios that simulate typical experiences of discrimination. By Eric Swedlund, College of Humanities Feb. 1, 2021 Bryan Carter, Director of the Center for Digital Humanities, works with augmented and virtual reality technologies that create immersive and interactive experiences.
A University of Arizona researcher is embarking on a new project that uses virtual and augmented reality to re-create common experiences of racism and discrimination.
While the old idiom to walk a mile in someone else s shoes is a familiar reminder to empathize with others, it can be little more than an imaginative exercise. Using advanced immersive technology to place a person in a scenario can create a much more realistic experience, says