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VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 15
UA focuses on transgender studies BY MICAH MONTIEL
The Daily Wildcat The UA is working toward new and innovative efforts in transgender studies. With the objective of increasing the number of transgender-affiliated
faculty members on campus, the UA is looking to expand its research in transgender studies. “The idea for creating an area of specialization within the faculty is to be able to attract funding opportunities in this area,” said Susan Stryker, UA associate professor
of gender and women’s studies and director of the Institute for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, “and to attract tuition dollars for students who would like to study in this area, and primarily to address this emerging social issue.”
The UA will hire four faculty members within the next two years who have a special interest in transgender studies. “We are so lucky to have the leadership of Dr. Susan Stryker on our campus and I think that the UA is wise to invest in her brilliant vision
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to create a transgender studies department,” said Program Director for LGBTQ Affairs Jennifer Hoefle-Olson. “These efforts will put the UA on the map in all kinds of new ways and I am excited to see it unfold in
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CADENCE SPILSBURY RIGHT attended the Arizona Insect Festival on Sunday with her grandfather, Ron Spilsbury (left). Cadence Spilsbury was able to handle a Manduca moth.
BY MAGGIE DRIVER
The Daily Wildcat The Arizona Insect Festival drew bug enthusiasts of all ages for a day filled with curiosity and creepy crawlers at the UA on Sunday. The event, held in the Grand Ballroom in the Student Union Memorial Center, featured more than 20 booths providing interactive information about insects and even the chance to eat one. There were also bug talks, where attendees could learn more about insects in a classroom type setting. Kathleen Walker, an assistant professor in entomology and one of the event coordinators for the Arizona Insect Festival, said the goal was to show attendees that
insects are not a scary part of the the Tucson Botanical Gardens, which hosted an exhibit called world. “There’s only so much teachers Butterfly Magic. Students said they were can do, but parents able to are so important learn about to creating that It’s like a toasty different connection to nutty flavor, types of nature and that you wouldn’t bugs living excitement for guess it’s an in Arizona science,” Walker at the event. said. insect. “Insects A key feature of —Steve Beall, and any the event was the Biology and o t h e r Arthropod Zoo. Environmental Science festival Arthropods are high school teacher like this bugs that have are really an exoskeleton interesting and have to molt, according to Carl Olson, a retired no matter what your major curator of the Insect Collection is,” said Nicole Grimes, a neuroscience sophomore. at the UA. In addition to learning about There were many community organizations that had booths INSECT FESTIVAL, 3 at the event as well, such as
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The University of Arizona Medical Center burn program recently received a $10,000 donation from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Although the money is not earmarked for a specific purpose, Dr. Peter Rhee, professor of surgery and chief of the Divison of Trauma, Critical Care, Burns and Emergency Surgery at UAMC, said it will be put into a fund for the overall expansion of the burnservices program, which will entail purchasing new equipment, hiring personnel and adding to the hospital space used by the program. “It felt fantastic to know that our efforts to serve the community are coming to fruition,” Rhee said. As a component of the only Level One trauma center in Southern Arizona, the burn unit handles various cases from children scalded by hot water to firefighters who suffer burns while responding to a blaze. Rhee said his goal is for the program to eventually become a full-service burn center comparable to the Arizona Burn Center at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix. In the past, the Phoenix-based center treated nearly all of the serious burn patients in the state. Now, the burgeoning program at the UA is taking on some of that workload. “We’re hoping that we can not only provide a service, but save the community a whole lot of money and transfer costs and stress on their families as they go back and forth to Phoenix to see their injured relatives,” said Dr. Gary Vercruysse, associate professor in the Department of Surgery and director of Burn Services at UAMC. Since Vercruysse arrived at UAMC in September 2012, the burn program has treated patients with burns on up to 40 percent of their total body surface area, he
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It was an incredibly gracious gift and we hope to put it to good use.
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— Gary Vercruysse, director of Burn Services at UAMC
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ASUA revamps volunteer program BY STEPHANIE CASANOVA
The Daily Wildcat ASUA recently rebranded and revamped one of its programs, making it easier for students to volunteer in community organizations. Volunteer UA will now house three previously existing volunteering areas within the UA: Alt Breaks, internal volunteering and external volunteering. The program also offers students a website, Volunteer Match, where they can search for organizations that seek volunteers based on their interests. Students are able to visit the website, search keywords related to their issue of interest, for example, hunger or environment, and get a list of related projects. “I think that it’s really clever
because sometimes it’s hard to kind of connect your interests with the service that you’re doing,” said Kate Medici, director of Alt Breaks. “So, if you’re interested in it, that makes it easier to do, and you can become even more passionate about volunteering that way.” Alt Breaks connects students with week-long community service projects throughout the country, especially the Southwest states, according to Medici. The projects focus on a social issue and students complete many projects related to the specified issue throughout the week, Medici added. The director of internal volunteering, Kayleigh Michod, plans community service events for ASUA members to attend, allowing them to connect outside of the ASUA office. With three branches in ASUA, members sometimes get caught up in working within
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VOLUNTEER UA will house three community service programs. Bryan Namba , executive director of Volunteer UA, hopes the new program becomes a useful resource for students who want to volunteer.
their branch, said Bryan Namba, executive director of Volunteer UA. Internal volunteering gets them off campus where they can build stronger relationships while helping the Tucson community, Namba added.
External volunteering is a way for ASUA to connect UA students to their community. The director of external volunteering plans events for students to participate
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