Campuchin Monkey
November 14, 2022

NIH awards $2.4 million to UTSA researchers to study aging and health disparities

A team of researchers led by faculty from the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts has been selected to receive a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new model that could be used to study biological aging. It is the largest grant COLFA researchers have ever received.

UTSA Korean Book Club and Korean Culture Club hosted and prepared "Korean Film Night"
November 10, 2022

Korean Film Night

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On Friday, November 4th, 2022, at the UTSA Retama, the UTSA Korean Book Club and Korean Culture Club hosted and prepared "Korean Film Night", a movie event for local residents including UTSA students to experience Korean culture.

Beyond Boundaries: Mastering the Liberal Arts
November 10, 2022

Modern Languages Graduate Student Is Published in COLFA Journal

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Student in the Graduate Certificate in Linguistics, Wesley Cheung, was recently published in the COLFA journal, Beyond Boundaries.

Students asking questions at the Q&A session
November 8, 2022

UTSA COLFA Classroom to Career Lecture Series: Douglas Maclean, JD

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Douglas MacLean, JD, spoke to UTSA students via Zoom on how a liberal and fine arts Degree (or any major) can lead to successful career options on November 3, 2022.

November 8, 2022

Stanford Research Identifies Prof. Robert Tokunaga as Influential Communication Scholar

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Associate Professor of Communication Robert Tokunaga has been identified as among the top 2% most influential Communication and Media Studies scholars of the last 60 years (1960-2021).

Left to Right: Vikram Kapoor (UTSA CEID), Briana Salas (OLLU), Laura Perry (NLC), Gwen Young (UTSA COS), Jeffrey Hutchinson (UTSA COS), Sue Hum (UTSA COLFA), and Jamie Crosswhite (OLLU)
September 8, 2022

UTSA to lead coalition to train underrepresented students for agriculture careers

COLFA English professor Sue Hum has been selected to be a part of a UTSA-led research coalition that has been selected to receive a four-year, $1M grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), to establish the #EcoJEDI (justice, equity, diversity and inclusion) program, a citywide collaboration facilitating career readiness in food and agriculture sciences (FAS).

September 8, 2022

Faculty fellowship program fosters diverse academic leadership at UTSA

UTSA Academic Affairs has announced its 2022–2023 Advancing Next-Gen Faculty Leadership Fellows including Modern Languages and Literature faculty Makiko Fukuda and Michael Rushforth. Now in its fourth year, the fellowship program is designed to train and develop a new generation of diverse academic leaders at UTSA.