The SIRLS Calendar includes official SIRLS (and University of Arizona) deadlines, events, and holidays, and other items of interest to SIRLS students, staff, faculty, and alumni.
Jessica Hernandez, current SIRLS master's student and Knowledge River Scholar, has been awarded participation in the American Library Association's 2010 Class of Emerging Leaders.
Dr. P. Bryan Heidorn will join SIRLS in October 2009.
Dr. Heidorn has been a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1995. For the last two years he has served as a program manager of the Division of Biological Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation.
Matthew Helmke, a current SIRLS student, recently had a short story from his book Nowhere Else to Turn published in Dove & Snake, a local Tucson literary and cultural zine.
Eugenia Charles-Newton, a current SIRLS student, completed a Morris K. Udall Foundation Native American Congressional Internship this summer. She worked full-time for U.S. Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico.
Professor Tom Wilding has been appointed Interim Director for SIRLS for the period June-October 2009. You can learn more about Tom from his homepage http://sirls.arizona.edu/wilding .
