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SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA “The Lamp in the Desert” A


rizona’s students and faculty are shooting for the stars: Arizona is


one of the few U.S. campuses with a working observatory on school grounds, and in 2011 the school’s Lunar and Planetary Lab started a multi-year proj- ect to orbit and explore an asteroid. . . . Old Main is the university’s original building; it was completed in 1891 and is still in use by students. . . . Alumnus Brian Schmidt shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics for his fi ndings about the expansion of the universe. . . . Pulitzer


Prize-winning


The Original


Old Main, which was completed in 1891, once was the only building on campus. It still houses the Dean of Students and Career Services, and remains a popular gathering place.


Native American writer N. Scott Momaday was a UA Regents Professor of English. . . . Arizona’s faculty includes six MacAr-


thur Fellow award-winners in fi elds as diverse as linguistics, opti- cal science, and anthropology. . . .The massive World of Words project at UA’s Department of Education promotes cultural understanding through children’s literature. . . . In 2001, UA students built a solar-powered car that won the American Solar Challenge. . . . UA softball teams have won eight national championships. . . . The bell from the USS Arizona, sunk dur- ing the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, was rescued from the scrap heap and now hangs on the UA campus. . . . UA is home to the collection of the American Vaudeville Museum. . . . “Bear Down!” is a rally cry for Arizona fans. Why? They were the fi nal words of 1926 football captain But- ton Salmon, as he lay dying from injuries suffered in a car accident. . . . Arizona sports teams got their nick-


name of Wildcats after a 1914 football game. The team lost the game, but a California sportswriter wrote, “They fought like wild- cats.” . . . The original school colors? Sage and silver.


FAMOUS ALUMNI


NBA star Mike Bibby • Sesame Street founder Joan Ganz Cooney • Senator Barry Goldwater • NASA astronauts Thomas Jones and Dick Scobee • Author Barbara Kingsolver • Actor Greg Kinnear • L.A. Angels owner Arturo Moreno • Singer Linda Ronstadt


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FACTS Tucson, Arizona Founded: 1885 Joined Pac-12: 1978 Undergrad students: 29,719


Graduate and professional students: 8,338 President: Eugene Sander


NCAA championships (all sports, all-time): 17


Football home: Arizona Stadium


Wilbur Wildcat Wilbur is the Arizona mascot, along with his female counterpart, Wilma. The duo provides enter- tainment and enthusiasm for all of Arizona’s sports teams. (Rufus, Arizona’s fi rst mascot, was a real wildcat. He was brought to the school in 1915 by the freshman football team and was named for school president Rufus B. von KleinSmid.)


ARIZONA


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