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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY “
ASU FACTS
Tempe, Arizona Founded: 1885 Joined Pac-12: 1978 Undergrad students: 56,562
Graduate and professional students: 13,878 President: Michael M. Crow
NCAA championships (all sports, all-time): 23
Football home: Sun Devil Stadium
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A New American University”
rizona State University began in 1885 as the Tempe Normal School; 33 students met in
one room in the school’s fi rst year. . . . With more than 70,000 students, ASU is the largest university in the country by enrollment. . . . From 1929 to 1945, the school was known as Arizona State Teach- er’s College; “Teacher’s” was dropped in 1945. A state vote in 1958 gave the school Univer- sity status. . . . ASU was the fi rst school to cre- ate a Center for Meteorite Studies. . . . ASU’s SkySong center is a unique combination of entre- preneurial incubator, research facility, and learn- ing environment. . . . Named for famed newsman Walter Cronkite, the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is one of the country’s top schools for training in the media arts. . . . ASU
Desert Palms Palm Walk is formed and shaded by dozens of trees towering 70 to 90 feet above the Tempe campus. The walk is a famil- iar pathway to generations of Sun Devils—the fi rst palms were planted back in 1916!
Sparky
Sparky represents the Sun Devils at athletic events, waving his gold triton and leading enthusi- astic crowds. However, history does not reveal who exactly came up with the name Sun Devils for ASU teams. Whoever did picked a winner, and a 1946 student vote made it offi cial.
FAMOUS ALUMNI
Ice cream executive Doug Ducey • Motion picture director John Hughes • Governor Jane Dee Hull • Television show host Jimmy Kimmel • Sports broadcaster Al Michaels • Actor Nick Nolte • NBA star and coach Byron Scott • Fashion designer Kate Spade
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is among the top schools in the nation in producing Fulbright Schol- ars. . . . A 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics won by Professor Elinor Ostrom was the latest in a long string of accolades for ASU faculty, including two other Nobels and six Pulitzer Prizes. . . . With the creation of the Biodesign Institute in 2003, ASU became the fi rst university to create an interdisciplinary research institute devoted to bio-inspired innovation. . . . The ASU majors seeing the biggest jump in recent years? Engineering and science. . . . ASU’s Depart- ment of Chemistry and Biochemistry was recently ranked sixth worldwide in impact, according to an analysis by Science Watch. . . . Thanks to a new partnership with the Mayo Clinic in Scott- sdale, ASU biomedical students can work side-by-side with Mayo doctors and health professionals. . . . The highly ranked W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU broke ground in October on McCord Hall, a new building for the use of the grad school’s 10,000-plus students. . . . Before the school’s athletic teams became the Sun Devils in 1946, they were the Owls and then the Bulldogs.
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