University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (also known as U of A ) is a comprehensive university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885, it was opened in 1891 with 32 students. In the year 2010 39.068 students were enrolled. The University has a particularly good reputation in the fields of anthropology, astronomy, astrophysics, analytical chemistry, entrepreneurship, hydrology, optics, pharmacy, philosophy, and Planetary Sciences.

The Eller College of Management, the business school, is, according to the rankings by U.S. News & World Report in 2011 to the 15 best public business schools in the United States. The University of Arizona includes, but is Arizona's only medical school and a law school, the James E. Rogers College of Law.

As the only university in Arizona she is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities. The University of Arizona is one of the best public universities, called a Public Ivy.

History

1885, the University of Arizona, was founded as the first university of the then Arizona Territory after the government of Territorial Administration had $ 25,000 provided. In the first year 1891 32 students were enrolled. The lectures were back in the building, " Old Main " instead, which is still located in the center of the university.

Research

The University receives an annual research income of over 565 million U.S. $ ( 2010), which is about two-thirds of university research in revenues! Arizona. So much research money as the Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona receives twice together. According to a ranking of the National Science Foundation, 2009, the University of Arizona is in terms of research spending compared with all other universities in the U.S. ranks 24 and compared with other state universities in 18th position.

The University of Arizona conducts a 325 million U.S. $ expensive NASA mission to Mars exploration. These were built by researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, some instruments for the Phoenix spacecraft, which landed in May 2008 on Mars. They also developed a camera ( called HiRISE ) that is installed on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Researchers at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab at the University are building on the mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will be the most modern and accurate telescope in the world when completed in 2016. The mirrors are then installed in the telescope in the Chilean Andes. To the Steward Observatory, the Arizona Radio Observatory, which operates a 12 -meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope on Mount Graham heard. Further you can enjoy the Vatican Observatory Research Group, part of the Vatican Observatory, the astronomical research and educational institution of the Holy See.

Furthermore, the "Dark Web Project " the Department " Arifical Intelligence Lab " is housed at the University of Arizona. It specializes in the hunt for terror suspects in forums, chat rooms and other areas of the dynamic Web.

Students

Of the 39 086 students ( 2010) were 52.1 % women and 47.9 % men; 30 592 students were undergraduates and 6,991 graduates. With 6,824 students, the Faculty of Science was the largest faculty of the University of Arizona, followed by the Faculty of Business ( 6,139 students), the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences ( 5639 ) and the Faculty of Humanities ( 4144 ) in 2010. 2010 awards 7988 academic titles, including 353 professors, 471 Ph.D., 1,337 master's degree and bachelor 5,827 titles.

Approximately 34% of the total of 35 187 U.S. students are an ethnic minority: 19% " Hispanics " ( 6712 ), 7.3 % Asian ( 2,571 ), 4.1% African American ( 1,438 ), 3.2% Native Americans ( 1153 ) and 1% from the Pacific Islands (214).

Of the U.S. students came 76 % from Arizona, 10.4 % from California, followed by students from Illinois ( 1.6 % ), Texas ( 1.4 %) and Washington ( 1.2%). At the university studied in the year 2010 2.585 (6.6%) international students from 99 countries. The largest group of foreign students came from the People's Republic of China ( 451), followed by India (157 ), South Korea (103 ) and Mexico (87). From Germany came in 2010 22 students and 52 students from Switzerland.

Sports

The sports team from the University of Arizona, the Arizona Wildcats. The men's basketball team under coach Sean Miller is one of the best in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA).

Attractions on Campus

The campus of the University of Arizona is one of the finest in the western United States. Much of the campus is a designated arboretum from different parts of the world because of the many rare trees and plants. Furthermore, there are numerous museums:

  • Arizona Historical Society - a museum about the history of Arizona
  • Arizona State Museum - the oldest anthropology museum in the American Southwest
  • Center for Creative Photography - Photography Museum and others with originals by Ansel Adams
  • Flandrau Science Center - Planetarium and Public Telescope
  • Two herbaria that are marked as " ARIZ " in the Index Herbariorum University of Arizona Herbarium - with 400,000 different plant species
  • Robert L. Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium - with 40,000 different species of fungi

Famous people

Current and former professors

Nobel Laureate

  • Nicolaas Bloembergen (Physics, 1981)
  • Roy J. Glauber (Physics, 2005)
  • Willis E. Lamb ( Physics, 1955)
  • Vernon L. Smith ( Economics, 2002) - taught from 1976 to 2002

Other professors and academic staff

  • Leif Erland Andersson - swedish astronomer
  • W. David Arnett - astrophysicist
  • Paul Bloom - Psychologist
  • Andrea Boattini - astronomer and discoverer of asteroids
  • Myles Brand - sports official ( former president of the NCAA)
  • Godehard Brüntrup - Philosopher
  • Klaus Buchenrieder - electrical engineers and computer
  • John L. Casti - Mathematician
  • George Coyne - astronomer and theologian
  • William R. Dickinson - Geologist
  • Andrew Ellicott Douglass - Astronomer
  • Joel Feinberg - Philosopher
  • John G. Geier - psychologist and entrepreneur
  • Alvin Goldman - Philosopher
  • Ralph E. Griswold - Computer
  • Matthew Hindman - political scientist
  • Travis Hirschi - sociologist and criminologist
  • Terence Horgan - Philosopher
  • Harold Lester Johnson - Astronomer
  • Stephan W. Koch - German theoretical physicist
  • Keijo Korhonen - Finnish politician
  • Gerard Peter Kuiper - Astronomer
  • Fang Lizhi - ideas of the Tiananmen uprising
  • Frank James Low - physicist and astronomer
  • Henry Mann - Mathematicians
  • Paul S. Martin - Paleontologist
  • Aden Meinel - astronomer, former director of the Steward Observatory
  • N. Scott Momaday - American Indian writers
  • Shlomo P. Neuman - Hydrologist
  • Robert Alexander Nisbet - sociologist
  • Lute Olson - coach of the basketball team, since 2002 in the Basketball Hall of Fame
  • Hans -Joachim Pflüger - neurobiologist
  • Roger A. Pielke - climatologist
  • Günter Pilz - mathematician
  • Johann Rafelski - physicist
  • Hans -Walter Rix - German astronomer and astrophysicist
  • Vladimir Sakharov Jewgenjewitsch - Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician
  • Marlan Scully - physicist
  • Elif Shafak - Turkish writer
  • Jeffrey Spier - archaeologist
  • Matthias Steinmetz - German astrophysicist
  • Peter Strasser - Philosopher
  • Alan Weisman - writer and journalist
  • Simon White - astrophysicist, director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
  • Monique Wittig - French writer
  • Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff - crystallographer
  • Ofelia Zepeda - American Indian writer

Graduates

Arts, Culture and Media

Humanities

Policy

  • Raul Hector Castro - former governor of Arizona
  • Howard Walter Cannon - former U.S. Senator from Nevada
  • Dennis DeConcini - former U.S. Senator
  • Bob Dole - former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate in 1996
  • Karan English - former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Paul Jones Fannin - former Senator from Arizona
  • Bernd Fischer - German Ambassador
  • Ernest McFarland - former Senator and Governor of Arizona
  • Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. - former governor of Arizona
  • Barry Goldwater - Former Senator and presidential candidate in 1964
  • Raúl Grijalva - deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Richard F. Harless - former deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Ann Kirkpatrick - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Jon Llewellyn Kyl - Senator of Arizona since 1994
  • James F. McNulty - former deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • John R. Murdock - Former deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Harold Patten - a former deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • John Jacob Rhodes III - former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Eldon Rudd - former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • John Shadegg - former deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • George F. Senner - former deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • William Stratton - from 1953-1961 the 34th Governor of Illinois
  • Mo Udall - a former deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives and basketball player
  • Stewart Lee Udall - former Minister of the Interior of the United States, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Sports

Technology and Science

  • Joseph Michael Acaba - Astronaut
  • Anthony Aveni - Astronomer
  • Marc W. Buie - Astronomer
  • Peter Druschel - founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
  • Sherman Mills Fairchild - aircraft designer
  • Neil Gehrels - Astronomer
  • Erich Karkoschka - astronomer, mathematician
  • Thomas David Jones - Astronaut
  • Donald Roy Pettit - Astronaut
  • Hans -Walter Rix - German astronomer and astrophysicist
  • Brian P. Schmidt - Astronaut
  • Francis Richard Scobee - Astronaut
  • Sherwood Clark Spring - Astronaut
  • Clifford Stoll - astronomer and writer
  • Margaret Turnbull - astronomer
Phoenix (spacecraft) Washington (state) Franz Kline Mark Rothko Willis Lamb Paul Bloom (psychologist) Ralph Griswold Harold Johnson (astronomer) Frank J. Low Charles Herbert Lowe Elizabeth Roemer Hans-Walter Rix Michael Murphy (actor) Kate Walsh (actress) James F. McNulty, Jr. George F. Senner, Jr. Damon Stoudamire George Young (athlete) Sherman Fairchild Brian Schmidt Sherwood C. Spring Washington State University
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