Arizona State University

Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States, founded in 1885 as the Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature.亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University，简称 ASU）是位于美国亚利桑那州坦佩市的公立研究型大学，1885 年由第 13 届亚利桑那领地议会创立，时名领地师范学校。

One of the largest public universities in the United States by enrolment, it teaches 160,051 students as of fall 2025 across four campuses in metropolitan Phoenix and online, is a member of the Association of American Universities, and places 172nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.按在读学生规模计，学校是美国最大的公立大学之一，2025 年秋季在读学生达 160051 人，分布在凤凰城都市区的四个校区及线上，为美国大学协会成员，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 172。

History

• The university was established on 12 March 1885, when the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature passed an act creating a normal school to train teachers for the territory.1885 年 3 月 12 日，第 13 届亚利桑那领地议会通过法案，设立一所培养领地师资的师范学校，即本校。

• The campus began as a single four-room schoolhouse on a twenty-acre plot largely donated by Tempe residents George and Martha Wilson, and classes opened on 8 February 1886 with 33 students.校园最初是坦佩居民 George 与 Martha Wilson 夫妇捐赠的 20 英亩地块上的一座四室校舍，1886 年 2 月 8 日开学时仅有 33 名学生。

• The institution was renamed the Tempe Normal School of Arizona in 1889, Tempe Normal School in 1903, Tempe State Teachers College in 1925, Arizona State Teachers College in 1929, Arizona State College in 1945 and Arizona State University in 1958.学校先后于 1889 年改名亚利桑那州坦佩师范学校、1903 年改名坦佩师范学校、1925 年改名坦佩州立教师学院、1929 年改名亚利桑那州立教师学院、1945 年改名亚利桑那州立学院、1958 年改名亚利桑那州立大学。

• Voters approved the university name in 1958 by a two-to-one margin, rejecting the alternatives Tempe University and State University at Tempe.1958 年，选民以二比一的票数通过「大学」之名，同时否决了「坦佩大学」与「坦佩州立大学」两个备选名。

• In 1923 the school stopped offering high school courses and required a high school diploma for admission.1923 年，学校停开中学课程，并将高中文凭列为入学条件。

• Arthur John Matthews, president from 1900 to 1930, built the first dormitories in the state in 1902 and oversaw the construction of eighteen buildings, six of which remain in use.1900 至 1930 年在任的校长 Arthur John Matthews 于 1902 年建成全州首座学生宿舍，任内建成 18 座建筑，其中 6 座沿用至今。

• Matthews envisioned an evergreen campus and planted 110 Mexican fan palms along what is now Palm Walk, a century-old landmark of the Tempe campus.Matthews 构想「常青校园」，在今日「棕榈步道」两侧种下 110 棵墨西哥扇棕榈，该步道已成为坦佩校区百年地标。

• Ralph Waldo Swetman, president from 1930 to 1933, improved the teacher-training programmes and saw enrolment double past one thousand for the first time.1930 至 1933 年在任的校长 Ralph Waldo Swetman 着力改进师资培训，任内学生人数翻倍，首次突破一千人。

• Grady Gammage, president from 1933 for nearly twenty-eight years, guided the growth of graduate study: the first Master of Arts in Education was awarded in 1938 and the first Doctor of Education in 1954.1933 年起担任校长近 28 年的 Grady Gammage 推动了研究生教育发展，学校 1938 年授予首个教育学硕士，1954 年授予首个教育学博士。

• Ten non-teaching master's programmes were approved by the Arizona Board of Regents in 1956, broadening the institution beyond teacher education.1956 年，亚利桑那校务委员会批准 10 个非师范硕士项目，学校由此超越单一的师范教育。

• Among Gammage's greatest achievements was the construction of the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1964, five years after the deaths of both men.Gammage 任内最卓越的成就之一是由弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特设计、1964 年落成的格雷迪·加马奇纪念礼堂，其时距礼堂命名者与建筑师双双离世已五年。

• Harold D. Richardson served as acting president from December 1959 to September 1960 and laid the groundwork for recruiting research scientists.Harold D. Richardson 于 1959 年 12 月至 1960 年 9 月任代理校长，为延揽研究型科学家奠定基础。

• Under G. Homer Durham, the eleventh president, the Board of Regents authorised doctoral programmes in six fields including the PhD in 1961, and enrolment reached 23,000 by 1969.第 11 任校长 G. Homer Durham 任内，校务委员会于 1961 年批准含哲学博士在内的六个领域博士项目，1969 年在校学生达 23000 人。

• Presidents Harry K. Newburn, John W. Schwada and J. Russell Nelson led the university from 1969 to 1989, a period that saw the establishment of the West Valley campus in 1984 and its construction in 1986.1969 至 1989 年间，Harry K. Newburn、John W. Schwada 与 J. Russell Nelson 三任校长先后主政，其间学校于 1984 年设立、1986 年开建西谷校区。

• Under Lattie F. Coor, president from 1990 to 2002, the Polytechnic campus was created and a fundraising campaign raised more than 500 million dollars in private donations.1990 至 2002 年在任的校长 Lattie F. Coor 任内创建了理工校区，并募集私人捐款逾 5 亿美元。

• The campaign endowed Barrett, The Honors College and the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and created hundreds of endowed chairs and scholarships.该轮募捐助立了巴雷特荣誉学院与赫伯格设计与艺术学院，并设立数百个捐资教席与奖学金。

• Michael M. Crow became the sixteenth president on 1 July 2002 and launched the New American University model, setting the goal of meeting Association of American Universities criteria.Michael M. Crow 于 2002 年 7 月 1 日出任第 16 任校长，提出「新美国大学」模式，并以达到美国大学协会标准为目标。

• Under Crow the university restructured itself as one university in many places, consolidating colleges while expanding the West Valley and Polytechnic campuses and adding the Downtown Phoenix campus.Crow 任内学校重组为「一校多地」架构，合并学院的同时扩建西谷与理工校区，并增设凤凰城市中心校区。

• His tenure saw the establishment of the Biodesign Institute and the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, with research expenditure tripling and more than 1.5 million square feet of research space added.其任内建成生物设计研究所与朱莉·安· Wrigley 全球可持续性研究所，科研支出增长两倍，新增研究空间逾 150 万平方英尺。

• The Thunderbird School of Global Management, founded in 1946, became part of the university in 2015, and a health care alliance with the Mayo Clinic was formed in 2016.1946 年创立的雷鸟全球管理学院于 2015 年并入学校，2016 年与梅奥诊所结成医疗教育联盟。

• The Beus Center for Law and Society, home of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, opened on the Downtown Phoenix campus in fall 2016.2016 年秋季，桑德拉·戴·奥康纳法学院的新址 Beus 法律与社会中心在凤凰城市中心校区启用。

• In September 2024 the university announced cuts in response to state budget reductions, and the Lake Havasu City campus closed in June 2025.2024 年 9 月，因州预算削减学校宣布压缩计划，哈瓦苏湖城校区于 2025 年 6 月关闭。

Academics

• Arizona State is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.学校位列 R1 类「极高度研究活动」博士授子大学，并通过高等教育委员会认证。

• It is governed by the Arizona Board of Regents together with the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University.学校与亚利桑那大学、北亚利桑那大学同归亚利桑那校务委员会管辖。

• The university comprises sixteen colleges and schools, among them the W. P. Carey School of Business of 1961 and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication of 1941.学校下设 16 个学院，包括 1961 年设立的 W. P. Carey 商学院与 1941 年设立的沃尔特·克朗凯特新闻与大众传播学院。

• Other colleges include the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering of 1954, the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law of 1964, the Herberger Institute of 1964 and the College of Global Futures founded in 2020.其他学院还包括 1954 年设立的 Ira A. Fulton 工程学院、1964 年设立的桑德拉·戴·奥康纳法学院、1964 年设立的赫伯格学院以及 2020 年创立的全球未来学院。

• It offers more than 400 undergraduate degree programmes, over 450 graduate degree and certificate programmes, and runs more than 170 cross-disciplinary centres and institutes.学校开设 400 余个本科项目、450 余个研究生学位与证书项目，并设有 170 多个跨学科中心与研究所。

• As of fall 2025 it enrolled 160,051 students, of whom 124,753 were undergraduates and 35,298 postgraduates, and 81,541 studied online.截至 2025 年秋季，学校在读学生 160051 人，其中本科生 124753 人、研究生 35298 人，线上学生 81541 人。

• The Tempe campus alone enrolled 55,312 students, the largest of the four campuses.仅坦佩校区即注册学生 55312 人，为四大校区之首。

• The university employed 5,679 faculty members in fall 2024 and 20,859 staff in all.2024 年秋季学校有专任教师 5679 人，教职工总数 20859 人。

• Its faculty has included six Nobel laureates, three members of the Royal Society, 24 National Academy members and seven Pulitzer Prize winners.学校教师中包括六位诺贝尔奖得主、三位英国皇家学会会员、24 位美国国家科学院院士与七位普利策奖得主。

• Research institutes span the Biodesign Institute, the Global Institute of Sustainability, the Luminosity Lab and the Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative.研究机构涵盖生物设计研究所、全球可持续性研究所、Luminosity Lab 与复杂适应系统计划等。

• The library system on the Tempe campus is anchored by the Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, with the Fletcher Library serving the West Valley campus.坦佩校区的图书馆系统以 Charles Trumbull Hayden 图书馆为核心，西谷校区则设有 Fletcher 图书馆。

• The university's budget was 5.75 billion dollars and its endowment 2.00 billion dollars in fiscal 2026.2026 财年学校预算为 57.5 亿美元，捐赠基金达 20 亿美元。

• A facilities inventory reported by the Board of Regents in 2018 totalled more than 23 million gross square feet.据校务委员会 2018 年报告，学校设施总面积超过 2300 万平方英尺。

• The Barrett and O'Connor Center in Washington, opened in 2018, houses the university's capital programmes at 1800 I Street NW, close to the White House.2018 年启用的 Barrett 与 O'Connor 华盛顿中心设于距白宫不远的 I 街 1800 号 NW，承载学校在首都的各类项目。

Campus

• The Tempe campus covers about 660 acres in downtown Tempe, roughly eight miles east of Phoenix, and is arranged around broad pedestrian malls inside an arboretum.坦佩校区占地约 660 英亩，位于坦佩市中心，距凤凰城以东约 8 英里，校园以宽阔的步行街为骨架，整体是一座植物园。

• It is bounded by Rural Road on the east, Mill Avenue on the west, Apache Boulevard on the south and Rio Salado Parkway on the north.校区东起 Rural 路、西至 Mill 大道、南接 Apache 大道、北抵 Rio Salado 快速路。

• Old Main, the oldest building on campus, dates from the Territorial Normal School period.校园最古老的建筑「老主楼」可追溯至领地师范学校时期。

• Landmarks include the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, Palm Walk with its 111 palm trees, the Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, the University Club and the Arizona State University Art Museum.校内地标包括弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特设计的加马奇纪念礼堂、植有 111 棵棕榈的棕榈步道、Hayden 图书馆、大学俱乐部与亚利桑那州立大学艺术博物馆。

• The Tempe campus also holds Barrett, The Honors College, and an extensive public art collection named the single most impressive venue for contemporary art in Arizona by Art in America.坦佩校区还设有巴雷特荣誉学院，其规模宏大的公共艺术收藏被《美国艺术》杂志誉为亚利桑那州最令人印象深刻的当代艺术场所。

• The West Valley campus, established by the state legislature in 1984, sits on 277.92 acres in northwest Phoenix and serves 5,299 students as of fall 2025.西谷校区由州议会于 1984 年设立，位于凤凰城西北部，占地 277.92 英亩，2025 年秋季注册学生 5299 人。

• The Polytechnic campus in southeast Mesa, founded in 1996 as ASU East, covers 600 acres on the former Williams Air Force Base next to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and serves 6,170 students.位于梅萨东南部的理工校区 1996 年以「ASU East」之名创办，坐落于前威廉姆斯空军基地，占地 600 英亩，毗邻凤凰城-梅萨门户机场，注册学生 6170 人。

• The Downtown Phoenix campus, established in 2006, covers 27 acres and serves 10,769 students, including the adaptive reuse of a 1930s post office on the National Register of Historic Places.2006 年设立的凤凰城市中心校区占地 27 英亩，注册学生 10769 人，校区改造再利用了列入国家史迹名录的一座 1930 年代邮局。

• ASU Online is headquartered at SkySong in Scottsdale, and the university also runs a California Center in Los Angeles and regional learning programmes in Thatcher, Yuma and Tucson.ASU 线上教育总部设于斯科茨代尔的 SkySong，学校还在洛杉矶设加州中心，并在 Thatcher、尤马与图森设地区学习项目。

Reputation

• Arizona State University places 172nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 200th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 101-150 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.亚利桑那州立大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 172，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 200，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 101 至 150 区间。

• It joined the Association of American Universities in 2023, an invitation-only group of leading research universities in North America.学校于 2023 年加入美国大学协会，该协会是北美顶尖研究型大学的邀请制组织。

• OpenAlex records 197,791 works by the university that have drawn 14,596,945 citations.OpenAlex 收录学校论文 197791 篇，被引 14596945 次。

• Its faculty has included six Nobel laureates, among them Leland Hartwell of the 2001 prize in physiology or medicine and Edward C. Prescott of the 2004 prize in economics.学校教师中包括六位诺贝尔奖得主，其中有 2001 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主 Leland Hartwell 与 2004 年诺贝尔经济学奖得主 Edward C. Prescott。

• Elinor Ostrom, the 2009 economics laureate, was the university's third Nobel laureate and remained on its faculty until her death in 2012.2009 年诺贝尔经济学奖得主埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆是学校第三位诺贝尔奖得主，2012 年去世前一直在校任教。

• ASU Online was ranked in the top four for best online bachelor's programmes by U. S. News and World Report as of 2018.截至 2018 年，ASU 线上项目在《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳在线本科项目排名中位列前四。

• The university counts 179 Olympians among its athletes, who have won 60 Olympic medals, including 25 golds.学校运动员中有 179 位奥运选手，共获 60 枚奥运奖牌，其中金牌 25 枚。

• Its teams have won 165 national championships, including 24 NCAA trophies, and compete in the Big 12 Conference.学校代表队共获 165 次全国冠军，其中 24 次为 NCAA 冠军，现征战 Big 12 联盟。

• U. S. News and World Report has named it the most innovative school in the United States for eight consecutive years, and its 677.7 million dollars of research spending in fiscal 2021 ranked sixth among institutions without a medical school.《美国新闻与世界报道》连续八年将学校评为全美最具创新力高校，其 2021 财年 6.777 亿美元的科研支出在无医学院高校中位列第六。

• The National Science Foundation awarded the university 90.8 million dollars in 2023, its largest ever grant, to build the world's first compact X-ray free electron laser.2023 年，美国国家科学基金会向学校拨款 9080 万美元建造世界首台紧凑型 X 射线自由电子激光器，为学校史上最大单笔资助。

Student life

• The university's motto, carried on its seal, is Ditat Deus, Latin for God enriches.校徽上的校训为拉丁文 Ditat Deus，意为「上帝使人丰足」。

• Gold has been associated with the school since 1896, when it was the Tempe Normal School, and maroon and white were added in 1898.金色自 1896 年坦佩师范学校时期起即为校色，1898 年加入栗色与白色。

• The student section at games, known as The Inferno, wears gold on game days.球场上的学生看台名为「The Inferno」，比赛日一律着金色。

• Sparky the Sun Devil was named by a vote of the student body on 8 November 1946, succeeding the earlier Owls and Bulldogs as mascot.吉祥物「太阳恶魔 Sparky」于 1946 年 11 月 8 日由学生投票定名，此前校队曾以猫头鹰与斗牛犬为象征。

• The Lantern Walk, held each year since 1917, is one of the oldest traditions, in which participants carry lanterns up to A Mountain and light up Tempe.始于 1917 年的「提灯步行」是学校最古老的传统之一，参加者提灯登上 A 山，「点亮坦佩」。

• A letter has stood on Tempe Butte since 1918, first a T and then an N, and the A was installed in 1938, rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1955 after vandals destroyed it with pipe bombs in 1952.坦佩孤峰自 1918 年起便立有字母，先是 T 后是 N，A 字 1938 年落成，1952 年被破坏者以管炸弹炸毁，1955 年以钢筋混凝土重建。

• Incoming freshmen paint the letter white during orientation week in a tradition called Echo from the Buttes, and it is repainted gold before the first football game.新生在入学教育周把字母涂白，此传统名为「来自群山之声」，赛季首场橄榄球赛前再涂回金色。

• Homecoming dates to 1924, and the Sun Devil Marching Band, formed in 1915 and known as the Pride of the Southwest, received the Sudler Trophy in 1991.返校节始于 1924 年，1915 年组建、号称「西南之傲」的太阳恶魔行进乐队于 1991 年获萨德勒杯。

• The university songs are the Alma Mater composed in 1937 by Miles A. Dresskell and Maroon and Gold written in 1948 by Felix E. McKernan.校歌《母校》由 Miles A. Dresskell 作于 1937 年，《栗色与金》由 Felix E. McKernan 作于 1948 年。

• The Curtain of Distraction, started in 2013, opens before opponents' free throws, and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps emerged from it in 2016.2013 年起出现的「干扰帷幕」在对手罚球前拉开，2016 年奥运游泳名将 Michael Phelps 曾从帷幕中跃出。

• The student newspaper is The State Press, and student government runs through the Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Association.学生报纸为《The State Press》，学生自治由本科生学生会与研究生专业学生协会承担。

Notable people

• Arthur John Matthews, president from 1900 to 1930, shaped the campus with its first dormitories and the palm-lined walk that still defines it.1900 至 1930 年在任的校长 Arthur John Matthews 塑造了校园面貌，首座宿舍与棕榈夹道的步道至今仍是校园标识。

• Grady Gammage, president from 1933 to 1961, led the college to university status and gave his name to the Frank Lloyd Wright auditorium.1933 至 1961 年在任的校长 Grady Gammage 带领学校升格为大学，弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特设计的礼堂亦以其命名。

• Michael M. Crow, the sixteenth president since 2002, designed the New American University model that reshaped the institution.2002 年上任的第 16 任校长 Michael M. Crow 设计了重塑学校的「新美国大学」模式。

• Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, his last major public building, completed in 1964 after his death.弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特设计了加马奇纪念礼堂，这是他的最后一座大型公共建筑，1964 年其去世后落成。

• Leland Hartwell, who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for cell cycle research, served on the faculty and led a health initiative.因细胞周期研究共享 2001 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的 Leland Hartwell 曾任教于学校并主持一项健康计划。

• Edward C. Prescott, the 2004 Nobel economics laureate for work on dynamic macroeconomics, was a professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business.因动态宏观经济学研究获 2004 年诺贝尔经济学奖的 Edward C. Prescott 曾任 W. P. Carey 商学院教授。

• Donald Johanson, professor at the university, discovered the 3.18 million year old fossil Lucy in Ethiopia in 1974.本校教授 Donald Johanson 于 1974 年在埃塞俄比亚发现了距今 318 万年的化石「露西」。

• Bert Hölldobler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of The Ants, was professor of biology at the university.普利策奖获奖著作《蚂蚁》的共同作者、生物学家 Bert Hölldobler 曾任本校生物学教授。

• Pat Tillman, a football safety who left the National Football League for the Army after the September 11 attacks, was killed in Afghanistan in 2004.橄榄球安全卫 Pat Tillman 在九一一袭击后离开美国职业橄榄球大联盟参军，2004 年在阿富汗阵亡。

• Zhong Lin Wang took his physics doctorate at the university in 1987 and later won the 2018 Eni Award in Energy Frontiers, the first Chinese scientist to do so.王中林 1987 年在学校获物理学博士学位，后因纳米发电机研究获 2018 年埃尼前沿能源奖，是首位获此奖的华人科学家。

• NBA guard James Harden played for the Sun Devils before turning professional in 2009.NBA 后卫詹姆斯·哈登曾效力太阳恶魔队，2009 年转入职业篮坛。

• Baseball players Barry Bonds, Reggie Jackson and Dustin Pedroia all played for the university before their major league careers.棒球名将 Barry Bonds、Reggie Jackson 与 Dustin Pedroia 均曾就读本校后进入大联盟。

• Temple Grandin, the animal scientist and author on autism who is the subject of an award-winning film, took her master's degree in animal science at the university.动物科学家、自闭症议题作家 Temple Grandin 在本校获动物科学硕士学位，其生平被拍成获奖电影。

• Television hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Steve Allen and sportscaster Al Michaels are among the university's alumni in broadcasting.电视主持人 Jimmy Kimmel 与 Steve Allen、体育评论员 Al Michaels 是本校广播影视界校友的代表。

• Fashion designer Kate Spade, founder of the brand Kate Spade New York, graduated from the university.时装设计师、Kate Spade New York 品牌创始人 Kate Spade 毕业于本校。

• Ira A. Fulton, founder of the homebuilder Fulton Homes, endowed the university's schools of engineering.住宅建筑公司 Fulton Homes 创始人 Ira A. Fulton 捐资设立本校工程学院。

• Arizona governors Doug Ducey and Katie Hobbs and US senator Kyrsten Sinema are among the university's alumni in public life.亚利桑那州州长 Doug Ducey 与 Katie Hobbs、联邦参议员 Kyrsten Sinema 是本校政界校友的代表。