Northern Arizona University

Northern Arizona University is a public research university in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, founded in 1899 as the third and final university established in the Arizona Territory.北亚利桑那大学是位于美国亚利桑那州弗拉格斯塔夫的一所公立研究型大学，创建于1899年，是亚利桑那领地时期创办的第三所、也是最后一所大学。

It is one of three universities governed by the Arizona Board of Regents, is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity.该校是受亚利桑那州立大学董事会管辖的三所大学之一，获高等教育委员会认证，并被列为「R1」类博士型大学，科研活跃度很高。

As of the autumn of 2023 it had 28,194 students enrolled, including 21,550 on the Flagstaff campus, and in the 2027 QS World University Rankings it was placed in the 1001-1200 band.截至2023年秋季，该校共有在校生28194人，其中弗拉格斯塔夫主校区21550人；在2027年QS世界大学排名中，该校位列第1001-1200位区间。

History

• On 11 September 1899 the institution opened as the Northern Arizona Normal School with 23 students and two faculty members, and its teaching resources were only two copies of Webster's International Dictionary bound in sheepskin.1899年9月11日，该校以「北亚利桑那师范学校」之名开学，当时仅有23名学生、2名教师，教学资源只有两本羊皮装帧的《韦氏国际词典》。
• One of the two faculty members, Almon Nicholas Taylor, also served as the president of the school at that time.两名教师之一的阿尔蒙·尼古拉斯·泰勒，同时兼任该校当时的校长。
• The school was one of about 180 normal schools founded by state governments in the nineteenth century to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools.该校是十九世纪由各州政府创办的约180所师范学校之一，其目的是为迅速扩张的公立中小学培养教师。
• Its first graduating class, in 1901, consisted of four women who received credentials to teach in the Arizona Territory.1901年，该校首批毕业生为四名女性，她们获得了在亚利桑那领地执教的资格。
• In 1925 the Arizona State Legislature allowed the school, then called the Northern Arizona State Teachers College, to grant bachelor of education degrees.1925年，亚利桑那州议会批准当时的「北亚利桑那州立师范学院」授予教育学学士学位。
• In 1929 the school became Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff, and graduate work was introduced in 1937.1929年，该校更名为弗拉格斯塔夫亚利桑那州立师范学院，并于1937年开始培养研究生。
• The Great Depression struck in 1929, yet the college endured hard times and enrolment increased from 321 students in 1930 to 535 in 1940.1929年大萧条爆发，但该校挺过了困难时期，在校生由1930年的321人增至1940年的535人。
• The president at the time, Grady Gammage, described higher education as a depression industry that fared well in hard times.时任校长格雷迪·甘米奇将高等教育形容为一种「在大萧条中经营良好的产业」。
• Students worked on the school-owned dairy farm, in the campus kitchen and dining hall and as newspaper deliverers, and the college injected almost half a million dollars into the Flagstaff economy in 1938.学生曾在校办奶牛场、校园厨房与食堂工作，或担任送报员；1938年该校为弗拉格斯塔夫经济注入了近五十万美元。
• In 1939 Ida Mae Fredericks became the first Hopi to receive a college degree, reflecting the college's ethnic tolerance and its diverse student body.1939年，艾达·梅·弗雷德里克斯成为首位获得大学学位的霍皮族人，反映出该校的族群包容与生源多元。
• During the Second World War the college was one of 131 institutions nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to a Navy commission.第二次世界大战期间，该校是全美参与「V-12」海军学院训练计划的131所院校之一，为学生提供了成为海军军官的途径。
• Enrolment dropped sharply at the beginning of the war, falling to 161 in 1945, but grew again afterwards as returning veterans resumed their education.战争初期该校在校生锐减，1945年降至161人，但战后随着退伍军人重返校园，人数又回升。
• To reflect its growth beyond teacher training, the school was renamed Arizona State College at Flagstaff in 1945 and Arizona State College in 1958, the same year its forestry programme began.为反映其超越师范培养的发展，该校于1945年更名为弗拉格斯塔夫亚利桑那州立学院，1958年又更名为亚利桑那州立学院，其享誉世界的林学专业也于同年开设。
• In 1966 the Arizona Board of Regents granted the institution university status, and it became Northern Arizona University.1966年，亚利桑那州立大学董事会授予该校正式大学地位，学校此后定名为北亚利桑那大学。
• The university was authorised to offer Doctors of Philosophy and Education in 1968, with the first doctoral candidates graduating in 1973.1968年，该校获准授予哲学博士与教育学博士学位，首批博士生则于1973年毕业。
• In 2007 the business college was renamed the W. A. Franke College of Business, honouring the airline entrepreneur Bill Franke, whose 25 million dollar commitment funded a new business complex.2007年，该校商学院更名为W. A. Franke商学院，以表彰航空业企业家比尔·弗兰克，其2500万美元的承诺捐款资助了新的商学大楼。
• On 9 October 2015 a freshman shot four people in a parking lot outside Mountain View Hall on the Flagstaff campus, killing one student, Colin Charles Brough.2015年10月9日，一名新生在弗拉格斯塔夫校区山景宿舍外的停车场开枪，造成一人死亡、三人重伤，遇害学生为科林·查尔斯·布劳。
• In 2022 José Luis Cruz Rivera became the seventeenth president of the university, and in 2023 the university announced the NAU Health initiative, including a new College of Medicine and the promotion of its nursing school to a college.2022年，何塞·路易斯·克鲁斯·里维拉出任该校第十七任校长；2023年该校宣布「NAU Health」计划，包括成立新的医学院并将护理学院升格为独立学院。
• In 2024 the engineering college was renamed the Steve Sanghi College of Engineering after a ten million dollar donation from the technology entrepreneur Steve Sanghi.2024年，工程学院因科技企业家史蒂夫·桑吉的1000万美元捐赠而更名为史蒂夫·桑吉工程学院。
• The university joined the Lowell Discovery Telescope partner group in 2014 and manages the National Undergraduate Research Observatory, providing a consortium of colleges with access to Lowell's 0.79-metre telescope.该校于2014年加入洛厄尔发现望远镜合作组，并管理全国本科生研究天文台，为一个高校联盟提供洛厄尔0.79米望远镜的使用权。

Academics

• Across eight colleges, with a ninth, the College of Medicine, in development, the university offers more than 130 undergraduate programmes, more than 80 master's programmes, about 20 doctoral programmes and 50 undergraduate and 40 graduate certificates.该校设有八大学院，另有第九个学院（医学院）在筹建中，开设超过130个本科专业、80多个硕士专业、约20个博士专业，以及50个本科证书和40个研究生证书项目。
• The largest undergraduate degree plans by enrolment in the 2023 autumn semester were psychological sciences, nursing, biomedical science, criminology and criminal justice, biology and elementary education.2023年秋季学期注册人数最多的本科专业为心理科学、护理、生物医学科学、犯罪学与刑事司法、生物学和小学教育。
• The College of Arts and Letters houses the School of Art, comparative cultural studies, English, global languages and cultures, history, philosophy, the Kitt School of Music and theatre.文理学院下设艺术学院、比较文化研究、英语、全球语言与文化、历史、哲学、基特音乐学院和戏剧等系科。
• The College of Arts and Letters oversees the Clara M. Lovett Art Museum and the Martin-Springer Institute and is home to the university's doctoral programme in applied linguistics.文理学院管理克拉拉·M·洛维特美术馆与马丁-斯普林格研究所，并承办该校的应用语言学博士项目。
• The College of Education offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes in early childhood, elementary, secondary and higher education, and runs the Diné Dual Language Teachers project for Navajo-language teaching.教育学院提供学前教育、小学教育、中学教育与高等教育方向的本科、硕士和博士项目，并实施面向纳瓦霍语教学的迪内双语教师计划。
• The Steve Sanghi College of Engineering, named in 2024, offers 19 undergraduate majors, five minors, 13 master's and five doctoral programmes, and includes the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems.2024年命名的史蒂夫·桑吉工程学院设有19个本科主修、5个辅修、13个硕士和5个博士项目，并下设信息学、计算与网络系统学院。
• The College of the Environment, Forestry and Natural Sciences includes astronomy and planetary science, which has direct access to the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, one of only 22 Dark-Sky cities worldwide.环境、林学与自然科学学院下设天文学与行星科学等系科，可直接使用弗拉格斯塔夫的洛厄尔天文台，而弗拉格斯塔夫是全球仅有的22个「暗夜城市」之一。
• Professor Chad Trujillo of the university co-discovered the trans-Neptunian bodies Eris and Sedna, and Cristina Thomas led the investigation of the NASA DART planetary defence mission.该校的查德·特鲁希略教授参与发现了海王星外天体阋神星与赛德娜，克里斯蒂娜·托马斯则主持了美国航天局DART行星防御任务的观测研究。
• More than 30 university-funded research institutes and centres are available to faculty and students, including the Centennial Forest, the Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research and the Ecological Restoration Institute.该校有30多个由学校资助的研究院所可供师生使用，包括百年森林、梅里亚姆-鲍威尔环境研究中心和生态修复研究所。
• The College of Health and Human Services offers programmes in athletic training, dental hygiene, occupational therapy, physical therapy and physician assistant studies, partly at the Phoenix Bioscience Core.健康与人类服务学院开设运动训练、口腔卫生、职业治疗、物理治疗和医师助理等专业，部分课程设在菲尼克斯生物科学核心园区。
• The W. A. Franke College of Business is accredited by AACSB International and offers seven BSBA degrees plus an MBA, and its hotel and restaurant management school was ranked first in Arizona and 22nd in the United States by the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research.W. A. Franke商学院获AACSB国际认证，开设7个工商管理学士专业及工商管理硕士项目；其酒店与餐饮管理学院被《酒店与旅游研究杂志》评为亚利桑那州第一、全美第22。
• The Honors College hosts the first honours programme offered in Arizona and offers course work, research and study-abroad opportunities such as the Grand Canyon Semester.荣誉学院开设亚利桑那州最早的荣誉项目，提供课程、科研与海外学习机会，例如大峡谷学期项目。
• The Graduate College offers more than 80 master's degrees, about 20 doctoral degrees and 40 graduate certificates, both in person and online.研究生院提供80多个硕士、约20个博士和40个研究生证书项目，既有面授也有线上形式。
• The university is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, and the National Science Foundation ranked it 178th nationally for fiscal year 2021 and 192nd for fiscal year 2023.该校被列为科研活跃度很高的「R1」博士型大学，美国国家科学基金会在2021财年将其列全美第178位、2023财年列第192位。
• The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute conducts research on rapidly evolving diseases including COVID-19 and engages more than 100 faculty, staff and students.病原体与微生物组研究所研究包括新冠病毒在内的快速演变疾病，参与其工作的师生与员工超过100人。
• Its collections, archives and museums include the Arboretum at Flagstaff, the university art museum, the Cline Library Special Collections and Archives and the Museum of Northern Arizona.其馆藏、档案与博物馆包括弗拉格斯塔夫树木园、大学美术馆、克莱因图书馆特藏档案以及北亚利桑那博物馆。
• For the 2023-24 year tuition and fees were 12,652 dollars for Arizona residents and 28,900 dollars for out-of-state undergraduates, while the Access2Excellence initiative provides tuition-free study for Arizona residents with household income at or below 65,000 dollars.2023-2024学年，本州本科生学费与杂费为12652美元、州外为28900美元；而Access2Excellence计划为家庭年收入不超过65000美元的亚利桑那州居民提供免学费教育。

Campus

• The Flagstaff campus is set across 829 forested acres surrounded by the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in the world, at an elevation of about 7,000 feet that makes it the fourth highest four-year campus in the United States.弗拉格斯塔夫校区占地829英亩，被世界上最大的连片黄松林环绕，海拔约7000英尺，是美国海拔第四高的四年制大学校园。
• Flagstaff averages 90.1 inches of snow a year, and winter skiing is available at the Arizona Snowbowl on the San Francisco Peaks, with the Grand Canyon and Sedona a short drive away.弗拉格斯塔夫年均降雪90.1英寸，冬季可在圣弗朗西斯科峰上的亚利桑那雪碗滑雪场滑雪，大峡谷与塞多纳也只需短途车程。
• The university houses nearly 10,500 students on campus, and Sechrist Hall, a nine-storey residence, is the tallest building in northern Arizona.该校在校内为近10500名学生提供住宿，九层高的塞克里斯特宿舍是北亚利桑那州最高的建筑。
• The Walkup Skydome is a multipurpose stadium used for football, basketball, indoor track and field, concerts and commencements.沃尔克普穹顶是一座多用途体育场，用于橄榄球、篮球、室内田径、音乐会与毕业典礼等活动。
• The Student-Athlete High Performance Center, a 47 million dollar, 77,000 square foot facility, opened in February 2022 with a weight room, academic centre and sports-medicine spaces.耗资4700万美元、面积7.7万平方英尺的学生运动员高水平训练中心于2022年2月启用，内设力量房、学术中心与运动医学空间。
• The John Haeger Health and Learning Center offers 123,000 square feet of recreation space, including an indoor jogging track, a 38-foot climbing wall and on-campus medical services.约翰·哈格健康与学习中心提供12.3万平方英尺的活动空间，包括室内慢跑道、38英尺高的攀岩墙以及校内医疗服务。
• There are more than a dozen LEED-certified buildings on campus, dining services compost more than 300,000 pounds of material a year, and the university has pledged carbon neutrality by 2030.校园内有十余座获LEED认证的建筑，餐饮服务每年堆肥超过30万磅物料，学校并承诺到2030年实现碳中和。
• Beyond the Flagstaff campus the university serves students at more than 20 statewide locations and through NAU Online, whose oldest and largest branch campus is NAU-Yuma.除弗拉格斯塔夫主校区外，该校还在全州20多个地点以及通过NAU Online授课，其历史最久、规模最大的分校为NAU-Yuma。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Northern Arizona University was placed in the 1001-1200 band.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，北亚利桑那大学位列第1001-1200位区间。
• It did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.该校未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it was placed 620th in the world.在2026-2027年度US News全球最佳大学排名中，该校位居全球第620名。
• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was placed in the 501-600 band.在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位列第501-600位区间。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2021-2022 it was placed in the 501-600 band both internationally and nationally.在2021-2022年度泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校的国际与国内位次均处于第501-600位区间。
• In 2024 Washington Monthly ranked it 155th among 438 national universities on the basis of social mobility, research and public service.2024年《华盛顿月刊》依据社会流动性、科研与公共服务，将该校列为全美438所国立大学中的第155位。
• Forbes ranked it 297th among the top 500 private and public colleges in the United States for 2024-25, including 198th among public colleges and 72nd in the West.2024-2025年度《福布斯》将该校列入全美前500所公私院校的第297位，其中公立院校中排第198位、西部地区排第72位。
• OpenAlex records about 36,661 research works and roughly 2,108,800 citations associated with the university.OpenAlex记录到与该校相关的论文约36661篇、被引约2108800次。
• The university is classified among R1 doctoral universities, counted some 160,000 alumni, and its alumni and students include four Truman Scholars, eleven Goldwater Scholars, three Udall Scholars and sixteen Olympians.该校属科研活跃度很高的「R1」博士型大学，校友约16万人，其校友与学生中包括4位杜鲁门学者、11位戈德华特学者、3位尤德尔学者和16位奥运选手。

Student life

• The university's athletic teams are known as the Lumberjacks and compete in NCAA Division I, mostly in the Big Sky Conference, with swimming and diving in the Western Athletic Conference.该校运动队名为「伐木工」，参加全美大学体育协会一级联赛，多数项目属于大天空联盟，游泳与跳水则属西部体育联盟。
• The Lumberjacks won the NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.「伐木工」队在2016年、2017年、2018年、2020年、2021年和2022年六度夺得全美大学越野锦标赛男子甲组冠军。
• The university participates in 15 intercollegiate sports, and the Rolle Activity Center, named after Joseph C. Rolle in 1989, provides courts and classrooms for physical education.该校开设15个校际运动项目，1989年以约瑟夫·C·罗尔命名的罗尔活动中心为体育教学提供场馆与教室。
• The campus has more than 400 recognised professional, academic, service and social organisations, and The Lumberjack, its student newspaper, is more than a century old.校园内有400多个获认可的专业、学术、服务与社交社团，其学生报纸《伐木工》已有逾百年历史。
• Students produce the regional newscast NAZ Today, operate the licensed radio station KJACK on 107.1 FM and make films through UTV Studios.学生制作地区新闻节目NAZ Today，运营持牌广播电台KJACK（107.1兆赫），并通过UTV工作室拍摄影片。
• The Lumberjack Marching Band, supported by the Kitt School of Music, performs at home football games and was invited to appear in the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.由基特音乐学院支持的「伐木工」军乐队在主场比赛时演奏，并受邀参加2025年梅西感恩节大游行。
• The Native American Cultural Center, a 12,000 square foot facility, serves as a social and cultural hub, and the Office of Native American Initiatives runs several support programmes.占地1.2万平方英尺的美洲原住民文化中心是社交与文化枢纽，美洲原住民事务办公室则运营多项支持计划。
• The Martin-Springer Institute, founded in 2000 by the Holocaust survivor Doris Martin and her husband Ralph Martin, promotes human-rights education through remembrance.马丁-斯普林格研究所由大屠杀幸存者多丽丝·马丁及其丈夫拉尔夫·马丁于2000年创立，通过纪念活动推动人权教育。
• More than 30 competitive and recreational intramural sports and more than 40 sports clubs are available, and the university's high altitude is used by endurance athletes for training.该校提供30多个竞技与娱乐性校内运动项目以及40多个体育社团，其高海拔环境也被耐力运动员用于训练。

Notable people

• Raúl Héctor Castro, a former Governor of Arizona and United States Ambassador to Argentina, was an alumnus of the institution and the state's only Latino governor.曾任亚利桑那州州长、美国驻阿根廷大使的劳尔·埃克托尔·卡斯特罗是该校校友，也是该州唯一的拉丁裔州长。
• Katie Hobbs, the Governor of Arizona and former Secretary of State of Arizona, is a graduate of the university.曾任亚利桑那州州务卿、现任该州州长的凯蒂·霍布斯是该校毕业生。
• Diana Gabaldon, the author of the best-selling Outlander series, graduated from the university, where she earned degrees in zoology and marine biology before turning to writing.畅销小说《外乡人》系列作者戴安娜·加巴尔登毕业于该校，在此取得动物学与海洋生物学学位，后转向写作。
• R. C. Gorman, a celebrated Native American artist from the Navajo Nation, studied at the university.来自纳瓦霍族的知名美洲原住民艺术家R. C. 戈尔曼曾就读于该校。
• Lopez Lomong, a US track and field Olympian and former Lost Boy of Sudan, is an alumnus of the university.美国田径奥运选手、前苏丹「迷失男孩」洛佩兹·洛蒙是该校校友。
• Robin Braun, a vice admiral of the United States Navy, and Seamus Dever, an actor in the television series Castle, are also graduates.美国海军中将罗宾·布劳恩，以及电视剧《灵书妙探》演员谢默斯·德弗，亦为该校毕业生。
• Chad Trujillo, an astronomer on the faculty, co-discovered the trans-Neptunian objects Eris and Sedna and is involved in the search for the hypothetical Planet Nine.该校天文学教授查德·特鲁希略参与发现了海王星外天体阋神星与赛德娜，并参与对假设中「第九大行星」的搜寻。
• Cristina Thomas, a planetary scientist on the faculty, led the investigations of the NASA DART planetary defence mission.该校行星科学家克里斯蒂娜·托马斯主持了美国航天局DART行星防御任务的观测研究。
• Bill Franke, an airline entrepreneur, gave 25 million dollars to the business college that bears his name, and Steve Sanghi gave ten million dollars to the engineering college named after him in 2024.航空业企业家比尔·弗兰克向以其命名的商学院捐赠2500万美元，史蒂夫·桑吉则于2024年向其命名的工程学院捐赠1000万美元。
• Joseph C. Rolle, known as Mr. Lumberjack, played basketball from 1937 to 1941, served as student body president and later worked at the university for 36 years.被称为「伐木工先生」的约瑟夫·C·罗尔1937年至1941年在此打篮球、担任学生会主席，此后在校工作36年。