University of Arizona

The University of Arizona, commonly shortened to U of A or UArizona, is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States, founded in 1885 by the thirteenth Arizona Territorial Legislature as the first university in the Arizona Territory and governed today, with Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, by the Arizona Board of Regents.亚利桑那大学（通称U of A或UArizona）是美国亚利桑那州图森市的一所公立赠地研究型大学，1885年由第十三届亚利桑那领地议会创建，是亚利桑那领地历史上的第一所大学，如今与亚利桑那州立大学、北亚利桑那大学同由亚利桑那州董事会（Arizona Board of Regents）管辖。

Classes first met on October 1, 1891 in Old Main with six faculty members teaching 32 students, the first graduating class of three students arrived in 1895, and the university today enrols 54,384 students across 22 colleges and schools.1891年10月1日，首批课程在主楼（Old Main）开课，六名教师教32名学生，1895年学校迎来仅三名毕业生的首届毕业班，如今大学在22个学院与学系注册学生54,384名。

Arizona places 313th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, is classified R1 for very high research activity, has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1924, and directs more than one billion dollars of research activity each year.亚利桑那大学在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列第313名，按卡内基分类属于极高研究活动的R1级大学，自1924年起即为美国大学协会成员，每年主导的研究活动经费超过十亿美元。

History

• After the United States Congress passed the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, pressure built to found a university in Arizona Territory, whose first institutions of higher learning would date from the mid-1880s.美国国会1862年通过《莫里尔赠地法》后，在亚利桑那领地兴办大学的压力日益增长，领地的高等教育史即始于19世纪80年代中期。

• The thirteenth Arizona Territorial Legislature, remembered as the Thieving Thirteenth for its horse trading of public institutions, approved the University of Arizona on March 12, 1885 and chose the city of Tucson to receive it.第十三届亚利桑那领地议会因在公办机构分配上互相交易而被后人称为“盗窃十三届”，该议会于1885年3月12日批准设立亚利桑那大学，并选定图森市为校址。

• Tucson had coveted the appropriation for the territory's mental hospital, worth 100,000 rather than the25,000 alloted to the university, but flooding on the Salt River delayed the city's legislators, and by the time they reached Prescott the best prizes had been dealt away.图森原本觊觎价值10万美元的精神医院拨款，而大学只分到2.5万美元，但盐水河洪水延误了该市议员赶路，等他们抵达普雷斯科特时，最优选择早已在幕后交易中分配殆尽。

• With no party willing to provide land for the new institution, citizens of Tucson prepared to return the appropriation until two gamblers and a saloon keeper donated 40 acres to the Board of Regents.起初无人愿意为新校提供土地，图森市民几乎打算退回拨款，直到两名赌徒与一名酒馆老板向董事会捐赠了40英亩土地才尘埃落定。

• Construction of Old Main, the first building on campus, began on October 27, 1887 under Phoenix architect James Miller Creighton, but the $37,969 budget ran out before the roof was finished, and officials won federal support by renaming the planned School of Mines as a School of Agriculture.校园首座建筑主楼由凤凰城建筑师James Miller Creighton设计，1887年10月27日动工，但37,969美元预算连屋顶都未能完工，校方遂将原定的矿业学院改名农学院以争取联邦资助。

• Classes opened on October 1, 1891 with six faculty teaching 32 students, the first three graduates completed the class of 1895, and Old Main, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, remains in university use.1891年10月1日正式开学，六名教员面对32名学生，首批三名学生完成学业成为1895届毕业班，主楼1972年列入国家史迹名录，至今仍在使用。

• Because Arizona Territory had no high schools, the university maintained separate preparatory classes for its first 23 years of operation, teaching school-age pupils alongside college students.由于亚利桑那领地当时没有高中，大学在办学头23年里另设预科班，让学龄学生在大学校园内接受大学预备教育。

• Intercollegiate football began at Arizona in 1899 under the nickname Varsity, and after the 1914 season-opening victory over California champions Occidental College the Los Angeles Times reported that the Arizona men showed the fight of wildcats, giving the school its enduring nickname.校际橄榄球赛始于1899年，当时队名只是“校队”，1914年赛季击败加州冠军西方学院后，《洛杉矶时报》称亚利桑那球员打出了“野猫般的斗志”，学校由此得到沿用至今的“野猫”绰号。

• Arizona's first mascot was a live desert bobcat named Rufus Arizona presented in 1915, and since 1986 costumed wildcats Wilbur and Wilma have been married as the school's paired mascots.学校最早的吉祥物是1915年亮相的活体荒漠短尾猫“Rufus Arizona”，1986年起两只人偶野猫Wilbur与Wilma“结为夫妻”，成为今天的成对吉祥物。

• Astronomer and dendrochronologist Andrew Ellicott Douglass came to the university in 1906 as assistant professor of physics and geography, at once starting astronomical work with an 8-inch refractor loaned by Harvard and serving later as interim president and dean.天文学家兼树木年代学家Andrew Ellicott Douglass于1906年以物理地理学助理教授身份到校，一到任便用哈佛大学租借的8英寸折射望远镜开展天文研究，后来还出任代理校长与文理学部长。

• On October 18, 1916 the university announced that anonymous donor Mrs. Lavinia Steward of Oracle had given $60,000 in memory of her late husband to buy a telescope of huge size, and the 36-inch reflector it funded was dedicated on April 23, 1923, founding Steward Observatory.1916年10月18日，大学宣布来自奥拉克的匿名捐赠者Lavinia Steward夫人为纪念亡夫捐出6万美元“购置一架大型望远镜”，这笔捐款资助的36英寸反射望远镜于1923年4月23日落成启用，史都华天文台由此创立。

• In 1919 architectural partner John Lyman conceived a campus master plan modelled on the University of Virginia, and Tucson architect Roy Place, who designed the Arizona State Museum buildings, the 1927 main library and Centennial Hall, fixed the red-brick style that still defines the campus.1919年，建筑合伙人John Lyman仿照弗吉尼亚大学拟定了校园总体规划，图森建筑师Roy Place设计了亚利桑那州立博物馆群、1927年的主图书馆与百年纪念堂，奠定了至今仍是校园标志的红砖风格。

• The Berger Memorial Fountain at the west entrance of Old Main, raised in 1919 at a cost of $5,500 to honour 13 Arizona students killed in the First World War, was dedicated on January 31, 1920 by General John J. Pershing.主楼西侧入口前的贝杰纪念喷泉建于1919年，耗资5,500美元以纪念13位在一战中阵亡的亚利桑那学生，由John J. 潘兴将军于1920年1月31日揭幕。

• During president Cloyd H. Marvin's tenure the university was recognised in 1924 by the Association of American Universities, an endorsement of its graduate and research standing.在校长Cloyd H. Marvin任内，大学于1924年入选美国大学协会，其研究生教育与科研水准由此获得权威认可。

• School spirit crystallised in 1926, when student body president and quarterback John Button Salmon left his teammates the parting message Bear Down, and band director Jack K. Lee turned the phrase into the song Bear Down, Arizona! in 1952 after seeing BEAR DOWN painted inside the gymnasium.校园精神在1926年成形：学生会长兼四分卫John “Button” Salmon留给队友“Bear Down”这一临别寄语，1952年军乐团指挥Jack K. Lee在体育馆内看到“BEAR DOWN”字样，遂以“Bear Down”为核心谱成歌曲。

• The university's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, founded in 1937 from Douglass's collections, became the world's first dendrochronology laboratory and the oldest in the Americas.依托Douglass的标本于1937年创建的树木年轮研究实验室，是世界上第一个树木年代学实验室，也是美洲同类机构中历史最悠久的。

• Condemned by the City of Tucson in 1938 for neglect, Old Main survived because the US Navy repaired it in 1942 as a Naval Indoctrination Training School and paid 20,000 in 1945 to return it to campus use, and after a4.6 million first-floor restoration in 2008 a full renovation reopened it in 2014 with the office of the president.主楼因疏于维护于1938年被图森市判定为危房，所幸美国海军1942年将其修缮为海军新兵训练学校，1945年又付2万美元交还学校使用，2008年一楼耗资460万美元修复，整体翻新后于2014年重新开放，校长办公室迁回其中。

• Kitt Peak National Observatory was founded in 1958 when Steward's director Aden B. Meinel selected the mountain under a National Science Foundation contract, the land leased in perpetuity from the Tohono O'odham Nation at a quarter dollar per acre a year, with Nicholas U. Mayall as second director from 1960 to 1971 and his name later on the 4-metre telescope completed in 1973.1958年，史都华天文台台长Aden B. Meinel在国家科学基金会合同下选定基特峰为厂址，创立基特峰国家天文台，土地以每英亩每年25美分的价格向托阿诺·奥厄德姆族永久租得，天文学家Nicholas U. Mayall于1960至1971年任第二任台长，1973年落成的4米望远镜即以他命名。

• Planetary scientist Gerard P. Kuiper left the University of Chicago for Tucson in 1960 to found the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, which he directed until his death in 1973, and the graduate Department of Planetary Sciences was established alongside it in 1973.行星科学家Gerard P. Kuiper于1960年从芝加哥大学来到图森创建月球与行星实验室（LPL），并主持该实验室直至1973年去世，研究生建制下的行星科学系亦于1973年同步设立。

• The Optical Sciences Center, proposed in the early 1960s by the Air Force Institute of Technology, the Optical Society of America and Aden Meinel, was established in 1964 with Meinel as its first director, and in 2019 it was renamed the Wyant College of Optical Sciences.光学科学中心在20世纪60年代初由空军理工学院、美国光学学会与Meinel共同倡议，1964年在大学基金会支持下成立并由Meinel任首任主任，2019年更名为怀恩特光学科学学院。

• The university hired Vivian Cox as its first African-American faculty member in 1967, and in 1969 its lunar cartography, begun under Kuiper's programme to identify landing sites, helped NASA guide Apollo astronauts to the Moon.1967年学校聘用Vivian Cox为首位非裔美国教职员，1969年，在Kuiper主持的着陆点研究支持下，该校绘制的月图帮助NASA引导阿波罗宇航员登上月球。

• Modern crises followed in the 2000s and 2020s: a failed student gunman murdered three professors in October 2002, in October 2022 former student Murad Dervish killed professor Thomas Meixner and drew life in 2024, the faculty senate passed a no-confidence vote in 2023, and the university admitted losing track of more than $240 million through accounting errors that same year.21世纪的校园风波不断：2002年10月一名被退学的学生枪杀三位教授，2022年10月前学生Murad Dervish杀害Thomas Meixner教授并于2024年被判无期徒刑，教职员评议会2023年通过对领导层的不信任案，同年学校承认因记账失误与预算失准“失去跟踪”逾2.4亿美元。

• In 2020 Arizona bought the for-profit Ashford University from Zovio and renamed it the University of Arizona Global Campus, a purchase criticised by faculty, investigated by Massachusetts and sued over by California, that The Arizona Republic later estimated had cost the university $265 million. In April 2024 police dispersed a pro-Palestinian encampment with rubber bullets and tear gas, the university joined the Big 12 Conference on August 2, 2024 after its departure from the Pac-12, and Suresh Garimella was named the 23rd president on August 9, 2024.2020年学校从Zovio手中收购营利性阿什福德大学并更名“亚利桑那大学全球校区”，此举招致教职员批评、马萨诸塞州调查与加州起诉，《亚利桑那共和报》后来估算该交易已使大学付出2.65亿美元，2024年4月警察以橡皮子弹与催泪瓦斯驱散校园内的亲巴勒斯坦营帐，8月2日学校在退出太平洋十二校联盟后正式加入大十二联盟，8月9日Suresh Garimella被任命为第23任校长。

Academics

• As of fall 2025 the university enrolled 54,384 students, of whom 43,294 were undergraduates and 11,090 were graduate students, supported by 3,374 faculty members and 15,764 staff, with an endowment of 1.64 billion and an operating budget of3.04 billion for fiscal year 2026.截至2025年秋季，全校注册学生54,384名，其中本科生43,294人、研究生11,090人，教职员3,374人、职工15,764人，2026财年捐赠基金为16.4亿美元，运营预算为30.4亿美元。

• Teaching is organised in 22 colleges and schools offering more than 150 majors, among them the Eller College of Management, the James E. Rogers College of Law, the College of Medicine - Tucson, the College of Medicine - Phoenix and the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.全校教学由22个学院与学系承担，开设逾150个专业，包括埃勒商学院、James E. Rogers法学院、图森医学院、凤凰城医学院，以及建筑规划与景观设计学院。

• The Wyant College of Optical Sciences, regarded as the largest centre for optics education in the United States, offers more than 90 courses, a Bachelor of Science in Optical Sciences and Engineering, master's and doctoral degrees, a dual optics-business master's and distance-learning professional certificates.怀恩特光学科学学院被认为是美国规模最大的光学教育机构，开课逾90门，设光学科学与工程理学学士、光学硕士与博士学位、光学与工商管理双硕士，以及远程教育的研究生职业证书。

• Arizona is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities with very high research activity, is one of only eight universities combining Research 1 status, Association of American Universities membership and Hispanic-Serving Institution designation, and is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission.学校被列入极高研究活动的R1博士大学，是全美仅有的8所同时兼具R1科研级别、美国大学协会成员与“服务拉丁裔院校”三顶桂冠的大学之一，并获WASC大学与学院委员会（WSCUC）认证。

• The W. A. Franke Honors College began in 1962 admitting seventy-five students, had grown to 5,508 honours students by 2016-17, and received its name from William A. Bill Franke's $25 million gift commitment.W. A. Franke荣誉学院始于1962年招收75名学生，到2016至2017学年已扩至5,508人，其名源于William A. “Bill” Franke认捐的2500万美元。

• Arizona was among the first universities in the world to design college study for students with learning and attention differences, and its SALT Center is widely treated as the field's leading programme.亚利桑那大学是全球最早为学习与注意力障碍学生设计大学课程的高校之一，校内的SALT中心（战略另类学习技术中心）被业界视为该领域的旗舰项目。

• Students come from all fifty states, with about 69 per cent from Arizona, nearly 11 per cent from California and 8 per cent international, 68 freshmen in 2014-15 were National Merit Scholars, and in 2025 the university awarded 13,217 degrees with an 83 per cent one-year retention rate.学生来自全美五十个州，约69%出自亚利桑那州，近11%来自加利福尼亚州，8%为国际学生，2014至2015学年有68名新生是国家优秀学者，2025年全校授予学位13,217个，一年级新生留存率为83%。

• Undergraduate grades use a strict 4-point scale on which A is worth four points, B three, C two, D one and E zero, and students enrolled in the Guaranteed Tuition Program have their rate frozen for eight continuous semesters, the 2014 cohort holding at 11,591 for residents and30,745 for non-residents through 2018-19.本科成绩采用严格的4分制：A计4分、B计3分、C计2分、D计1分、E计0分，参加“学费保障计划”的学生在连续8个学期内学费锁定，2014级州内学生在2018至2019学年仍按11,591美元执行、州外学生按30,745美元执行。

• Arizona is governed, with Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, by the 12-member Arizona Board of Regents: eight volunteers appointed by the governor to staggered eight-year terms, two students, and the governor and the Superintendent of Public Instruction as voting ex-officio members under Title 15 of the Arizona Revised Statutes.依据《亚利桑那州修订法令》第15编，本校与亚利桑那州立大学、北亚利桑那大学同归12人组成的亚利桑那州董事会管辖：州长任命的志愿者董事8人、交错8年任期，学生董事2人，州长与州公共教育总监为法定投票成员。

• In 2024 Suresh Garimella, previously president of the University of Vermont from 2019 and the executive vice-president for research at Purdue University, became the 23rd president, and he is advised by provost Patricia A. Prelock.2024年，曾任佛蒙特大学校长（2019年起）与普渡大学研究副校长（executive vice-president for research）的Suresh Garimella就任第23任校长，其行政搭档为教务长Patricia A. Prelock。

• Past presidents include the first woman to lead the university, Ann Weaver Hart, who served from 2012 to 2017, Henry Koffler, the first alumnus president, Manuel T. Pacheco, the first president of Hispanic descent and the namesake of the Integrated Learning Center, and Richard Harvill, who presided over dramatic growth in the 1950s and 1960s, alongside John Paul Schaefer, Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Homer L. Shantz, Kendrick C. Babcock, Peter Likins, Robert N. Shelton, Eugene Sander and Robert C. Robbins.历任校长包括首位女性校长Ann Weaver Hart（2012至2017年在任）、首名校友校长Henry Koffler、首位拉丁裔校长并留有姓名于综合学习中心的Manuel T. Pacheco、主导1950至60年代大扩张的Richard Harvill，以及John Paul Schaefer、Rufus B. von KleinSmid、Homer L. Shantz、Kendrick C. Babcock、Peter Likins、Robert N. Shelton、Eugene Sander与Robert C. Robbins。

• Research expenditures reached $1.012 billion in fiscal year 2024, ranking 19th among public universities, Arizona is the fourth most awarded public university by NASA and receives more NASA grants annually than the next nine NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory funded universities combined, and The Chronicle of Higher Education counts it among the top 25 American producers of Fulbright awards.2024财年科研支出达10.12亿美元，居公立大学第19位，学校是美国航空航天局资助总额第四高的公立大学，其年度NASA资助额超过其后9所NASA喷气推进实验室资助大学之和，《高等教育纪事报》将其列入美国富布赖特奖项产出前25强。

• Planetary work is conducted through the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory: the university took in more than 325 million to lead NASA's 2007-08 Phoenix Mars Mission under planetary scientist Peter Smith, the first space mission entirely controlled by a university, landing on the Martian surface in May 2008, and later received some800 million for OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, launched on September 8, 2016.行星科学研究依托月球与行星实验室：学校获3.25亿余美元主持NASA的2007至2008年凤凰号火星任务，由行星科学家Peter Smith执掌，这是第一所由大学全权控制的太空任务，探测器2008年5月着陆火星，其后又获约8亿美元执行OSIRIS-REx任务，即美国首个采集小行星样本的探测项目，2016年9月8日发射。

• LPL's contributions to the Cassini mission orbiting Saturn exceeded those of any other university, the university operates the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached Mars in March 2006 after travelling 300 million miles and is the largest-aperture camera ever flown to another planet under principal investigator Alfred McEwen, and in 2011 alumnus Lujendra Ojha used HiRISE imagery to find evidence of liquid water on Mars, confirmed by NASA in 2015.月球与行星实验室对土星轨道卡西尼任务的贡献超过任何一所其他大学，学校还主持火星侦察轨道器上的HiRISE相机，该相机在首席研究员Alfred McEwen带领下随探测器飞行3亿英里于2006年3月抵达火星，是迄今送往另一颗行星的最大口径相机，2011年校友Lujendra Ojha用HiRISE影像发现火星表面存在液态水的证据，NASA于2015年予以确认。

• As of March 2016 the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory was involved in ten spacecraft missions at once, among them Cassini VIMS, GRAIL, HiRISE, Juno at Jupiter, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, Solar Probe Plus, Rosetta's VIRTIS, WISE and OSIRIS-REx, while the Arizona Radio Observatory runs the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope on Mount Graham and a 12-metre radio telescope at Kitt Peak.截至2016年3月，月球与行星实验室同时参与10项航天器任务，包括卡西尼VIMS、GRAIL、HiRISE、木星朱诺号、月球勘测轨道器、MAVEN、帕克太阳探测器、罗塞塔VIRTIS、WISE与OSIRIS-REx，亚利桑那射电天文台则在格雷厄姆山运营海因里希·赫兹亚毫米波望远镜，并在基特峰持有一台12米射电望远镜。

• Steward Observatory built the NICMOS instrument for the Hubble Space Telescope and the MIPS camera for the Spitzer Space Telescope, constructed the Near-Infrared Camera for the James Webb Space Telescope and helped build its mid-infrared instrument, and its Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory cast the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope mirrors and is grinding 8.4-metre segments for the Giant Magellan Telescope, and the university is a member of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, which operates Kitt Peak, and of the Association of American Universities.史都华天文台为哈勃空间望远镜制造了NICMOS仪器、为斯皮策太空望远镜制造了MIPS相机，又为詹姆斯·韦布空间望远镜建造近红外相机并参与研制中红外观测仪，其Richard F. Caris镜面实验室已浇铸大视场巡天望远镜镜面，正为巨型麦哲伦望远镜研磨8.4米口径镜段，学校还是运营基特峰的天文研究大学协会与美国大学协会的成员。

• The National Science Foundation funded the iPlant Collaborative at Arizona in 2008 with a 50 million grant, renewed it with another50 million in 2013, and it was rebranded as the cloud platform CyVerse in late 2015, the university assumed full ownership of the Biosphere 2 facility in Oracle in June 2011 after managing it for research since 2007, and Tech Parks Arizona runs the research parks at Rita Road, at The Bridges and the University of Arizona Center for Innovation.国家科学基金会2008年以5000万美元资助设于亚利桑那的iPlant协作计划，2013年再续拨5000万美元，2015年底该项目更名为云平台CyVerse，学校于2011年6月取得奥拉克“生物圈二号”设施的全部所有权（此前自2007年起即作为科研管理方），旗下Tech Parks Arizona则运营丽塔路科技园区、桥园区与亚利桑那大学创新中心。

• Arizona has taken part in theoretical and experimental particle and nuclear physics within the CERN programme since 1987, work initiated by physics department head Peter A. Carruthers and Johann Rafelski, with formal membership in the CERN-LHC ATLAS Collaboration from 1994, its partnership with the Universidad de Sonora renewed in August 2017, and in 2024 the university closed its four micro-campuses in China following a congressional report, while a 2018 report that the university had accepted Pioneer Fund money sought by evolutionary psychologist Aurelio Jose Figueredo drew campus controversy.自1987年起学校就参与欧洲核子研究中心框架下的粒子与核物理理论与实验研究，项目由物理系主任Peter A. Carruthers与Johann Rafelski开创，1994年正式加入LHC-ATLAS合作组，与索诺拉大学的合作在2017年8月续签聚焦地质与物理，2024年学校因国会报告关闭其在中国的四个微型校区，另因2018年曝出进化心理学家Aurelio José Figueredo曾申请先锋基金会资金而引发校园风波。

Campus

• The main campus holds 179 buildings on 380 acres (1.5 square kilometres) in central Tucson about one mile northeast of downtown, roughly divided into quadrants: science and mathematics in the southwest, athletics in the southeast, arts and humanities in the northwest, engineering in the north centre and optical and space sciences on the east side near the stadiums and the main library.主校区坐落于图森中心地带、市中心东北约一英里处，380英亩（1.5平方公里）上分布179栋建筑，大体分为四象限：科学与数学在西南、体育设施在东南、艺术与人文在西北、工程在北部中央，光学与空间科学则集中于体育场与主图书馆所在的东侧。

• A broad grassy Mall separates north from south, stretching east from Old Main to Campbell Avenue, Highland Avenue and the Student Union divide east from west, Speedway Boulevard long marked the northern edge until the university expanded beyond it from the 1980s, and Sixth Street is the southern boundary.宽阔的林荫草坪“校园大道”自南向北分隔校区，东起主楼直抵坎贝尔大道，海兰大道与学生联盟中心划分东西，斯皮德韦大道长期是北界，直到1980年代后学校跨过该街向北拓展，第六街则构成南缘。

• Roy Place's red-brick idiom set the visual style of the early campus and nearly all later buildings echo it, whether in brick or as a matching accent, following the 1919 master plan of John Lyman that drew on the University of Virginia.Roy Place确立的红砖语汇定义了早期校园的视觉风格，沿用1919年以弗吉尼亚大学为范本的Lyman总体规划，此后几乎所有楼宇或以红砖为主体、或以红砖点缀以与周边协调。

• Old Main, built from 1887 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, anchors the campus, while the ten-storey Gould-Simpson building is the tallest classroom block, its rooftop camera streaming a live campus view maintained by the Computer Science department.始建于1887年的主楼1972年列入国家史迹名录，是校园的轴心建筑，十层的古尔德-辛普森楼则是校内最高的教学楼，其楼顶由计算机科学系维护的网络摄像头常年直播校园景象。

• The Student Union Memorial Center, reconstructed between 2000 and 2003, replaced a 270,000-square-foot building opened in 1951 and was designed to evoke the battleship USS Arizona, its clock tower holding the 1,820-pound bell recovered from Pearl Harbor that arrived on campus in July 1946.学生联盟纪念中心于2000至2003年拆旧重建，取代1951年开放的27万平方英尺旧楼，新楼设计意象取自战舰“亚利桑那号”，钟塔内悬挂从珍珠港打捞的1,820磅铜钟，该钟1946年7月运抵校园。

• For decades the Arizona bell rang seven times at 12:07 in the afternoon on the third Wednesday of each month to mark the hour the battleship sank on December 7, 1941, and after Wildcat football victories, until the US Navy asked the university to stop the ringing in December 2020 to protect the historic object.数十年来，亚利桑那钟每逢每月第三个周三下午12时07分敲响七下，以纪念战舰在1941年12月7日沉没的时刻，橄榄球主场获胜后亦会鸣钟，直到2020年12月美国海军以保护文物为由要求停止鸣钟。

• Much of the campus is a designated arboretum with a self-guided plant walk, the Krutch Cactus Garden holds the tallest boojum tree in Arizona, two herbaria carry the index code ARIZ, olive trees planted by professor Robert H. Forbes now exceed a century, and the Stevie Eller Dance Theater opened in 2003 as a 28,600-square-foot venue by Gould Evans that won the American Institute of Architects Arizona 2003 Citation Award.校园大部分被划定为树木园并设自助植物导览，克鲁奇仙人掌园里生长着全亚利桑那州最高的蜡叶树，两座标本馆在《标本馆索引》中登记为ARIZ，Robert H. Forbes教授栽下的橄榄树树龄已逾百年，2003年开放的Stevie Eller舞蹈剧场由Gould Evans设计、面积28,600平方英尺，获美国建筑师协会亚利桑那分会2003年荣誉奖。

• Sustainability measures include solar photovoltaic arrays on campus buildings that earned the university a grade of B on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, and the ENR2 building opened in 2015 as a 150,000-square-foot slot-canyon-inspired home for the School of Geography, Development and Environment with a 55,000-gallon water-harvesting tank.校园建筑装有太阳能光伏板，学校在2011年《学院可持续评分报告》中获B级评定，2015年启用的ENR2大楼面积15万平方英尺，造型取意索诺兰沙漠的狭缝峡谷，为地理、发展与环境学院的新馆，配有5.5万加仑的雨水收集罐。

• The library system held over six million print volumes, 1.1 million electronic books and 74,000 electronic journals by 2012, ranks 37th among 114 North American university libraries for investment in the Association of Research Libraries 2015-16 report, is anchored by the Main Library opened in 1976, and adds the Integrated Learning Center completed in 2002 as a $20 million computer facility, the Arizona Health Sciences Library built in 1996 with a branch on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, Special Collections rich in literature and borderlands materials, and the Center for Creative Photography, founded in 1975 around the archive of Ansel Adams.图书馆系统到2012年已藏纸质书逾600万册、电子图书110万种、电子期刊7.4万种，在美国研究图书馆协会2015至2016年度报告的投资额排序中居北美114所高校图书馆第37位，以1976年开放的主图书馆为核心，另有2002年建成、耗资2,000万美元的综合学习中心机房、1996年落成的健康科学图书馆及其凤凰城生物医学校区分馆，特藏部以文学与美墨边境地带的文献著称，创意摄影中心则于1975年围绕Ansel Adams的档案创立，是学校自称“世界顶级摄影档案”的所在。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the University of Arizona is placed 313th in the world, against 230th in the 2017-18 edition of the same ranking.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，亚利桑那大学位列世界第313名，而在该榜2017至2018年版中曾列第230名。

• The 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings rank Arizona tied at 139th, and the 2025 edition of the same ranking placed the university 136th in the world and 45th in the United States.2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将亚利桑那大学列为第139位并列，该榜2025年版则评其世界第136、美国第45。

• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 Arizona is 102nd in the world, while the U.S. News Best Colleges edition for 2027 places it tied at 121st among national universities and tied at 58th among top public schools.在2026至2027年度US News全球最佳大学排名中亚利桑那大学居世界第102位，US News 2027年最佳院校榜单将其列为全国大学并列第121、公立大学并列第58。

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places Arizona in the 151-200 band, the Center for World University Rankings 2025 rates it 102nd in the world and 49th in the United States, and the university's own dashboard cites the Center for World University Rankings 2026 for a top-2 per cent world position and U.S. News 2026 for a top-20 position among public universities.软科世界大学学术排名2026年版将学校列在151至200区间，世界大学排名中心2025年版评其世界第102、美国第49，学校官网排名页则引用世界大学排名中心2026年版“居全球前2%”与US News 2026年“公立大学前20”两项结论。

• Subject recognition includes the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture ranked 10th nationally among all public and private universities for undergraduate architecture by Design Intelligence in 2015, and 20th in overall undergraduate architecture.学科层面，建筑规划与景观设计学院在2015年被《设计智能》杂志评为全国公办与私立高校建筑学本科第10名，本科建筑学总榜第20名。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 277,783 research works attracting 24,594,461 citations, the scale behind its R1 classification and its Association of American Universities membership held since 1924.据OpenAlex统计，学校已产出277,783项研究成果，累计被引用24,594,461次，正是其R1级别与自1924年延续至今的美国大学协会席位的科研基础。

• Five Nobel Prize laureates have studied or taught at Arizona, its official honours page listing physicists Willis E. Lamb Jr. of the 1955 prize, Nicolaas Bloembergen of 1981 and Roy J. Glauber of 2005 among the optics sciences faculty, alongside economist Vernon L. Smith of 2002, who did most of the work behind his prize at Arizona between 1976 and 2001, and physicist Brian Schmidt of 2011, an Arizona graduate.共有五位诺贝尔奖得主曾在亚利桑那大学学习或任教，学校官方荣誉页把1955年物理学奖Willis E. Lamb、1981年物理学奖Nicolaas Bloembergen与2005年物理学奖Roy J. Glauber列入光学科学教职序列，另有2002年经济学奖Vernon L. Smith——其获奖成果的主体研究于1976至2001年在此完成，以及物理学本科出身的2011年奖得主Brian Schmidt。

• The same official page records three Pulitzer Prize winners among Arizona faculty, including N. Scott Momaday, whose novel House Made of Dawn took the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.同一官方荣誉页记录了三位普利策奖得主曾执教于此，其中包括以小说《曙光之屋》（House Made of Dawn）获1969年普利策小说奖的N. Scott Momaday。

• For student-facing standing, U.S. News describes Arizona as a selective university, its athletics program brings Big 12 membership from 2024, and the university describes itself as among the nation's leading public research institutions, holding the rare triple distinction of Research 1 status, Association of American Universities membership and Hispanic-Serving Institution designation.就办学声誉而言，US News将本校列为“择优录取”型大学，其竞技体育自2024年起隶属大十二联盟，学校自我定位为全国领先的公立研究型大学之一，并强调拥有罕见的R1、美国大学协会与服务拉丁裔院校三重身份。

Student life

• The university seal bears the Latin motto Sursum, meaning Upwards, and the Latin university name Universitas Arizonensis was carried on the new seal adopted in January 1915.校徽上的拉丁文格言为“Sursum”，意为“向上”，校徽拉丁校名“Universitas Arizonensis”自1915年1月采用的新印信起开始使用。

• Beyond the seal, Bear Down is the rallying cry of the whole campus, born in 1926 and formalised into the song Bear Down, Arizona! by band director Jack K. Lee in 1952, even though the official fight song remains Fight! Wildcats! Fight!.校徽之外，“Bear Down”是全校的口号，诞生于1926年，1952年由军乐团指挥Jack K. Lee谱成以其为题的歌曲，尽管官方战歌仍是《Fight! Wildcats! Fight!》。

• Costumed mascots Wilbur and Wilma T. Wildcat appear at most sporting events, Wilbur having wed Wilma in 1986, the students inside the suits are kept secret through the year, and the school colours are red and blue, cardinal matched to navy.人偶吉祥物Wilbur与Wilma T. Wildcat几乎现身所有赛事，Wilbur于1986年迎娶Wilma，戏服下的学生身份全年保密，学校校色为红色与蓝色，即枢机红配海军蓝。

• The Pride of Arizona marching band played at the halftime of the first Super Bowl in January 1967, its 2014 Daft Punk show was one of ten chosen by the College Band Directors National Association for the 2015 national conference, and in 2024 the band became the 34th recipient of the Sudler Trophy.“亚利桑那之骄傲”军乐团曾登上1967年1月首届超级碗的中场演出，其2014年的Daft Punk曲目被大学乐队指导者全国协会选为赴2015年全国会议展演的全国十支乐团之一，2024年该团获颁第34座萨德勒奖杯。

• Greek life is large by national standards, with 51 recognised fraternity and sorority chapters and more than 16 per cent of students initiated as of 2018.兄弟会与姐妹会体系规模在全国名列前茅，获承认的社团分堂达51个，截至2018年逾16%的学生完成入会。

• The ZonaZo student section, officially implemented in 2003 and co-owned by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona and Arizona Athletics, was ranked the top student cheering section in the Pac-12 by ESPN in 2014 and named Best Student Section of the Year in 2015 and 2018 by the National Collegiate Student Section Association.学生助威区“ZonaZoo”于2003年正式启用，由亚利桑那大学学生会与校竞技部共同拥有，ESPN在2014年将其评为太平洋十二校联盟最佳学生助威区，全国大学学生看台协会又于2015年与2018年两度授予其年度最佳学生看台称号。

• Student media are headed by The Arizona Daily Wildcat, the campus newspaper listed in the university's own records, students also organise Club Week events, homecoming festivities and the dance program's public performances across the Mall from McKale Center.学生媒体以校园报纸《亚利桑那每日野猫报》为旗舰，学生社团还组织社团周、返校节庆典，以及舞蹈专业在麦凯中心对面草坪剧场的公开演出。

• Housing is provided in university residence halls and, as the campus spread beyond Speedway Boulevard from the 1980s, the university bought several apartment complexes for student housing, while many single-family homes south of Sixth Street are rented to Wildcat students.校内宿舍提供基础住宿，1980年代校园跨过斯皮德韦大道向北延伸后，学校又购入多处公寓楼用作学生住宿，第六街以南的许多独栋住宅则由学生承租。

Notable people

• Among the founding generation, the Thieving Thirteenth Territorial Legislature created the university in 1885, Phoenix architect James Miller Creighton drew Old Main whose cornerstone work began in 1887, and Andrew Ellicott Douglass arrived in 1906 to found the astronomy and dendrochronology traditions that still define the campus's research.在创校一代人中，第十三届领地议会在1885年创设大学，凤凰城建筑师James Miller Creighton于1887年主持动工设计了主楼，Andrew Ellicott Douglass于1906年到校，开创了至今定义学校科研格局的天文学与树木年代学传统。

• Mrs. Lavinia Steward of Oracle, the anonymous donor whose $60,000 gift of October 18, 1916 bought the telescope that became Steward Observatory, is the university's most consequential early benefactor.来自奥拉克的Lavinia Steward夫人是1916年10月18日那笔6万美元匿名捐款的出资人，这笔钱造就了史都华天文台，使她成为早期对大学影响最深远的捐赠人。

• Gerard P. Kuiper founded the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in 1960 and led it until his death in 1973, having discovered the moons Miranda of Uranus and Nereid of Neptune, detected carbon dioxide on Mars and methane on Titan, predicted the Kuiper Belt and helped identify Apollo landing sites with colleague Ewen A. Whitaker.Gerard P. Kuiper于1960年创建月球与行星实验室并主持至1973年去世，此前他发现了天王星卫星米兰达与海王星卫星涅瑞伊得，探测到火星大气二氧化碳与土卫六甲烷大气，预言了柯伊伯带，并与同事Ewen A. Whitaker一道为阿波罗计划勘定登月着陆点。

• Alfred McEwen, principal investigator of the HiRISE camera, and Peter Smith, who led the Phoenix Mars Mission, are the university's best-known mission scientists, and alumnus Lujendra Ojha used orbital imagery in 2011 to detect possible present-day liquid water on Mars.HiRISE相机首席研究员Alfred McEwen与凤凰号火星任务主持人Peter Smith是校内最知名的两位任务科学家，校友Lujendra Ojha则在2011年借助轨道影像发现火星现今可能存在液态水的迹象。

• Optics Nobel laureates joined the Wyant College after their prizes: Willis E. Lamb Jr., co-discoverer of the Lamb shift and 1955 prize winner, became professor of physics and optical science in 1974 and stayed until retiring in 2003, 1981 winner Nicolaas Bloembergen, founder of nonlinear optics, became an Arizona professor in 2001, and 2005 winner Roy J. Glauber held the post of adjunct professor of optical sciences while serving as the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard.光学诺奖得主多是在获奖之后加盟怀恩特光学科学学院：1955年获奖、以发现“Lamb位移”著称的Willis E. Lamb于1974年成为物理与光学科学教授并任教至2003年退休，非线性光学奠基人、1981年得主Nicolaas Bloembergen于2001年正式任教于亚利桑那，2005年得主Roy J. Glauber则在任哈佛大学Mallinckrodt物理学教授期间兼任光学科学客座教授。

• Experimental economist Vernon L. Smith, the 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize laureate shared with Daniel Kahneman, was the McLellan/Regents Professor of Economics at Arizona from 1976 to 2001, doing most of the prize-winning research there, and linguist Noam Chomsky left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to join Arizona's faculty in 2017.实验经济学奠基人Vernon L. Smith与Daniel Kahneman共享2002年瑞典国家银行经济学奖，1976至2001年任亚利桑那大学McLellan/校董会经济学教授，其获奖成果的主体研究即在此完成，语言学家Noam Chomsky则在2017年离开麻省理工学院加盟亚利桑那大学任教。

• Politicians of the university's rolls include Barry Goldwater, who attended Arizona and became the five-term Republican senator from Arizona and the 1964 presidential nominee, Morris K. Udall, long-serving congressman and author of environmental law, senators Jon Kyl and Dennis DeConcini, and congressman Raul M. Grijalva.政界名录包括曾就读于本校的Barry Goldwater——五届共和党联邦参议员、1964年总统候选人，长期任国会议员并推动环境立法的Morris K. Udall，参议员Jon Kyl与Dennis DeConcini，以及联邦众议员Raul M. Grijalva。

• In letters and media, Pulitzer novelist N. Scott Momaday and author Barbara Kingsolver of The Bean Trees, awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2000, count as alumni or faculty, Sesame Street creator and Children's Television Workshop founder Joan Ganz Cooney and producer of Top Gun and Pirates of the Caribbean Jerry Bruckheimer are listed among the university's notable alumni, as are Today anchor Savannah Guthrie and actress and comedian Kristen Wiig.文学与传媒界，普利策小说奖得主N. Scott Momaday与《豆田树》作者、2000年国家人文奖章获得者Barbara Kingsolver列于校友或教职名录，《芝麻街》创始人、儿童电视工作室创办者Joan Ganz Cooney与制片过《壮志凌云》与《加勒比海盗》的Jerry Bruckheimer同为著名校友，NBC《今日》节目主播Savannah Guthrie与女演员兼喜剧人Kristen Wiig亦在其列。

• Athletic figures include basketball coach Lute Olson, hired in 1983, who took Arizona to the 1997 NCAA championship with an 84-79 overtime win over Kentucky, the first team to beat three number-one seeds en route to a title, point guard Miles Simon the tournament's most outstanding player, NBA champion coach Steve Kerr and 2015 Finals MVP Andre Iguodala, centre Deandre Ayton the first overall pick of 2018, football's Super Bowl LII MVP Nick Foles and four-time All-Pro Rob Gronkowski, and World Series-winning manager Terry Francona.体育界人物包括1983年受聘的篮球名帅Lute Olson，他率队以84比79加时击败肯塔基夺得1997年NCAA冠军，成为史上首支夺冠路上连克三支头号种子的球队，控卫Miles Simon当选四强赛最杰出球员，冠军教练Steve Kerr与2015年总决赛最有价值球员Andre Iguodala、2018年选秀状元Deandre Ayton、橄榄球超级碗LII最有价值球员Nick Foles、四届最佳阵容近端锋Rob Gronkowski，以及率队夺得世界大赛的棒球教头Terry Francona均出自该校名录。

• Baseball and softball legends link the teams to the classroom: coaches Jerry Kindall of the 1976, 1980 and 1986 national titles and Andy Lopez of 2012, Hall of Fame closer Trevor Hoffman, two-sport letterwinner Kenny Lofton, eight-time champion softball coach Mike Candrea and Olympic gold-medal pitcher Jennie Finch, and golf's NCAA individual champion of 1991, Annika Sorenstam, and PGA Tour star Jim Furyk were all Wildcats.棒球与垒球的传奇串起校队与课堂：率队四夺全国冠军之后的教练Jerry Kindall（1976、1980、1986）与Andy Lopez（2012）、名人堂终结者Trevor Hoffman、双栖校队生Kenny Lofton、八夺全国冠军的垒球主帅Mike Candrea与奥运金牌投手Jennie Finch，以及1991年NCAA高尔夫个人冠军Annika Sorenstam与美巡赛名将Jim Furyk，都是野猫队出身。