University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (UA) is a land-grant institution of higher learning located in Tucson, Arizona. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885 when the state was still a territory. In 2005, total enrollment was 37,036 students.

Notable faculty and staff

• Doug Toussaint, Physics Department.
• Nicolaas Bloembergen, Optics. Nobel prizewinner, 1981.
• Mike Candrea - head softball coach, head coach for the 2004 gold medal U.S. Women's Olympic softball team
• Vicki Chandler - Director of the BIO5 Institute
• Hermann Flaschka - mathematics professor, winner 1995 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
• Fang Lizhi - Physics. Helped inspire China's 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement
• Willis Lamb - Physics. Nobel prizewinner, 1955.
• Andy Lopez - head baseball coach
• Lute Olson - head basketball coach
• Aurelie Sheehan - author/novelist, creative writing professor
• Jon Solomon - author, classics professor
• Mike Stoops - head football coach
• Gerald Swanson - author, economics professor
• Andrew Weil - director of the Program in Integrative Medicine, internal medicine professor
• Arthur Winfree - theoretical biologist (passed away in 2002), winner 2000 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics