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All rights reserved. www.arizona.edu UA VISITOR GUIDE FALL/WINTER 2009 Contents Fit at 50 On air since 1959, KUAT is one Coordinated Care for Kids of the most watched and most A new addition at the Arizona supported public television Health Sciences Center will be stations in the country. | 22 the only outpatient pediatric center in Southern Arizona that is dedicated to helping children with neurological Everything in its Place problems. | 47 As the country’s largest nonfederal archaeological repository, the Arizona State Museum has more than 20,000 boxes of artifacts Academic Calendar 39 Dance 18 dating from prehistoric to Red + Blue = Green! modern times. | 8 A self-guided tour features Dining Directory 25 buildings that demonstrate the Family Weekend/ UA’s commitment to being a Homecoming 15 leader in sustainability. | 30 Football Schedule 48 Galleries 43 Getting Around 7 Libraries 48 Museums 10 Music 18 Poetry 35 Steward Observatory 48 Theater 21 Doing the Right Thing Tours 6 An innovative program Performances 16 that teaches UA student- Investing in Ideas athletes to take action A UA Professor who helps Campus Map 26 when their peers are in create planes that are safer Student Union Map 44 trouble has become a and more fuel-effi cient Parent-Friendly Map 40 national model. | 12 is the fi rst 1885 Society Presidential Chair. | 37 3 UA VISITOR GUIDE FALL/WINTER 2009 www.arizona.edu 4 www.arizona.edu UA VISITOR GUIDE FALL/WINTER 2009 UA Visitor Guide The University of Arizona Welcome to The University of Arizona! Visitor Guide is published twice a year by the Offi ce Whether you’re visiting campus as a tinued that tradition across the years, and of External Relations and prospective student, as the parent of that across the campus. Some of our “green” student, or as someone who simply wants buildings are highlighted in a self-guided Arizona Student Media. Its to know more about us, we’d like this tour (see p. 30) that I hope you’ll have purpose is to provide useful guide to give you an idea of what a very time to take while you’re here. information about the UA unique place this is. • The UA is about doing the right thing to visitors to our dynamic Don’t let our rain-harvesting cisterns for the environment – and for each other. community. and solar panels fool you: We’re a lot A great example is a student leadership older than we look. We were established program (see p. 12) we developed that is Editor in 1885, almost 30 years before Arizona now a national model for NCAA schools. Pilar A. Martínez became a state, and broke ground for This innovative program not only teaches our fi rst building on student-athletes to make good choices in Director of Campus land donated by two their own lives but how to “step up” and Communications, gamblers and a saloon take action when others are in trouble. External Relations owner. • A new clinic we’re opening at the [email protected] Humble beginnings Arizona Health Sciences Center (see p. 520-626-4348 indeed. Today, we’re 47) will be the only outpatient pediatric excited about defi ning center in Southern Arizona dedicated to Assistant Editor what it means to be helping children with neurological prob- Alexis Blue a modern land-grant lems. The PANDA Children’s Neurological university. As we move Campus Communications Center will bring together UA specialists toward becoming one in pediatrics, neonatology, epilepsy and Assistant, of the 10 best public other areas to provide coordinated care External Relations research universities in the country, our – and the best course of treatment – for [email protected] values remain the same as they were back these kids and their families. 520-626-4407 in the late 19th century: to improve the • Clinics and classrooms aren’t the lives of people in Arizona and beyond only places where we’re improving lives. Advertising & Distribution through our research and outreach. You’ll In fact, we’ve been doing some of this Milani Hunt get a taste for how we’re doing this by work right inside the homes of Southern reading this guide. Here are a few high- Marketing Coordinator, Arizonans for half a century. Arizona Pub- lights: lic Media – the home of our public radio Arizona Student Media • If this is your fi rst time to the South- and television stations – has been offering [email protected] west – or even your hundredth – take educational and entertainment program- 520-626-8546 some time to stop by the Arizona State ming since 1959 and today its television Museum, where you’ll be transported station KUAT Channel 6 is one of the Production thousands of years into the past. As the most watched and most supported in the Cindy Callahan country’s largest nonfederal archaeologi- United States (see p. 20). Creative Services Manager, cal repository, the museum has more than These stories are just the beginning. I Arizona Student Media 20,000 boxes of artifacts – everything from have tons more to share about the incred- prehistoric tools to a pair of dentures ible things being done by our faculty, staff [email protected] from the 1930s (see p. 9). and students. But I think I’ll instead give 520-621-3377 • When we opened the doors of Old you a chance to see it for yourself. Please Main to our fi rst students in 1891, we of- spend some time enjoying our campus, Circulation: 35,000 fered two areas of study: agriculture and meeting members of our diverse commu- http://wc.arizona.edu/ads/ mining. Back then, of course, we didn’t nity and learning more about where The know about concepts like “sustainability” University of Arizona came from, where visitorguide and “climate change.” But we did know it we are and where we’re going. gets a bit on the warm side here. So when Copies of the UA Visitor Guide Old Main was built, it was designed with Regards, are available at several loca- deep porches and a partly recessed fi rst tions on and off campus, includ- fl oor – features that today are considered Robert N. Shelton ing the UA Visitor Center, the “green” construction practices. We’ve con- President Information Desk in the Student Union Memorial Center and the UA Main Library. The UA Visitor Center On the Cover Heather Lukach, Director Dedicated in December, the Richard Jefferson Gymnasium offers 811 N. Euclid Ave. 20,000 square feet of athletics practice space. Part of a project that [email protected] also included expanding the Mary Roby Gymnastics Training Center 520-621-5130 and constructing the Kasser Family Pool within the Hillenbrand Aquat- The University of Arizona ic Center, the gym is named for former UA basketball player Richard www.arizona.edu Jefferson, who donated $3.5 million to help fund its construction. 520-621-2211 Cover photo by Bill Timmerman; photo at left by Luke Adams. 5 www.arizona.edu Public Campus Tours are offered collections overview or tours of the by the UA Visitor Center during the museum’s temporary exhibitions, UA Tours fall and spring semesters. Walking conservation laboratory, archaeol- Tours take place on Wednesday ogy laboratories or library. Tours mornings and Shuttle Bus Tours are are also available for the museum’s held on the fi rst Saturday of every two permanent exhibitions – “Paths month. All tours begin at 10 a.m. of Life,” which highlights 10 Ameri- and start at the Visitor Center. Do- can Indian cultures of Arizona and cent guides share their knowledge northern Mexico, and “The Pottery and experiences and participants Project,” which features specimens learn about UA landmarks, history from the museum’s renowned col- and traditions. Reservations are lection of Southwest Indian pottery, recommended and can be made the world’s largest collection of its by calling the UA Visitor Center at kind. Tours are $10 per person. To 621-5130. schedule a group tour, contact Dar- lene Lizarraga at dfl @email.arizona. Arizona Ambassador Tours are edu or 626-8381. led by UA students and offered to prospective students and their The Steward Observatory Mirror parents by the Offi ce of Admis- Lab Tours have returned and are sions. Old Main, Centennial Hall, a now open to the public. The tours residence hall, the Manuel Pacheco give a behind-the-scenes look at Integrated Learning Center, the Stu- the cutting-edge technology and dent Union Memorial Center and revolutionary processes involved the Main Library are showcased. in making the next generation of Tours are offered weekday morn- premier giant telescope mirrors ings and afternoons and Saturday – from constructing the mold, to mornings during the fall and spring casting, to polishing, to delivering semesters.