> TOURS 6 > MAP 28-29 > MUSEUMS 10-11 The University of Arizona Spring/Summer 2010 Sahara is the safe, secure, quiet place Hotel rooms for students. available for visitors! Sahara property includes: UÊ Pool, Spa, Workout Room, Socializing Room UÊ Movie Theater with 103” screen, surround sound, 250 channels with sports package, and the latest video games UÊ Game Room with billiards, foosball, and air hockey UÊ 12 laundry rooms throughout the building UÊ Shuttle service to and from campus every half hour UÊ Less than a mile from the UofA UÊ Free bicycle for your exclusive use while you live at the Sahara. UÊ Secure property with gated parking, electronic entrance and keys UÊ State-of-the-art security, perimeter wall topped with an infra-red beam that triggers an audible alarm UÊ Quiet atmosphere with no-party policy UÊ 80 security cameras recording 24/7, monitored smoke alarms Sahara studios include: UÊ 100% utilities included, fully furnished UÊ FREE high-speed Internet and satellite TV UÊ Full kitchen and bath in every apartment Bring this ad with you and we will waive your non-refundable cleaning fee. 919 N. Stone Ave. t (520)-622-4102 The Oasis For www.SaharaApartments.com Quiet Student Living © 2008 Sahara Apartments. All rights reserved. www.arizona.edu UA VISITOR GUIDE SPRING/SUMMER 2010 Contents Try This at Home | 8 The Underwood Garden offers green ideas for personal landscaping projects, while the SEED[pod] is a futuristic dwelling showcasing cutting-edge technologies in sustainable design. Academic Calendar 41 Stay Cool | 12 Basketball Schedule 37 Escape the desert heat by heading to one of the UA’s cool off- campus locations, including the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, Kitt Dance 19 Peak and Biosphere 2. Dining Directory 26 Galleries 47 From the Heart | 24 Getting The Sarver Heart Center is internationally renowned for its Around 7 cardiovascular disease research, thanks in large part to private support. Libraries 39 Museums 10 Music 21 Raising Arizona Wildcats | 35 Poetry 38 By giving kids a chance to do fun things on campus, Club Steward Arizona creates a connection that hopefully will bring them Observatory 47 back when they’re ready for college. SpringFling 23 Theater 17 Sounds and Silence | 42 Tours 6 With a bamboo-fi lled garden, comfy reading chairs and a Performances 14 Children’s Corner, the Poetry Center’s award-winning building Campus Map 28 offers areas for interaction as well as self-refl ection. Student Union Map 50 Taming a Tree-Ring Forest | 48 As the fi rst curator of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Pearce Paul Creasman is responsible for managing a collection of about 2 million pieces. 3 UA VISITOR GUIDE SPRING/SUMMER 2010 www.arizona.edu 4 www.arizona.edu UA VISITOR GUIDE SPRING/SUMMER 2010 UA Visitor Guide The University of Arizona Welcome to the University of Arizona! Visitor Guide is published Whether you’re visiting campus as a pro- best public research universities in the twice a year by the Offi ce spective student, as a parent or as someone United States. We’re also a global leader in of External Relations and who simply wants to know more about us, researching cardiovascular disease, which Arizona Student Media. Its we hope this guide will give you an idea of remains the nation’s No. 1 killer. The work purpose is to provide useful what a very unique place this is. happening here is due in large part to pri- information about the UA This year happens to mark our 125th vate support, which has helped the Sarver to visitors to our dynamic birthday. We were established in 1885, Heart Center attract and retain world-class almost 30 years before Ari- physicians and researchers. community. zona became a state, and See page 24. Editor broke ground for our fi rst •A college campus can be building on land donated Pilar A. Martínez a daunting environment for by two gamblers and a recent high school graduates. Director of Campus saloon owner. We’re trying to make the Communications, Humble beginnings transition easier by getting External Relations indeed. kids here while they’re still [email protected] Today, we’re redefi ning in elementary school via a 520-626-4348 what it means to be a 21st program called Club Arizona. century land-grant univer- Membership grants them at- Assistant Editor sity and moving toward be- tendance at sporting events Alexis Blue coming one of the 10 best plus special activities created Campus Communications public research universities in the country. just for them. See page 35. Assistant, What hasn’t changed are our values, which •We get a lot of compliments on the remain the same as they were back in the beauty of our campus. We can’t take much External Relations late 19th century: to improve the lives of credit for the gorgeous weather or the [email protected] people in Arizona and beyond through our view of the majestic Santa Catalinas. But 520-626-4407 research and outreach. You’ll get a good we’re more than happy to brag about our idea of how we’re doing this by reading the architecture, including the award-winning Advertising & Distribution stories in this issue: Helen S. Schaefer Building, which houses Milani Hunt •When we opened the doors of Old the Poetry Center. See page 42. Marketing Coordinator, Main in 1891, we weren’t using phrases like •Arizona Stadium is home to more Arizona Student Media “sustainability” and “climate change.” But than just the Arizona Wildcats football [email protected] those are the concepts behind the con- team. It’s also the location of the Labora- struction of Old Main, which was designed 520-626-8546 tory of Tree-Ring Research, which has the with deep porches and a partly recessed world’s largest collection of tree rings, Production fi rst fl oor to beat the heat – practices that including a specimen that’s 10,000 years Cindy Callahan today are considered “green.” That tradition old. See page 48. continues today at the College of Architec- Creative Services Manager, These stories are just the beginning. ture and Landscape Architecture with the There’s a lot more to discover about the Arizona Student Media Underwood Garden, an outdoor laboratory incredible work being done by our faculty, [email protected] featuring methods that can be used in your staff, students and alumni. I hope you’ll 520-621-3377 own landscape projects. See page 8. see it fi rsthand by spending some time •If you’re at all familiar with Tucson enjoying our campus, meeting members of Circulation: 35,000 summers, you probably know that it gets a our diverse community and learning more little warm around here. But we have ways http://wc.arizona.edu/ads/ about where the University of Arizona for you to escape the heat – and learn about came from, where we are and where we’re visitorguide the University at the same time. Just head going. to one of many UA facilities nearby that are Copies of the UA Visitor Guide in cooler climes, such as Biosphere 2 or the Regards, are available at several loca- Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter. See page 12. tions on and off campus, includ- •Astronomy isn’t the only science that Robert N. Shelton ing the UA Visitor Center, the Information Desk in the Student has helped us earn a spot as one of the President Union Memorial Center and the UA Main Library. The UA Visitor Center On the Cover Heather Lukach, Director The University of Arizona opened the doors of its fi rst building, 811 N. Euclid Ave. Old Main, on Oct. 1, 1891. Besides classrooms, laboratories and [email protected] offi ces, there were temporary sleeping quarters for faculty and 520-621-5130 male students, a kitchen and mess hall, space for a territorial The University of Arizona weather bureau, and a darkroom. Running on the balcony was a www.arizona.edu no-no and cost the offending student 10 demerits. 520-621-2211 Cover photo by Jackie Alpers. 5 www.arizona.edu tions are recommended and can be a variety of guided tours, includ- made by calling the Visitor Center ing a collections overview and UAUA TToursours at 621-5130. tours of the museum’s temporary exhibitions, conservation labora- Arizona Ambassador Tours are led tory, archaeology laboratories and by UA students and offered to pro- library. Tours also are available spective students and their parents for the museum’s two permanent by the Offi ce of Admissions. Old exhibitions – “Paths of Life,” which Main, the Student Union Memo- highlights 10 American Indian rial Center, the Student Recreation cultures of Arizona and northern Center and the Main Library are Mexico, and “The Pottery Project,” showcased. Tours are offered week- which features pieces from the day mornings and afternoons and museum’s renowned collection Saturday mornings during the fall of Southwest Indian pottery, the and spring semesters. Call 621-3641 world’s largest collection of its for more information. Prospective kind. Tours are $12 per person. students can register online at To schedule a group tour, contact http://admissions.arizona.edu/visit. Darlene Lizarraga at dfl @email. Campus Arboretum Tours let visi- arizona.edu or 626-8381. tors explore the more than 7,000 Steward Observatory Mirror Lab trees on the UA campus. Designat- Tours offer a behind-the-scenes ed as an arboretum by the Ameri- look at the cutting-edge technol- can Public Gardens Association in Photo by Scott Kirkessner ogy and revolutionary processes 2002, the campus is home to more are offered by the involved in making the next genera- Campus Tours than 400 types of trees, some of UA Visitor Center during the fall tion of premier giant telescope mir- which have been a part of Universi- and spring semesters.