2010 Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track and Field Media Guide
2010 Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track and Field Media Guide
2010 Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track and Field Media Guide
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA<br />
UA Facts<br />
• UA has the highest undergraduate graduation rate of any of<br />
Arizona’s universities.<br />
• Current faculty members include Nobel <strong>and</strong> Pulitzer Prize winners.<br />
• Bear Down Gym was named after John “Button” Salmon, student<br />
body president in 1926, whose last words to the football team<br />
before a game included the famous phrase. Button would pass<br />
away from an auto accident shortly after.<br />
• In the past decade, UA honor students have won national <strong>and</strong><br />
international scholarships, including the Truman, Rhodes,<br />
Fulbright, Churchill, Udall <strong>and</strong> Marshall.<br />
• The UA student body includes students from 135 foreign countries.<br />
• Average class size at UA is 29.<br />
• There are more than 400 student organizations on campus,<br />
ranging from the Sports Marketing Association to Women of Color.<br />
The Student Union<br />
The new 405,000-square-foot Student Union Memorial<br />
Center (SUMC) is among the largest in the country. The<br />
SUMC is home to the Center for Student Involvement <strong>and</strong><br />
Leadership, <strong>and</strong> provides dining services (which includes<br />
13 different restaurants, ranging from national franchises<br />
<strong>and</strong> br<strong>and</strong>s to a variety of specialty restaurants), an art<br />
gallery, a convenience store, a copy center, a U.S. Post<br />
Office, video arcade <strong>and</strong> billiards room.<br />
In the Rankings<br />
U.S. News <strong>and</strong> World Report places the University of Arizona in<br />
the top 50 among all public universities, according to the latest<br />
rankings in America’s Best Colleges for 2009. The Magazine<br />
also ranked the UA’s Eller College of Management in a tie<br />
for 15th place among undergraduate business programs<br />
at public universities. The UA ranks in the top 10 of NASA<br />
grant recipients <strong>and</strong> is the first public<br />
university to lead<br />
a NASA mission<br />
to Mars.<br />
The Integrated<br />
Learning Center<br />
The Integrated Learning Center<br />
underscores the University of Arizona’s<br />
commitment to undergraduate education<br />
by integrating freshman services, tutoring,<br />
advising <strong>and</strong> core curriculum into a single<br />
technology-rich learning environment.<br />
The innovative Center is fast becoming a<br />
model learning environment attracting<br />
national attention.<br />
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2009-10 Arizona TRACK & FIELD <strong>Media</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>
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