Fun Facts
This Arizona University was the first University in the Arizona territory.
What is University of Arizona?
Tucson is famous for having the best 23 miles of this.
What is Mexican food.
This amazing lady who works out of the Graduate Center can help you with anything writing related.
Who is Shelley Hawthorne Smith?
This local landmark offers creative musical shows and is known for their yearly Christmas parody.
What is the Gaslight Theater?
This campus program offers short intensive trips locally, nationally, and internationally.
What is CIELO?
At noon every day the University of Arizona clock tower plays this song.
What is "Bear Down Arizona"?
This Tucson attraction is ranked as one of the top best zoos in the world.
What is the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum.
This wonderful woman who works out of the Graduate Center can help you with finding a great career match and preparing yourself for the future.
Who is Amanda Bogden?
This unique museum is located on 80 acres and has one of the largest collections of its kind in the world.
What is the Pima Air and Space Museum?
The underpass that links these two streets in Tucson features the portraits of more than 7,000 Tucsonans photographed in 2009.
What are 4th Avenue and Congress Street?
This unique landmark originally called Sentinel Peak was created by University of Arizona students in 1916 and Tucson is the only city with one.
What is "A" Mountain?
This Tucson staple event happens the Saturday before Thanksgiving every year and attracts more than 9,000 people and usually raises about $2 million for local charities.
What is El Tour de Tucson?
This is the four letter acronym for the place that offers mental health support and services.
What is CAPS?
This unique Tucson attraction will make you feel like Gulliver in his travels.
What is the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures?
This annual show in February is the largest of its kind in the United States and draws a huge influx of visitors.
What is the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show?
University of Arizona created this research discipline in 1937.
What is tree-ring research?
Tucson is the northernmost point on the globe where you can find this animal.
What is a jaguar?
This campus-wide competition for the best 3-minute graduate student presentation of a research or creative project offers a grand prize of $3,000.
What is Grad SLAM?
This place is about an hour's drive from Tucson but in the summer is significantly cooler and in the fall hosts Oktoberfest on the weekends.
What is Ski Valley on Mount Lemmon?
The name "Tucson" comes from the name given to this mountain.
What is "A" Mountain or Sentinel Peak?
A unique map created in the 1960s at the University of Arizona helped the Eagle land where?
What is the moon?
This popular Tucson hiking spot is home to one of the earliest examples of native agriculture known to man and still functions as an active archaeological dig site today.
What is Tumamoc Hill?
This campus office provides all kinds of support for research including finding funding and IRB creation.
What is the Office of Research, Innovation and Impact (RII)?
This attraction ranked #4 in its category for USA Today's top 10 and contains a five and a half acre collection including rotating art displays, community classes and international exhibits. From October through May you can also get up close and personal with butterflies.
What is the Tucson Botanical Gardens?
The name "Tucson" comes from the word "Ts-iuk-shan" from the language of this people.
Who are the O'odham?