Notable Alumni and Staff
Notable alumni include a former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, the former U.S. Surgeon General, five-term U.S senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater; U.S. Representative (Arizona's 7th congressional district) Raúl M. Grijalva; the creator of the television series Sesame Street and founder of the Children's Television Workshop Joan Ganz Cooney; pop singer Linda Ronstadt; Brian Schmidt, winner of 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics (1989); Barbara Kingsolver, author awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2000; Actor and television personality Greg Kinnear; former Mayor of Palm Springs, California (1995––2003) William G. Kleindienst; and several NASA astronauts. Two Nobel laureate on the faculty are members of the College of Optical Sciences: Nicolaas Bloembergen (Physics, 1981) and Willis E. Lamb (Physics, 1955). The UA has eight Pulitzer Prize winners (alumni and faculty), and more than 50 faculty as elected members of exclusive academies including Britain's Royal Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among others. Two current UA professors were also recently named to Popular Science magazine's list of "Brilliant 10." Also, well-known motion picture producer Jerry Bruckheimer attended the University, receiving a degree in psychology. Many other famous names attended the University, such as socialite Kourtney Kardashian, Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton, NBA player Richard Jefferson, current Boston Celtics player Jason Terry, Minnesota Timberwolves Derrick Williams.
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