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; popular female singer Linda Ronstadt, who is perhaps best known for her chart-topping songs You're No Good and Blue Bayou; Brian Schmidt winner of 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics (1989), Barbara Kingsolver (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1981), American author awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Bill Clinton in 2000; American actor and television personality who first rose to stardom as the first host of E!'s Talk Soup Greg Kinnear; the Chairman of the California Delegation on the 2nd White House Conference on Library and Information Services (1991) and two-term Mayor of Palm Springs, California (1995–1999 and 1999–2003) William G. Kleindienst; and several NASA astronauts. Nicole Richie, daughter of Lionel Richie and reality-television star, also attended but did not graduate. Nobel laureates on the faculty include two members of the College of Optical Sciences: Dr. Nicolaas Bloembergen (Physics, 1981), Dr. Willis E. Lamb (Physics, 1955), and recipient Dr. Brian Schmidt (Physics, 2011) is not on the faculty but did receive his undergraduate degree from UA in 1989. 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. 2012 Aurora Theater shooting victim Alex Teves graduated with a degree in Psychology in 2010.
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