News Releases

Office of University Communications
The University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210158, Suite 413
Tucson, AZ 85721-0158
Telephone: 520-621-1877
Fax: 520-626-4121

Associate Vice President, External Communications

Pam Scott
520-621-1951
pscott@email.arizona.edu

Assistant Director of Media Relations and Communications

Alexis Blue
520-626-4386
ablue@email.arizona.edu

Assistant Director, News

Stacy Pigott
520-626-4405
spigott@email.arizona.edu

Additional Media Contacts

Chris Sigurdson
Vice President, Communications
520-626-9422
sig@arizona.edu

University of Arizona Health Sciences Office of Public Affairs
520-626-7301

Arizona Athletics
520-621-4163

Getting Around Campus

The Office of University Communications distributes media parking passes to reporters covering news on the UA campus. Passes allow reporters to park in any regularly marked space, visitor pay lot or metered space on campus. The passes cannot be used for personal campus visits. To request a temporary or annual media parking pass, call Linda Bylina at 520-626-9422.

Campus Map Campus Map: Parking

Taking Photos/video on campus

News organizations can shoot photos or video in public areas on the UA campus. Media access to University buildings, the campus mall and any other locked area is coordinated through the Office of University Relations, Communications.

Filming/taping for commercial purposes, such as television programs, movies and advertisements, must be approved in advance. Approval of filming will require a written agreement with the UA and appropriate insurance. No use of UA trademarks or service marks is permitted without advance written approval.

Call Chris Sigurdson at 520-626-9422 to coordinate any commercial filming/taping on campus.

Release Forms

Release Forms - Spanish

Broadcast facilities and services

The University of Arizona is equipped with an on-campus television studio with satellite uplink capacity, which can be used for remote television interviews.

A radio studio with an ISDN phone line allows for broadcast-quality radio interviews.

Access to these facilities is available for a fee, schedule permitting. For more information, call Arizona Public Media at 520-621-5828.

Public Records

Visit the UA's Public Records page for more information on how to submit a Freedom of Information Act request.

Boilerplate

The University of Arizona, a land-grant university with two independently accredited medical schools, is one of the nation's top public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report. Established in 1885, the university is widely recognized as a student-centric university and has been designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. The university ranked in the top 20 in 2018 in research expenditures among all public universities, according to the National Science Foundation, and is a leading Research 1 institution with $687 million in annual research expenditures. The university advances the frontiers of interdisciplinary scholarship and entrepreneurial partnerships as a member of the Association of American Universities, the 65 leading public and private research universities in the U.S. It benefits the state with an estimated economic impact of $4.1 billion annually.