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University of Minnesota, twinned , (them , UMN , Minnesota , or simply and-) is a public research university in Twin Cities in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. The twin campus includes locations in Minneapolis and St. Paul about 3 miles (4.8 km) apart, and St. Paul's location is in nearby Falcon Heights. The Twin Campus is the oldest and largest in the University of Minnesota system and has the sixth largest main student body campus in the United States, with 51,327 students in 2019-20. It is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota System, and is organized in 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic divisions.
The University of Minnesota is included in the 1985 book America's Public Ivy Universities. The Minnesota Territorial Legislature drafted a charter for the Territorial University in 1851, the university took a long time to fully organize and the first college classes were not held until 1867. The university is not classified among R1: Doctoral Universities - Very high research activity. Minnesota is a member of the Association of American Universities and is ranked 14th in research and development, with $ 881 million in research and development spending in financial yearending June 30, 2015.
University of Minnesota faculty, alumni and researchers have received 26 Nobel Prizes and three Pulitzer Prizes. Notable University of Minnesota alumni include two Vice Presidents of the United States, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale and Bob Dylan, who received in 2016 Nobel Prize on literature.
history
The university was founded in 1851 and struggled in its early years and relied on donations to remain open from donors, including South Carolina Governor William Aiken Jr. An 1876 donation from flour miller John S. Pillsbury is generally credited with saving the school. Since then, Pillsbury has become known as the "father of the university." Pillsbury Hall is named after him.
Academicians
Organization and management
The university is organized in 19 colleges, schools and other large scientific units:
Institutes and centers
Six university-wide interdisciplinary centers and institutes work in collegiate areas:
- Center for Cognitive Sciences
- Consortium for Health Law and Values, environment and life sciences
- Institute for Translational Neuroscience
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Global
In 2019, Minnesota was ranked 41st in the world by Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ... In 2018, the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) ranked it 35th in the world and 25th in the United States, and in 2016 the Nature Index ranked 34th Minnesota in the world based on research publication data from 2015. Academic Ranking World Universities Ranked 11th in Minnesota in the world for mathematics.
national
The university was ranked 14th overall among the nation's top research universities in the center for measuring university performance. University research and development spending is ranked 13th-15th among scientific institutions USA in 2010 to 2015 National Science Foundation reports. Minnesota is listed as "Public Ivy" in 2001 by Greenes "Guide public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities ... US News & World Report ranked the University of Minnesota's Informatics Nursing program as the second best in the nation. US News and World Report in 2019 ranked the University of Minnesota 4th in chemical engineering.
Discovery and innovation
The inventions of the University of Minnesota students and faculty have ranged from dietetics to health technologies. Much of Minnesota's public funding research has been transferred to the University of Minnesota as a result of longstanding advocacy by the university itself.
The university developed Gopher, the predecessor to the World Wide Web, which uses a hyperlink to connect documents between computers on the Internet. However, the version produced by CERN was approved by the public as it was freely redistributable and can easily handle multimedia web pages. The university also houses a research and archival center specializing in computer history. The department has strong roots in the early days of supercomputers with Seymour Cray from Cray supercomputers.
In addition, the university became a member of the laser interferometer gravitational waves Observatory (LIGO) in 2007 and led projects to analyze data from the search for gravitational waves - the existence of which was confirmed by scientists in February 2016.
Faculty or (former) student discoveries and innovation include:
- Puffed Rice - Alexander P. Anderson's completed work led to the discovery of "Puffed Rice," the starting point for a new breakfast cereal later advertised as "Food Cannon Shot."
- Transistorized Pacemaker - Earl Bakken founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-powered, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957.
- Green Revolution - Borlaug is an American agronomist who has led initiatives around the world that fueled vast increases in agricultural production called the Green Revolution. Borlaug, often referred to as the "Father of the Green Revolution" is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from hunger. Borlaug has received several awards for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal.
- ATP synthases - Paul D. Boyer elucidated the enzymatic mechanism of the synthesis of the cellular "energy currency" of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), leading to the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Microcontact Transistor - Brattain and John Bardeen, later joined by William Shockley, invented the point of contact of the transistor in December 1947. For their invention the trio was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956.
- Infusion Pump - Henry Buchwald invented the world's first infusion port, peritoneovenous shunts, and specialized vascular catheters. He also invented the first implantable infusion pump, the forerunner of the implantable infusion pump used worldwide today.
- Photosynthesis - The Melvins Calvin discovered the Calvin Cycle with Andrew Benson and James Bashami; for this he won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Ecology - Raymond Lindemann revolutionized ecology, primarily through his 1942 article "The trophic dynamic aspect of ecology", which describes how energy and nutrients circulate through the ecosystem.
- Supercomputer - Seymour Cray designed a number of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines.
- Taconite - Edward Wilson Davis developed a technological process to economically extract iron ore from hard Taconite rocks, which makes Taconite valuable as an iron ore for metallurgical industries.
- Cosmic Rays - Phyllis S. Fryer discovered the presence of heavy nuclei in cosmic rays, proving the similarity between our solar system and the rest of the galaxy.
- United States Aviation - Robert Rowe Gilruth has led the development of flight performance for aircraft, the use of rockets to achieve data at supersonic speeds, and the creation of many of the country's leading research missions and human space flight operations.
- Bone Marrow Transplant - Robert A. Well in 1968 performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant between individuals who were not identical twins and is regarded as one of the founders of modern immunology. In 2018, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton proclaimed August 24 at the University of Minnesota Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Day.
- Gore-Tex - Robert Gore invented Gore-Tex materials in 1969.
- Disc - Reynold B. Johnson invented a method and equipment for testing scored electronically.
- K-rations - Ansel Keys developed rations for the US military and also conducted a dietary study: Minnesota Fasting Study and Seven Country Study.
- Synthetic Rubber - Izaak Kolthoff developed a "cold process" for the production of synthetic rubber, which he committed to under the US synthetic rubber program during World War II.
- Cyclotron - Ernest Lawrence received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention and development of the cyclotron.
- Drosophila - Edward Lewis received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 for his work on the Drosophila bithorax complex of homeotic genes.
- Cardiac Surgery - S. Walton Lillhey pioneered open heart surgery, as well as numerous methods, equipment and prostheses for cardio surgery.
- POPmail - Mark P McCahill led the development of the Gopher protocol, an effective precursor to the World Wide Web; participated in the creation and codification of the standard for the uniform resource locator (URL); and led to the development of POPmail, one of the first e-mail clients, which had a fundamental influence on later e-mail clients and the popularization of graphical user interfaces in Internet technologies more broadly.
- MMPI - Stark R. Hathaway and J.C. McKinley created Personality questionnaire Minnesota Multiphasic (MMPI), which was first published in 1943.
- Zatocoding - Kelvin Mooers developed a mechanical system using superimposed descriptor codes to search for information, called Zatocoding, 1948.
- Atomic Bomb - Edward P. Ney discovered the core of a heavy cosmic rays and solar proton events. After starting work involving the separation of uranium isotopes, he worked on the Manhattan Project.
- Atomic Bomb - Alfred OC Neer developed a method for the isolation of isotopes of uranium, a critical discovery in the atomic age. Neer worked with the Kellex Corporation of New York to design and develop efficient and efficient mass spectrographs for use in the Manhattan Project to create atomic bomb During the Second World War. He developed most of the spectrographs used to monitor uranium fissions during the war.
- Atomic Bomb - Frank Oppenheimer worked on the separation of uranium isotopes in 1945 and joined the Manhattan Project.
- Biotechnology - Ronald L. Phillips was the first to generate whole corn plants from cultured cells that laid the foundation for, and sparked, a new industry using cell culture techniques to genetically modify corn plants and other crops. Maize cell lines are most widely used to genetically modify maize to greatly accelerate the improvement of maize as food, feed and fuel.
- - Lanny D. Schmidt designed a reactor to extract hydrogen from ethanol, offering the first real hope hydrogen could be a source of inexpensive and renewable energy.
- Biomimetics - Otto Schmitt invented the Schmitt trigger, cathode follower, differential amplifier, amplifier, and chopper-stabilized.
- NASA - Slayton was one of the first astronauts of the NASA Mercury Seven and became NASA's first chief astronaut. He served as NASA's director of flight crew operations, making him responsible for NASA's crew assignment, from November 1963 to March 1972. At the time, he received medical clearance to fly, and was assigned to pilot the 1975 Apollo docking module. The Union Test Project, aged 51, becomes the oldest person to fly in space at the time.
- The Bathythermograph - Athelstan Spielhaus fully developed the Bathythermograph (BT) in 1938, an instrument he perfected that was vital during World War II against a German submarine. During the war, BT became standard equipment on all US Navy submarines and ships involved in anti-submarine warfare.
- CDC 6600 - James Thornton developed the CDC 6600, the world's first supercomputer developed with Seymour Cray.
- Ziagen - Robert Vince worked on antiviral drug candidates at UMN, where he continued to develop carbocyclic nucleosides called "carbovirs. This class of drugs is included in the drug abacavir. Abacavir was commercialized by GlaxoSmithKline as Ziagen for the treatment of AIDS."
Campuses
Demographics: Sister cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) campus
Note: The flagship of the University of Minnesota campus is the Twin Cities Campus, which includes bases in St. Paul and Minneapolis, the latter being divided into areas on both the east and west banks of the Mississippi River. Administratively, this is all one campus, but for the sake of simplicity, this article will apply campus where necessary to avoid confusion with city names.
As the largest of the five campuses of the University of Minnesota system, the twin campus has over 50,000 students; this makes it the sixth largest campus student body in the United States overall. She also has over 300 scientific research, education and outreach centers and institutes, on everything from life sciences to public policy and technology.
The university offers 143 bachelor's degree programs and 200 master's degrees. The university has all three branches of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). The twin campus, as well as campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris and Rochester, are accredited by the Higher Education Commission (HEA).
Racial / Ethnic Composition of Student Population: 65.3% White, 12.7% Foreign Students (who are not the target race / ethnicity), 9.2% Asian, 4.3% Black, 3.1% Hispanic / Ethnicity Latin America, 1.2% American / American indian, and 4.2% Unknown. Among the matriculants at the university, 63% are considered Minnesota residents and 37% are considered out-of-state residents. As of Fall 2019, there were 31,367 undergraduates at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus, according to the University's Office of Institutional Research. Of this number, 6278 were first-time applicants for freshmen. There were 12,100 graduate students.
Minneapolis campus
The original Minneapolis campus overlooked Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River, but it was later moved a mile (1.6 km) downstream to its current location. The original site is now marked by a small park known as Shute Square at the intersection of the University and Central Avenues. School shut down following the financial crisis during the American civil warbut reopened in 1867 with significant financial assistance from John S. Pillsbury. He was promoted from preparatory school to college in 1869. Today, the University's Minneapolis campus is divided by the Mississippi River into the East and West Bank.
The campus now has buildings on both banks of the river. East Bank, the main body of the campus, covers 307 acres (124 ha). The West Bank is home to the University of Minnesota Law School, the Humphrey School of Public Relations, the Carlson School of Management, various social science buildings and the performing arts center.
The Minneapolis campus has several halls: 17th Avenue Hall, Centennial Hall, Frontier Hall, Territorial Hall, Pioneer Hall, Sanford Hall, Middlebrook Hall, and Comstock Hall.
Eastern bank
University of Minnesota East Bank campus in winter
mall panorama, left: Ford Hall, Coffman Memorial Union, Colthoff Hall, Smith Hall (center image), Walter Library, Johnston Hall, Northrop and Morrill Hall
Aerial view of the Minneapolis campus, facing east
Eastern bank
East Coast campus in winter. Ford Hall on the left, Nils Hasselma Hall on the light rail right in the picture.
To facilitate navigation on a large campus, the university divided Eastern bank into several areas: more Knoll area , more shopping center area , health care , Sports area and more gateway area .
Knoll Square , the oldest surviving section of the university, is located at the northwest corner of the campus. Many buildings in the area are well over 100 years old, such as some of the 13 in the Old Campus of the historic district. Today, most of the disciplines in this area are in the humanities. Burton Hall is home to the College of Education and Human Resource Development. Folwell Hall and Jones Hall are primarily used by language departments. The Hall of the Residence, Sanford Hall, and the student housing estate, Roy Wilkins Hall, are in this area. This area is located south of the Dinkytown neighborhood and business district.
Northrop Mall , or shopping center area is possibly the center of the Minneapolis campus. The plan for the mall was based on a design by Cass Gilbert, although his layout was too extravagant to be executed in full. Several of the main campus buildings surround the Mall area. Northrop, formerly known as the Northrop Auditorium, provides a northern anchor, with the Coffman Memorial Union (CMU) in the south. Four of the large buildings on the sides of the mall are the main math, physics and chemistry buildings (Vincent Hall, Tate Laboratory, and Smith Hall, respectively) and Walter Library. The mall area is home to the College of Liberal Arts, which is Minnesota's largest public or private college, and. Behind KMU is another hall of residence, Comstock Hall, and another student residential complex, Yudof Hall. The Northrop Mall Historic District was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places in January 2018.
Health area is located southeast of the mall plaza and focuses on student buildings for life science students, as well as the homes of the College of Pharmacy, School of Nursing, School of Dentistry, School of Medicine, School of Public Health and Fairview Hospitals and Clinics. This complex of buildings forms what is known as the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Parts of the College of Biological Sciences are in this area.
Across the road from the University of Minnesota Fairview Medical Center is an area known as the "Superblock" four-city-block space that includes four dorms (Pioneer, Frontier, Centennial, and Territorial Pavilions). The Superblock is one of the most popular locations for on-campus housing, as it has the largest concentration of students living on campus and has many social events between dorms.
Athletic area directly north of Superblock and includes four entertainment / Sports facilities: University Recreation Center, Cooke Hall, Fieldhouse University and Aquatic Center University. These facilities are all connected by tunnels and Skyways, allowing students to use the center's one locker room. To the north of this complex are TCF Bank Stadium, Williams Arena, Mariucci Arena, Ridder Arena, and Baseline Tennis Center.
Gateway area , the eastern end of the campus, mainly consists of office buildings instead of classrooms and lecture halls. The most prominent building is the McNamara Alumni Center. The university is also actively investing in the biomedical research initiative and has constructed five biomedical research buildings that form the biomedical complex immediately north of TCF Bank Stadium.
Notable architecture
In addition, the university has a "Greek row" of historic fraternities and sororities located just north of the campus on University Avenue SE.
West bank
Department of Performing Arts and Dance, Rarig Center
West bank covers 53 acres (21 ha). The West Bank Arts quarter includes:
- Rarig Center (Performing Arts and Dance)
- Barbara Barker Dance Center
- Ferguson Hall (School of Music)
- Ted Mann concert hall
- Regis Center for the Arts
The quarter is home to several annual interdisciplinary arts festivals.
Social studies are also in the West Bank and include the Carlson School of Management, the Law School, and the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Relations.
The Wilson Library, the largest library in the university system, is also in the West Bank as is Middlebrook Hall, a large on-campus residence hall. About 900 students live in the building named after William T. Middlebrook.
Bypass
A relative newcomer to the print media of the university community is The Wake Student Magazine , a weekly that covers UMN-related stories and serves as a forum for student expression. It was founded in November 2001 in order to diversify campus media and achieved student group status in February 2002. Students from many disciplines make all reporting, writing, editing, illustration, photography, layout and business management for publication. The magazine was founded by James Long and Chris Ruen. Wake was named the nation's best campus publication (2006) by the Independent Press Association.
Moreover, Wake publishes liminal , a literary magazine launched in 2005 Border was created in the absence of literary magazine students and continues to bring poetry and prose to the university community.
Service faced a number of problems during its existence, partly depending on the funding of student fees. In April 2004, after the Student Services Fees Committee initially refused to fund it, $ 60,000 in funding was reinstated, allowing the journal to continue publishing. He faced additional problems in 2005 when his request for additional funds for publication per week was denied and then partially reinstated.
In 2005, Conservatives on campus began to formulate a new monthly magazine called Minnesota Republic ... The first edition was released in February 2006, and funding from student service fees began in September 2006.
Radio
The campus radio station, KUOM "Radio K," broadcasts an eclectic variety of independent music throughout the day on 770 kHz. Its 5,000-watt signal has a range of 80 miles (130 km) but turns off at dusk due to FCC regulations. In 2003, the station added a low-power signal (8 watts) at 106.5 MHz during the night and on weekends. In 2005, Falcon Heights began broadcasting on 100.7 FM with an all-time 10-watt translator. Radio K also streams its content at www.radiok.org. With roots in experimental broadcasts that began even before World War I, the station received its first AM broadcasting license in the state on January 13, 1922, and began broadcasting in the WLB, changing the KUOM callsign about two decades later. The station did not have an educational format until 1993, when it was merged with a smaller campus-only music station to become what is now known as Radio K. A small group of staff members were joined by over 20 part-time students who oversee the station. Most of the talent on the air consists of student volunteers.
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Some television programs made on campus were broadcast on the local PBS station KTCI channel 17. Several episodes Great Dialogues have been made since 2002, featuring one-on-one discussions between University faculty and experts brought in from around the world. Tech Talk was a show designed to help people who feel intimidated modern technologies, including cell phones and computers.
The University of Minnesota was founded in 1851 in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, making it the oldest university in the University of Minnesota system. This system includes campuses that were later incorporated into the university. This research university is the flagship of education in the state of Minnesota, located in the northern United States of America near the border with Canada.
Between 1947 and 2006, 4 campuses joined the university: Crookston, Duluth, Morris and Rochester. All these campuses together form the Minnesota University System.
The university educated 9 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Pulitzer Prize winners and many other prominent people who have achieved significant success in their business. In addition, 12 professors from teaching staff (current or former) are Nobel laureates.
Also, the university has a large number of student clubs, Greek fraternities and sisterhoods. All of them play an important role in the social life of the university, making it rich and unforgettable. Sports is another important aspect of student life. The University of Minnesota has teams in many sports, the most significant of which are American football, basketball, men's and women's hockey.
University view
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Location
The university is located in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, on the banks of the Mississippi River. Also, the University of Minnesota system has 4 campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris and Rochester. However, they must be distinguished, since when we say the University of Minnesota, we mean the campus in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Agglomeration of these two largest cities the state has 3.5 million people. Minneapolis, the largest of the two twins, offers excellent living conditions. In 2007, Forbes magazine voted it 5th among the cleanest cities in the world. The Twin Cities is the 2nd largest economic center in the US Midwest after Chicago, making it a promising place to look for work.
Rating
For 2015, the university occupies the following positions in the most prestigious international rankings:
46th place according to Times Higher Education
119th place according to the QS Worldwide University Ranking
30th place according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities
Number of students
The Twin Cities campus has about 50,000 students, and the rest combined about 17,000.
Accommodations
Ninety percent of first year students live on campus. The cost of living is on average from 2 to 3 thousand dollars per semester.
List of awards and achievements
As mentioned above, the university has raised 9 Nobel laureates. Also, many other great people are graduates of this university. For example, in the medical field, Christian Netling Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world's first heart transplant. Also, the University of Minnesota is known for its outstanding achievements in sports: 7 national championships in American football and 11 national titles in men's and women's hockey. In addition to this, the university is home to the Cheerleading tradition.
Objects around the state, including some large tracts of land. The University of Minnesota is twinned and Crookston, Duluth, and Morris coordinate campuses accredited by the Commission of Higher Education (HLC). Another public higher education system in the state is the larger Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system (Minnesota State System).
Campuses
The sister town's flagship town is by far the largest in the system, with 51,853 students enrolled (undergraduate, graduate, professional and non-graduate included); Duluth reported 11,491; Crookston was 2.764; Morris was 1,896; and Rochester was 414, bringing a system-wide total of 68,418 for the fall 2012 semester.
The university colors, which are used system-wide, are maroon and gold.
Sister cities
Minneapolis Campus at night
Because of its size and several decades of history before adding other campuses, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (sometimes abbreviated as UMTC or UMN) is what most people think after hearing "University of Minnesota". It can actually be divided into several parts. Most importantly, Minneapolis and neighboring St. Paul (actually, a suburb of the Falcons Heights) have distinct campuses. The Minneapolis and Saint Paul campuses are connected via a dedicated transitway bus. The buildings on each campus are connected by a series of underground tunnels and overhead skyways called the Gopher Way. The campus had 51,721 students enrolled in the fall of 2010, making it the fourth largest state university in the United States.
The original University of Minnesota building in Minneapolis, 1875
The Minneapolis part is the largest and has a number of colleges dedicated to different topics. The Minneapolis campus can be further subdivided into the East Bank (main body) and the West Bank as the Mississippi River flows through it. Students have become familiar with the two-story Washington Avenue Bridge, which connects the two parts. There are a number of outstanding students and vocational schools on the Minneapolis campus, specifically the University of Minnesota School of Law, School of Medicine, Carlson School of Management, School of Public Health, etc. In addition, Minneapolis is home to many research institutions such as The Cancer Center.
The St. Paul campus is more agriculture oriented, although several other subjects are taught there. Due to operation on the U M telephone system, both campuses have 612 area code (Minneapolis) phone numbers instead of the 651 code that would be expected for part of St. Paul. The Minnesota State Fairgrounds is also located in Falcon Heights.
Crookston
Sources of financing
The University of Minnesota system has one of the largest donations among public universities in the country. In 2007, the University of Minnesota is supporting a $ 2.8 billion investment. In addition, as a public university, the system received approximately $ 641 million from
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