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23 unusual facts about University of Minnesota


ACS Macro Letters

Dr. Lodge is Distinguished McKnight Professor, IT Distinguished Professor, and Lloyd H. Reyerson Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota.

Aksel Schiøtz

From 1955 to 1958 he served as professor of music at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, later in Toronto, and finally at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Ali Khalif Galaydh

In September, 2002 Galaydh was a professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota until June, 2007.

Angela Taylor

After leaving Louisiana State University she worked as a coach at various Universities such as: University of Minnesota, Princeton University, and George Mason University.

Arnold Kramer

Arnold Kramer was nicknamed Minnesota's Grandpa Moses by the University of Minnesota during the hey-day of his painting career in the 1960s.

Connie Bernardy

She later attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a B.A. in communication studies, and also the University of St. Thomas, graduating with an M.B.A. certification in government acquisitions and contract management.

Days of Wild

During the 2000 "Celebration" concert at the University of Minnesota, Prince even scolded the audience ("We don't do that no more!") when it began the "Play that motherfuckin' bass!" chant associated with concert performances of the song.

Frank Forest

Forest studied agricultural engineering at the University of Minnesota, and later helped found the profitable pharmaceutical firm White Laboratories of Kenilworth, New Jersey.

Henry Theodore Halvorson

He was born in Rushford, Minnesota, the son of Halvor Halvorson and Alena Thompson, both natives of Norway, and was educated at the University of Minnesota.

History of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent

Based on archaeological and textual evidence, Joseph E. Schwartzberg (2008)—a University of Minnesota professor emeritus of geography—traces the origins of Indian cartography to the Indus Valley Civilization (c. 2500–1900 BCE).

LeRoy Gardner Jr.

Gardner earned undergraduate and master's degrees in psychology at the University of Minnesota.

He was recruited by legendary coach John Kundla and was the first African American man born and raised in Minnesota to receive a full basketball scholarship at the University of Minnesota.

Minneapolis Streetcar System

This line would run mostly along Hennepin Avenue from the Uptown Transit Center through Downtown Minneapolis (connecting with the Blue and Green lines at Warehouse District / Hennepin Avenue Station) to the University of Minnesota's East Bank, at which point it would become the University/4th Street Line.

Minnesota 78

Minnesota 78 is an old selection of grapevine, developed at the University of Minnesota, United States.

Minnesota Fight

"Minnesota Fight" is one of several school songs of the University of Minnesota.

Murphy Warehouse Company

He currently is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota.

Orville Dahl

He returned to his alma mater after graduate work at the University of Minnesota to serve as Assistant Dean of Men and Professor of Speech.

Our Minnesota

"Our Minnesota" was one of two winners of a 1925 contest to find an additional fight song for the University of Minnesota.

PARSEC

Its development started in early 1990s with James Chelikowsky (now at the University of Texas), Yousef Saad and collaborators at the University of Minnesota.

Pratfall effect

The experiment was set up involving male students from the University of Minnesota who would listen to tape recordings of a confederate (actor) pretending to be a contestant for the show College Bowl.

The MasterCard Foundation

Some of their partners include the African Leadership Academy, Camfed, the International Labour Organization, International Youth Foundation, Education for Employment Foundation, Digital Opportunity Trust, Equity Group Foundation, Aflatoun, YouthBuild, Swisscontact, Fundacion Paraguaya, CAP Foundation, TechnoServe and the University of Minnesota.

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

UESTC has co-training agreements in place with over 40 overseas institutions, such as Purdue University, University of Glasgow and University of Minnesota in the World Top 100 University League.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities College of Design

Ralph Rapson (1914–2008) was head of the architecture school from 1954-1984.


Amit Bando

He completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Economics and Statistics at the University of Minnesota, Delhi School of Economics and St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Aya Cash

An alumnus of the San Francisco School of the Arts as well as the University of Minnesota, Cash has appeared on television series such as Brotherhood, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Mercy and Season 2 of HBO's The Newsroom.

Bell Valley

It was named by the University of Minnesota geological party after the Bell helicopters used by the party in the exploration of the area in 1963–64.

Daniel Chorzempa

Chorzempa was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and subsequently studied music and architecture at the University of Minnesota and further music studies in Cologne.

Dusty Rychart

In 1998, the University of Minnesota won the National Invitational Tournament Championship, which was later vacated due to the academic fraud scandal surrounding head coach Clem Haskins.

Earl Wood

Shortly after receiving an M.D. and PhD in physiology from the University of Minnesota medical school, Wood became a key member of a team at the Mayo Clinic that was tasked with helping military pilots and flight crew survive and function in high G-force environments.

Fairview Press

Fairview Press (formerly Deaconess Press) was the publishing former arm of Fairview Health Services, a regional healthcare provider affiliated with the University of Minnesota.

Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare

It was founded by Dr. Arthur Gillette and Jessie Haskins in 1897, taking on Arthur Gillette's name as the hospital's first chief surgeon, an appointment given by the regents of the University of Minnesota.

Green Party of Minnesota

Ward 2 is considered one of the most diverse areas of Minneapolis, representing the University of Minnesota Minneapolis Campus and the Cedar-Riverside and Seward neighborhoods.

Grover C. Stephens

Stephens began his academic career teaching at Brooklyn College (1952–53), after which he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota (UM) in September 1953.

Héctor-Neri Castañeda

Born in San Vicente, Zacapa, Guatemala, he emigrated to the United States in 1948 and studied under Wilfrid Sellars at the University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in 1950 and M.A. in 1952.

Helmut Röhrl

In the academic year 1958–1959 he was at the University of Chicago, became in 1959 an associate professor and subsequently professor at the University of Minnesota and was from 1964 a professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy

There was a real Jack Armstrong, a member of Sam Gale's college fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa at the University of Minnesota.

John H. Hoffman

John Hoffman received his bachelor's degree from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota and continued his education at the University of Minnesota under the mentorship of Professor A. O. C. Nier who pioneered the field of mass spectrometry.

Kathrin Bringmann

Kathrin Bringmann (born 8 May 1977) is a German number theorist in the University of Cologne, Germany and the University of Minnesota, USA who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of mock theta functions.

Matt Schnobrich

Schnobrich graduated from Saint Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, earned a bachelor's degree from Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota in 2001, and a master's degree in engineering from the University of Minnesota.

MECC

In 1963, their presence inspired a group of teachers at the University of Minnesota College of Education's laboratory school to introduce computers into classrooms via teleprinters and time-sharing.

Michael Halstenson

Halstenson studied music performance and composition at the University of North Dakota, Webster College, and the University of Minnesota.

Michael Shur

Shur has held research or faculty positions at the A.F. Ioffe Institute, Wayne State University, Oakland University, Cornell University, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and the University of Minnesota.

Milt Sunde

Sunde attended Bloomington High School and the University of Minnesota.

Minnesota Experimental City

The project was initiated and directed by renowned scientist and University of Minnesota dean Athelstan Spilhaus.

National Historical Geographic Information System

NHGIS was launched in 2007 and is maintained by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota and is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Neecy Twinem

She studied fine art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and then transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute, where she graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Sculpture and Video Performance in 1980.

NIPTE

NIPTE’s current membership includes 12 leading schools and colleges of pharmacy and chemical engineering from the following universities: Duquesne University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of Puerto Rico, University of Connecticut, University of Iowa, University of Kentucky, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.

Ossie Solem

During his time with the Marines, Solem introduced the team to the single-wing formation, developed by the famed coach, Pop Warner, and used by the University of Minnesota, where Solem had played football.

Peter S. Popovich

He earned degrees from the University of Minnesota and William Mitchell College of Law (then the St. Paul College of Law) in 1942 and 1947, respectively.

Petri Salo

Petri Salo has visited as a guest lecturer in various universities in Finland (University of Helsinki, University of Joensuu), Scandinavia (University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg), Sweden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, and University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway), Estonia (University of Tarto), the U.S. (University of Minnesota) and Australia (Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga)

Priscilla Lord

A graduate of the University of Minnesota, she worked for Hubert Humphrey, as both Senator and Vice President, and Young Life before teaching third grade and special education.

Robert H. Bahmer

He earned his bachelor's degree from Valley City State University in Valley City, North Dakota, his master's from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Sarah MacKenzie

Mac received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Minnesota and her Juris Doctor degree from Duke University, and was subsequently stationed in Bosnia during the war there.

T. B. Irving

As a scholar, Irving taught and studied at a number of leading universities in the U.S. and Canada, including McGill, Princeton, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Tennessee.

The Classical Journal

In May 2007, The Classical Journal began delivering online-exclusive book reviews, professional announcements, and supplemental material through the University of Minnesota's LISTSERV.

The Pope and the Witch

In October 2006, top Catholic leaders in the Midwestern U.S. state of Minnesota took the rare step of collectively calling on University of Minnesota president, Robert Bruininks, to reconsider the university's plan to stage a controversial play which they viewed as anti-Catholic.

Tom Gjelten

Gjelten is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and began his professional career as a public school teacher at the North Haven Community School, North Haven, Maine, and as a freelance writer.

William Brandon Lacy Campos

He continued his education at the Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and the University of Minnesota where he received a bachelor's degree in political science.

William Garvelink

Garvelink was born in Holland, Michigan and graduated from Calvin College (B.A.) in 1971 and the University of Minnesota (M.A.); along with post-graduate studies at the University of North Carolina in Latin American history, but ran out of money before earning his Ph.D.

Willie Fleming

In 1958, Fleming helped the Hawkeyes to a 6-0-1 Big Ten clinching victory over the University of Minnesota, and led the team in scoring.