Clarkson University

Clarkson University is a private research university in Potsdam, New York, founded in 1896 and classified among R2 doctoral universities with high research activity.克拉克森大学（Clarkson University）是位于美国纽约州波茨坦的私立研究型大学，1896 年创办，被归入 R2 级博士大学（研究活动高）。

It enrolled more than 4,000 full-time students in 2024 across schools of engineering, business, arts and sciences, and health and life sciences, and counts over 46,000 living alumni.2024 年在校全日制学生逾 4,000 人，就读于工程、商学、文理以及健康与生命科学等学院，在册校友逾 46,000 人。

Named for Thomas S. Clarkson, a Potsdam entrepreneur and quarry owner who died in 1894, the university is known for engineering and technology education tied to the Adirondack region of northern New York.校名取自 1894 年去世的波茨坦企业家暨采石场主托马斯·S·克拉克森，以与纽约州北部阿迪朗达克地区相连的工程与技术教育著称。

History

• Thomas S. Clarkson, born in 1837, ran the family farm and the sandstone quarries on the Raquette River, built the first local electrical power plants, and provided post-Civil War housing for the poor and the area's first sewer system.托马斯·S·克拉克森生于 1837 年，经管家族农场与拉奎特河畔的砂岩石场，建起当地最早的发电设施，为贫民提供内战后住房，并修建该地区第一条下水道系统。

• In August 1894 he was crushed against a wall by a swinging derrick pump while pushing a worker clear of danger in his quarry upriver from Potsdam, and he died of internal injuries five days later.1894 年 8 月，在波茨坦上游的采石场中，他为把一名工人推离危险而被摆动的吊杆泵挤到墙边，五天后因内伤去世。

• His three sisters Elizabeth, Frederica and Lavinia, together with his niece Annie, founded a school in his memory, which opened in 1896 as the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial School of Technology.他的三位姐妹伊丽莎白、弗雷德丽卡、拉维尼亚与侄女安妮为他创办学校以作纪念，学校于 1896 年以「托马斯·S·克拉克森纪念技术学校」之名开学。

• For most of the first half of the twentieth century the campus stayed "downtown" in Potsdam village, and instruction gradually broadened from mechanical trades into engineering and the applied sciences.二十世纪上半叶的大部分时间，校园仍留在波茨坦村的「下城」，教学内容则由机械技艺逐步扩展到工程与应用科学。

• In 1913 the school became the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial College of Technology, known in short as Clarkson College of Technology, the name it carried for the next seven decades.1913 年学校改名为「托马斯·S·克拉克森纪念技术学院」，简称克拉克森技术学院，此名沿用约七十年。

• Campus growth shifted instruction to an area called "the Hill" on the south-western edge of the village, and by 2001 almost all teaching and student housing had moved there.校园扩张把教学重心迁到村西南缘称作「山头」的区域，到 2001 年几乎全部教学与学生住宿都已迁至该处。

• The former downtown buildings Old Snell and Old Main stayed in use for administrative functions after the move, and the last downtown residence hall, Congdon, closed in May 2006.搬迁后原下城的斯内尔老楼与主楼老楼仍作行政之用，下城最后一栋宿舍「康登楼」于 2006 年 5 月关闭。

• In May 1936 the first ROTC battalion was activated during the tenure of college president James S. Thomas, and the programme has since commissioned more than 1,150 military officers.1936 年 5 月在院长詹姆斯·S·托马斯任内启用第一个后备军官训练团营，此后该计划已培养逾 1,150 名军官。

• The Clarkson School, a special early-entrance division that replaces the senior year of high school with a year of college, was founded in 1978 and admits 50 to 80 students each year.克拉克森学校这一特别提前入学部门 1978 年设立，以一年大学课程替代高中最后一年，每年录取 50 至 80 名学生。

• On 24 February 1984 the institution officially became Clarkson University, though its pep band still rallies the hockey crowds with the old cry "Let's Go Tech!".1984 年 2 月 24 日学校正式定名克拉克森大学，但校助威队仍以旧口号「Let's Go Tech!」为冰球观众造势。

• The nickname "Tech" has followed the institution and its hockey team since 1896, and "CCT" is still printed on older campus property and equipment.自 1896 年起「Tech」这一绰号一直伴随该校及其冰球队，较旧的校园器物上仍印着缩写「CCT」。

• Robert Clarkson, chief executive of American Express, sat on the board at the mid-twentieth century and introduced many corporate partners to the institution.美国运通总裁罗伯特·克拉克森于二十世纪中期任校董，为学校引荐了许多企业合作伙伴。

• On 1 February 2016 Union Graduate College merged into Clarkson University and formed the Clarkson University Capital Region Campus in Schenectady, New York.2016 年 2 月 1 日，联合研究生院并入克拉克森大学，组成位于纽约州斯克内克塔迪的首都区分校区。

• That Schenectady facility was closed in late 2024, and the personnel based there moved to an office location in Latham, New York.该斯克内克塔迪校区于 2024 年年底关闭，驻当地人员迁往纽约州拉瑟姆的办公地点。

• In the autumn of 2023 the board of trustees approved a reorganisation plan to phase out nine majors in humanities and social sciences and the department of communication, media and design, in order to cut net operating costs.2023 年秋季校董会通过重组方案，为削减净运营成本而逐步停办人文与社会科学门下的九个专业以及传播、媒体与设计系。

• The school of arts and sciences was consolidated with the Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a smaller unit called the department of Arts, Culture and Technology was created.原文理学院与库尔特工程与应用科学学院合并，并新设规模较小的「艺术、文化与技术系」。

• In 2022 the board of trustees named the Hill campus the Collins Hill Campus in honour of longtime president Tony Collins.2022 年校董会为纪念长期任校长的托尼·柯林斯，把「山头」校园命名为柯林斯山头校区。

• In 2025 Michelle B. Larson became the university's 19th president and the first woman to lead Clarkson in its history.2025 年米歇尔·B·拉森出任该校第 19 任校长，成为克拉克森历史上首位女性校长。

• The university traces its American line to Matthew Clarkson, who came to the colonies in 1685 and in 1691 became Secretary of the Colony of New York under King William III.该校的美国渊源可溯至马修·克拉克森，他于 1685 年抵达北美殖民地，1691 年在威廉三世治下出任纽约殖民地大臣。

• Members of the family helped purchase the town of Potsdam in 1804, and John Charleton Clarkson built Holcroft House in 1824 on the site now used by the university's admissions office.家族成员于 1804 年参与购得波茨坦镇，约翰·查尔顿·克拉克森于 1824 年兴建霍尔克罗夫特宅，其址现为该校招生办公室所在。

• Clarkson Ignite, the university's innovation hub, was founded in 2017 and reflects the later push to weld hands-on making and entrepreneurship to the traditional engineering curriculum.该校创新中枢「克拉克森点燃」成立于 2017 年，体现后期把动手实践与创业精神嫁接于传统工程课程的取向。

Academics

• Degree programmes are organised through the David D. Reh School of Business, the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Earl R. and Barbara D. Lewis School of Health and Life Sciences, the Institute for a Sustainable Environment and the Institute for STEM Education.学位课程由戴维·D·雷商学院、华莱士·H·库尔特工程与应用科学学院、厄尔·R·与芭芭拉·D·刘易斯健康与生命科学学院、可持续环境研究所以及 STEM 教育研究所承办。

• More than 50 undergraduate majors and minors are offered, alongside master's and doctoral degrees in engineering, business, the sciences and the health professions.学校开设 50 余个本科主修与辅修方向，并在工程、商学、理科与卫生类专业授予硕士和博士学位。

• Fifteen Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design teams, called SPEED, let students of every major take part in hands-on extracurricular engineering projects.15 支「工程体验与设计学生项目」（SPEED）团队让各专业学生都能参与动手性的课外工程实践。

• The Center for Advanced Materials Processing, known as CAMP, is one of 14 Centers for Advanced Technology supported by the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research.先进材料加工中心（CAMP）是纽约州科学、技术与学术研究办公室支持的 14 个先进技术中心之一。

• CAMP-related work draws several million dollars each year from the federal government and private industry, and develops innovations in advanced materials processing that are transferred to business and industry.与 CAMP 相关的工作每年从联邦政府与私营企业获得数百万美元经费，并研发向工商界转化的先进材料加工创新成果。

• Clarkson Ignite oversees the Dorf Makerspace and the Makers' Loft, equipped with 3D printers, laser engravers, heat presses and drones, and its Cube student accelerator has backed start-ups such as the cement-replacement producer KLAW Industries.「克拉克森点燃」管理配备 3D 打印机、激光雕刻机、热压机与无人机的多夫创客空间与创客阁楼，其「立方」学生加速器曾扶持水泥替代材料企业 KLAW Industries 等初创团队。

• Each year 10 incoming students receive the Ignite Presidential Fellowship, a scholarship covering tuition for up to eight semesters of undergraduate study.每年有 10 名新生获「点燃校长奖学金」，可覆盖最多八个学期的本科学费。

• The university reports that one in five of its 46,000 alumni is already a chief executive, senior executive or owner of a company, a record tied to its placement and industry partnerships.校方称在其 46,000 名校友中，每五人就有一人已是总裁、高管或企业主，这与其就业安置和产业合作关系相关。

• Health professions teaching includes occupational therapy, physical therapy and physician assistant studies, delivered from facilities on the downtown campus and the Clarkson Hall Center for Health Sciences.卫生类专业教学涵盖作业治疗、物理治疗与医生助理研究，在下城校区及克拉克森楼健康科学中心授课。

• Clarkson participates in student exchange programmes with partner institutions in Europe and Australia, widening its applied-engineering teaching beyond northern New York.克拉克森与欧洲和澳洲的伙伴院校开展学生交换计划，使其应用工程教学不限于纽约州北部。

• The university is classified among R2 doctoral universities with high research activity, a Carnegie grouping of research-active doctoral institutions.该校被归入 R2 级博士大学（研究活动高），这是卡内基分类中对研究活跃的博士授予机构的归类。

• Master's and doctoral teaching, together with research activity, is also run from sites in Saranac Lake and New York's Capital Region and through online offerings.硕士与博士教学连同科研活动，也在萨拉纳克湖、纽约州首都区以及线上平台开展。

• Applied research spans advanced materials processing, sustainable environment, health and life sciences, robotics and business, matching the remit of the university's named schools and institutes.应用研究横跨先进材料加工、可持续环境、健康与生命科学、机器人技术与商学，与各冠名学院及研究所的职域相合。

• The curriculum keeps the founding emphasis on useful, practical learning, pairing lecture courses with laboratories, project work and shop practice across an engineering-centred degree.课程延续创校以来重实用、重实践的传统，在以工程为重心的学位中把课堂讲授与实验、项目与车间实习并置。

Campus

• Clarkson has two campuses in Potsdam, the downtown campus and the Collins Hill Campus, with research and graduate sites in Saranac Lake and the Capital Region and an online presence.克拉克森在波茨坦有两处校园，即下城校区与柯林斯山头校区，另在萨拉纳克湖、首都区设有科研与研究生办学点并开展线上教学。

• The main campus occupies the historic 640-acre wooded homestead of the Clarkson family, in the foothills of the Adirondack Park, a protected region of about six million acres.主校区坐落在克拉克森家族历史性的 640 英亩林地上，位于阿迪朗达克公园山麓，后者是约六百万英亩的保护区。

• Lake Placid, Ottawa and Montreal lie within easy driving distance, and four other colleges are nearby, which the university cites in calling Potsdam a college town.普莱西德湖、渥太华与蒙特利尔均在便利车程之内，附近另有四所高校，校方据此称波茨坦为一座大学城。

• Occupational therapy, physical therapy and physician assistant studies sit on the downtown campus, where the university bookstore and several leased business spaces are also found.作业治疗、物理治疗与医生助理研究设于下城校区，该处还有校内书店与若干对外出租的商业空间。

• Clarkson Hall houses the Center for Health Sciences on the downtown campus, and Peyton Hall serves as the business incubator, among the few downtown buildings still in university service.下城校区的克拉克森楼设健康科学中心，佩顿楼作企业孵化器，二者是仍在使用的少数下城建筑。

• Cheel Arena hosts the varsity ice hockey programme, and the Science Center holds teaching and computing laboratories, including the student-run Applied Computer Science Labs in rooms SC334 and SC336.奇尔体育馆承办校队冰球项目，科学中心设教学与计算实验室，其中包括位于 SC334 与 SC336 两室、学生自管的「应用计算机科学实验室」。

• The former Union Graduate College premises in Schenectady served as the Capital Region Campus from 2016 until the facility closed in late 2024, after which operations moved to Latham.原联合研究生院在斯克内克塔迪的校舍自 2016 年起作为首都区分校区使用，至 2024 年年底关闭，随后业务迁往拉瑟姆。

• The hilltop residential campus places almost all dormitories and teaching buildings within walking distance of the Potsdam village centre, the arrangement completed after Congdon closed in 2006.山头住宿校园使几乎所有宿舍与教学楼都位于波茨坦村中心的步行范围之内，这一格局在 2006 年康登楼关闭后大致完成。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Clarkson University is placed in the 1001-1200 band, a shared range rather than a single position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，克拉克森大学位列第 1001-1200 位区间，与同档多所高校并列而非单一席位。

• Clarkson does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and is not listed in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.克拉克森未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未列入软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking the university stands at number 1853 overall.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校整体位列第 1853 位。

• OpenAlex attributes 18,374 scholarly works and 1,077,915 citations to the university, a research output consistent with its R2 classification for high research activity.OpenAlex 收录该校署名的学术成果 18,374 项、被引 1,077,915 次，这一产出与其 R2 级高研究活动的分类相称。

• U.S. News & World Report ranked Clarkson in the top 50 Best Value Schools in the nation in 2024, and among the top 125 national universities in its 2019 review.《美国新闻与世界报道》2024 年把克拉克森列为全美性价比最佳学校前 50 名，其 2019 年版又将该校列入全美综合性大学前 125 名。

• The university ranked eighth among "Top Salary-Boosting Colleges" nationwide in Money's 2015 ranking, and its online graduate business programme was placed 12th nationally in the 2013 U.S. News review.在《Money》2015 年榜单中，该校位列全美「薪资提升最佳高校」第 8 名，其在线研究生商科项目在 2013 年《美国新闻与世界报道》中位列全美第 12。

• U.S. News ranked Clarkson 40th overall in environmental engineering in its 2019 Best Graduate Schools review, and listed its supply chain management programme among the top 20 in the nation.《美国新闻与世界报道》2019 年版最佳研究生院把克拉克森的环境工程列为全美第 40 名，并把其供应链管理项目列入全美前 20。

• Women's ice hockey has won three NCAA championships, in 2014, 2017 and 2018, the first national titles in the university's history and the first Division I NCAA title won by a school from the North Country.女子冰球队于 2014、2017 与 2018 年三夺全国大学体育协会（NCAA）冠军，是该校历史上首批全国冠军，也是北国地区高校首次夺得 NCAA 一级冠军。

• The university is a member of the Association of Independent Technological Universities, and its endowment exceeds $200 million.该校是独立技术大学协会成员，其捐赠基金超过 2 亿美元。

Student life

• Clarkson's motto, "A Workman That Needeth Not to Be Ashamed", is taken from the favourite biblical verse of its namesake in the Second Epistle to Timothy and appears in the university seal.克拉克森的校训「A Workman That Needeth Not to Be Ashamed」取自其名字来源者所钟爱的《提摩太后书》经文，并见于校徽之上。

• The nickname Golden Knights was first suggested in an editorial of the Clarkson Integrator of 28 October 1950, and was in use within a month.「金色骑士」这一绰号最早见于 1950 年 10 月 28 日《克拉克森整合者》的一篇社论，一个月内即被采用。

• The Student Association sponsors more than 130 clubs and organizations, the largest of which are the Outing Club, Ski Club, Cornhole Club, Clarkson Pep Band and Clarkson Union Board.学生联合会资助 130 多个社团与组织，其中规模最大的是远足社、滑雪社、沙包社、克拉克森助威队与克拉克森联合会。

• The Clarkson Union Board is the campus programming board, hosting events and the annual SpringFest and FallFest concerts, whose past performers have included Yung Gravy, bbnoand Panic! at the Disco.; zh:克拉克森联合会是校园活动策划机构，举办各类活动与一年一度的春季、秋季音乐节，往期登台者包括「Yung Gravy、bbno、Panic! at the Disco」等。

• The Amateur Radio Club, known as K2CC, was established in 1922 and is the university's oldest organization, still running analog and digital voice repeaters and a contest and experimentation room.业余无线电社（呼号 K2CC）成立于 1922 年，是该校历史最久的组织，至今仍运行模拟与数字语音中继以及竞赛实验机房。

• WTSC 91.1 FM The Source, run entirely by students, is one of the North Country's most popular radio stations, with well over 1,000 CDs and nearly 24 terabytes of music drawn from vinyl.完全由学生运营的 WTSC 91.1 FM「The Source」是北国地区最受欢迎的电台之一，藏有远逾 1,000 张 CD 与近 24 太字节的黑胶转录音源。

• Student publications and media include the weekly newspaper The Integrator, the television station WCKN, the radio station WTSC and the yearbook group The Clarksonian.学生出版物与媒体包括周报《整合者》、电视台 WCKN、电台 WTSC 以及年鉴团队《克拉克森年鉴》。

• The Clarkson Pep Band, founded in the autumn of 1964, has about 75 full-time members and plays at all home games of the men's Division I hockey team at Cheel Arena.克拉克森助威队成立于 1964 年秋，有约 75 名固定成员，在奇尔体育馆为男子一级冰球队的所有主场赛事演奏。

• The Clarkson Theatre Company mounts a musical each autumn and a One Act Festival in mid-winter, and the film-maker Wes Craven taught at Clarkson in 1968 and advised its drama club.克拉克森戏剧社每年秋季上演音乐剧、仲冬举办独幕剧节，电影人韦斯·克雷文 1968 年曾在克拉克森任教并指导其戏剧社。

• Fraternities began organising on campus in 1903, the first Clarkson-only sorority was founded in 1977, and the university stopped recognising local sororities at SUNY Potsdam in 1987.校园兄弟会自 1903 年起组建，1977 年成立首个仅面向克拉克森的姐妹会，1987 年校方停止承认纽约州立大学波茨坦分校的地方姐妹会。

Notable people

• Thomas S. Clarkson, the entrepreneur and quarry owner whose death in August 1894 gave the university its name, is commemorated in its motto and seal.企业家暨采石场主托马斯·S·克拉克森于 1894 年 8 月去世，学校因其而得名，其名见于校训与校徽。

• His sisters Elizabeth, Frederica and Lavinia and his niece Annie founded the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial School of Technology in 1896, making them the institution's founding benefactors.其姐妹伊丽莎白、弗雷德丽卡、拉维尼亚与侄女安妮于 1896 年创办「托马斯·S·克拉克森纪念技术学校」，是该校的创校资助人。

• Rene Haas, chief executive officer of the semiconductor designer Arm, holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical and electronic engineering from Clarkson University.芯片设计公司安谋（Arm）首席执行官雷内·哈斯持有克拉克森大学电气与电子工程理学学士学位。

• Jayshree Seth, a corporate scientist at 3M, holds 53 patents for industrial technology and is among the best-known engineering alumni of the university.3M 公司企业科学家贾伊什里·塞思持有 53 项工业技术专利，是该校最知名的工程校友之一。

• Barney Adams, founder of the golf equipment maker Adams Golf, is numbered among Clarkson's alumni.高尔夫器材制造商亚当斯高尔夫创办人巴尼·亚当斯亦为克拉克森校友。

• Gregory C. Farrington, a former president of Lehigh University, took his Clarkson degree in 1968.曾任里海大学校长的格雷戈里·C·法林顿于 1968 年在克拉克森取得学位。

• Kenneth S. Solinsky, a 1971 mechanical engineering graduate, later founded engineering firms and endowed the Solinsky Challenge, and received an honorary doctor of science degree from Clarkson in May 2025.1971 届机械工程毕业生肯尼斯·S·索林斯基后创办工程公司并捐设「索林斯基挑战」，2025 年 5 月获克拉克森颁授荣誉理学博士学位。

• Michelle B. Larson became Clarkson's 19th president and its first woman leader in 2025.米歇尔·B·拉森于 2025 年出任克拉克森第 19 任校长，成为该校首位女性领导者。

• Tony Collins, a longtime president of the university, gave his name to the Collins Hill Campus, named by the board of trustees in 2022.长期任校长的托尼·柯林斯之名被用于柯林斯山头校区，该名由校董会于 2022 年命名。

• The film-maker Wes Craven taught at Clarkson University in 1968 and was faculty adviser to the Clarkson Drama Club, an experience he credited as inspiration for A Nightmare on Elm Street.电影人韦斯·克雷文 1968 年在克拉克森大学任教并担任克拉克森戏剧社指导教师，他称这段经历是《猛鬼街》的灵感来源。

• Robert Clarkson, chief executive of American Express, served on the university's board in the mid-twentieth century and linked Clarkson to many corporate partners.美国运通总裁罗伯特·克拉克森于二十世纪中期任该校校董，为克拉克森牵线众多企业伙伴。