University of Alberta

The University of Alberta, known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and the province's oldest and largest university.阿尔伯塔大学（University of Alberta），简称 U of A 或 UAlberta，是位于加拿大阿尔伯塔省埃德蒙顿的一所公立研究型大学，也是该省历史最久、规模最大的大学。

Chartered in 1906 and opened in 1908, it was founded on the initiative of the premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford and its first president Henry Marshall Tory, and its motto is Quaecumque vera, meaning Whatsoever things are true.学校 1906 年获特许、1908 年正式开学，由首任省长亚历山大·卢瑟福与首任校长亨利·托里推动创办，校训为拉丁语「Quaecumque vera」，意为「一切真实之事」。

In 2023-24 it had 44,059 full-time-equivalent students, of whom 37,735 were undergraduates and 8,466 postgraduates, taught by about 4,000 faculty, and it placed 96th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.2023 至 2024 学年学校有全日制当量学生 44059 人，其中本科生 37735 人、研究生 8466 人，教师约 4000 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 96。

History

• The university was created in 1906 by the University Act of the new Alberta legislature, sponsored by Premier Alexander C. Rutherford, as a single public provincial university.学校于 1906 年依新成立的阿尔伯塔省议会通过的《大学法案》设立，由省长亚历山大·卢瑟福提出，是一所单一的公立省立大学。

• Its governance was modelled on the University of Toronto Act of 1906, with a senate responsible for academic policy and a board of governors controlling finance, and the model also borrowed from American state universities.其治理结构仿照 1906 年的多伦多大学法案，设评议会负责学术政策、董事会掌管财务，整体模式亦借鉴美国州立大学。

• Calgary and Edmonton contested the sites of both the capital and the university, and it was agreed that the capital would lie north of the North Saskatchewan River and the university in a city south of it.卡尔加里与埃德蒙顿曾争夺省会与大学所在地，最终议定省会位于北萨斯喀彻温河以北，大学则设于河南岸的城市。

• Edmonton became the capital and the then-separate town of Strathcona on the south bank was granted the university, and when the two cities merged in 1912 Edmonton became both the political and academic capital.埃德蒙顿成为省会，河南岸当时独立的斯特拉斯科纳镇获得大学；1912 年两市合并后，埃德蒙顿同时成为政治与学术中心。

• With Henry Marshall Tory as first president, teaching began in 1908 with 45 students in English, mathematics and modern languages on the top floor of the Queen Alexandra Elementary School while Athabasca Hall was being built.首任校长亨利·托里主持下，学校 1908 年开学，45 名学生借用亚历山德拉女王小学顶层上课，教授英语、数学与现代语言，其时阿萨巴斯卡楼尚在修建。

• Seven of the first 45 students were women, and they formed a society later called the Wuaneita Society, whose Cree-style motto All for one, one for all is still engraved above the doors of Pembina Hall.首批 45 名学生中有 7 名女性，她们组成的社团后来称为吴阿内塔社，其克里语风格的格言「一为全体，全体为一」至今仍镌刻在佩米纳楼门外。

• The architects Percy Erskine Nobbs and Frank Darling prepared the campus master plan in 1909 and 1910, and Nobbs designed the Arts Building of 1914 and the Power House.建筑师珀西·诺布斯与弗兰克·达林于 1909 至 1910 年制定校园总体规划，诺布斯还设计了 1914 年的文理楼与动力站。

• The university awarded its first degrees in 1912, the same year it created its Department of Extension, and the Faculty of Medicine opened in 1913 with the Faculty of Agriculture following in 1915.学校于 1912 年授予首批学位，同年设立推广教育系，1913 年成立医学院，1915 年又设立农学院。

• During the First World War the university raised volunteers for the Canadian Field Ambulance and the 196th Battalion, and 82 of its staff and students died in service.第一次世界大战期间，学校为加拿大野战救护队与第 196 营招募志愿者，共有 82 名师生死于服役。

• The global influenza pandemic of 1918 forced a two-month suspension of classes, yet by 1920 the university had six faculties and 1,102 students, including 251 women.1918 年全球流感大流行迫使学校停课两个月，但到 1920 年学校已设有六个学院、在校学生 1102 人，其中女性 251 人。

• A College of Education was established in 1929, and in the same period the university's senate was given power to oversee and appoint half of the Alberta Eugenics Board.学校于 1929 年成立教育学院，同一时期其评议会获得监督并任命阿尔伯塔优生委员会半数成员的权力。

• The Great Depression and the Second World War curtailed enrolment and building until 1945, after which postwar growth and the discovery of oil at Leduc in 1947 drove expansion.大萧条与第二次世界大战使招生和建设停滞至 1945 年，战后人口增长与 1947 年勒杜克油田的发现又推动了学校扩张。

• The 1950s and 1960s saw a building boom, and the University of Alberta Press, specialising in western Canadian history and ecology, was founded in 1969.二十世纪五六十年代学校迎来建设高潮，专注加拿大西部历史与生态的阿尔伯塔大学出版社也于 1969 年成立。

• The university opened a campus in Calgary on 19 September 1960, which became the autonomous University of Calgary in 1966.学校于 1960 年 9 月 19 日在卡尔加里开设校区，该校区于 1966 年独立为卡尔加里大学。

• In 1970 the College Saint-Jean, now Campus Saint-Jean, began French-language teaching in arts, science and education, and in 1984 the School of Native Studies was established.1970 年圣让学院（今圣让校区）开始以法语教授文理、科学与教育课程，1984 年又设立原住民研究学院。

• The distinctive Universiade Pavilion, nicknamed the Butterdome, was finished in time for the 1983 World University Games, the first time that event was held in North America.造型独特的大学体育馆被昵称为「黄油穹顶」，为 1983 年世界大学生运动会建成，那是该赛事首次在北美举行。

• The 1990s brought budget cuts, but the university also received major gifts, including 11 million dollars for the Timms Centre for the Arts and, in 1998, a 3.5-million-dollar donation for undergraduate scholarships.二十世纪九十年代学校面临预算削减，但也获得重要捐赠，包括 1100 万美元的蒂姆斯艺术中心经费，以及 1998 年为本科生奖学金捐出的 350 万美元。

• In 2005 Indira Samarasekera became the university's 12th president, though the 2008 financial crisis cut its endowment by more than 100 million dollars.2005 年英迪拉·萨马拉塞克拉出任第 12 任校长，但 2008 年金融危机使学校捐赠基金缩水逾 1 亿美元。

• Provincial funding cuts continued in 2013, 2019 and 2020, when the university faced reductions of up to 110 million dollars and planned hundreds of job losses.省级经费削减在 2013、2019 与 2020 年持续，学校面临最高达 1.1 亿美元的削减，并计划裁撤数百个岗位。

• The university restructured its faculties in 2021, reducing the number of faculties while keeping Augustana, Campus Saint-Jean and Native Studies as stand-alone units.学校于 2021 年重组学院结构，精简学院数量，同时保留奥古斯塔那、圣让与原住民研究三个独立学院。

• In April 2026 two former students and an associate professor launched a charter challenge against the university over the dismantling of a Palestine solidarity encampment.2026 年 4 月，两名前学生与一名副教授就学校拆除一处声援巴勒斯坦的营地提起宪章诉讼。

Academics

• The university offers about 388 undergraduate and 500 graduate programmes through 18 faculties and two affiliated colleges, St. Joseph's College and St. Stephen's College.学校通过 18 个学院与圣约瑟夫学院、圣斯蒂芬学院两个附属学院，提供约 388 个本科与 500 个研究生项目。

• The faculties cover agricultural, life and environmental sciences, arts, business, education, engineering, extension, graduate studies, kinesiology, law, medicine and dentistry, native studies, nursing, pharmacy, rehabilitation medicine, science and public health.各学院涵盖农业生命与环境科学、文理、商学、教育、工程、推广教育、研究生、人体运动学、法学、医学与牙医、原住民研究、护理、药学、康复医学、理学与公共卫生。

• The Alberta School of Business was the first Canadian business school accredited by AACSB, in 1968, and is the longest-accredited in the country.阿尔伯塔商学院于 1968 年成为加拿大首个获国际商学院协会认证的商学院，也是全国认证历史最久的。

• In 2023-24 the university had 44,059 full-time-equivalent students and about 4,000 academic staff, and tuition for a typical arts undergraduate is about 5,000 Canadian dollars a year.2023 至 2024 学年学校有全日制当量学生 44059 人与约 4000 名学术教师，普通文科本科生学费约为每年 5000 加元。

• Its professors have won 41 3M Teaching Fellowships since 1986, more than any other Canadian university, along with 2,599 Academic All-Canadians.其教授自 1986 年以来共获 41 项 3M 教学奖，为加拿大高校之最，另有 2599 人次获「学业与体育双优」称号。

• Seventy-eight Rhodes Scholarships have been awarded to its students and alumni.其学生与校友共获得 78 项罗德奖学金。

• The Faculty of Law is the oldest law school in western Canada, and the university runs Canada's only stand-alone faculty of native studies.其法学院是加拿大西部最古老的法学院，学校还设有全国唯一的独立原住民研究学院。

• The Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine is the only stand-alone faculty in North America dedicated to rehabilitation science, and the School of Public Health was Canada's first.其康复医学院是北美唯一专注康复科学的独立学院，公共卫生学院则是加拿大首个。

• The University of Alberta Library holds more than 10.6 million items, ranks 11th in North America and is the second-largest in Canada by volumes after the University of Toronto.阿尔伯塔大学图书馆藏书逾 1060 万件，在北美术排名第 11，按藏书量在加拿大仅次于多伦多大学。

• Research income from external sources reaches nearly 500 million dollars a year, and the university houses more than 400 research laboratories.学校每年获外部科研经费近 5 亿美元，并拥有 400 多个研究实验室。

• The university is a member of the U15 group of Canadian research universities and of the Worldwide Universities Network.学校是加拿大 U15 研究型大学联盟与世界大学联盟的成员。

• Its Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry is known internationally for research in diabetes, obesity, virology, cardiology, cancer and spinal injury rehabilitation.其医学与牙医学院在糖尿病、肥胖、病毒学、心脏病学、癌症与脊髓损伤康复研究方面享有国际声誉。

• Researchers here developed the Edmonton Protocol for treating Type 1 diabetes, first used on a patient in 1999, and refined the pancreatic extract that made insulin usable in humans.该校研究人员开发了治疗 1 型糖尿病的「埃德蒙顿方案」，1999 年首次用于病人，并提纯了使胰岛素可用于人体的胰腺提取物。

• The virologist Michael Houghton, a Canada Excellence Research Chair, co-discovered the hepatitis C virus and later showed that a vaccine from one strain could work against all known strains.加拿大卓越研究讲席教授、病毒学家迈克尔·霍顿共同发现了丙型肝炎病毒，并证明由一种毒株制成的疫苗可对全部已知毒株有效。

• The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, based at the university, is a leading centre for machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the computing science department ranks among Canada's top four.设于该校的阿尔伯塔机器智能研究所是机器学习与人工智能的领先中心，其计算机科学系位列加拿大前四。

• The university runs the National Institute for Nanotechnology building, opened in 2006, and operated a SLOWPOKE-2 nuclear research reactor from 1977 until 2017.学校拥有 2006 年启用的国家纳米技术研究所大楼，其 SLOWPOKE-2 核研究反应堆自 1977 年运行至 2017 年。

• The Faculty of Extension created the CKUA public radio station in 1927 and the Banff School of Fine Arts in 1933, and the university hosts the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.推广教育学院于 1927 年创办 CKUA 公共电台、1933 年创办班夫美术学院，学校还设有加拿大乌克兰研究所。

Campus

• The main North Campus lies on the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton and has 150 buildings on 92 hectares of land.北校区位于埃德蒙顿北萨斯喀彻温河南岸，占地 92 公顷，有 150 栋建筑。

• The university has five campuses in all: North and South campuses and Campus Saint-Jean in Edmonton, the Augustana Campus in Camrose, and a staff centre in Calgary.学校共有五个校区：埃德蒙顿的北校区、南校区与圣让校区，康罗斯的奥古斯塔那校区，以及卡尔加里的教职员中心。

• The South Campus, two kilometres south of the North Campus, hosts the Edmonton Research Station experimental farms and the Saville Community Sports Centre.南校区位于北校区以南两公里，设有埃德蒙顿研究站实验农场与萨维尔社区体育中心。

• Campus Saint-Jean, five kilometres east of the main campus, is the only French-language university campus west of Manitoba.圣让校区位于主校区以东五公里，是马尼托巴以西唯一的法语大学校区。

• The Augustana Campus in Camrose was created in 2004 when the former Augustana University College merged with the university.康罗斯的奥古斯塔那校区成立于 2004 年，由原奥古斯塔那大学学院并入学校而设。

• Enterprise Square, in the former Hudson's Bay department store in downtown Edmonton, opened in 2008 and houses the Faculty of Extension and the alumni association.企业广场设于埃德蒙顿市中心原哈德逊湾百货大楼内，2008 年启用，容纳推广教育学院与校友会。

• The 400-million-dollar Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science opened in 2011, housing physics and interdisciplinary research groups.造价 4 亿加元的百年跨学科科学中心于 2011 年启用，容纳物理系与跨学科研究团队。

• The health sciences precinct includes the Katz Group Centre and the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation, built with a 28-million-dollar gift from the Li Ka Shing Foundation.健康科学区包括卡茨集团中心与李嘉诚健康研究创新中心，后者由李嘉诚基金会 2800 万美元捐赠建成。

• The Dentistry and Pharmacy Building, with its distinctive cupola, appeared on a Canada Post stamp issued in 2008 for the university's centenary.带独特穹顶的牙医与药学楼，曾出现在加拿大邮政 2008 年为学校百年校庆发行的纪念邮票上。

• The Edmonton Light Rail Transit serves the campus through four stations, and the University station is one of the busiest in the city.埃德蒙顿轻铁通过四个车站服务校园，其中大学站是全市最繁忙的车站之一。

Reputation

• The University of Alberta ranks 96th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, tied 118th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 164th in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities.阿尔伯塔大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 96，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 118，2026 至 2027 年度美国新闻全球最佳大学排名第 164。^[1]

• It is usually placed among the top five research universities in Canada and is fourth in the country in the 2027 QS table.学校通常位列加拿大研究型大学前五，在 2027 年 QS 榜中居加拿大第四。

• In the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it was placed 109th, and in the Shanghai ranking its natural sciences are strong.在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 109，其在软科榜中的自然科学实力亦强。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 266,951 works cited 23,035,079 times.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校累计发表论著 266951 篇，被引用 23035079 次。

• Three Nobel laureates are associated with the university: the alumnus Richard E. Taylor for physics in 1990, and the faculty members Derek Walcott for literature in 1992 and Michael Houghton for medicine in 2020.有三位诺贝尔奖得主与学校相关：校友理查德·泰勒获 1990 年物理学奖，教师德里克·沃尔科特获 1992 年文学奖，迈克尔·霍顿获 2020 年医学奖。

• Its faculty also includes Richard S. Sutton, a Turing Award winner and pioneer of reinforcement learning.其教师队伍还包括图灵奖得主、强化学习先驱理查德·萨顿。

• Seventy-eight Rhodes Scholars have come from the university, and it has produced more than 260,000 living graduates.学校培养出 78 位罗德学者，在世校友超过 26 万人。

• In 2022 the university contributed 19.4 billion dollars to Alberta's economy, more than five per cent of the provincial gross domestic product.2022 年学校为阿尔伯塔省经济贡献 194 亿加元，占全省国内生产总值的百分之五以上。

• It ranked 99th in the world for graduate employability in the 2022 QS rankings, and its business, engineering and medical programmes are especially well regarded.在 2022 年 QS 毕业生就业力排名中位列世界第 99，其商科、工程与医学项目尤受认可。

• The university is a member of the U15 and the Worldwide Universities Network, and is a leading institution for the study of Ukraine.学校是 U15 与世界大学联盟成员，也是乌克兰研究的领先机构。

Student life

• The official colours are green and gold, symbolising the prairies and the light of knowledge, and were suggested in 1908 by Marion Kirby Alexander.学校代表色为绿与金，象征草原与知识之光，由玛丽昂·柯比·亚历山大在 1908 年提议。

• The coat of arms, adopted in its present form in 1994, shows the topography of Alberta, a book of learning, a great horned owl and pronghorn and golden bear supporters.现行校徽于 1994 年定型，饰有阿尔伯塔地形、象征学问的书本、省鸟大角鸮，以及叉角羚与金熊两只扶盾兽。

• The student body is represented by the University of Alberta Students' Union and the Graduate Student Association, and there are more than 450 student clubs.学生由阿尔伯塔大学学生会与研究生会代表，校内有 450 多个学生社团。

• The Students' Union Building, opened in 1967, is the centre of student activity, and the main student media are the newspaper The Gateway and the radio station CJSR-FM.学生会大楼 1967 年启用，是学生活动的中心，主要学生媒体为报纸《门户》与电台 CJSR-FM。

• Fraternities and sororities were banned from 1909 to 1929 by the first president, and were recognised again after his departure.兄弟会与姐妹会曾于 1909 至 1929 年被首任校长禁止，直到其离任后才重新获认可。

• Men's varsity teams are the Golden Bears and women's teams the Pandas, competing in U Sports, and together they have won 68 national championships since 1961.男子校队称金熊队、女子校队称熊猫队，参加加拿大大学体育联盟，自 1961 年以来共夺得 68 项全国冠军。

• The men's ice hockey team is the most successful, with 15 national championships, and the Saville Community Sports Centre hosts 14 varsity teams.男子冰球队最为成功，共获 15 项全国冠军，萨维尔社区体育中心则承办 14 支校队的比赛。

• The university has held an annual Pride Week each March since 2013, including a parade across the North Campus.自 2013 年起学校每年三月举办「骄傲周」，其中包括横穿北校区的游行。

Notable people

• Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, was the political sponsor of the university and later served as its third chancellor.阿尔伯塔首任省长亚历山大·卢瑟福是学校建校的政治推动者，后来还出任学校第三任校监。

• Henry Marshall Tory, the university's first president, guided its early growth and the recruitment of its first professors.学校首任校长亨利·马歇尔·托里主持了学校早期发展与首批教授的聘任。

• The physicist Richard E. Taylor, an alumnus, shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the poet Derek Walcott, who taught here, won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.校友、物理学家理查德·泰勒分享 1990 年诺贝尔物理学奖，曾在此任教的诗人德里克·沃尔科特获 1992 年诺贝尔文学奖。

• Michael Houghton, a faculty member and Canada Excellence Research Chair, shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.教师、加拿大卓越研究讲席教授迈克尔·霍顿因发现丙型肝炎病毒分享 2020 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Richard S. Sutton, a professor here, won the Turing Award for his pioneering work on reinforcement learning.该校教授理查德·萨顿因在强化学习领域的开创性工作获得图灵奖。

• Raymond Lemieux, who first synthesised sucrose, won the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in 1992.首次人工合成蔗糖的雷蒙德·勒米厄于 1992 年获阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦世界科学奖。

• The physician James Collip refined the pancreatic extract that made insulin usable in humans, and the surgeon John Callaghan performed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1956.医生詹姆斯·科利普提纯了使胰岛素可用于人体的胰腺提取物，外科医生约翰·卡拉汉则于 1956 年完成首例成功的开心手术。

• Joe Clark, the 16th prime minister of Canada, and Beverley McLachlin, the first woman to serve as Chief Justice of Canada, are both graduates.加拿大第 16 任总理乔·克拉克与加拿大首位女性首席大法官贝弗莉·麦克拉克林都是该校毕业生。

• Other political alumni include Peter Lougheed and Rachel Notley, both premiers of Alberta, Roland Michener, a governor general of Canada, and George Stanley, the designer of the Canadian flag.其他政界校友包括阿尔伯塔省省长彼得·洛希德与蕾切尔·诺特利、加拿大总督罗兰·米切纳，以及加拿大国旗设计者乔治·斯坦利。

• In business, alumni include Daryl Katz, owner of the Edmonton Oilers, and Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, co-founders of the video game company BioWare.商界校友包括埃德蒙顿油人队老板达里尔·卡茨，以及电子游戏公司 BioWare 的联合创始人格雷格·泽舒克与雷·穆兹卡。

• The immunologist Tak Wah Mak, who discovered the T-cell receptor, and the author Jordan Peterson of 12 Rules for Life are among its graduates.发现 T 细胞受体的免疫学家麦德华，以及《人生十二法则》作者乔丹·彼得森，都是该校毕业生。