University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., chartered on 6 March 1856 and the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland.马里兰大学帕克分校是美国马里兰州大学公园市的一所公立赠地研究型大学，紧邻华盛顿特区，1856 年 3 月 6 日获特许设立，是马里兰大学系统的旗舰校。

It is the largest university in Maryland and in the Washington metropolitan area, offering more than 200 degree-granting programmes through twelve schools and colleges, including 113 undergraduate majors, 107 master's programmes and 83 doctoral programmes.它是马里兰州与华盛顿都会区规模最大的大学，通过 12 个学院提供 200 多个学位项目，其中本科专业 113 个、硕士项目 107 个、博士项目 83 个。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 it tied for 252nd place, it placed 123rd in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, ranked 82nd in a tie in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 and stood 57th in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 252 名，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 123 名，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中并列第 82 名，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 57 名。

History

• The forerunner of the university was chartered on 6 March 1856 as the Maryland Agricultural College, a private institution intended to teach scientific agriculture.该校前身于 1856 年 3 月 6 日以「马里兰农业学院」之名获特许设立，为一所讲授农业科学的私立学校。
• Charles Benedict Calvert, a descendant of the first Lord Baltimore who later sat in the United States House of Representatives, bought 420 acres of the Riversdale estate in 1858 and served as acting president from 1859 to 1860.第一代巴尔的摩男爵的后裔、后任联邦众议员的查尔斯·本尼迪克特·卡尔弗特于 1858 年购得里弗斯代尔庄园的 420 英亩土地，并在 1859 至 1860 年间代理校长职务。
• The first 34 students entered the Maryland Agricultural College on 5 October 1859, and the college became a land-grant institution in February 1864.1859 年 10 月 5 日首批 34 名学生入学，1864 年 2 月该校成为赠地学院。
• During the Civil War Confederate troops under Brigadier General Bradley Tyler Johnson marched past the college on 12 July 1864 as part of Jubal Early's raid on Washington.内战期间，布拉德利·泰勒·约翰逊准将率领的南方邦联部队于 1864 年 7 月 12 日途经该校，参与了朱巴尔·厄尔利突袭华盛顿的行动。
• Falling enrolment forced the college into bankruptcy after the war, part of its land was sold off and the campus was used for two years as a boys' preparatory school.战后入学人数骤降使学院破产，部分土地被出售，校园在两年间被用作男童预备学校。
• The Maryland legislature took half ownership in 1866, and the school reopened in October 1867 with only 11 students.1866 年马里兰州议会取得半数所有权，学校于 1867 年 10 月复课，当时仅有 11 名学生。
• The former Confederate admiral Franklin Buchanan became president in 1868 and enrollment rose to 80 by the time he resigned, allowing the school to clear its debts, and the former Confederate major general Samuel Jones became president in 1873.前邦联海军将领富兰克林·布坎南于 1868 年出任校长，到他辞职时入学人数升至 80 人，学校得以偿清债务；前邦联少将塞缪尔·琼斯于 1873 年接任校长。
• On 29 November 1912 a fire destroyed student housing, school records and most academic buildings, leaving only Morrill Hall standing, and all but two of the students returned to continue their classes.1912 年 11 月 29 日的火灾烧毁了学生宿舍、学校档案与大部分教学建筑，仅莫里尔楼幸存，除两名学生外全体返校继续上课。
• Morrill Hall, built in 1898, remains the oldest instructional building in use on the campus, and Calvert Hall of 1914 was the first building erected after the fire.建于 1898 年的莫里尔楼仍是校园内仍在使用的最古老教学建筑；1914 年的卡尔弗特楼是火灾后建成的第一座建筑。
• The state bought the college during the governorship of Phillips Lee Goldsborough, took control in 1916 and renamed it Maryland State College, and in the same year Elizabeth Gambrill Hook and Charlotte Ann Vaux became its first female students.菲利普斯·李·戈兹伯勒任州长期间州政府收购该校并于 1916 年接手管理，将其更名为马里兰州立学院；同年伊丽莎白·甘布里尔·胡克与夏洛特·安·沃克斯成为首批女生。
• On 9 April 1920 the college became part of the existing University of Maryland, replacing St. John's College in Annapolis as the university's undergraduate campus, and the graduate school awarded its first doctorates that year with enrollment reaching 500.1920 年 4 月 9 日该学院并入既有的马里兰大学，取代安纳波利斯的圣约翰学院成为本科校区；同年研究生院授予首批博士学位，在校人数达到 500 人。
• The university was accredited by the Association of American Universities in 1925, and it was elected to full membership of that association in 1969.该校于 1925 年获美国大学协会认证，并于 1969 年被选为该协会正式成员。
• The first Black students enrolled in 1951, by which time enrollment had grown to almost 10,000 students including about 4,000 women.1951 年首批黑人学生入学，当时在校人数已接近 10000 人，其中女性约 4000 人。
• President Wilson H. Elkins raised academic standards from 1957 and created one of the first academic probation plans, under which 1,550 students, or 18 per cent of the student body, faced expulsion in its first year.1957 年起校长威尔逊·埃尔金斯提高学术标准并创设美国最早的学业警告制度之一，实施首年即有 1550 名学生（占全体学生 18%）面临退学。
• On 19 October 1957 Queen Elizabeth II attended a college football game at the university during her first tour of the United States, watching Maryland beat North Carolina 21 to 7 in a match since called the Queen's Game.1957 年 10 月 19 日，伊丽莎白二世女王在首次访美期间到该校观看一场美式足球比赛，马里兰以 21 比 7 击败北卡罗来纳，此役后被称为「女王之战」。
• A chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at the university in 1964, and enrollment reached 38,679 by the autumn of 1985.1964 年该校设立美国大学优等生荣誉学会分会；到 1985 年秋季在校人数达 38679 人。
• In 1981 Barbara A. Williams became the first Black woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in astronomy.1981 年芭芭拉·威廉姆斯成为美国首位获得天文学博士学位的黑人女性。
• A restructuring of Maryland higher education in 1988 designated the campus as the flagship of the newly formed University of Maryland System, renamed the University System of Maryland in 1997, and gave it the formal name University of Maryland, College Park.1988 年马里兰州高等教育重组将该校定为新设马里兰大学系统的旗舰校（该系统 1997 年更名为马里兰大学系统），并正式定名为马里兰大学帕克分校。
• Legislation passed in 1997 allows the campus to be known simply as the University of Maryland in recognition of its role as the flagship of the system.1997 年通过的立法允许该校直接称「马里兰大学」，以承认其作为系统旗舰校的地位。
• The National Archives at College Park opened in 1994 on land adjoining the campus donated by the university after lobbying by President William Kirwan and congressional leaders.美国国家档案馆大学公园分馆于 1994 年在紧邻校园、由校方捐赠的土地上开馆，此前校长威廉·柯万与国会领袖为此游说。
• In 2017 the A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation gave 219.5 million dollars to the university, then among the largest philanthropic gifts ever made to a public university in the United States.2017 年 A·詹姆斯与艾丽斯·克拉克基金会向该校捐赠 2.195 亿美元，为当时美国公立大学收到的最大额慈善捐赠之一。

Academics

• The university offers 127 undergraduate degrees and 112 graduate degrees through twelve colleges and schools, ranging from agriculture and natural resources to journalism, public policy and information studies.该校通过 12 个学院提供 127 个本科学位与 112 个研究生学位，涵盖从农业与自然资源到新闻、公共政策与信息研究等领域。
• Its eleven or twelve schools and colleges include the A. James Clark School of Engineering, the Robert H. Smith School of Business, the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences and the School of Public Policy.其学院包括 A·詹姆斯·克拉克工程学院、罗伯特·史密斯商学院、菲利普·梅里尔新闻学院、计算机数学与自然科学学院以及公共政策学院。
• The university spent about 1.103 billion dollars on research and development in fiscal year 2020, ranking it sixteenth nationally, and it describes a joint research enterprise of 1.4 billion dollars.该校 2020 财年研发支出约 11.03 亿美元，居全美第 16 位；校方称其联合科研体量达 14 亿美元。
• Proximity to Washington brings funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.邻近华盛顿使该校获得国家卫生研究院、美国国家航空航天局、国家标准与技术研究院、食品药品管理局、国家安全局与国土安全部等联邦机构的资助。
• The Space Systems Laboratory studies human-robotic interaction for astronautics and contains the only neutral buoyancy facility at a university, and the Joint Global Change Research Institute was formed in 2001 with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.空间系统实验室研究航天领域的人机协作，拥有全美高校中唯一的中性浮力设施；全球变化联合研究所于 2001 年与太平洋西北国家实验室共同组建。
• The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, known as START, was launched in 2005 as a center of excellence supported by the Department of Homeland Security.恐怖主义与反恐对策研究国家联盟（START）于 2005 年启动，是受国土安全部支持的卓越中心之一。
• The 150-acre research park begun in 2004, formerly called M Square and now known as the Discovery District, hosts facilities of the Department of Defense, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction of NOAA.2004 年启动的 150 英亩科研园区原名 M Square、现称「探索区」，入驻了国防部、食品药品管理局与美国国家海洋和大气管理局国家天气与气候预报中心的设施。
• For the class entering in the autumn of 2022 the university received 56,766 applications and accepted 19,451, a rate of 34.3 per cent, with 4,742 enrolling for a yield of 24.4 per cent.针对 2022 年秋季入学的新生班，学校收到 56766 份申请、录取 19451 人，录取率 34.3%，实际入学 4742 人，入学率 24.4%。
• The freshman retention rate is 95.5 per cent and 88.3 per cent of students graduate within six years, and the university is test-optional with middle-fifty SAT composite scores of 1340 to 1490 among those submitting scores.新生保留率为 95.5%，六年毕业率 88.3%；学校采取「可选送分」政策，送分学生的 SAT 总分中位数区间为 1340 至 1490 分。
• Living-learning programmes group students with shared interests in the same residential community and include CIVICUS, focused on politics and community service, Hinman CEOs for entrepreneurs and the Language House, together with several programmes under the Honors College.「学习生活一体化」项目让志趣相近的学生同住一个社区，包括聚焦政治与社区服务的 CIVICUS、面向创业者的 Hinman CEOs 与语言之家，另有若干荣誉学院下设项目。
• The university has been ranked among the top ten universities in the Princeton Review survey of schools for innovation and entrepreneurship, and among the top producing institutions of Fulbright students and scholars.该校多次进入《普林斯顿评论》创新与创业院校调查前十，并被列为富布赖特学生与学者派出最多的院校之一。
• The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship supports student and alumni ventures, and alumni-founded companies associated with the university include Google and the apparel firm Under Armour.丁曼创业中心支持学生与校友创业，与该校相关的校友创办企业包括谷歌与运动服装公司安德玛。
• The university has been ranked first in the United States for the number of Boren Scholarship recipients and among the top colleges contributing volunteers to the Peace Corps and to Teach for America.该校曾以博伦奖学金获奖人数居全美第一，并一直是向和平队与「为美国而教」输送志愿者最多的院校之一。
• Faculty and alumni honours include four Nobel Prizes held by faculty, two by alumni, two Fields Medals and several National Medals of Science.该校教师与校友的荣誉包括教师获得的 4 项诺贝尔奖、校友获得的 2 项、2 枚菲尔兹奖与若干美国国家科学奖章。
• The university joined the Common App in 2020, having used the application of the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success since the 2017-2018 admissions cycle.该校于 2020 年加入通用申请系统，此前自 2017-2018 招生季起使用「可及、可负担与成功联盟」的申请平台。

Campus

• The campus covers 1,250 acres and is centred on McKeldin Mall, described as the largest academic mall in the United States, flanked by McKeldin Library and the Thomas V. Miller, Jr. Administration Building.校园占地 1250 英亩，以 McKeldin 大草坪为中心，该草坪被称为全美最大的学术草坪，两侧为 McKeldin 图书馆与小托马斯·米勒行政楼。
• Morrill Hall and the Morrill Quad preserve the original centre of the campus south of the mall, while the Rossborough Inn, built between 1798 and 1812, is the oldest building on campus and predates the university itself.莫里尔楼与莫里尔方庭保留了大草坪以南的校园原中心；建于 1798 至 1812 年间的罗斯伯勒客栈是校园内最古老的建筑，比大学本身更古老。
• Regents Drive runs past the Memorial Chapel and the campus farm and crosses Campus Drive at the M, a mound planted with flowers in the shape of the university's initial.校董大道经过纪念礼拜堂与校园农场，在与校园大道交汇处是「M」花坛，即以鲜花拼出校名首字母的土丘。
• The main entrance from Baltimore Avenue is called North Gate and features an ornate gatehouse honouring the founders, and five entrances to the campus are in regular use.自巴尔的摩大道进入的主校门称北门，设有纪念创办人的华丽门楼；校园共有五个常用入口。
• The campus holds 7,500 documented trees and garden plantings, which led the American Public Gardens Association to designate it the University of Maryland Arboretum and Botanical Garden in 2008.校园有记录在册的树木与园林植物 7500 株，美国公共园林协会据此于 2008 年将该校认定为马里兰大学树木园与植物园。
• Nearly 400 acres of urban forest lie on the campus, the Arbor Day Foundation has named the university to its Tree Campus USA list, and the Paint Branch Trail and stream cut through the grounds.校园内有近 400 英亩城市森林，植树节基金会将其列入「树木校园美国」名录，佩因特支流步道与溪流穿园而过。
• Knight Hall, the first building on the campus to earn LEED Gold certification, opened in April 2010 as the home of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.奈特楼是校园首座获 LEED 金级认证的建筑，2010 年 4 月启用，作为菲利普·梅里尔新闻学院的院馆。
• The 140-acre University of Maryland Golf Course and the campus observatory sit at the northern edge, and in 2021 President Darryll Pines pledged that the university would reach carbon neutrality by Earth Day 2025.占地 140 英亩的马里兰大学高尔夫球场与校园天文台位于校区北缘；2021 年校长达里尔·派恩斯承诺学校将在 2025 年地球日前实现碳中和。
• The Heritage residential community completed in 2024 added Johnson Whittle Hall, Pyon Chen Hall and Yahentamitsi Dining Hall, the last being the first building on campus named in honour of Indigenous people.2024 年建成的「传承」住宿社区新增约翰逊·惠特尔楼、派恩·陈楼与 Yahentamitsi 食堂，后者是校园首座以原住民命名的建筑。
• A free shuttle service called Shuttle-UM serves students and staff, the Washington Metro Green Line stops at College Park-University of Maryland beside the MARC Camden Line, and Purple Line railcars began pre-service testing through the campus in April 2026.名为 Shuttle-UM 的免费穿梭巴士服务师生；华盛顿地铁绿线在大学公园-马里兰大学站设站，紧邻 MARC 坎登线；紫线列车于 2026 年 4 月开始在校园内进行运营前测试。

Reputation

• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 placed the university 82nd in the world out of 2,250 institutions, thirteenth among public American institutions and thirty-second nationally.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校在 2250 所院校中位列世界第 82 名、美国公立院校第 13 名、全国第 32 名。
• Four of its subjects reached the global top fifty in that edition, namely meteorology and atmospheric sciences at twentieth, geosciences at twenty-fourth, physics at twenty-eighth and space science at thirty-first.该版中有四个学科进入全球前五十：气象与大气科学第 20 名、地球科学第 24 名、物理学第 28 名与空间科学第 31 名。
• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities the university ranked 57th in the world, its strongest placing among the four main global tables.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列世界第 57 名，是它在四大世界主榜中的最好名次。
• The QS World University Rankings 2027 placed it in a tie at 252nd, while the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 placed it 123rd, a gap that reflects QS weighting reputation surveys more heavily.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将其并列在第 252 名，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列在第 123 名，差距反映了 QS 更重声誉问卷的权重设计。
• In the 2026 U.S. News national rankings the university stood 42nd among national universities and 16th among top public schools, its highest ever placing among public institutions.在 U.S. News 2026 年度国内排名中，该校在全国性大学中排第 42 名、在顶尖公立校中排第 16 名，为公立校中的历史最高位次。
• Three dozen of its graduate programmes placed in the top twenty-five of the 2027 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools list.其研究生项目中有三十余个进入 U.S. News 2027 年度最佳研究生院榜单的前二十五名。
• The National Science Foundation recorded combined research and development spending of 1.14 billion dollars in 2021, ranking the university seventeenth among American universities.美国国家科学基金会记录该校 2021 年研发支出合计 11.4 亿美元，在美国高校中排第 17 名。
• The university is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, is a member of the Association of American Universities and has been labelled a Public Ivy.该校被列为「R1：研究活动极高的博士型大学」，是美国大学协会成员，并被称为「公立常春藤」。
• The university announced in 2021 that it had raised 1.5 billion dollars in donations since 2018, the largest private giving total in its history at that point.该校于 2021 年宣布自 2018 年以来募得 15 亿美元捐赠，为当时该校历史上最高的私人捐赠总额。

Student life

• The university uses the Calvert family motto Fatti maschii, parole femine, an Italian phrase rendered as strong deeds and gentle words, which it shares with the state of Maryland.该校沿用卡尔弗特家族传下的意大利语箴言，意为「行为刚强，言语温和」，马里兰州亦用此语。
• The athletic teams are the Maryland Terrapins, the mascot is a diamondback terrapin named Testudo, Latin for tortoise, and the nickname was coined in 1932 by the former president and football coach H. C. Curly Byrd.运动队称「马里兰淡水龟」，吉祥物是名为 Testudo（拉丁语「龟」）的钻纹龟，「淡水龟」这一昵称由前校长兼足球教练柯利·伯德于 1932 年提出。
• The official colours are red, white, black and gold drawn from the Maryland state flag, making Maryland the only NCAA Division I school with four official colours.官方校色取自马里兰州旗的红、白、黑、金四色，使该校成为全美大学体育一级联盟中唯一拥有四种官方颜色的学校。
• Rubbing the nose of the Testudo statues around the campus is held to bring good luck, and students queue to do so before examinations.校园内多座 Testudo 雕像被摸鼻子能带来好运，考试前学生常排隊等候触摸。
• The Diamondback, the independent student newspaper, was founded in 1910 as The Triangle and renamed in 1921 after the terrapin, and it publishes online daily with a circulation of 17,000 and advertising revenue above one million dollars.独立学生报纸《菱斑龟》1910 年以《三角》之名创办，1921 年以淡水龟之名改称，现每日在线出版，发行量 17000 份，广告年收入逾百万美元。
• Alumni of the newspaper include the television writer David Simon, the cartoonist Jeff Kinney, creator of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Aaron McGruder, creator of The Boondocks, and the comics artist Frank Cho.该报的校友包括电视编剧大卫·西蒙、《小屁孩日记》系列作者漫画家杰夫·金尼、《穷街夸夸》作者阿伦·麦格鲁德，以及漫画艺术家弗兰克·赵。
• WMUC-FM broadcasts at 90.5 FM with ten watts as a freeform and sports station staffed by students and volunteers, and its alumni include the broadcasters Connie Chung and Bonnie Bernstein.WMUC-FM 以 90.5 兆赫、10 瓦功率播出，是由学生与志愿者运营的自由格式与体育电台，校友包括主持人宗毓华与邦妮·伯恩斯坦。
• Maryland Day, an annual open house proposed in 1998 by President Dan Mote and first held in 1999, runs on the last Saturday in April with more than 300 attractions, about 8,000 volunteers and claimed attendance of at least 80,000.「马里兰日」是每年四月的最后一个星期六举办的校园开放日，由校长丹·莫特于 1998 年提出、1999 年首次举办，有 300 多个展示项目、约 8000 名志愿者，主办方称到场人数至少八万。
• Maryland Day absorbed the Ag Day event held by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources since 1925, and the Terrapins football spring game has been played on Maryland Day since 2001, except in 2020 and 2021 when the event was cancelled.马里兰日吸收了农业与自然资源学院自 1925 年起举办的「农业日」，淡水龟足球队的春季对抗赛自 2001 年起在马里兰日举行，2020 与 2021 两年活动取消。
• Residential life is divided between the North Campus communities of Cambridge, Denton, Oakland, Ellicott and the Courtyards and the South Campus communities of North Hill, South Hill, Leonardtown and South Campus Commons, and residence halls are named after Maryland towns.住宿分为北校区的剑桥、丹顿、奥克兰、埃利科特与「庭院」社区，以及南校区的北山、南山、伦纳德镇与南校区公共社区；宿舍楼多以马里兰州的城镇命名。
• Three dining halls serve the campus, the 251 North hall in the Denton Community, Yahentamitsi beside the freshman residence halls and the South Campus Dining Hall just south of McKeldin Library.校园有三个食堂：丹顿社区的 251 North、紧邻新生宿舍楼的 Yahentamitsi，以及 McKeldin 图书馆以南的南校区食堂。
• About 16 per cent of undergraduates took part in fraternities and sororities in 2017, and the university supports 48 club sports alongside its twenty varsity teams.2017 年约 16% 的本科生参加兄弟会与姐妹会；学校在 20 支校队之外还支持 48 支俱乐部运动队。
• The Mighty Sound of Maryland marching band performs at all home football games and plays in the stands during the basketball season.「马里兰强音」行进乐队在所有主场足球比赛中演出，并在篮球赛季于看台演奏。

Notable people

• Charles Benedict Calvert founded the school and supplied its land, while Franklin Buchanan and Samuel Jones, both former Confederate officers, led it out of bankruptcy in the late nineteenth century.查尔斯·本尼迪克特·卡尔弗特创办该校并提供了土地；富兰克林·布坎南与塞缪尔·琼斯这两位前邦联军官在十九世纪末带领学校走出破产。
• Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956, taught Spanish language and literature at the university.1956 年获诺贝尔文学奖的西班牙诗人胡安·拉蒙·希梅内斯曾在该校讲授西班牙语与文学。
• William Daniel Phillips won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light, and John C. Mather shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the cosmic microwave background.威廉·丹尼尔·菲利普斯因开发激光冷却与俘获原子的方法获 1997 年诺贝尔物理学奖；约翰·马瑟因关于宇宙微波背景辐射的工作共享 2006 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Thomas Schelling received the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for applying game theory to conflict and cooperation, and Sylvester James Gates received the National Medal of Science in 2013.托马斯·谢林因把博弈论用于冲突与合作研究获 2005 年诺贝尔经济学奖；西尔维斯特·詹姆斯·盖茨于 2013 年获美国国家科学奖章。
• The mathematician Sergei Novikov won the Fields Medal in 1970 while on the faculty, and the alumnus Charles Fefferman won the Fields Medal in 1978.数学家谢尔盖·诺维科夫在校任教期间获 1970 年菲尔兹奖，校友查尔斯·费弗曼获 1978 年菲尔兹奖。
• The alumni Herbert Hauptman won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Raymond Davis Jr. won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, and George Dantzig received the 1975 National Medal of Science for linear programming.校友赫伯特·豪普特曼获 1985 年诺贝尔化学奖，小雷蒙德·戴维斯获 2002 年诺贝尔物理学奖；乔治·丹齐格因线性规划获 1975 年美国国家科学奖章。
• Michael Fisher won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1980 and the Boltzmann Medal in 1983, and James A. Yorke won the 2003 Japan Prize for his work on chaotic systems.迈克尔·费希尔于 1980 年获沃尔夫物理学奖、1983 年获玻尔兹曼奖章；詹姆斯·约克因混沌系统研究获 2003 年日本奖。
• Sergey Brin, a graduate in mathematics and computer science, co-founded Google, and Kevin Plank founded the apparel company Under Armour after playing football for the university.数学与计算机科学专业毕业生谢尔盖·布林是谷歌的联合创始人；凯文·普兰克在为该校打橄榄球之后创办了运动服装公司安德玛。
• Jim Henson created the Muppets, Larry David co-created Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and David Simon created the television series The Wire.吉姆·亨森创造了布偶，拉里·戴维参与创作《宋飞正传》与《消消气》，大卫·西蒙创作了电视剧《火线》。
• Steny Hoyer has served as House Democratic Whip in the United States House of Representatives, and Michael D. Griffin served as Administrator of NASA.斯滕尼·霍耶长期担任美国众议院民主党党鞭；迈克尔·格里芬曾任美国国家航空航天局局长。
• Carly Fiorina served as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, Chris Kubasik as president of Lockheed Martin, Jim Walton as president of CNN and Ed Snider as chairman of Comcast Spectacor.卡莉·菲奥里纳曾任惠普首席执行官，克里斯·库巴西克曾任洛克希德·马丁总裁，吉姆·沃尔顿曾任有线电视新闻网总裁，埃德·斯奈德曾任康卡斯特斯佩克塔科尔董事长。
• Connie Chung, one of the first women of Chinese descent to anchor a American national network newscast, graduated from the university in journalism, and Carl Bernstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Watergate, attended without graduating.宗毓华是最早主持美国全国电视网新闻节目的华裔女性之一，毕业于该校新闻专业；因报道水门事件获普利策奖的卡尔·伯恩斯坦曾在该校就读但未毕业。
• Gayle King is a television host, Norman Boomer Esiason a former National Football League quarterback, and Judith Resnik, a NASA astronaut, died in the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L.盖尔·金是电视主持人，诺曼·埃西亚森是前职业橄榄球四分卫；航天员朱迪思·雷斯尼克在挑战者号航天飞机 STS-51-L 任务失事中罹难。
• Donors whose names appear on university buildings include Robert H. Smith and A. James Clark, both graduates of 1950 who each gave more than 45 million dollars, Jeong H. Kim, Robert E. Fischell, Philip Merrill and Brendan Iribe.校舍冠名捐赠人包括同为 1950 届毕业生的罗伯特·史密斯与 A·詹姆斯·克拉克（各捐赠逾 4500 万美元），以及金正浩、罗伯特·菲舍尔、菲利普·梅里尔与布兰登·艾瑞比。