University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst, usually shortened to UMass Amherst, is a public land-grant research university in Amherst in western Massachusetts and the flagship campus of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system, a different institution from UMass Boston马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校（通常简称 UMass Amherst）是位于美国马萨诸塞州西部阿默斯特市的公立赠地研究型大学，是马萨诸塞大学五校区系统的旗舰校区，与马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校是两所不同的学校。

The campus was founded in 1863 under the federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act as the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and it enrolled 31,318 students in fall 2025, the largest undergraduate population of any university in the Commonwealth学校于 1863 年依据联邦《莫里尔赠地学院法案》创办，最初名为马萨诸塞农业学院；2025 年秋季学期在校学生 31,318 人，本科生规模居马萨诸塞州各高校之首。

The university holds the Carnegie classification for doctoral universities with very high research activity, teaches through nine schools and colleges, and was ranked 260th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings while placing 160th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global list学校被卡内基分类列为研究活动极活跃的博士授予大学，下设九个学院开展教学，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 260 名，在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度全球排名中位列第 160 名。

History

• The Massachusetts Agricultural College was chartered on 29 April 1863 under the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, with a mission to teach the agricultural, mechanical and military arts to the citizens of the state马萨诸塞农业学院于 1863 年 4 月 29 日依《莫里尔赠地学院法案》获准设立，办学使命是向本州公民传授农艺、机械与军事技艺。
• First classes were held in the autumn of 1867 on 310 rural acres, when the college had four faculty members, four wooden buildings and 56 students1867 年秋，学校在 310 英亩的乡间土地上首次开课，当时只有四名教师、四座木结构建筑与 56 名学生。
• William S. Clark was appointed president and professor of botany in 1867, recruited a faculty, completed construction and admitted the first class, and is remembered today as one of the traditional founding four along with Levi Stockbridge, Charles Goessmann and Henry Hill Goodell1867 年，威廉·S. 克拉克受聘出任校长兼植物学教授，他组建师资、完成校舍建设并招收首届学生，如今与莱维·斯托克布里奇、查尔斯·格斯曼、亨利·希尔·古德尔并称「四位创办者」。
• In 1871 crews from the Massachusetts Agricultural College defeated Brown University and Harvard University in a regatta at Springfield, the first of the college's athletic reputations1871 年，马萨诸塞农业学院的赛艇队在斯普林菲尔德的划船比赛中击败布朗大学与哈佛大学的队伍，这是该校最早的体育声誉之一。
• The first woman was admitted on a part-time basis in 1875, the first full-time woman student enrolled in 1892, and graduate degrees were authorised in that same year1875 年学校首次以非全日制方式招收女生，1892 年录取第一名全日制女生，研究生学位也在同年获得授权。
• President Henry Hill Goodell drove an expansion in the 1880s that produced the College Drill Hall in 1883, the Old Chapel Library in 1885 and the East and West Experiment Stations in 1886 and 1890校长亨利·希尔·古德尔在十九世纪八十年代推动扩建，先后建成 1883 年的学院操练馆、1885 年的老礼拜堂图书馆，以及 1886 年与 1890 年的东、西试验站。
• The Massachusetts Legislature created the state agricultural experiment station on the campus in 1882 and the Hatch Experiment Station followed in 1887, the two merging in 18941882 年马萨诸塞州议会在校园设立州农业试验站，1887 年又依《哈奇法案》设立哈奇试验站，两者于 1894 年合并。
• The stone chapel in the Romanesque Revival style was built in 1884 and dedicated in 1886, and the campus pond created in 1892 became the setting for an annual rope pull between the freshman and sophomore classes罗马复兴式石砌礼拜堂于 1884 年建成、1886 年落成启用；1892 年开挖的校园池塘成为一年级与二年级学生年度拔河比赛的场地。
• Varsity basketball was introduced in 1902, Draper Hall was built in 1903 as a dining hall and a residence for women, and the first women graduated with the class of 19051902 年学校设立校际篮球项目，1903 年建成兼作食堂与女生宿舍的德雷珀楼，首批女生于 1905 年毕业。
• Frank Waugh established the second undergraduate landscape gardening programme in the United States at the college in 1903, and the Cranberry Station was founded at East Wareham in 1910 under its first director Henry Franklin1903 年，弗兰克·沃在该校创办了全美第二个本科园林学专业；1910 年在东韦勒姆设立蔓越莓试验站，首任站长为亨利·富兰克林。
• The department formed in 1918 out of wartime food production work, first called the Department of Horticultural Manufactures, was the first food science department in the country1918 年因战时食品生产工作而组建的园艺制造系，是全美第一个食品科学系。
• The first purpose-built women's dormitory, the Abigail Adams House, was erected in 1920 on the site now occupied by the Lederle tower1920 年，学校建成第一座专门的女生宿舍阿比盖尔·亚当斯楼，其原址今天为莱德勒塔楼所在地。
• Professor Carl Fellers founded the graduate programme of the Department of Food Technology in 1930 and drew industrial and federal research money to the campus at a time when such funding was rare at land-grant colleges1930 年，卡尔·费勒斯教授创办食品技术系研究生项目，并在赠地学院普遍难以获得外部经费的年代为该校争取到产业界与联邦的科研经费。
• To reflect a broadening curriculum, Massachusetts Agricultural College became Massachusetts State College in 1931, and Goodell Library opened as the campus library in 1935为反映不断拓宽的课程体系，马萨诸塞农业学院于 1931 年更名为马萨诸塞州立学院；1935 年古德尔图书馆落成，成为校园图书馆。
• The Frank A. Waugh Arboretum was founded in 1944 and today holds Level IV accreditation from ArbNet, and a temporary campus operated at Fort Devens from 1946 to 1949 for returning servicemen弗兰克·A. 沃树木园于 1944 年建立，如今获得 ArbNet 四级认证；1946 年至 1949 年，学校在德文斯堡开办临时校区以安置退伍军人。
• Massachusetts State College became the University of Massachusetts in 1947, a change driven by the return of war veterans and by the need to teach engineering and business at low cost1947 年，马萨诸塞州立学院升格为马萨诸塞大学，这一变化源于战后退伍军人返校以及低成本培养工程与商业人才的需要。
• The student-run station WMUA began broadcasting as an AM station in 1949, and by 1954 enrolment had reached 4,000 students1949 年，学生运营的 WMUA 电台以调幅广播起步；到 1954 年，在校生规模已达 4000 人。
• The legislature granted the university fiscal autonomy in 1962, when it had 7,676 students, and by 1964 undergraduate enrolment had jumped to 10,500 as the first baby boomers arrived1962 年州议会赋予学校财政自主权，当年在校生为 7,676 人；到 1964 年，随着首批婴儿潮一代入学，本科生规模跃升至 10,500 人。
• Construction of the Southwest residential area began in 1964, and in 1970 the office of chancellor was established as the chief executive post on each campus of the growing system1964 年，西南住宿区动工；1970 年，扩张中的大学系统在各个校区设立校长（chancellor）办公室，作为各校区的最高行政职位。
• Governor William Weld signed legislation in 1991 creating the five-campus University of Massachusetts with a single president and board of trustees, and in 1996 the Minutemen won the Atlantic 10 and reached the NCAA Final Four1991 年，州长威廉·韦尔德签署立法，组建设单一校长与董事会的马萨诸塞大学五校区系统；1996 年，校篮球队夺得大西洋十联盟冠军并闯入 NCAA 四强。
• Commonwealth College, later renamed Commonwealth Honors College, opened in 1999, and the state legislature designated the campus a research university and the flagship of the system in 20031999 年，英联邦荣誉学院的前身英联邦学院成立；2003 年，州议会正式将该校定为研究型大学与系统旗舰校区。
• The campus began a ten-year capital programme worth about one billion dollars in 2004 and completed the Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community in 2013 with housing for 1,500 students2004 年，学校启动总额约 10 亿美元的十年基本建设计划；2013 年建成英联邦荣誉学院住宿社区，可为 1500 名学生提供住宿。
• The Design Building opened in April 2017 as the most advanced cross-laminated timber building in the United States, and the Mount Ida College campus was absorbed in April 2018 to become the Charles River Campus in Newton2017 年 4 月，设计楼启用，是全美最先进的正交胶合木建筑；2018 年 4 月，学校接收蒙特艾达学院校园，将其改造为位于牛顿市的查尔斯河校区。
• A new seal showing the spire of the Old Chapel was ratified in March 2023, replacing imagery that had matched the state flag since the Second World War, and the university joined the Mid-American Conference in July 20252023 年 3 月，学校批准启用以老礼拜堂尖顶为图案的新校徽，取代自二战以来与州旗图案几乎一致的设计；2025 年 7 月，学校加入美国中部联盟（MAC）。
• For the fall of 2025 the university received a record 53,000 applications, the third consecutive year above 50,000, and welcomed about 5,300 first-year students with an average high school grade point average of 4.062025 年秋季学期，学校收到创纪录的 5.3 万份入学申请，连续第三年超过 5 万份，并迎来约 5,300 名新生，其高中平均绩点为 4.06。

Academics

• Teaching is organised through nine schools and colleges, the College of Education, the Riccio College of Engineering, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the College of Information and Computer Sciences, the College of Natural Sciences, the College of Nursing, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Isenberg School of Management and the School of Public Health and Health Sciences学校通过九个学院组织教学，分别是教育学院、里乔工程学院、人文与艺术学院、信息与计算机科学学院、自然科学学院、护理学院、社会与行为科学学院、艾森伯格管理学院，以及公共卫生与健康科学学院。
• The university awards degrees in five associate, 109 baccalaureate, 77 master's and 48 doctoral programmes, a portfolio far wider than the agricultural curriculum of its 1863 charter学校授予 5 个副学士、109 个学士、77 个硕士与 48 个博士项目学位，这一专业结构远宽于 1863 年建校章程所定的农科课程。
• Fall 2025 enrolment reached 31,318 students, of whom 24,019 were undergraduates and 7,299 were graduate students, and 71.4 per cent of undergraduates were residents of Massachusetts2025 年秋季学期在校生达 31,318 人，其中本科生 24,019 人、研究生 7,299 人，本科生中 71.4% 为马萨诸塞州居民。
• The campus employs 1,514 full-time and 296 part-time academic staff, and it is the only public institution in Massachusetts carrying the Carnegie designation of doctoral university with the highest research activity学校聘有全职教师 1,514 人、兼职教师 296 人，也是马萨诸塞州唯一被卡内基分类列为研究活动最高档博士授予大学的公立高校。
• According to the National Science Foundation the university spent 211 million dollars on research and development in 2018, and in fiscal year 2025 researchers were issued 27 patents and filed 36 applications据美国国家科学基金会数据，学校 2018 年的研发支出为 2.11 亿美元；2025 财年，学校研究人员获得 27 项专利授权，并提交 36 件专利申请。
• The Department of Food Science, descended from the first food science department in the nation formed in 1918, was ranked first in the United States and fifth in the world by U.S. News for 2026-2027源自 1918 年全美首个食品科学系的食品科学系，在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度排名中位列全美第一、全球第五。
• Agricultural Sciences has ranked first in the United States and eighth in the world for seven consecutive editions of that ranking, covering horticulture, food science and nutrition, dairy science and agronomy at more than 500 institutions农业科学在该排名中已连续七届位列全美第一、全球第八，比较范围覆盖 500 多所院校的园艺、食品科学与营养、乳品科学和农学等专业。
• Other strong subject placings in the 2026-2027 global list include space science at forty-eighth, polymer science at ninety-fourth, physics at 152nd, computer science at 201st and engineering at 304th在 2026-2027 年度全球榜单上，学校其他较强学科包括空间科学第 48 名、高分子科学第 94 名、物理学第 152 名、计算机科学第 201 名与工程学第 304 名。
• The College of Natural Sciences houses the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, directed by the environmental and soil chemist Baoshan Xing, and the Department of Food Science headed by Lili He, under dean Mike Fox自然科学学院下设由环境土壤化学家邢宝山任院长的斯托克布里奇农学院，以及由何丽莉任系主任的食品科学系，院长为迈克·福克斯。
• Commonwealth Honors College, founded in 1999, offers a more demanding curriculum to high-performing undergraduates and has been housed since 2013 in a residential community with classrooms and administrative offices1999 年设立的英联邦荣誉学院为成绩优异的本科生提供更高要求的课程，自 2013 年起拥有集教室、行政办公室与住宿于一体的住宿社区。
• Membership of the Five College Consortium lets students take courses and borrow books at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and Smith College, all in the Pioneer Valley作为五校联盟成员，学生可在阿默斯特学院、汉普郡学院、霍山学院与史密斯学院选课和借书，这四所院校均位于先锋谷。
• The university's endowment stood at 672 million dollars for the Amherst campus in fiscal year 2025, within a system-wide total of 1.8 billion dollars2025 财年，阿默斯特校区的捐赠基金为 6.72 亿美元，整个大学系统的捐赠基金总额为 18 亿美元。
• A gift of ten million dollars announced in 2025 funds the Riccio College of Engineering to work on technology and health with UMass Chan Medical School, to build a design curriculum with the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and to create an engineering leadership programme with the Isenberg School of Management2025 年公布的 1000 万美元捐赠用于支持里乔工程学院与马萨诸塞大学陈氏医学院开展技术与健康交叉研究、与人文与艺术学院共建设计课程，并与艾森伯格管理学院合办工程领导力项目。
• Faculty research includes the molecular nose developed by a team led by Vincent Rotello and reported in Nature Nanotechnology in May 2007, and a non-burning polymer created by teams involving Richard Farris, Todd Emrick and Bryan Coughlin教师科研成果包括文森特·罗泰洛领衔团队研制、2007 年 5 月发表于《自然—纳米技术》的「分子鼻」，以及理查德·法里斯、托德·埃姆里克与布莱恩·考夫林参与研发的不燃聚合物。
• The faculty adopted an open-access policy in 2016 to make its scholarship freely available online, and the university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education2016 年，学校教师通过开放获取政策，使本校学术成果可在线免费获取；学校的认证机构为新英格兰高等教育委员会。
• The university runs a ten-year strategic plan covering 2024 to 2034, whose three priorities are talent recruitment and retention, interdisciplinary organisation and the stewardship of resources学校执行覆盖 2024 至 2034 年的十年战略规划，三项优先事项分别是人才引进与留用、跨学科协同的组织架构，以及资源的管理与拓展。

Campus

• The campus covers 1,463 acres, or 5.92 square kilometres, mostly in the town of Amherst with a part in neighbouring Hadley, and extends about one mile from the Campus Center in every direction校园占地 1463 英亩（合 5.92 平方公里），主要在阿默斯特镇境内，一部分位于邻近的哈德利镇，自校园中心向各方向延伸约 1 英里。
• The grounds are arranged in concentric rings, with academic buildings and research laboratories at the centre, seven residential areas and two university apartment complexes around them, and athletics fields and parking on the outer ring校园呈同心环状布局：核心圈是教学楼与研究实验室，其外是七个住宿区与两处学校公寓群，最外圈为运动场、行政小楼与停车场。
• The W. E. B. Du Bois Library rises 26 storeys and 286 feet, making it the tallest academic research library in the world, and its design by Edward Durell Stone uses the bookshelves as structural support杜波依斯图书馆高 26 层、约 286 英尺，是世界上最高的学术研究图书馆，由爱德华·杜雷尔·斯通设计，其书架被纳入建筑结构承重体系。
• That library holds the papers of W. E. B. Du Bois and of Congressman Silvio O. Conte, and its special collections cover social change movements, African American history and culture, labour and industry, and the history of the region该馆藏有杜波依斯的回忆录与文献，以及联邦众议员西尔维奥·O. 孔特的档案，其特藏涵盖社会运动、非裔美国人的历史与文化、劳工与产业，以及本地区的历史。
• Goodell Library, opened in 1935 and named for the eighth president of the college, served as the main library before the Du Bois tower, and the Science and Engineering Library sits in the Lederle Graduate Research Center1935 年启用、以学院第八任校长命名的古德尔图书馆在杜波依斯塔建成之前一直是主图书馆，科学与工程图书馆则设在莱德勒研究生研究中心内。
• The campus has a notable group of modernist buildings from the 1960s and 1970s, including the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center and Hotel by Marcel Breuer, the Southwest Residential Area by Hugh Stubbins Jr., the Fine Arts Center by Kevin Roche and Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium by Gordon Bunshaft校园拥有一批建于二十世纪六七十年代的现代主义建筑，包括马塞尔·布罗伊尔设计的默里·D. 林肯校园中心与酒店、小休·斯塔宾斯设计的西南住宿区、凯文·罗奇设计的美术中心，以及戈登·邦沙夫特设计的麦圭克校友体育场。
• Older dormitories and lecture halls such as French Hall, Fernald Hall, Stockbridge Hall and Flint Laboratory are built in a Georgian Revival style that predates the modernist building campaign弗伦奇楼、弗纳尔德楼、斯托克布里奇楼与弗林特实验室等较老的宿舍楼与教学楼采用乔治复兴式风格，年代早于现代主义建设时期。
• The Charles River Campus in Newton, acquired from Mount Ida College in 2018, provides internships, a veterinary technology programme and graduate study in statistics and business analytics near Boston, and the Henry M. Thomas III Center serves Springfield, twenty-five miles away2018 年从蒙特艾达学院取得的牛顿市查尔斯河校区提供实习通道、兽医技术本科专业以及统计学与商业分析硕士项目，亨利·M. 托马斯三世中心则服务于 25 英里外的斯普林菲尔德。

Reputation

• The 2027 QS World University Rankings placed UMass Amherst 260th in the world, a position shaped by that ranking's heavy weighting of reputation surveys在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校位列全球第 260 名，这一名次受该榜声誉调查权重较大的影响。
• The university did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the gap between its absence there and its 160th place on the U.S. News global list reflects the different data each publisher collects学校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名；它在泰晤士榜单上的缺席与其在《美国新闻与世界报道》全球榜第 160 名的落差，反映出各机构采集的数据口径不同。
• U.S. News ranked the university in a tie for 160th place in the 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, with indicator placings of 161st for global research reputation, 64th for regional research reputation and 407th for publications在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中，学校位列并列第 160 名，其分项指标为全球研究声誉第 161 名、区域研究声誉第 64 名、论文数量第 407 名。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2026 placed the university in the 201 to 300 band, its customary position on a table that rewards Nobel and Fields Medal alumni and highly cited researchers2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将学校列入 201—300 区间，在该榜侧重诺贝尔奖与菲尔兹奖校友、高被引学者的口径下，这一区间是学校的常态位置。
• In the 2027 edition of America's Best Colleges the university was tied for 59th among national universities and tied for 24th among 225 public universities in the United States在《美国新闻与世界报道》2027 年版全美最佳大学榜单中，学校在全美大学中并列第 59 名，在 225 所公立大学中并列第 24 名。
• Subject strength runs well ahead of the overall position, with food science and agricultural sciences both ranked first in the United States and inside the world's top ten for 2026-2027学校的学科实力明显领先于整体名次，食品科学与农业科学在 2026-2027 年度排名中均位列全美第一，并双双进入全球前十。
• OpenAlex had indexed 135,045 research works from the university with 11,672,294 recorded citations, an accumulated corpus larger than that of most public universities outside the Association of American UniversitiesOpenAlex 已收录学校 135,045 篇研究成果，记录被引 11,672,294 次，这一累计规模超过美国大学协会之外的大多数公立大学。
• The Carnegie Foundation classifies the campus among doctoral universities with very high research activity and has also named it a community-engaged university卡内基基金会将该校列为研究活动极活跃的博士授予大学，并同时授予其「社区参与型大学」的认定。
• The White House named the university to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for four consecutive years, recognising volunteering, service learning and civic engagement白宫连续四年将学校列入总统高等教育社区服务荣誉榜，表彰其在志愿服务、服务型学习与公民参与方面的表现。

Student life

• The university's motto, recorded in Latin as Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem, is rendered in English as by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty学校的校训以拉丁文记载为「Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem」，英译意为「以剑求和平，然和平唯有在自由之下」。
• Teams compete as the Minutemen and Minutewomen with Sam the Minuteman as mascot and maroon and white as the colours, and the Minuteman mascot replaced the earlier Redmen identity in 1972校队以「一分钟人」（Minutemen 与 Minutewomen）为名，吉祥物为「一分钟人山姆」，校色为栗色与白色；1972 年，学校以「一分钟人」取代此前使用的红人标识。
• The Minuteman Marching Band, with more than 390 members, is the largest marching band in New England and has appeared at the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade拥有 390 多名成员的一分钟人行进乐队是新英格兰地区规模最大的行进乐队，曾参加玫瑰花车大游行与梅西感恩节大游行。
• The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, founded in 1890 as Aggie Life, took the name College Signal in 1901, the Weekly Collegian in 1914 and the Tri-Weekly Collegian in 1956, and has published daily since 1967《马萨诸塞每日大学生报》创刊于 1890 年，初名《农学生活》，1901 年改名《学院信号》，1914 年改为《每周大学生报》，1956 年改为《三日刊大学生报》，自 1967 年起每日出版。
• The paper became a broadsheet in January 1994 and moved to monthly print editions in 2018 while continuing to publish online every day, and it takes no money from the university or from student fees该报自 1994 年 1 月起改为大开本，2018 年转为每月印制纸质版、同时每日在线更新，其运营经费不来自学校拨款或学生费用。
• WMUA 91.1 FM is licensed to the university and run by undergraduates, having begun as an AM station in 1949, while WFCR, the National Public Radio affiliate for western Massachusetts, is also licensed to the campusWMUA 91.1 调频台的执照属学校所有、由本科生运营，其前身为 1949 年开播的调幅台；西马萨诸塞地区的全国公共广播成员台 WFCR 的执照同样属于该校。
• More than 200 registered student organisations operate on campus, funded in part by a Student Government Association budget of over 7.5 million dollars drawn from a 266 dollar annual student activities fee校园有 200 多个注册学生组织，其经费部分来自学生会每年超过 750 万美元的预算，该预算源自每生每年 266 美元的学生活动费。
• Greek organisations have existed since the fraternity Q.T.V. appeared in 1869 and the first sorority, Delta Phi Gamma, in 1916, with about 1,900 students active in them each year兄弟会与姐妹会自 1869 年首个兄弟会 Q.T.V. 与 1916 年首个姐妹会 Delta Phi Gamma 出现以来一直存在，每年约有 1900 名学生参加。
• UMass permaculture, one of the first such university initiatives in the country, converted marginal campus ground into the Franklin Permaculture Garden and moved about a quarter of a million pounds of organic matter by hand in November 2010该校的朴门永续实践是全美最早的大学项目之一，把校园边角地改造为富兰克林朴门花园，并于 2010 年 11 月以人力搬运了约 25 万磅有机质。
• Over 14,000 students live in 52 residence halls grouped into seven residential areas, and families, staff and graduate students occupy 345 units in the North Village and Lincoln apartment complexes超过 14,000 名学生住在分属七个住宿区的 52 座宿舍楼中，带家属的学生、教职工与研究生则住在北村与林肯两处公寓群的 345 套住房里。

Notable people

• William S. Clark led the college through its opening in 1867 as president and professor of botany, and Henry Hill Goodell, later the eighth president, oversaw the expansion of the 1880s and the library that bears his name威廉·S. 克拉克以校长兼植物学教授的身份主持了 1867 年的开校，后来任第八任校长的亨利·希尔·古德尔则主持了十九世纪八十年代的扩建，并以他命名的图书馆留存至今。
• Javier Reyes became chancellor of the campus in 2023 as its thirty-first leader and the first person of Hispanic descent to hold the post, and resides at Hillside, the chancellor's campus residence哈维尔·雷耶斯于 2023 年出任该校校长，是学校第三十一任领导人，也是首位担任此职的西班牙裔人士，居住在校园内的校长官邸希尔斯庄园。
• Joseph Taylor, who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, taught in the physics department, and Russell Hulse, his co-laureate, earned a doctorate in physics there in 19751993 年诺贝尔物理学奖共同得主约瑟夫·泰勒曾在物理系任教，与他共享该奖的拉塞尔·赫尔斯于 1975 年在该校获得物理学博士学位。
• Andrew Barto, a professor of computer science at the university, and Richard S. Sutton, who took his doctorate in computer science there in 1984, received the 2024 ACM Turing Award announced in 2025该校计算机科学教授安德鲁·巴托，与 1984 年在该校获得计算机科学博士学位的理查德·S. 萨顿，共同获得 2025 年公布的 2024 年度 ACM 图灵奖。
• Zhou Qifeng, who earned a doctorate in polymer science at the university, served as president of Peking University from 2008 to 2013, and Du Zhanyuan, who completed a doctorate in plant and soil sciences in 1993, became a vice-minister of education of China在该校获得高分子科学博士学位的周其凤于 2008 年至 2013 年担任北京大学校长；1993 年在该校完成植物与土壤科学博士学位的杜占元后来出任中华人民共和国教育部副部长。
• Hao Longbin took a doctorate in food science at the university in 1984 and was elected mayor of Taipei in 2010, and Vincent Rotello, a chemist on the faculty, led the team behind the molecular nose reported in 2007郝龍斌于 1984 年在该校获得食品科学博士学位，2010 年当选台北市市长；化学系教授文森特·罗泰洛则领导了 2007 年发表「分子鼻」成果的研究团队。
• Three Pulitzer Prizes have gone to writers trained on the campus, Natasha Trethewey for poetry in 2007, Paul Harding for fiction in 2010 and Herbert Bix for biography in 2001该校培养的作家三度获得普利策奖：娜塔莎·特雷塞韦于 2007 年获诗歌奖，保罗·哈丁于 2010 年获小说奖，赫伯特·比克斯于 2001 年获传记奖。
• Former faculty include the biologist Lynn Margulis, the jazz drummer Max Roach, the British poet laureate Ted Hughes, the writer Samuel R. Delany, the photorealist Chuck Close and the former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Sheila Bair曾任教于该校的学者与艺术家包括生物学家林恩·马古利斯、爵士鼓手马克斯·罗奇、英国桂冠诗人特德·休斯、作家塞缪尔·R. 迪兰尼、照相写实主义画家查克·克洛斯，以及美国联邦存款保险公司前主席希拉·贝尔。
• Julius Erving, known as Doctor J, played basketball for the university before a career in the National Basketball Association, and Jack Welch took a chemical engineering degree in 1957 before leading General Electric绰号「J 博士」的朱利叶斯·欧文曾代表该校打篮球，此后进入美国职业篮球联赛；杰克·韦尔奇于 1957 年取得化学工程学位，后来执掌通用电气公司。
• Natalie Cole, a multiple Grammy Award winner, and Briana Scurry, goalkeeper of the United States team that won the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, are both counted among the university's alumni多次获得格莱美奖的娜塔莉·科尔，以及 1999 年国际足联女足世界杯冠军美国队门将布里安娜·斯卡里，都被列入该校校友名录。
• The broadcaster and naturalist Jeff Corwin, the actor Bill Pullman, the basketball coach Rick Pitino and the special master Kenneth Feinberg are further graduates, as is Betty Shabazz电视主持人兼博物学家杰夫·科尔文、演员比尔·普尔曼、篮球教练里克·皮蒂诺与特别主事官肯尼思·范伯格也是该校毕业生，贝蒂·沙巴兹同样毕业于该校。
• Among the current faculty, the poet Ocean Vuong, the poet Peter Gizzi, the media critic Sut Jhally and the economist Nancy Folbre are the best known outside their fields of scholarship在现任教师中，诗人王鸥行、诗人彼得·吉兹、媒介批评家苏特·贾利与经济学家南希·福尔布雷在各自学术领域之外最为人熟知。