University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is a public land-grant research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, chartered by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature in 1851 and serving as the flagship campus of the five-campus University of Minnesota System.明尼苏达大学双城校区是位于明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯与圣保罗的公立赠地研究型大学，1851 年由明尼苏达准州议会颁发特许状创办，是五校区明尼苏达大学系统的旗舰校区。

It enrolled 57,879 students in fall 2025 across 19 colleges, schools and other major academic units, and it stands 255th in the QS World University Rankings 2027 and 88th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校 2025 年秋季学期在读学生 57879 人，分属 19 个学院、学校及其他主要学术单位，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 255 名，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 88 名。

The campus is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity, belongs to the Association of American Universities, and spent 1.202 billion dollars on research and development in 2022, twenty-second among American universities.该校在卡内基分类中属 R1 类博士授予大学，为美国大学协会成员，2022 年研发支出 12.02 亿美元，在全美高校中列第 22 位。

History

• The university was established in Minneapolis in 1851, seven years before Minnesota achieved statehood, after a charter granted by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature and Governor Alexander Ramsey and the election of a board of regents.该校 1851 年创立于明尼阿波利斯，比明尼苏达建州早七年，此前由明尼苏达准州议会与州长亚历山大·拉姆齐授予特许状并选出校董会。
• In its first years the institution depended on donations to stay open, including support from William Aiken Jr., the governor of South Carolina.建校初期，学校依靠捐赠维持运转，其中包括南卡罗来纳州州长小威廉·艾肯的资助。
• The school closed in 1858 during a financial crisis and reopened in 1867 with substantial help from the flour miller John S. Pillsbury.学校在 1858 年因财政危机停办，1867 年在面粉商约翰·S·皮尔斯伯里的巨额资助下复办。
• In 1867 the university received land-grant status under the Morrill Act of 1862, using land taken from the Dakota people, and it was upgraded from a preparatory school to a college in 1869.1867 年，学校依据 1862 年《莫里尔法案》获得赠地大学地位，所用土地取自达科他人；1869 年，学校由预科学校升格为学院。
• An 1876 donation from John S. Pillsbury is generally credited with saving the university, which is why he is known as the father of the university and why Pillsbury Hall bears his name.1876 年约翰·S·皮尔斯伯里的捐赠被普遍认为拯救了这所大学，他也因此被称为「大学之父」，皮尔斯伯里楼即以其名命名。
• Warren Clark Eustis and Henry Martyn Williamson graduated in 1873 as the university's first graduates, and Helen Marr Ely became its first female graduate in 1875.1873 年，沃伦·克拉克·尤斯蒂斯与亨利·马丁·威廉森成为该校首批毕业生；1875 年，海伦·马尔·伊利成为首位女性毕业生。
• The university awarded its first master's degree in 1880 and conferred its first doctorate in 1888, marking the arrival of full graduate study on the campus.该校 1880 年授予第一个硕士学位，1888 年授予第一个博士学位，标志着研究生教育在校内成形。
• In 1908 the university inaugurated a program of mortuary science, becoming the first state university in the United States to teach the subject.1908 年，学校开设殡葬科学课程，成为全美第一所教授该学科的州立大学。
• The School of Nursing, established in 1909, was the first continuous nursing school on a university campus in the United States and began admitting male students in 1949.1909 年设立的护理学院是全美大学校园中第一所连续办学的护理学校，并于 1949 年开始招收男生。
• The university first integrated its faculty in 1948 when it appointed its first African American faculty member, Ruby Pernell.1948 年，学校首次实现教师种族融合，聘用了首位非裔美国教师鲁比·佩内尔。
• In 1954 C. Walton Lillehei and F. John Lewis performed the world's first successful open-heart surgery using cross-circulation.1954 年，C·沃尔顿·利勒海与 F·约翰·刘易斯完成了世界上首例成功的交叉循环心脏直视手术。
• In 1955 Richard DeWall and Lillehei developed the bubble oxygenator, the basis of modern heart-lung machines, and in 1958 Lillehei performed the first artificial heart valve implant in a human.1955 年，理查德·德沃尔与利勒海发明气泡式氧合器，为现代心肺机奠定基础；1958 年，利勒海完成首例人工心脏瓣膜植入手术。
• Earl Bakken, a co-founder of Medtronic, developed the first external battery-operated transistorized wearable pacemaker in 1957, and Lillehei introduced it into clinical practice.美敦力公司联合创始人厄尔·巴肯于 1957 年研制出首台外接电池晶体管化可穿戴起搏器，并由利勒海投入临床使用。
• The campus carried out the world's first successful kidney and pancreas transplant in 1967, a bone marrow transplant in 1968 and a living donor pancreas transplant in 1998.该校在 1967 年完成世界首例成功的肾脏与胰腺联合移植，1968 年完成骨髓移植，1998 年完成活体供体胰腺移植。
• In 1969 Black students occupied Morrill Hall, a protest that led to the creation of the Department of Afro-American Studies, now the Department of African-American and African Studies.1969 年，黑人学生占领莫里尔楼，这一抗议促成了非裔美国人研究系的设立，即今天的非裔美国人与非洲研究系。
• The honeycrisp apple was developed at the university in 1991 and became one of the most commercially successful cultivars released by a public breeding programme.蜜脆苹果于 1991 年在该校培育成功，成为公立育种项目推出的商业上最成功的栽培品种之一。
• The university joined the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in 2007 and led data analysis projects whose work contributed to the confirmation of gravitational waves announced in February 2016.该校于 2007 年加入激光干涉引力波天文台，并主导数据分析项目，为 2016 年 2 月宣布的引力波确认作出贡献。
• Mark P. McCahill and colleagues at the university developed the Gopher protocol, a hyperlinked document system that preceded the World Wide Web, and helped codify the standard form of Uniform Resource Locators.马克·P·麦卡希尔及其同事在该校开发了 Gopher 协议，这一超链接文档系统早于万维网出现，他们还参与确立了统一资源定位符的标准形式。
• The Golden Gophers moved back to a campus stadium on 12 September 2009 when TCF Bank Stadium opened against the Air Force Falcons, and the venue was renamed Huntington Bank Stadium in June 2021.2009 年 9 月 12 日，戈弗尔队回到校园球场，TCF 银行体育场在对空军猎鹰队的比赛中启用；该场馆于 2021 年 6 月更名为亨廷顿银行体育场。
• Graduate student workers voted in the 2022-2023 academic year to form the Graduate Labor Union-United Electrical, which now represents them in bargaining with the university.2022 至 2023 学年，研究生雇员投票成立研究生工会—联合电气工会，目前该工会代表研究生与校方进行谈判。

Academics

• The university is organised into 19 colleges, schools and other major academic units, among them the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Science and Engineering, the Carlson School of Management, the Law School, the Medical School and the College of Pharmacy.学校下设 19 个学院、学校及其他主要学术单位，其中包括文理学院、科学与工程学院、卡尔森管理学院、法学院、医学院与药学院。
• Six university-wide interdisciplinary centres work across collegiate lines: the Center for Cognitive Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, the Institute for Translational Neuroscience, the Institute on the Environment and the Minnesota Population Center.六个跨学院的校级交叉研究中心分别是认知科学中心、高等研究院、医学工程研究所、转化神经科学研究所、环境研究所与明尼苏达人口中心。
• Across the system the university offers 154 undergraduate degree programmes, 24 undergraduate certificates, 307 graduate degree programmes and 79 graduate certificates, most of them taught at the Twin Cities campus.该系统共提供 154 个本科学位项目、24 个本科证书、307 个研究生学位项目与 79 个研究生证书，其中大部分在双城校区开设。
• In fall 2025 the Twin Cities campus counted 57,879 students, including 32,632 undergraduates, 11,210 postgraduates and 3,884 doctoral students, with 4,923 academic staff and 27,715 total staff.2025 年秋季，双城校区有学生 57879 人，其中本科生 32632 人、研究生 11210 人、博士生 3884 人；教学科研人员 4923 人，员工总数 27715 人。
• The system reported an endowment of 6.45 billion dollars in 2025 and a budget of 4.5 billion dollars in 2024.该系统 2025 年捐赠基金规模为 64.5 亿美元，2024 年预算为 45 亿美元。
• For fall 2025 admission the university received more than 43,000 applications for a freshman class of roughly 7,100 students, and it continues to describe its admission as highly competitive.2025 年秋季招生中，学校收到超过 43000 份申请，而新生班级约 7100 人；校方仍将录取描述为「竞争激烈」。
• Among enrolled freshmen who submitted scores, the middle fifty per cent ranged from 27 to 33 on the ACT and from 1350 to 1500 on the SAT.在提交成绩的录取新生中，中间 50% 的 ACT 成绩在 27 至 33 分之间，SAT 成绩在 1350 至 1500 分之间。
• The campus is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and hosts all three branches of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.该校由高等教育委员会认证，并设有后备军官训练团的三个军种分支。
• Twenty-five Nobel laureates have been associated with the university, and its current and former students had won 90 Olympic medals as of March 2024.与该校相关的诺贝尔奖得主共 25 位；截至 2024 年 3 月，其在校生与校友共获得 90 枚奥运奖牌。
• Melvin Calvin won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the Calvin cycle, Paul D. Boyer won the 1997 chemistry prize for work on ATP synthase, and Edward Lewis won the 1995 prize in physiology or medicine for work on the Drosophila bithorax complex.梅尔文·卡尔文因发现卡尔文循环获 1961 年诺贝尔化学奖，保罗·D·博耶因三磷酸腺苷合成酶研究获 1997 年化学奖，爱德华·刘易斯因果蝇双胸复合体研究获 1995 年生理学或医学奖。
• Ernest Lawrence received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the cyclotron, and Walter Houser Brattain shared the 1956 physics prize for the point-contact transistor.欧内斯特·劳伦斯因发明回旋加速器获 1939 年诺贝尔物理学奖；沃尔特·豪泽·布拉顿因点接触晶体管与他人共享 1956 年物理学奖。
• Ancel Keys developed the K-ration for the United States military and directed the Minnesota Starvation Study and the Seven Countries Study on diet and health.安塞尔·凯斯为美军研制了 K 口粮，并主持了明尼苏达饥饿研究与关于膳食与健康的七国研究。
• Starke R. Hathaway and J. C. McKinley created the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, first published in 1943, and Robert Vince developed the carbocyclic nucleosides behind the HIV drug abacavir, marketed as Ziagen.斯塔克·R·哈撒韦与 J·C·麦金利编制了明尼苏达多相人格问卷，1943 年首次出版；罗伯特·文斯则研发了碳环核苷类药物，其成果即抗艾滋病药物阿巴卡韦（商品名 Ziagen）。
• Robert Gore invented Gore-Tex materials in 1969, Izaak Kolthoff developed the cold process for synthetic rubber during the Second World War, and Edward Wilson Davis devised a process to extract iron ore from taconite.罗伯特·戈尔于 1969 年发明戈尔特斯材料；伊萨克·科尔索夫在二战期间开发合成橡胶的低温工艺；爱德华·威尔逊·戴维斯发明了从铁燧岩中提取铁矿石的工艺。
• The university also houses the Charles Babbage Institute, a research and archive centre specialising in the history of computing, with strong links to the early supercomputing work of Seymour Cray.该校还设有查尔斯·巴贝奇研究所，这是专攻计算史的研究与档案中心，与西摩·克雷早期的超级计算工作渊源深厚。
• OpenAlex attributes 424,292 works and 44,859,148 citations to the university, the largest research output recorded for any institution in the state.OpenAlex 为该校记录论文 424292 篇、被引 44859148 次，是该州所有机构中记录规模最大的科研产出。

Campus

• The Twin Cities campus covers 2,730 acres split between Minneapolis and Saint Paul, with the Minneapolis side divided by the Mississippi River into an East Bank of 307 acres and a West Bank of 53 acres.双城校区占地 2730 英亩，分处明尼阿波利斯与圣保罗；明尼阿波利斯一侧又被密西西比河分为 307 英亩的东岸与 53 英亩的西岸。
• The East Bank is divided into the Knoll area, the Mall area, the Health area, the Athletic area and the Gateway area, with the Knoll holding the oldest surviving buildings of the Old Campus Historic District.东岸分为诺尔区、广场区、健康科学区、体育区与门户区，其中诺尔区保留了老校园历史街区中最古老的建筑。
• The Northrop Mall plan was based on a design by Cass Gilbert, and the mall is anchored by Northrop Auditorium and Coffman Memorial Union and flanked by Vincent Hall for mathematics, Tate Laboratory for physics and Smith Hall for chemistry.诺思罗普广场的规划基于卡斯·吉尔伯特的设计，广场以北思罗普礼堂与科夫曼纪念学生会馆为南北两端，两侧分别为数学系的文森特楼、物理系的泰特实验室与化学系的史密斯楼。
• The Northrop Mall Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in January 2018.诺思罗普广场历史街区于 2018 年 1 月列入美国《国家史迹名录》。
• LeRoy Buffington designed the Richardsonian Romanesque Pillsbury Hall with Harvey Ellis and the Greek Revival exterior of Burton Hall, while Clarence H. Johnston designed Folwell Hall, Northrop Auditorium and Walter Library.勒罗伊·巴芬顿与哈维·埃利斯合作设计了理查森罗马式风格的皮尔斯伯里楼，并设计了伯顿楼的希腊复兴式外观；克拉伦斯·H·约翰斯顿则设计了福尔韦尔楼、诺思罗普礼堂与沃尔特图书馆。
• The Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower is the tallest building on the Twin Cities campus and a noted example of brutalist architecture.马尔科姆·穆斯健康科学塔是双城校区最高的建筑，也是粗野主义建筑的著名实例。
• Frank Gehry designed the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, completed in 1993, and the campus later added the McNamara Alumni Center in 2000, Bruininks Hall in 2010 and a Steven Holl addition to the architecture building completed in 2002.弗兰克·盖里设计的弗雷德里克·R·韦斯曼艺术博物馆于 1993 年建成；此后校园又陆续建成 2000 年的麦克纳马拉校友中心、2010 年的布鲁因克斯楼，以及 2002 年竣工、由史蒂文·霍尔设计的建筑馆扩建部分。
• The West Bank houses the Law School, the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the Carlson School of Management, the School of Music, Wilson Library, the largest library in the system, and Middlebrook Hall, the largest residence hall.西岸设有法学院、汉弗莱公共事务学院、卡尔森管理学院、音乐学院、系统内最大的威尔逊图书馆，以及最大的学生宿舍米德尔布鲁克楼。
• The Saint Paul campus hosts the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Biological Sciences, and borders the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.圣保罗校区设有食品、农业与自然资源科学学院、兽医学院与生物科学学院，并与明尼苏达州博览会场相邻。
• The Washington Avenue Bridge links the East and West Banks, Campus Connector buses run as often as every five minutes on weekdays, and three Green Line light-rail stations serve the campus at Stadium Village, East Bank and West Bank.华盛顿大道桥连接东岸与西岸；校园接驳车工作日班次最密可达每五分钟一班；绿线轻轨在体育场村、东岸与西岸设有三座车站服务校园。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Minnesota is placed 255th in the world, a tied position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，明尼苏达大学位列全球并列第 255 名。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university 88th in the world.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列全球第 88 名。
• U.S. News and World Report ranked the Twin Cities campus 76th in the world in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities ranking.在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中，双城校区位列全球第 76 名。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 52nd in the world.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，明尼苏达大学双城校区位列全球第 52 名。
• Earlier editions recorded the university 40th in the world in the 2021 Shanghai ranking, with its ecology programme second in the world, management tenth, biotechnology eleventh and veterinary sciences twentieth.更早版本中，该校在 2021 年上海排名中位列全球第 40 名，生态学世界第二、管理学第十、生物技术第十一、兽医学第二十。
• The Center for World University Rankings placed Minnesota 46th in the world and 26th in the United States for 2021-2022, and the 2021 Nature Index ranked it 53rd in the world.世界大学排名中心在 2021 至 2022 年度榜单中将明尼苏达列为全球第 46 名、全美第 26 名；2021 年自然指数将其列为全球第 53 名。
• U.S. News ranked the undergraduate programme 53rd among national universities for 2023 and 23rd among public institutions, and placed the Carlson School of Management 28th among business schools and sixth for information systems.《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2023 年榜单中将其本科教育列为全美大学第 53 名、公立大学第 23 名，并将卡尔森管理学院列为商学院第 28 名、信息系统专业第 6 名。
• The same publisher ranked the Law School 22nd in 2022, the College of Pharmacy third, the Humphrey School of Public Affairs ninth and the School of Public Health tenth.同一机构在 2022 年榜单中将法学院列为第 22 名、药学院第 3 名、汉弗莱公共事务学院第 9 名、公共卫生学院第 10 名。
• The Center for Measuring University Performance put Minnesota sixteenth in the nation for total research in 2020, thirtieth in endowment assets, ninth in faculty awards and twenty-eighth in National Academies memberships.大学绩效评估中心在 2020 年将明尼苏达列为全美科研总量第 16 名、捐赠基金资产第 30 名、教师获奖第 9 名、国家科学院院士数第 28 名。
• The university carries the Public Ivy label from the 2001 Greenes' Guides, and OpenAlex credits it with 424,292 works and 44,859,148 citations.该校被 2001 年格林斯指南列入「公立常春藤」；OpenAlex 记录其论文 424292 篇、被引 44859148 次。

Student life

• The university's Latin motto, Commune vinculum omnibus artibus, means a common bond for all the arts and appears on the Regents Seal adopted in 1939, whose lamp, telescope, plough and palette stand for the sciences, industry and fine arts.该校的拉丁文校训意为「一切技艺的共同纽带」，出现在 1939 年采用的校董会印章上，其中的灯、望远镜、犁与调色板分别象征形而上学、自然科学、产业技艺与美术。
• The university colours are maroon and gold, the teams are known as the Minnesota Golden Gophers and the mascot is Goldy Gopher, a nickname tracing back to an 1857 political cartoon and to the 1887 yearbook titled Gopher Annual.学校的代表色为栗色与金色，运动队名为明尼苏达金地鼠队，吉祥物是戈迪地鼠；这一昵称可追溯到 1857 年的一幅政治漫画以及 1887 年名为《地鼠年刊》的首本年鉴。
• The Minnesota Daily, first published on 1 May 1900, is run by an autonomous student organisation and has appeared twice weekly during term since autumn 2016.《明尼苏达日报》1900 年 5 月 1 日创刊，由独立的学生机构运营，自 2016 年秋季起在学期内每周出版两期。
• The Wake Student Magazine, founded in November 2001, was named the nation's best campus publication in 2006 by the Independent Press Association and also publishes the literary journal Liminal, begun in 2005.2001 年 11 月创刊的《觉醒》学生杂志于 2006 年被独立新闻协会评为全美最佳校园刊物，并出版 2005 年创办的文学期刊《阈限》。
• The Minnesota Republic, a biweekly student newspaper, released its first issue in February 2006 and belongs to the Collegiate Network of more than one hundred campus publications.双周刊《明尼苏达共和报》于 2006 年 2 月发行创刊号，是拥有百余家校园刊物的大学新闻网络的成员。
• The campus station KUOM, known as Radio K, broadcasts on 770 kHz AM and received the first AM broadcast licence in the state on 13 January 1922 as WLB, adopting the KUOM call sign about two decades later.校园电台 KUOM（通称 Radio K）以 770 千赫调幅广播，1922 年 1 月 13 日以 WLB 呼号获得该州第一张调幅广播执照，约二十年后改用 KUOM。
• The 320-member Minnesota Marching Band plays The Minnesota Rouser at athletics and ceremonies, while Hail! Minnesota serves as the alma mater and the state song and John Philip Sousa composed the Minnesota March for the university.由 320 人组成的明尼苏达行进乐队在赛事与典礼上演奏《明尼苏达战歌》；《明尼苏达你好》是校歌兼州歌，约翰·菲利普·苏萨则为该校创作了《明尼苏达进行曲》。
• As of June 2018 about 3,900 members of fraternities and sororities made up roughly 11 per cent of the campus, spread across 38 academic fraternities, 20 sororities, 56 honour societies and 31 professional societies.截至 2018 年 6 月，兄弟会与姐妹会成员约 3900 人，约占校园人数的 11%，分布在 38 个学术兄弟会、20 个姐妹会、56 个荣誉学会与 31 个专业学会。
• The Golden Gophers field 21 intercollegiate sports in NCAA Division I as members of the Big Ten Conference, contest Paul Bunyan's Axe with Wisconsin in the most played rivalry in Division I FBS football, and had won 29 national championships.金地鼠队在 NCAA 一级联盟中参加 21 个校际项目，隶属十大联盟，与威斯康星争夺保罗·班扬斧，这是一级 FBS 橄榄球中对阵次数最多的宿敌战；该校共获 29 次全国冠军。

Notable people

• John S. Pillsbury, the flour miller whose 1876 donation rescued the university, is remembered as the father of the university and gives his name to Pillsbury Hall.面粉商约翰·S·皮尔斯伯里因 1876 年的捐赠挽救了学校，被称为「大学之父」，皮尔斯伯里楼即以其命名。
• Alexander Ramsey, governor of Minnesota Territory, granted the 1851 charter that created the university seven years before statehood.明尼苏达准州州长亚历山大·拉姆齐颁发了 1851 年的特许状，在建州前七年创立了这所大学。
• Norman Borlaug, who earned his doctorate at the university, led the initiatives behind the Green Revolution and received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.在该校获得博士学位的诺曼·博洛格领导了绿色革命相关行动，并获得诺贝尔和平奖、总统自由勋章与国会金质奖章。
• Melvin Calvin won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Calvin cycle, Paul D. Boyer the 1997 chemistry prize for ATP synthase and Edward Lewis the 1995 prize in physiology or medicine.梅尔文·卡尔文因卡尔文循环获 1961 年诺贝尔化学奖，保罗·D·博耶因三磷酸腺苷合成酶研究获 1997 年化学奖，爱德华·刘易斯获 1995 年生理学或医学奖。
• Ernest Lawrence received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for the cyclotron, and Walter Houser Brattain shared the 1956 physics prize for the point-contact transistor.欧内斯特·劳伦斯因回旋加速器获 1939 年诺贝尔物理学奖，沃尔特·豪泽·布拉顿因点接触晶体管共享 1956 年物理学奖。
• C. Walton Lillehei pioneered open-heart surgery and, with Richard DeWall, produced the bubble oxygenator that made modern heart-lung machines possible.C·沃尔顿·利勒海开创了心脏直视手术，并与理查德·德沃尔制造出气泡式氧合器，使现代心肺机成为可能。
• Earl Bakken built the first wearable transistorized pacemaker in 1957 and co-founded Medtronic, which grew into one of the largest medical device companies in the world.厄尔·巴肯于 1957 年制成首台可穿戴晶体管起搏器，并联合创办美敦力，该公司后来发展为全球最大的医疗器械企业之一。
• Robert A. Good performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant between people who were not identical twins in 1968 and is regarded as a founder of modern immunology.罗伯特·A·古德于 1968 年完成首例非同卵双胞胎之间成功的人体骨髓移植，被视为现代免疫学的奠基人之一。
• Seymour Cray designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades and founded Cray Research, while James Thornton developed the CDC 6600 regarded as the first supercomputer.西摩·克雷设计出一系列数十年间全球最快的计算机并创办克雷研究公司；詹姆斯·桑顿则研制出被视为首台超级计算机的 CDC 6600。
• Deke Slayton, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, became NASA's first chief of the Astronaut Office and flew as docking module pilot on the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project at the age of 51.迪克·斯莱顿是美国国家航空航天局最初的水星七人组成员之一，后任该局首任航天员办公室主任，并在 1975 年阿波罗—联盟测试计划中以 51 岁之龄担任对接舱驾驶员。
• Mark P. McCahill led the development of the Gopher protocol and of POPmail, one of the first electronic mail clients, and helped codify the standard for Uniform Resource Locators.马克·P·麦卡希尔主导了 Gopher 协议与首批电子邮件客户端之一 POPmail 的开发，并参与统一资源定位符标准的制定。
• Rebecca Cunningham serves as president of the University of Minnesota, with Gretchen Ritter as provost of the Twin Cities campus.丽贝卡·坎宁安现任明尼苏达大学校长，格雷琴·里特任双城校区教务长。