University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private research university in Rochester, New York, chartered by the Regents of the State of New York on 31 January 1850 and moved to its present River Campus beside the Genesee River in 1930.罗切斯特大学是美国纽约州罗切斯特市的一所私立研究型大学，1850 年 1 月 31 日获纽约州校务董事会颁发特许状，1930 年迁至毗邻杰纳西河的现河滨校区。

It comprises seven schools spread over five campuses, including the Eastman School of Music and the School of Medicine and Dentistry, and enrolled 11,211 students in the autumn of 2025, of whom 6,096 were undergraduates and 5,115 were graduate students.该校由分处五个校区的 7 个学院组成，其中包括伊士曼音乐学院与医学与牙科学院，2025 年秋季在校生 11211 人，本科生 6096 人，研究生 5115 人。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 it was placed 251st in the world, it tied for 136th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, ranked 208th in a tie in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 and fell in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第 251 名，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 136 名，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中并列第 208 名，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位于 201-300 区间。

History

• The institution traces its origins to the First Baptist Church of Hamilton, New York, founded in 1796, which set up the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York in 1817.该校渊源可追溯到 1796 年创办于纽约州汉密尔顿的第一浸信会，该会于 1817 年设立纽约州浸信会教育协会。
• The society's collegiate division received a charter from the State of New York in 1846 and took the name Madison University, an institution that later became Colgate University.协会的大学部于 1846 年获纽约州特许状并改名麦迪逊大学，该校后演变为科尔盖特大学。
• John Wilder and the Baptist Education Society pressed for the college to move to Rochester, and when legal action blocked the move, dissenting faculty, students and trustees left for Rochester to seek a new charter.约翰·怀尔德与浸信会教育协会主张把学院迁往罗切斯特；诉讼阻止迁校后，持异议的教师、学生与校董前往罗切斯特另求特许状。
• The new charter was granted by the Regents of the State of New York on 31 January 1850 and required the university to raise 100,000 dollars of endowment within five years, a target helped by an initial gift of 10,000 dollars from Wilder.新特许状由纽约州校务董事会于 1850 年 1 月 31 日颁给，要求学校在五年内募集 10 万美元捐赠基金，怀尔德率先认捐 1 万美元推动了这一目标。
• Asahel C. Kendrick, professor of Greek, served as acting president until 1853, when Martin Brewer Anderson of Andover Newton Theological Seminary was chosen as the first regularly appointed president.希腊语教授阿萨赫尔·肯德里克代理校长至 1853 年，此后安多弗牛顿神学院的马丁·布鲁尔·安德森被选为首任正式校长。
• Classes began in November 1850 with about 60 students, 28 of them transfers from Madison, and were held in the former United States Hotel in downtown Rochester until 1862.1850 年 11 月开课，约 60 名学生中有 28 人自麦迪逊转入，校舍设在罗切斯特市中心原美国旅馆，一直用到 1862 年。
• A gift of 8 acres of farmland from the businessman and congressman Azariah Boody provided the first campus, where Anderson Hall was built and dedicated in 1862.商人兼联邦众议员阿扎赖亚·布迪捐赠 8 英亩农田作为首个校园，安德森楼即建于此处并于 1862 年落成。
• Women were first admitted in 1900 after a campaign led by the suffragist Susan B. Anthony and Helen Barrett Montgomery, with 33 women enrolling in the first class.在选举权运动者苏珊·安东尼与海伦·巴雷特·蒙哥马利的推动下，学校于 1900 年首次招收女生，首届有 33 名女生入学。
• Ella S. Wilcoxen became the first woman to receive a degree, in 1901, and Elizabeth Denio became the first female faculty member, retiring as professor emeritus in 1917.埃拉·威尔科克森于 1901 年成为首位获得学位的女性，伊丽莎白·德尼奥成为首位女教师，1917 年以荣誉教授身份退休。
• George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, gave more than 50 million dollars to the university during his life and left it his entire estate, with total gifts exceeding 100 million dollars.伊士曼柯达公司创始人乔治·伊士曼生前累计向学校捐赠逾 5000 万美元，并将全部遗产留给该校，捐赠总额超过 1 亿美元。
• Under the presidency of Benjamin Rush Rhees from 1900 to 1935 the university grew rapidly, founding the Eastman School of Music in 1921 and adding medical and dental schools in 1925 with support from the General Education Board, John D. Rockefeller and the family of Henry A. Strong.在本杰明·拉什·里斯 1900 至 1935 年的校长任内学校迅速扩张，1921 年创办伊士曼音乐学院，1925 年在普通教育委员会、约翰·洛克菲勒与亨利·斯特朗家族支持下增设医学院与牙科学院。
• The university awarded its first doctorate in 1925 and the Graduate School of Management was named after William E. Simon, a former United States Secretary of the Treasury, in 1986.学校于 1925 年授予首个博士学位，1986 年将管理研究生院以美国前财政部长威廉·西蒙之名命名。
• During the Second World War the university was one of 131 institutions taking part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, and it was elected to the Association of American Universities as an affiliate in 1942 and as a full member in 1944.第二次世界大战期间该校是参加海军 V-12 大学培训计划的 131 所院校之一，1942 年成为美国大学协会准会员，1944 年转为正式会员。
• In 1946 and 1947 researchers at the university injected uranium-234 and uranium-235 into six people to study how much uranium the kidneys could tolerate, an episode later cited in accounts of human radiation experiments.1946 至 1947 年该校研究人员向 6 人注射铀-234 与铀-235 以研究肾脏对铀的耐受量，这一事件后来被写入人体辐射实验的记述。
• The separate colleges for men and women were merged on the River Campus in 1955, and three new schools in engineering, business administration and education were created in 1958.1955 年男女分立学院在河滨校区合并，1958 年又新设工程、工商管理与教育三个学院。
• The Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, founded in 1958, was named in 2009 for the trustee Edmund Hajim after a gift of 30 million dollars.创建于 1958 年的哈吉姆工程与应用科学学院于 2009 年以校董埃德蒙·哈吉姆之名命名，此前他捐赠 3000 万美元。
• A study commissioned in the 1990s examined renaming the institution Eastman University or Eastman Rochester University, and the trustees decided to keep the name University of Rochester after public controversy in the city.1990 年代校方委托研究是否改名为伊士曼大学或伊士曼罗切斯特大学，在市内引发争议后董事会决定保留罗切斯特大学之名。
• President Joel Seligman began the private phase of the Meliora Challenge, a capital campaign of 1.2 billion dollars, in 2005, and the university announced in 2016 that the campaign had closed at more than 1.36 billion dollars.校长乔尔·塞利格曼于 2005 年启动总额 12 亿美元的「Meliora 挑战」募捐活动的非公开阶段，学校 2016 年宣布该活动以逾 13.6 亿美元收官。
• The campaign funded more than 100 endowed faculty positions and nearly 400 new scholarships, and paid for new buildings including O'Brien Hall in 2013, LeChase Hall in 2013, Rettner Hall in 2013, Wegmans Hall in 2016 and Genesee Hall in 2017.这笔募款支撑了 100 多个捐赠教席与近 400 项新奖学金，并建成了 2013 年的奥布莱恩楼与勒蔡斯楼、2013 年的雷特纳楼、2016 年的韦格曼斯楼和 2017 年的杰纳西楼。
• Sarah C. Mangelsdorf became president in 2019 as the first woman to hold the office, and under her the university opened the Sloan Performing Arts Center in 2021 and bought the College Town complex for 51.5 million dollars in 2023.莎拉·曼格尔斯多夫于 2019 年成为该校首位女性校长，在她任内学校于 2021 年启用斯隆表演艺术中心，2023 年以 5150 万美元买下学院城综合体。

Academics

• The university offers about 160 undergraduate and 30 graduate programmes across seven schools, which are the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Eastman School of Music, the School of Medicine and Dentistry, the School of Nursing, the Warner School of Education and the Simon Business School.该校 7 个学院共开设约 160 个本科与 30 个研究生项目，分别为文理与工程学院、哈吉姆工程与应用科学学院、伊士曼音乐学院、医学与牙科学院、护理学院、华纳教育学院与西蒙商学院。
• Arts, Sciences and Engineering is the largest unit, containing 19 departments and more than a dozen programmes, and accounts for over 60 per cent of the doctoral degrees awarded by the university.文理与工程是最大的学术单位，含 19 个系与十余个项目，授予的博士学位占全校 60% 以上。
• The Institute of Optics, founded in 1929 and part of the Hajim School, is widely regarded as one of the leading optics programmes in the world.成立于 1929 年、隶属哈吉姆学院的光学研究所被公认为全球顶尖的光学项目之一。
• The School of Medicine and Dentistry, established in 1921, has about 1,200 full-time and 650 voluntary clinical faculty organised into 32 departments and centres, and in 2022 admitted 70 students from 5,669 applications for a rate of 1.2 per cent.创建于 1921 年的医学与牙科学院约有 1200 名全职教师与 650 名志愿临床教师，分属 32 个系与中心；2022 年从 5669 份申请中录取 70 人，录取率 1.2%。
• The School of Dentistry is known as the Eastman Institute for Oral Health, having been founded as the Eastman Dental Center in 1905 and merged with the university in 1997.牙科学院又称伊士曼口腔健康研究所，其前身是 1905 年创办的伊士曼牙科中心，1997 年并入该校。
• The university has no core curriculum, requiring undergraduates instead to take one first-year writing seminar plus coursework in each of the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences, organised into majors and three-course clusters.该校不设核心课程，只要求本科生修一门大一写作研讨课，并在人文学科、社会科学与自然科学三个领域各修课程，以主修与三门课构成的「集群」组织学业。
• Research expenditure reached 481 million dollars in 2023, and the university is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.2023 年科研支出达 4.81 亿美元，学校被卡内基分类列为「R1：研究活动极高的博士型大学」。
• Major research centres include the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, a laser-based fusion facility supported by the United States Department of Energy, and the Wilmot Cancer Center and the Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the Medical Center.主要研究平台包括由美国能源部支持的激光聚变装置激光能量学实验室，以及医学中心的威尔莫特癌症中心与阿布生物医学科学研究所。
• Fall 2025 admission statistics recorded 21,609 applicants and 9,056 offers of admission for the first-year class, and the university enrolled 6,096 undergraduates and 5,115 graduate students that autumn.2025 年秋季招生数据显示大一申请者 21609 人、录取 9056 人，当年秋季在校本科生 6096 人、研究生 5115 人。
• Enrolment by school in autumn 2025 was 4,565 in Arts and Sciences, 1,909 in the Hajim School, 1,084 in Medicine and Dentistry, 1,063 in the Simon Business School, 986 in Nursing, 911 at Eastman, 557 in the Warner School and 136 at the Eastman Institute for Oral Health.2025 年秋季各院在校人数为文理学院 4565 人、哈吉姆学院 1909 人、医学与牙科学院 1084 人、西蒙商学院 1063 人、护理学院 986 人、伊士曼音乐学院 911 人、华纳教育学院 557 人、伊士曼口腔健康研究所 136 人。
• International students numbered 3,023 in autumn 2025, and the university reports more than 100,000 living alumni together with more than 20,000 faculty and staff across the campus and the Strong Health System.2025 年秋国际学生为 3023 人；学校称在世校友逾 10 万人，校园与斯特朗医疗系统共有教职员工 2 万余人。
• Two drugs among the inventions associated with the university are Zoloft and Gardasil, and the homework system WeBWorK was created by Rochester professors and is now used at more than 800 colleges.与该校相关的发明包括抗抑郁药舍曲林与宫颈癌疫苗加德西，作业系统 WeBWorK 由该校教授开发，现被 800 多所院校采用。
• The university is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and holds membership of the Association of American Universities, which it joined as a full member in 1944.学校由中部各州高等教育委员会认证，并于 1944 年成为美国大学协会正式会员。
• The Rochester Early Medical Scholars programme offers an eight-year route combining a bachelor's degree with the degree of doctor of medicine, with admission separate from admission to the undergraduate college.「罗切斯特早期医学学者」项目提供八年制本博连读路径，其录取与本科录取相互独立。
• More than 75 per cent of undergraduates take part in research, and the university maintains more than 60 research centres and institutes and sends students to study abroad in more than 40 countries.超过 75% 的本科生参与科研，学校设有 60 余个研究中心与研究所，并支持学生赴 40 多个国家海外学习。
• Tuition for full-time undergraduates in the 2025-2026 academic year was 71,750 dollars, with mandatory fees of 1,622 dollars and on-campus food and housing costing 21,572 dollars.2025-2026 学年全日制本科学费为 71750 美元，必修杂费 1622 美元，校内食宿费用 21572 美元。

Campus

• The River Campus sits in a bend of the Genesee River about two miles south of downtown Rochester and covers roughly 200 acres, bounded by Bausch and Lomb Riverside Park and by Mount Hope Cemetery.河滨校区位于杰纳西河河湾处，距罗切斯特市中心以南约两英里，占地约 200 英亩，一侧为鲍什隆河滨公园，另一侧为希望山公墓。
• The River Campus site was acquired in the late 1920s from the Oak Hill Country Club through a land swap arranged in part by Edwin Sage Hubbell and financed largely by George Eastman, and its first buildings were dedicated in 1930.河滨校区地块于 1920 年代后期从橡树山乡村俱乐部换得，交换由埃德温·塞奇·哈贝尔参与促成、资金主要来自乔治·伊士曼，首批建筑于 1930 年落成。
• The main academic buildings are Greek Revival in style and stand on the Eastman Quadrangle, with Rush Rhees Library at its head flanked by Morey Hall, Bausch and Lomb Hall, Lattimore Hall and Dewey Hall.主教学建筑为希腊复兴风格，环绕伊士曼方庭布置，拉什·里斯图书馆居首，两侧是莫里楼、鲍什隆楼、拉蒂莫楼与杜威楼。
• Rush Rhees Library houses the Hopeman Memorial Carillon of 50 bells, the largest carillon in New York State, which chimes on the quarter hour, and its dome serves as an emblem of the university.拉什·里斯图书馆内有 50 口钟的霍普曼纪念钟琴，为纽约州规模最大的钟琴，每刻钟报时；其穹顶成为学校的象征。
• Todd Union, built in 1930, has been recommended for the State and National Registers of Historic Places as a key site in the history of the university's Gay Liberation Front of the 1970s.建于 1930 年的托德联合会馆已被推荐列入州与国家史迹名录，被视为该校 1970 年代同性恋解放阵线历史的重要场所。
• The Memorial Art Gallery was founded in 1913 through a gift from Emily Sibley Watson in memory of her son James George Averell, was designed by McKim, Mead and White and occupies the southern half of the old Prince Street campus.纪念艺术馆于 1913 年由埃米莉·西布利·沃森为纪念其子詹姆斯·乔治·阿夫里尔捐建，由麦金、米德与怀特事务所设计，占据老王子街校区的南半部。
• The Eastman School occupies its own downtown campus whose Eastman Theatre, with 2,326 seats, is the principal venue of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and whose Sibley Music Library is the largest academic music library in North America.伊士曼音乐学院拥有独立的市中心校区，其 2326 座的伊士曼剧院是罗切斯特爱乐乐团的主要演出场所，西布利音乐图书馆为北美最大的高校音乐图书馆。
• The South Campus in Brighton holds graduate housing, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, the Center for Optics Manufacturing and the Center for Optoelectronics and Imaging, while the Mount Hope Campus contains the president's residence and the provost's residence.布赖顿的南校区设有研究生住宿、激光能量学实验室、光学制造中心与光电子与成像中心；希望山校区则有校长官邸与教务长官邸。
• Students and staff move between the campuses on a free university shuttle system whose routes are identified by colours, and the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport is about ten minutes by car from the River Campus.师生可乘免费的校车系统往返各校区，线路以颜色区分；弗雷德里克·道格拉斯大罗切斯特国际机场距河滨校区约十分钟车程。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university placed 251st in the world, compared with 236th in the 2026 edition and 147th in the 2023 edition.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第 251 名，2026 年版为第 236 名，2023 年版为第 147 名。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 placed it in a tie at 136th, its strongest showing among the four main global tables, since that ranking gives 30 per cent of its weight to research quality.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其并列在第 136 名，是它在四大世界主榜中的最好表现，因为该榜把 30% 权重给了研究质量。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranked it 208th in a tie, with subject placements including 69th in optics, 91st in neuroscience and behavior, 116th in clinical medicine and 141st in cell biology.2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名将其并列在第 208 名，学科名次包括光学第 69 名、神经科学与行为第 91 名、临床医学第 116 名与细胞生物学第 141 名。
• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it fell in the 201-300 band, and its best subjects in the associated global subject ranking were dentistry and oral sciences at 48th and clinical medicine in the 76-100 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位于 201-300 区间，其配套世界一流学科排名中最好的学科为口腔医学第 48 名与临床医学 76-100 区间。
• Nationally, the 2025-2026 U.S. News Best Colleges ranking put the university 46th among national universities, while Forbes ranked it 69th in 2025 and Washington Monthly placed it 48th for research.在美国国内，2025-2026 年度 U.S. News 最佳大学排名将其列在全国性大学第 46 名；《福布斯》2025 年排第 69 名，《华盛顿月刊》研究型大学榜排第 48 名。
• Alumni and faculty of the university include winners of 13 Nobel Prizes, 9 National Medals of Science and 13 Pulitzer Prizes, together with 4 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.该校校友与教师中包括 13 位诺贝尔奖得主、9 位美国国家科学奖章得主与 13 位普利策奖得主，另有 4 位国家技术创新奖章得主。
• Many scientists on the advisory board for the James Webb Space Telescope are alumni or faculty members of the university, reflecting the strength of its astronomy and optics groups.詹姆斯·韦布空间望远镜顾问委员会中的多位科学家是该校校友或教师，反映其天文学与光学团队的实力。
• The university ranked ninth among American higher education institutions by technology revenue, having received 46 million dollars for commercial rights to its technology and research in 2009.该校在美国高校技术收入榜上排名第九，2009 年因技术与研究成果的商业授权获得 4600 万美元。
• The Institute of Optics and the Department of Political Science, which William Riker built from a six-person faculty into a leading doctoral programme, are the two units most often cited as defining the university's research reputation.光学研究所与政治学系是界定该校研究声誉时最常被提及的两个单位，后者由威廉·赖克从 6 人教师队伍建设成顶尖博士项目。

Student life

• The motto of the university is Meliora, a Latin word rendered as better or ever better, and it gives its name to the annual Meliora Weekend reunion of alumni held each autumn.该校校训为拉丁词 Meliora，意为「更好」或「日益更好」，每年秋季举行的校友返校活动「Meliora 周末」即由此得名。
• The official colours are Rochester Blue and Dandelion Yellow, the official flower is the dandelion, and the mascot is a yellowjacket named Rocky since February 2008, when the earlier name URBee was retired.学校官方色为罗切斯特蓝与蒲公英黄，校花是蒲公英；吉祥物为黄蜂，2008 年 2 月起名为 Rocky，取代此前使用的 URBee。
• More than 275 student clubs and organisations are active on campus, and the university fields 23 varsity teams in NCAA Division III plus more than 40 club sports teams.校园内有 275 个以上学生社团与组织，学校在 NCAA 三级联盟派出 23 支校队，另有 40 余支俱乐部运动队。
• The student newspaper, the Campus Times, has been published continuously since 1873, and the university also supports the online student publication The Rival Rochester and the campus radio station WRUR.学生报纸《校园时报》自 1873 年起连续出版，学校还支持学生网络刊物《对手罗切斯特》与校园电台 WRUR。
• The university is known for its a cappella groups, among them the YellowJackets, the Midnight Ramblers, Vocal Point, After Hours and Trebellius, which have won local, state and national awards.该校以无伴奏合唱团体闻名，包括 YellowJackets、Midnight Ramblers、Vocal Point、After Hours 与 Trebellius，曾获地方、州级与国家级奖项。
• The Boar's Head Dinner, first held on 17 December 1934, is an annual medieval feast at which students wear costume and a member of the faculty reads the legend of the boar's head.首创于 1934 年 12 月 17 日的「野猪头晚宴」是每年举行的中世纪主题盛宴，学生身着古装，由一位教师诵读野猪头传说。
• Dandelion Day celebrates the last full week of classes in the spring semester with food trucks, a concert and parties, and it lost its administrative funding in 2008 before being restored after student protests.「蒲公英日」在春季学期最后整周上课时举行，有餐车、音乐会与聚会；2008 年曾被取消行政经费，因学生抗议而恢复。
• Freshmen live either on the First-Year Hill, made up of Susan B. Anthony Hall and Genesee Hall, or in the First-Year Quad of Lovejoy, Tiernan, Gilbert and Hoeing Halls, and about seven in ten undergraduates live on campus for all four years.新生住在由苏珊·安东尼楼与杰纳西楼组成的「一年级山」，或由洛夫乔伊、蒂尔南、吉尔伯特与霍因楼组成的「一年级方庭」；约七成本科生四年全部住校。
• The university fields a men's squash team that competes at NCAA Division I level and is consistently ranked among the top five in the country, an exception to its otherwise Division III programme.该校男子壁球队参加 NCAA 一级联盟赛事并常年位居全美前五，是其三级联盟体系中的特例。
• Spiritual life is centred on the Interfaith Chapel opposite Rush Rhees Library, which serves about twelve chaplaincies across Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan and secular communities.精神生活以拉什·里斯图书馆对面的跨信仰礼拜堂为中心，为佛教、基督教、印度教、犹太教、伊斯兰教、异教与世俗群体等约十二个牧灵团体提供服务。

Notable people

• George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, was the university's largest benefactor and the founder of its music school, and the politician and businessman Azariah Boody gave the land for its first campus.伊士曼柯达公司创始人乔治·伊士曼是该校最大的捐赠人并创办了其音乐学院；政商界人士阿扎赖亚·布迪捐赠了首个校园的用地。
• Martin Brewer Anderson, chosen in 1853, served as the first regularly appointed president of the university, while Asahel C. Kendrick had led it as acting president until that year.1853 年当选的马丁·布鲁尔·安德森是该校首任正式校长，此前由阿萨赫尔·肯德里克代理校长职务。
• Susan B. Anthony, the suffragist who campaigned for the admission of women in 1900, is commemorated on campus through awards, buildings and centres bearing her name.1900 年推动招收女生的选举权运动者苏珊·安东尼在校园内以奖项、建筑与研究中心等多种形式被纪念。
• Arthur Kornberg, who took his medical degree at the university, shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the enzymatic synthesis of DNA.在该校取得医学学位的阿瑟·科恩伯格因关于 DNA 酶促合成的研究获 1959 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
• Masatoshi Koshiba completed his doctorate in physics at the university in 1955 and won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos.小柴昌俊于 1955 年在该校完成物理学博士学位，因探测宇宙中微子获 2002 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Donna Strickland earned her doctorate at the Institute of Optics in 1989 and shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for the chirped pulse amplification technique.唐娜·斯特里克兰于 1989 年在光学研究所获得博士学位，因啁啾脉冲放大技术共享 2018 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Richard Thaler received the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in behavioural economics, having studied and later taught at the university.理查德·塞勒因行为经济学研究获 2017 年诺贝尔经济学奖，他此前在该校求学并任教。
• Harvey J. Alter, who graduated from the university, shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.毕业于该校的哈维·阿尔特因发现丙型肝炎病毒共享 2020 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
• Steven Chu, a 1970 graduate who later served as United States Secretary of Energy, shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light.1970 年毕业生、后任美国能源部长的朱棣文因用激光冷却与俘获原子的方法共享 1997 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Ching W. Tang, who took his doctorate in physical chemistry at the university in 1975, invented the organic light-emitting diode while working at Eastman Kodak.1975 年在该校取得物理化学博士学位的邓青云在伊士曼柯达工作时发明了有机发光二极管。
• Joseph C. Wilson was the founder and chief executive of Xerox, Barry Meyer was chairman and chief executive of Warner Bros., and Paul Singer is the founder of the investment firm Elliott Management.约瑟夫·威尔逊是施乐公司的创始人兼首席执行官，巴里·迈耶曾任华纳兄弟董事长兼首席执行官，保罗·辛格是投资公司埃利奥特管理公司的创始人。
• Josh Shapiro, a graduate of the university, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania, and earlier alumni include congressmen Sereno E. Payne and Samuel S. Stratton and ambassador Kenneth Keating.该校毕业生乔什·夏皮罗当选宾夕法尼亚州州长，更早的校友还包括联邦众议员塞雷诺·佩恩与塞缪尔·斯特拉顿，以及大使肯尼思·基廷。
• Vittorio Grilli served as Italian minister of economy and finance, Donald C. Winter as United States Secretary of the Navy, and Lawrence Kudlow as director of the National Economic Council.维托里奥·格里利曾任意大利经济与财政部长，唐纳德·温特曾任美国海军部长，拉里·库德洛曾任国家经济委员会主任。
• The composer Aaron Copland, the poet Galway Kinnell and the jazz musician Chuck Mangione are among the artists associated with the university and its Eastman School of Music.作曲家阿伦·科普兰、诗人加尔韦·金内尔与爵士音乐家查克·曼焦内是与该校及其伊士曼音乐学院相关的艺术家。