University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . ( March 2020 ) The University of Minnesota was established in Minneapolis in 1851, seven years prior to Minnesota achieving statehood, following a charter granted by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature and Governor Alexander Ramsey and the subsequent election of a board of regents. [ 14 ] In its initial years, the university encountered significant challenges and depended on contributions from various donors to remain operational, notably including support from South Carolina Governor William Aiken Jr. . [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In 1867, the university received land grant status through the Morrill Act of 1862 . [ 24 ] [ 25 ] With lands taken from Dakota people , the university was able to revive itself after closing in 1858. [ 26 ] The Dakota people have not been credited for the expropriation of their lands. [ 26 ] An 1876 donation from flour miller John S. Pillsbury is generally credited with saving the school. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Since then, Pillsbury has become known as "The Father of the University." [ 27 ] Pillsbury Hall is named in his honor. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Academic milestones began with Warren Clark Eustis and Henry Martyn Williamson graduating in 1873 as the university's first graduates. [ 30 ] Helen Marr Ely was the first female graduate in 1875. [ 30 ] The university progressed by awarding its first master's degree in 1880 and conferring its first Ph.D. in 1888. [ 30 ] As the 20th century began, the university expanded its academic offerings. In 1908, the university inaugurated the Program of Mortuary Science, becoming the first state university in the United States to do so. [ 30 ] The School of Nursing was established in 1909, the first continuous nursing school on a university campus in the United States. The nursing school later opened its doors to male students in 1949. [ 30 ] 20th-century breakthroughs at the University of Minnesota positioned it as a leader in medical innovation. In 1954, C.

Walton Lillehei and F. John Lewis performed the world's first successful open-heart surgery using cross-circulation . [ 30 ] 1955 saw Richard DeWall and Lillehei develop the bubble oxygenator, setting the stage for modern heart-lung machines. [ 30 ] This was followed by Lillehei's performance of the first artificial heart valve implant in a human in 1958, and in the same year, Earl Bakken, co-founder of Medtronic, Inc., developed the first portable pacemaker , introduced into practice by Lillehei. [ 30 ] The latter part of the 20th century saw the university's continued innovation in medical transplantation, including the world's first successful kidney/pancreas transplant in 1967, a bone marrow transplant in 1968, and a living donor pancreas transplant in 1998. [ 30 ] Another notable contribution to agriculture came in 1991, with the development of the honeycrisp apple. [ 30 ]

Note: The flagship University of Minnesota campus is the Twin Cities campus, which comprises grounds in St. Paul and Minneapolis, the latter divided into areas on both the east and west banks of the Mississippi River. Administratively, these are all one campus, but for purposes of simplicity, this article will apply "campus" to its component parts where necessary to avoid confusion with the names of cities. Aerial photo of the Minneapolis campus, facing east Aerial photo of St. Paul campus, facing south As the largest of five campuses across the University of Minnesota system, the Twin Cities campus has more than 50,000 students; this makes it the ninth-largest campus student body in the United States overall. It also has more than 300 research, education, and outreach centers and institutes. [ 31 ] Minneapolis The original Minneapolis campus overlooked the Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River , but it was later moved about a mile (1.6 km) downstream to its current location. The original site is now marked by a small park known as Chute Square at the intersection of University and Central avenues. The school shut down following a financial crisis during the American Civil War, but reopened in 1867 with considerable financial help from John S. Pillsbury . It was upgraded from a preparatory school to a college in 1869. Today, the university's Minneapolis campus is divided by the Mississippi River into an East Bank and a West Bank. The Minneapolis campus has several residence halls: 17th Avenue Hall, Centennial Hall, Frontier Hall, Territorial Hall, Pioneer Hall, Sanford Hall, Wilkins Hall, Middlebrook Hall, Yudof Hall, and Comstock Hall. East Bank East Bank Northrop Mall in the winter Walter Library , Northrop Mall East Bank campus in winter. Ford Hall on the left, Nils Hasselmo Hall on the right of the light rail in the picture. The Goldy the Gopher statue located in front of Coffman (the student union) in the Mall area of the U of MN Twin Cities!

The East Bank, the main portion of the campus, covers 307 acres (124 ha) and is divided into several areas: the Knoll area, the Mall area, the Health area, the Athletic area, and the Gateway area. The Knoll area, the oldest extant part of the university, is in the northwestern corner of the campus. [ 32 ] Many buildings in this area are well over 100 years old, such as some of the 13 in the Old Campus Historic District . [ 33 ] Today, most disciplines in this area relate to the humanities . Burton Hall is home to the College of Education and Human Development . Folwell Hall and Jones Hall are primarily used by the language departments. A residence hall, Sanford Hall, and a student-apartment complex, Roy Wilkins Hall, are in this area. This area is just south of the Dinkytown neighborhood and business area. Northrop Mall is arguably the center of the Minneapolis campus. The plan for the Mall was based on a design by Cass Gilbert , although his scheme was too extravagant to be fully implemented. [ 34 ] Several of the campus's primary buildings surround the Mall area. Northrop Auditorium provides a northern anchor, with Coffman Memorial Union (CMU) to the south. Four of the larger buildings to the sides of the Mall are the primary mathematics , physics , and chemistry buildings (Vincent Hall, Tate Laboratory and Smith Hall, respectively) and Walter Library . Smith Hall and Walter Library were built during the Lotus Coffman administration. [ 35 ] The Mall area is home to the College of Liberal Arts , which is Minnesota's largest public or private college, and the College of Science and Engineering . Behind CMU is another residence hall, Comstock Hall, and another student-apartment complex, Yudof Hall. The Northrop Mall Historic District was formally listed in the National Register of Historic Places in January 2018.