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Twin Cities Campus
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The Twin Cities campus is divided into three main parts: East Bank, West Bank, and St. Paul.
The East Bank is the oldest part of campus and contains most of the classroom buildings and academic departments. Northrup Mall, perhaps the best known part of the campus is located here.
Across the Mississippi River is the West Bank. It has a different personality from the East Bank, with some of the University’s newest buildings. A covered walk bridge connects the East Bank and the West Bank.
A little to the east is the campus in St. Paul. It’s really east to go back and forth between Minneapolis and St. Paul using the campus transit system. In St. Paul you’ll find the colleges of agricultural, food and environmental sciences; biological sciences; human ecology; natural resources; and veterinary medicine.
Graduate School
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Although The Graduate School's administrative offices are located on the third and fourth floors of Johnston Hall, the heart of The Graduate School—its students and faculty—can be found almost anywhere. The opportunities offered by The Graduate School go far beyond a single building. Graduate education and research takes place in classrooms and libraries, research laboratories and performance spaces, special collection and internship sites, centers and institutes. Students and faculty work indoors and out, individually, one-on-one, and as part of a team at sites throughout the Twin Cities campus, the state, and the world.
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U of M Inventions
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Paul Magers (former KARE11 anchor): From the moment you wake up to the time you go to bed, chances are a U of M invention is making your life safer, healthier, and more convenient. Skeptical? KARE11's John Croman shows us some of the cool things created at the U.
John Croman: Some day, you'll be glad the U of M built the first single particle mass spectrometer.
Michael Zachariah, Mechanical Engineering: ....and the laser blows the particle up and the fragments are then accelerated in an electric field.....
John Croman: Sure, it seems abstract. The same goes for that stuff they're doing with the stem cells over in biology. But your world is filled with things that began here on this campus as abstract ideas. For instance, the one-size-fits-all retractable seat belt—credit goes to U of M researcher James "Crash" Ryan who also came up with the so-called "black box" which is, in reality, orange.
Ann Pflaum, University Historian: In a crash when you would want to recover it, he didn't want it black; he wanted it orange.
John Croman: Ann Pflaum's history book on the U is loaded with heroes, like pioneering heart surgeon Walt Lillehei.
Ann Pflaum, University Historian: He called in Earl Bakken who was an engineer, and Bakken helped him design the first battery-powered pacemaker which led to the giant firm Medtronic.
John Croman: U grad Earl Bakken, from his garage, launched what became the $4 billion Medtronic Corporation. Another alum, Seymour Cray, spawned the supercomputer powerhouse Cray Research.
The U was the first to use radio telemetry to track animals in the wild. And mining guru Edward Davis was the one who figured out how to extract iron from taconite ore.
Oh, yeah, the whole thing with using a number two pencil to fill in an oval on a test—you can thank your friends in Gopherland for that. Reynolds Johnson, class of '29, took his idea to IBM where he designed the first test-grading machine.
You ever hear of a little something called Scotchguard? Chemistry major Thomas Reed was part of the team at 3M that devised the weather-proofer.
Oh, yeah, the U was the first place where they decided that fluoride has something to do with preventing cavities. Professor Walter Armstrong is the guy who made fluoride a household word.
You never hear about goiters any more. You know why? Because your salt is iodized. Guess whose idea that was? The U's very own Jessie McClendon figured out we need extra iodide.
Leonard Wilson, Medical Historian: ...very much reduced thyroid disease through the midwest...
John Croman: Leonard Wilson wrote the history of the U's college of medicine, a place dominated by innovators like Owen Wangensteen, the first to use suction in stomach surgery.
Leonard Wilson: ...a major contribution to the development of modern surgery...
John Croman: And Dr. John Najarian broke new ground in the field of kidney transplants and anti-rejection drugs.
Leonard Wilson: In fact, we don't know what would have been the case if the work done here had not been done, but it was done here and it had tremendous effects.
[movie clip from E.T.]: "Let's try some Bretylium."
John Croman: Did he say Bretylium? The creature is make-believe, but the heart drug Bretylium is very real, as is the guy who developed it, Dr. Marvin Bacaner of the U.
[movie clip of Sister Kenny]: "Stop that. The only other place that has shown any interest is the University of Minnesota. Stop poking me..."
John Croman: Rosalind Russell, playing the role of this woman—Sister Elizabeth Kenny—who single-handedly revolutionized the treatment of kids with polio. In her homeland of Australia, she met stiff resistance, but the U welcomed Sister Kenny.
[Sister Kenny movie clip]: "The big news is they've been hit by a bad epidemic of infantile paralysis in Minneapolis. The people want you to go over there and set up a clinic."
Ann Pflaum: This was the only place in the world that anybody listened and said "let's see what you can do."
John Croman: The nursing profession as we know it owes much to the woman who headed the U's nursing school for 30 years, Katharine Densford. When World War II started, she spearheaded America's Nurse Cadet Training Program.
In fact, the U played many vital roles in that conflict. Chemist Isaak Kolthoff conjured up synthetic rubber, pivotal in the war effort. Physicist Alfred Nier isolated Uranium-235, helping unleash the power of the atom. And Professor Athelston Spillhaus invented a device that helped our ships detect enemy subs. By the way, the same guy went on to give us skyways. Go figure!
[Ancel Keys interview clip]: "...a soldier might have to take concentrated vitamins."
John Croman: Ancel Keys had the daunting task of feeding an army. His research at the U led to field rations, named K-rations in his honor. He wasn't done with food yet. Dr. Keys also is the one who connected cholesterol to heart disease which landed him on the cover of TIME and forever changed the way we eat.
You like Haralsons? [holds up apple] They're 1 of 40 varieties developed by the University of Minnesota. The fact is, the world now reaps the benefits of disease-resistant crops, thanks in large part to the pioneering work of the U's Elvin Stakman and Norman Borlaug.
Ann Pflaum: In 1970, Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize for these contributions to helping feed the third world.
John Croman: Trying to cover everything the U's given us, of course, is like "Mission: Impossible." [theme music plays from TV show of the same name] Yep, Peter Graves came from the U, as did Garrison Keillor; civil rights trailblazers Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young; broadcast legend Eric Sevareid; crusading columnist Carl Rowan; sluggers Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor; and—count-em—two vice presidents [shows picture of Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey]. It's quite a legacy for the guys with the laser beam to live up to. No doubt, they will.
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East Bank Campus
The East Bank is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
Northrop Mall looking south towards Coffman Memorial Union.
The stainless steel pedestrian bridges crossing Washington Avenue connect Northrop Mall with Coffman Memorial Union. The building shown behind the bridge is Nils Hasselmo Hall (basic sciences/biomedical engineering).
Ford Hall, on the south end of Northrop Mall, houses programs in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Communication Studies, the School of Statistics, and the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies.
Kolthoff Hall, on the south end of Northrop Mall, was named after University of Minnesota faculty member Izaak Maurits Kolthoff, widely regarded as the father of modern analytical chemistry.
The medallion (lower left in photo) is a relief sculpture of the University of Minnesota Regents seal and is mounted near the entrance to the Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building.
The campus in Minneapolis has excellent access to the Mississippi River. The "river flats" are easily accessible from the East Bank near Coffman Memorial Union. Walking and biking trails run along both sides of the river.
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Tour the West Bank
The West Bank is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
Prominent buildings on the West Bank are shown in this aerial photo. The Washington Avenue Bridge, which crosses the Mississippi River, connects the East Bank and West Bank and is shown in the center of the image.
The newest addition to the University's West Bank Arts Quarter is the Regis Center for Art.
Heller Hall (left) and the Social Sciences Tower are prominent features on the West Bank. Heller Hall is named after alumnus Walter Heller, chief economic adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
The Elmer L. Andersen Library is named in honor of a former state legislator, governor, regent, and businessman who loved knowledge, books, and the University. Located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi, the library holds more than 1.5 million volumes of books, manuscripts, illustrations, and artifacts.
The Barbara Barker Center for Dance, completed in spring 1999, is part of the West Bank Arts Quarter.
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Tour the campus in St. Paul
The Campus in St. Paul is located approximately five miles from the East Bank and West Bank.
The Biological Sciences building, located centrally on the campus in St. Paul, is home to a number of graduate programs.
The University fields on the campus in St. Paul, used by graduate students in a variety of programs, comprise a full-functioning research farm located less than 10 miles from downtown Minneapolis (seen in the distance).
The mission of the Minnesota Molecular and Cellular Therapeutic Facility is to ensure that biological materials produced at the University for human clinical trials are of the highest quality and meet the current Good Manufacturing Practices regulations enforced by the Federal Food and Drug Administration.
The Horticulture Display and Trial Garden is an outdoor laboratory for graduate students and is a popular destination for both campus and community visitors.
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