University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UMCP ) was 1858 in College Park in the US state of Maryland northeast of the capital city ten miles Washington, DC , as the Agricultural College established (Agricultural College). In autumn 2015, 27,443 students were enrolled in the bachelor's and 10,697 students in the master's courses . About 75 percent of this comes from the state of Maryland. The gender distribution among the students is approximately 1: 1. The college is the main campus of the University System of Maryland . It is a member of the Association of American Universities , an association of leading research-intensive North American universities that has existed since 1900, and is considered Public Ivy .
history
Land was purchased for the Maryland Agricultural College in 1858 on a farm in what is now College Park. A year later the agricultural school was opened, and 34 students enrolled. The first degree was awarded in 1862. Both sides were on the site during the American Civil War . On April 24, 1864, 6,000 men of the Ninth Division of the Northern States stayed overnight on the campus on their way to Virginia . Only about two months later, on June 11, 400 Confederate men stayed overnight on campus. The college was partially nationalized in 1866.
In 1916 the name was changed to "Maryland State College". That year the college was also opened to female students. In 1917, seven departments were created: agriculture, engineering, art, science, chemistry, teaching, home economics and a graduate school (college for postgraduate studies). In 1919, the first woman obtained a bachelor's degree. A year later they merged with the established technical schools in Baltimore and the University of Maryland was founded . The Graduate School awarded the first doctoral degrees. The student newspaper Diamondback , which is still printed today, was founded in 1921.
In 1988 it was officially renamed the University of Maryland, College Park .
Sports
The university's sports teams are called Terrapins . The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference . The college football team and the men's basketball team are well known. The basketball team won the 2002 NCAA National Championship. The women's team also won the 2006 national championship. In 2012 the UMCP footballers won both the regular season and the postseason in college soccer at the Atlantic Coast Conference .
Personalities
Professors
The following well-known personalities are or have been active at the university:
- Victor R. Basili , computer scientist, developed GQM and GQM + Strategies , co-founder of the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering (CESE)
- Sara C. Bisel , archaeologist
- Michael Brin , mathematician
- David S. Broder , journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1973
- Rachel Carson , ecologist and author of Silent Spring
- David C. Driskell , artist and art historian
- Michael E. Fisher , winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics
- Verlyn Flieger , English scholar
- Sandra C. Greer , chemist
- Barys Kit , mathematician
- Peter N. Miller , historian
- Sergei Petrovich Novikov , mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Michael Olmert , filmmaker and Emmy winner
- Mancur Olson , economist
- Robert L. Park , physicist
- William D. Phillips , Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1997
- Georges Rey , philosopher
- George Ritzer , sociologist
- Roald Sinnurowitsch Sagdejew , physicist, former science teacher of Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbachev
- Thomas Schelling , economist, 2005 winner of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics
- Ben Shneiderman , computer scientist, human-computer interaction
- Julian L. Simon , Senior Partner at the Cato Institute
- Karl-Ludwig Stellmacher , mathematician
- James Yorke , co-founder of Chaos Theory , 2003 Japan Prize winner
- Mark Weiser , computer scientist
Graduates
Well-known university graduates:
- Marten van den Berg , diplomat
- Sara C. Bisel , archaeologist
- Steve Blake , basketball player
- Sergey Brin , co-founder of Google
- Norman Chad , television commentator and poker player
- Connie Chung , news anchor for CBS , NBC , and CNN
- Gary Collins , American football player
- Larry David , actor, writer and producer ( Seinfeld )
- Stefon Diggs , American football player
- Shay Doron , basketball player
- Gordon R. England , US Secretary of the Navy
- Boomer Esiason , American football player
- Hakan Fidan , head of the Turkish secret service
- Carly Fiorina , former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- Robert Forczyk , military writer
- Joe Haldeman , science fiction - writers ( The Forever War )
- Lydia Hastings , soccer player
- Jim Henson , inventor of the Muppet Show
- Stan Jones , American football player and coach
- Šarūnas Jasikevičius , Lithuanian basketball player ( Indiana Pacers )
- Jeff Kinney , et al. a. Author of the Gregs Diary series
- William C. McCool , NASA - Astronaut , died in the Columbia mission STS-107
- Christoph Müller , economist
- Neil O'Donnell , American football player
- Robert Parker , influential wine critic
- Judith Resnik , NASA astronaut, died on the Challenger mission STS-51-L
- Carsten Sieling , German politician
- David Simon , writer and television producer
- Kathleen Turner , actress
- Randy White , American football player
- Dianne Wiest , actress
- Chris Wilcox , basketball player
Web links
- Official website of the university
- Official sports website
- independent university newspaper
- Radio station
- University football and basketball results
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 38 ° 59 ′ 15 ″ N , 76 ° 56 ′ 24 ″ W.