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The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (U of M or The U) is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. The nickname of the University of Minnesota is the Golden Gophers.
Minnesota's sports teams mostly play in the Big Ten Conference. The women's ice hockey team plays in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA); the men's ice hockey team also played in the WCHA until 2013, when the Big Ten began a men's ice hockey league.
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Northrop Mall
University of Minnesota East Bank campus in the winter
Mall panorama, from left: Ford Hall, Coffman Memorial Union, Kolthoff Hall, Smith Hall (in center of image), Walter Library, Johnston Hall, Northrop, and Morrill Hall
Aerial photo of the Minneapolis campus, facing east
East Bank
Walter Library, Northrop Mall
Pillsbury Hall, one of the oldest buildings on campus (1889)
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
Department of Theatre Arts & Dance, Rarig Center
The Washington Avenue Bridge connects the East Bank and West Bank portions of the Minneapolis campus.
A Green Line train after leaving the East Bank Station, heading towards Downtown Minneapolis
Aerial photo of St. Paul campus, facing south
The eastern edge of the Northrop Mall, Spring 2008
TCF Bank Stadium replaced the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome as the Gophers' home stadium in 2009.
Mariucci Arena
Norman Borlaug (B.S, Forestry, 1937; M.S. (1939) and Ph.D. (1942), Plant Pathology), 1970 Nobel Prize in Peace
Herb Brooks (B.A., 1962), Olympic ice hockey coach
Nick Clegg (Fellow, 1989–90) Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Bob Dylan (Literature & Arts, 1959-1960) 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature
Hubert Humphrey (B.A., 1939) 38th Vice President of the United States
Garrison Keillor (B.S, English, 1966), author
Walter Mondale (B.A., Political Science, 1951), 42nd Vice President of the United States
Deke Slayton (B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, 1949), Mercury Seven astronaut
