The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is a public research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota – one of the top 70 schools in the U.S. It was established in 1851 as Minnesota’s land-grant institution. Today, the campus size is 2,730 acres. The school’s motto is “Commune vinculum omnibus artibus” or “A common bond for all the arts.” Faculty, alumni and researchers associated with the university have won 29 Nobel Prizes and three Pulitzer Prizes. Notable alumni include musician Bob Dylan, professional wrestler Brock Lesnar, wrestler Ric Flair, basketball player Lindsay Whalen, ice hockey defenseman Nate Schmidt, actress Jessica lange, Former Vice President of the U.S. Hubert Humphrey and actor T. R. Knight. The school’s colors are maroon and gold, and its sporting affiliations are NCAA Division I Big Ten and WCHA. Varsity sports offered include men’s football, baseball, basketball, gymnastics and hockey, and women’s basketball, cross country, golf and gymnastics. Scientists from the University of Minnesota developed honeycrisp apples at their Horticultural Research Center in 1974, and the school is home to the largest Sherlock Holmes collection in the world. It has more than 60,000 journals, books and various paper materials on the character.
Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2017, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 45th-largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 422,331. The Twin Cities metropolitan area consists of Minneapolis, its neighbor Saint Paul, and suburbs which altogether contain about 3.6 million people, and is the third-largest economic center in the Midwest.Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. More from Wikipedia...
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