University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UMCP ) was Maryland ten miles northeast of Washington, DC, as an Agricultural College ( Agricultural School ) founded in 1858 in College Park,. In the year 2003 25.446 students were enrolled in the bachelor's and 9,883 students in the Master's programs. Of these, about 75 percent 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. She is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities.
History
Sports
The sports teams of the University Terrapins call themselves. The university is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Very well known is the college football team and the basketball team the men. The basketball team won the 2002 NCAA National Championship. The women's team was able to win the 2006 National Championship.
Famous people
Professors
Are at university or following known people as:
- Victor Basili, computer scientist, developed GQM Strategies and GQM, co-founder of the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering ( CESE )
- Sara C. Bisel, archaeologist
- Michael Brin, a mathematician
- David S. Broder, journalist, carrier of a Pulitzer Prize in 1973
- Rachel Carson, ecologist and author of Silent Spring
- Michael E. Fisher, winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics
- Verlyn Flieger, Anglistin
- Mancur Olson, an economist
- Thomas Schelling, economist, winner of the 2005 Prize in Economic Sciences the Bank of Sweden in memory of Alfred Nobel
- Peter Miller, historian
- Sergei Petrovich Novikov, mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Michael Olmert, filmmaker and Emmy winner
- Robert L. Park, a physicist
- William D. Phillips, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Georges Rey, philosopher
- George Ritzer, a sociologist
- Roald Sinnurowitsch Sagdejew, physicist, former science teacher of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
- Ben Shneiderman, computer scientists, human-computer interaction
- Julian L. Simon, senior partner at the Cato Institute
- Karl -Ludwig Stellmacher, mathematicians
- James Yorke, co-founder of chaos theory, winner of the Japan Prize 2003
- Mark Weiser
Graduates
Well-known graduates of the University:
- Sara C. Bisel, archaeologist
- Steve Blake, American basketball player
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
- Connie Chung, news anchor at CBS, NBC, and CNN
- Gary Collins, American football player
- Larry David, actor, writer and producer ( Seinfeld )
- Gordon England, U.S. Navyminister
- Boomer Esiason, American football player
- Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett -Packard
- Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer ( The Eternal War)
- Jim Henson, creator of the Muppet Show
- Stan Jones, American football player and coach
- Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player (Indiana Pacers )
- William Cameron McCool, NASA astronaut who died in the Columbia mission STS -107
- Christoph Müller, economists
- Neil O'Donnell, American football player
- Robert Parker, influential wine critic
- Judith Arlene Resnik, NASA astronaut who died in the Challenger mission STS -51 -L
- Carsten Sieling, German politicians
- David Simon, author and television producer
- Kathleen Turner, Actress
- Randy White, American football player
- Dianne Wiest, actress
- Chris Wilcox, Basketball player
- Shay Doron, basketball player