University of Minnesota history

"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, February 11, 1901." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

- "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, December 11, 1905."

In 1915 brothers William James and Charles Horace Mayo (see Mayo family) helped establish the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research at Rochester as part of the University of Minnesota Graduate School.

Clegg, who had a Dutch mother and a half-Russian father (whose aristocratic mother fled to Britain after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution), grew up bilingual, speaking English and Dutch; he later became fluent in French, German, and Spanish.

It’s the first continuing nursing school on a university campus in the United States. (Men weren’t admitted to the program until 1949).

James “Crash” Ryan, a researcher in the Department of Engineering, proves the effectiveness of seat belts in reducing injuries from car crashes and in 1963 obtains a patent for the retractable seat belt. (Ryan also develops the “black box” flight recorder.)

U of M microbiologist Russell Johnson identifies the pathogen that causes Lyme disease and, in 1988, patents a vaccine for dogs.

In 1994, having briefly tried his hand at journalism, Clegg became an official at the European Commission in Brussels, where he progressed to become adviser to Sir Leon Brittan, a European Union (EU) commissioner and a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government.

In the event, however, the Liberal Democrats finished a disappointing third and won 57 seats, a loss of five from the 2005 election.

In January 2006, when Charles Kennedy resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats, Clegg felt that he was too new to Parliament to stand for leader and thus backed 63-year-old Sir Menzies Campbell, who appointed Clegg as the party spokesman on home affairs.

In the lead-up to the May 2010 general election, Clegg’s popularity surged, particularly because of his widely praised performances in Britain’s first-ever televised party-leader debates; in some polls the Liberal Democrats challenged the Conservatives for first place.

It grew tenser in July 2012 after the government’s failure to engineer the transformation of the House of Lords into a more democratic chamber, which had been a priority for the Liberal Democrats.

The U.K. general election in May 2015 proved disastrous for the Liberal Democrats and for Clegg.

Established in 2017, the program in Heritage Studies & Public History admits 8 people per year into the Masters program and also accepts current students at the University of Minnesota into the graduate minor.