[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 71 (Tuesday, May 22, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S5469]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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 SENATE RESOLUTION 93--CONGRATULATING THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, ITS 
    FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENTS, ALUMNI, AND FRIENDS, FOR 150 YEARS OF 
  OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, THE NATION, AND THE 
                                 WORLD

  Mr. WELLSTONE (for himself and Mr. Dayton) submitted the following 
resolution; which was considered and agreed to:

                               S. Res. 93

       Whereas the University of Minnesota, the land-grant 
     university of the State of Minnesota and a major research 
     institution, with its 4 campuses and many outreach centers, 
     is one of the most comprehensive and prestigious universities 
     in the United States;
       Whereas since its inception the University of Minnesota has 
     awarded more than 537,575 degrees, including more than 24,728 
     Ph.D.s;
       Whereas 13 faculty members and alumni have been awarded 
     Nobel Prizes, including the Nobel Peace Prize;
       Whereas the faculty, staff, and students of the University 
     of Minnesota have made a significant impact on the lives of 
     people throughout the world through accomplishments that 
     include--
       (1) establishing the leading kidney transplant center in 
     the world;
       (2) developing more than 80 new crop varieties that greatly 
     increase food production around the world;
       (3) developing the taconite process;
       (4) inventing the flight recorder (commonly known as the 
     black box) and the retractable seat belt;
       (5) eradicating many poultry and livestock diseases;
       (6) inventing the heart-lung machine used during the first 
     open-heart surgery in the world;
       (7) isolating uranium-235 in a prototype mass spectrometer;
       (8) inventing the heart pacemaker; and
       (9) developing the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality 
     Inventory (MMPI);
       Whereas the University of Minnesota conducts more than 300 
     different programs serving children and youth;
       Whereas the University Extension Service has contact with 
     700,000 Minnesota residents every year in areas ranging from 
     crop management to effective parenting;
       Whereas the University of Minnesota makes significant 
     contributions to the artistic and cultural richness of the 
     region through its faculty, students, and curriculum as well 
     as its galleries, museums, concerts, dance theater, theater 
     productions, lectures, and films;
       Whereas the University of Minnesota library system is the 
     17th largest in North America;
       Whereas the alumni of the University of Minnesota, 
     including 370,000 living alumni, have played a major role in 
     building the economic health and vitality of Minnesota; and
       Whereas the alumni of the University of Minnesota have 
     created more than 1,500 technology companies that employ more 
     than 100,000 Minnesotans and add $30,000,000,000 to the 
     annual economy of the State: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate congratulates the University of 
     Minnesota and its faculty, staff, students, alumni, and 
     friends for a tradition of outstanding teaching, research, 
     and service to Minnesota, the Nation, and the world on the 
     occasion of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the 
     University of Minnesota.

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