Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
- ... that Lieutenant General Howard D. Graves (pictured as a cadet) was a Rhodes Scholar, the Superintendent of West Point, and the Chancellor of Texas A&M University?
- ... that Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian who analysed present-day conservation conflicts in India and found their roots in India's colonial past?
- ... that David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
- ... that Gail Trimble, captain of the team which won BBC TV's University Challenge before being disqualified, has been called the "human Google" and the "Usain Bolt of general knowledge"?
- ... that the poet William Dickey finished a poem about the death of his mentor, John Berryman, shortly before his own death in 1994?