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Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University
אוניברסיטת תל אביב

Established: 1956
Type: Public
President: Zvi Galil
Rector: Dany Leviatan
Vice-Presidents: Yehiel Ben-Zvi, Ehud Gazit, Gary Sussman
Students: 29,000
Location: Flag of Israel Tel Aviv, Israel
Campus: Urban
Website: www.tau.ac.il/


Leigh Engineering Faculty Boulevard

Tel Aviv University (TAU) (Hebrew: אוניברסיטת תל־אביב, את"אUniversitat Tel Aviv) is a large, public university, located in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of 2006, the Tel Aviv University has a student population of 29,000.

TAU comprises nine faculties, 106 departments, and 90 research institutes.

History

Located in Israel's cultural, financial and industrial center, Tel Aviv University is Israel's largest university. It is a major center of teaching and research, comprising nine faculties, 106 departments, and 90 research institutes. Its origins go back to 1956, when three research institutes - the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, the Institute of Natural Sciences, and the Institute of Jewish Studies - joined together to form the University of Tel Aviv. Initially operated by the Tel Aviv municipality, the university was granted autonomy in 1963. The Ramat Aviv campus covering an area of 170-acre (0.69 km2) was established that same year.

The university also maintains academic supervision over the Center for Technological Design in Holon, the New Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, and the Tel Aviv Engineering College. The Wise Observatory is located in Mitzpe Ramon.

Part of the Tel Aviv campus was built on lands previously inhabited by the Arab village Sheikh Muwanis, whose residents fled during the Israeli-Arab war of 1948.[citation needed]

Ramat Aviv campus

TAU received its autonomy from the Tel Aviv municipality in 1963, when its campus, in the northern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Ramat Aviv was established.


Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center

Buildings on the Ramat Aviv campus include the Katz Faculty of the Arts, the David Azrieli School of Architecture, the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, the Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, the Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, the Entin Faculty of Humanities, the Buchmann Faculty of Law, the Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, the Faculty of Management--Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences.

Other university schools and programs include:

  • Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
  • Constantiner School of Education
  • Porter School of Environmental Studies
  • Shapell School of Social Work
  • The School for Overseas Students
  • The Unit of Culture Research
  • Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
  • Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
  • Joseph Kelman School of Education

Relations with other universities


Smolarz Auditorium

Tel Aviv University offers special programs of Jewish studies to teachers and students from the United States, France, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. The programs are in English.

The School for Overseas Students gives young people from different countries the opportunity to study at Tel Aviv University. The program is in English and also offers the opportunity to live and study in a kibbutz.

The Tel Aviv University Law Faculty currently has exchange programs from thirteen overseas universities. Namely: Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Virginia, Cornell, Boston University, Temple, Cardozo, Toronto, Bucerius (Hamburg), Monash (Melbourne), Milan, and Seoul National University The university offers about 20 courses a year in English, recruiting many top lecturers from overseas to teach.

Other study opportunities for students from abroad are:

  • Master's Program in Middle Eastern Studies
  • Master's Program in Biblical Archaeology
  • Summer Law Program co-sponsored by Temple University Law School
  • Sackler School of Medicine New York State/American Program
  • Wharton-Recanati-INSEAD-York Project in Management
  • International Executive MBA Program with the Kellogg School, Northwestern University
  • Spring Engineering Program with Boston University's College of Engineering
  • High-Tech Management School

In May 2007, New York University and Tel Aviv University approved a plan to establish an NYU Study Abroad Campus in Israel based at Tel Aviv University

Faculty

Notable faculty members (past and present) include:

  • Yakir Aharonov, physicist
  • Noga Alon, mathematician
  • Yitzhak Arad, historian
  • Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Joseph Bernstein, mathematician
  • Guy Deutscher, physicist
  • Uzi Even, chemist and political activist for LGBT rights
  • Israel Finkelstein, archaeologist
  • Joshua Jortner, physical chemist
  • Asa Kasher, philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct
  • Etgar Keret, author
  • Zvi Laron, paediatric endocrinologist
  • Amnon Jackont, author
  • Fred Landman, semanticist
  • Orna Lin, lawyer
  • Vitali Milman, mathematician
  • Yuval Ne'eman (deceased), physicist, former minister of Science and Technology
  • Baruch Modan, oncologist
  • Aviad Raz, sociologist
  • Tanya Reinhart, linguist
  • Amnon Rubinstein, former Dean of Law, also former Education minister
  • Ariel Rubinstein, economist
  • Pnina Salzman, pianist and piano pedagogue
  • Anita Shapira, historian
  • Micha Sharir, mathematician
  • Edna Shavit, drama
  • Boris Tsirelson, mathematician
  • Lev Vaidman, physicist
  • Moshe Wolman, neuropathologist
  • Amotz Zahavi, biologist

University of Tsukuba

University of Tsukuba
筑波大学
The seal of the University of Tsukuba

Motto: None
Established: October, 1973 (Originally in 1872)
Type: Public (National)
President: Yoichi Iwasaki
Staff: 4,129[1]
Students: 16,584[2]
Undergraduates: 10,211
Postgraduates: 6,373
Location: Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Campus: Urban
Mascot: None
Website: www.tsukuba.ac.jp


Outside the Main Library

The University of Tsukuba has a modern campus


The University of Tsukuba (筑波大学 Tsukuba daigaku?) is located in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kantō region The University has 28 college clusters and schools with a total of around 15,000 students (in 2003).

The current university was established in October, 1973. A forerunner of this university was Tokyo University of Education (東京教育大学 Tōkyō kyōiku daigaku) originally founded in 1872 as one of the oldest universities in Japan, Tokyo Shihan Gakko.

The university is ranked one of the top Asian universities (9th to 17th) in the “Academic Ranking of World Universities” and is ranked 102-150 in the world.

The University of Tsukuba has had several Nobel Prize winners so far, namely Leo Esaki, Hideki Shirakawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, which is extremely rare among universities in Asia, where there have been fewer Nobel laureates than in European and American universities.

The University of Tsukuba is famous in the research of physical education, physics and economics.[citation needed]

On July 11, 1991 Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi was stabbed to death at the University for translating Salman Rushdie's most famous novel The Satanic Verses.

In October 2002, the University of Tsukuba merged with the University of Library and Information Science (ULIS, 図書館情報大学 Toshokan jōhō daigaku?). The School of Library and Information Science and the Graduate School of Library and Information - Media Studies were established.

In May 2008, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development became an opportunity for the African Development Bank (AfDB) and universities in Japan to promote partnership on higher education, science and technology. Donald Kaberuka, the President of AfDB and the President of Tsukuba University signed a memorandum of understanding during the three-day event.

Points of interest

  • Tsukuba Botanical Garden

Famous alumni

Politicians

  • Kiyoko Ono (70th Chair of National Public Safety Commission)
  • Taizō Sugimura (dropout)

Academics

  • Yukihiro Matsumoto - free software programmer. Chief designer of the Ruby programming language.
  • John Maeda - Current President of the Rhode Island School of Design

Businessmen

  • Yutaka Emura - President of Emurasoft, developer of EmEditor text editor.
  • Kota Matsuda - CEO of Tully's Coffee Japan
  • Daiyuu Nobori - CEO of Softether

Athletes

  • Sawao Kato - Gymnastic, 8 Olympic gold medalist
  • Masami Ihara - Football player
  • Masashi Nakayama - Football player
  • Sota Hirayama (dropout) - Football player
  • Toshiya Fujita - Football player
  • Takanori Yoshioka - Athlete (Tokyo University of Education)
  • Miwako Motoyoshi - Synchronized swimming, Olympic bronze medalist
  • Toshinobu Kawai - Short track speed skating, Olympic bronze medalist
  • Hirotaka Okada - Judo, Olympic bronze medalist
  • Yoko Sakagami - Judo, Olympic bronze medalist
  • Chiyo Tateno - Judo, Olympic bronze medalist
  • Yoko Tanabe - Judo, Olympic silver medalist
  • Noriko Narazaki (Sugawara) - Judo, Olympic silver and bronze medalist
  • Fumiko Esaki - Judo, Olympic silver medalist
  • Ayumi Tanimoto - Judo, Olympic gold medalist
  • Midori Shintani - Judo, World judo championship gold medalist

Entertainers

  • Masayoshi Okumura - Voice Percussion of a cappella band Rag Fair
  • Riyoko Ikeda - Mangaka (Tokyo University of Education/dropout)
  • Rin Inumaru - Mangaka
  • Ryoko Nagata - Seiyu
  • Miki Ito - Seiyu
  • Shunichi Miyamoto - Musician

Artists

  • Toshio Iwai - Media artist and game designer
  • Nobumichi Tosa - Media artist of the Maywa Denki art unit

University of Geneva

Université de Genève

Latin: Schola Genevensis
Established: 1559
Type: Public university
Rector: Prof. Jean-Dominique Vassalli
Students: 13,364
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
46°11′56″N 6°08′40″E / 46.19889°N 6.14449°E / 46.19889; 6.14449Coordinates: 46°11′56″N 6°08′40″E / 46.19889°N 6.14449°E / 46.19889; 6.14449
Affiliations: Coimbra Group
LERU
EUA
Website: www.unige.ch

The University of Geneva (French: Université de Genève) is a university in Geneva, Switzerland.

Founded by John Calvin in 1559 as a theological seminary that also taught law, it remained focused on theology until the 17th century, when it became a center for Enlightenment scholarship. In 1873 it dropped its religious affiliations and became officially secular. Today, the university is the second-largest university in Switzerland. It has programs in many fields but is especially noted for its programs in international relations (with Geneva being a center for many international organizations), law, scientific research (with a record of notable discoveries in planetary science and genetics) and theology .

Classes are taught mainly in French. The university pursues three missions: teaching, research, and service to the community. It was ranked number one generalist university in continental Europe and thirty-second world wide among the "Top 100 Global Universities" by Newsweek in 2006. The university is a member of the League of European Research Universities.

In 2009, the University of Geneva is celebrating the 450th anniversary of its birth, through a wide range of public events

Degree system


University of Geneva

Before 2005, the University applied the French education model of granting academic degrees, with some minor differences: demi-licence (two years), licence (four years), diplôme d'études approfondies and diplôme d'études superieures spécialisées (DEA/DESS) (1-2 years), and doctorate (3-5 years). The University now follows the requirements of the Bologna process: bachelor's (three years), master's (1-2 years), Master of Advanced Studies (1-2 years), doctorate (3-5 years).

Organization

The university is composed of eight faculties:

  • Faculty of Sciences (natural sciences)
  • Faculty of Medicine (medical school)
  • Faculty of Arts (arts)
  • Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Hautes École Commerciale (HEC) department (social sciences including economics; business school)
  • Faculty of Law (Geneva Law School) (law school)
  • Faculty of Protestant Theology (Protestant theological school)
  • Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (psychology and education)
  • School of Translation and Interpretation (translating and interpreting)

The university has also developed a continuing education programme. The university has a partnership with the nearby Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the Bossey Ecumenical Institute, and students at the university may take courses at these institutes.

Inter-faculty centers:

  • Institute for Reformation History (the Reformation)
  • Computer Science Department (computer science)
  • University Centre of Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences (human ecology, environmental science)
  • University Centre for Study of Energy Problems (energy policy)
  • The European Institute of the University of Geneva (European studies, European integration)
  • Interfaculty Center of Gerontology (gerontology)
  • Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (affective science)
  • Center for environmental Studies

University of Alberta

University of Alberta

Motto: Quaecumque Vera
Motto in English: Whatsoever things are true
Established: 1908
Type: Public
Endowment: $751M
Chancellor: Linda Hughes
President: Indira Samarasekera
Provost: Carl G. Amrhein
Faculty: 3,506
Staff: 10,640
Undergraduates: 28,477 full-time, 2,102 part-time
Postgraduates: 4,937 full-time, 1,446 part-time
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Colours: Green and Gold
Nickname: The Golden Bears (men), The Pandas (women)
Mascot: GUBA (men), Patches (women)
Affiliations: AUCC, CIS, CWUAA,AUFC, UArctic, ACU, CUSID, AUFSC, CBIE, CUP.
Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/

The University of Alberta (U of A) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the top universities in Canada. The university's current enrolment is over 36,000, placing it among the five largest universities in the country. The main campus covers 50 city blocks with over 90 buildings directly across the North Saskatchewan River from downtown Edmonton.

The continued economic boom in Alberta, driven mainly by high energy prices, has resulted in multi-billion dollar government fiscal surpluses. This has led to the introduction of Bill 1 by the provincial government, which promises to create a $4.5 billion endowment for Alberta's post-secondary institutions. Given the rosy economic conditions in Alberta, it has been suggested that as the University of Alberta enters its second century it should aim to be one of the top twenty universities in the world by the year 2020.

History and Overview

Early history

Tory building at the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta, a single, public provincial university, was chartered in 1906 in Edmonton, Alberta with a new University Act. University of Alberta was modelled on the American state university, with an emphasis on extension work and applied research.

University of Alberta is a non-denominational university which offers undergraduate and graduate programs. With the hiring of Henry Marshall Tory in 1907, the University of Alberta started operation in 1908 using temporary facilities, while the first building on campus was under construction.

In a letter from Henry Marshall Tory to Alexander Cameron Rutherford in early 1906, while he is in the process of setting up McGill University College in Vancouver, Tory writes "If you take any steps in the direction of a working University and wish to avoid the mistakes of the past, mistakes which have fearfully handicapped other institutions, you should start on a teaching basis." The University of Alberta was established by the University of Alberta: University Act, 1910 in the first session of the new Legislative Assembly, with Premier Alexander C. Rutherford as its sponsor.

The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate (faculty), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors (citizens) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the 2 bodies and to perform institutional leadership.

It awarded its first degrees in 1912. In 1912 the university established its Department of Extension. In the early part of 20th century, professional education expanded beyond the traditional fields of theology, law and medicine. Graduate training based on the German-inspired American model of specialized course work and the completion of a research thesis was introduced. In 1929, the university established a School of Education. In 1932, the University Department of Extension established the Banff School of Finer Arts.

The policy of university education initiated in the 1960s responded to population pressure and the belief that higher education was a key to social justice and economic productivity for individuals and for society. In 1966, the University of Alberta introduced a masters program in community development.

The single-university policy in the West was changed as existing colleges of the provincial universities gained autonomy as universities - the University of Calgary was established in 1966. The University of Alberta first offered programs of study at Calgary in 1945 and continued until 1966 when the University of Calgary was established as an autonomous institution.

Location

The location of the university was to be decided along the same lines as that of Saskatchewan. (The province of Saskatchewan shares the same founding date as Alberta, 1905.) Saskatchewan had to please two competing cities when deciding the location of its capital city and provincial university. Thus, Regina was designated the provincial capital and Saskatoon received the provincial university, the University of Saskatchewan. The same heated wrangling over the location of the provincial capital also took place in Alberta between the cities of Calgary and Edmonton. It was stated that the capital would be north of the North Saskatchewan River and that the university would be in a city south of it. In the end the city of Edmonton became capital and the city just south of the river, Strathcona was granted the university, much to the chagrin of Calgary, for many years to come.

Meanwhile, in 1912 the two cities of Edmonton and Strathcona were amalgamated under the name of the former; Edmonton had thus became both the political and academic capital, at the expense of Calgary. This was just one act in a larger rivalry between the two cities, often called the Battle of Alberta.

Faculties

In 1913, a medical school established at the University of Alberta in Edmonton was opened. By 1920, the university had six faculties (Arts and Sciences, Applied Science, Agriculture, Medicine, Dentistry, and Law) and two schools (Pharmacy and Accountancy). It awarded a range of degrees: Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (BSA), Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Bachelor of Pharmacy (PhmB), Bachelor of Divinity (BD), Master of Arts (MA), Master of Science (MSc), and Doctor of Laws (LLD). There were 851 male students and 251 female students, and 171 academic staff, including 14 women.

Newspapers

The university has two main newspapers, Folio and The Gateway . Folio is the official newspaper published by the "Office of Public Affairs" every two weeks from September to June. The Gateway is the official student newspaper. Fully autonomous, it publishes "most Tuesdays and Thursdays".

The university also has the independent newspaper The Gold Standard and a monthly student newspaper, the Dagligtale, published at Augustana Campus in Camrose, Alberta .

Radio

In 1927, the university established the CKUA Educational radio station.

Book publishing

The University of Alberta Press, which was founded in 1969, concentrates on western Canadian history, general science and ecology. [16] The University of Alberta Press publishes an average of between 20 and 30 books per year, often accepting submissions from across Canada for over 50% of the publications. Their current active title listing has more than 150 books,[17] as of 2007.

Academics

Profile

The U of A has approximately 36,000 students, including 6,000 graduate students and 2,000 international students representing 110 countries. The university has 3,506 academic staff along with about 10,640 support and trust staff. University professors have won more 3M Teaching Fellowships (Canada's top award for undergraduate teaching excellence) than any other Canadian university, 28 awards since 1986. The university offers post-secondary education in about 200 undergraduate and 170 graduate programs. Tuition and fees for both fall and winter semesters are slightly more than $5,000 for a typical undergraduate student, although they vary widely by program. The University of Alberta switched from a 9-point grading scale to the more common 4-point grading scale in September 2003.

Faculties and colleges


St. Joseph’s College @ University of Alberta

The university has eighteen faculties and two affiliated colleges.

  • Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences focuses on natural, biological, and human resources. The University of Alberta Faculty of Forestry is part of the AUFSC and has accredited baccalaureate of science programs.
    • Bachelor of Science in Agriculture - Pre-Veterinary Medicine Program; Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with Major in Agricultural and Resource Economics; Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with Major in Animal Science; Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with Major in Crop Science; Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with Major in Range and Pasture Management; Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with Major in Sustainable Agricultural Systems
    • Master of Agriculture in Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science; Master of Agriculture in Agroforestry; Master of Agriculture in Forest Economics; Master of Agriculture in Rural Sociology; Master of Agriculture in Soil Science; Master of Agriculture in Water and Land Resources; Master of Business Administration / Master of Agriculture
    • Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry & Home Economics: Dept. of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science has an accredited dietetic program. The university is accredited by a professional organization such as the Dietitians of Canada and the university's graduates may subsequently become registered dietitians. List of universities with accredited dietetic programs

The Lecture Theaters section of the Humanities Center.
  • Faculty of Arts is home to the spectrum of Arts programs and departments, from Anthropology to Women's Studies.
  • Augustana Faculty is located in a satellite campus in Camrose, Alberta. It comprises the departments of Fine Arts, Humanities, Physical Education, Science, and Social Sciences.
  • School of Business offers MBA, BCom, PhD, ExecEd, and Exec MBA degrees.
  • Faculty of Education offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in Elementary, Secondary Education, or combined.



The Natural Resources Engineering Facility.
  • Faculty of Engineering offers undergraduate degrees in four engineering departments. Students can choose to specialize in the following disciplines: Physics Materials Engineering, Mining Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.[23]
  • Faculty of Extension is focusing on the life-long Continuing Education and Professional Development.
  • Campus Saint-Jean is a Francophone faculty with programs in Sciences, Fine Arts and Languages, Social Sciences, and Education.
  • Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research maintains graduate studies.
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
  • Faculty of Native Studies
  • Faculty of Nursing
  • Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation
  • School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Faculty of Science
  • St. Joseph's College
  • St. Stephen's College

Library system


The Rutherford Humanities and Social Sciences Library

The University of Alberta library system, received a tremendous boost with the opening of the Rutherford Library in May 1951, and now has one of the largest research libraries systems in Canada. As of 2004, according to the Association of Research Libraries, the library system is the second-largest, by the number of volumes held, among all Canadian universities, after the University of Toronto Library. In 2006, the university library was rated 20th in North America by the Association of Research Libraries (up from only 28th a year earlier). With over 5.7 million printed volumes combined with online access to more than 400,000 full-text electronic journals and more than 600 electronic databases the library system ranks first in Canada in terms of the number of volumes per student.

Specialty libraries


Winspear Business Reference Library

The library system comprises the following libraries:

  • Augustana Faculty Library
  • Bibliothèque Saint-Jean
  • Book and Record Depository (BARD)
  • Cameron Library (Science & Technology)
    • Knowledge Common
  • H.T. Coutts Library (Education & Physical Education)
  • J.A. Weir Memorial Law Library
  • J.W. Scott Health Sciences Library
  • Dr. Josephine M. Mitchell Mathematics Library
  • Rutherford Library (Humanities & Social Sciences)
    • Bruce Peel Special Collections Library
    • Data Library
    • Music Listening and Reserve
  • St. Joseph's College Library
  • Winspear Business Reference Library

School of Library and Information Studies

The university is also home to a School of Library and Information Studies. Notably the school offers a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) degree, accredited by the American Library Association, and is hosted in Rutherford South, the original four story brick, marble, and oak main campus library, opened in 1951.

Research overview

Housing over 400 distinct research laboratories, the University of Alberta is one of the leading research universities in Canada. The university is a member of the G13 universities, which are the leading research universities in Canada. In the period from 1988 to 2006, the University of Alberta received about $3.4B for research from external sources, with $404M in 2005-2006 alone. The University of Alberta is consistently ranked among the top research universities in Canada.

Notably the University of Alberta is also the national scientific and administrative headquarters for:

  • Sustainable Forest Management
  • Network of Centres of Excellence
  • Prairie Centres of Excellence

Medical research

Medical researchers are developing the Edmonton Protocol, which is a new treatment for type one diabetes that enables diabetics to break their insulin dependence. The project was originally developed by Drs. James Shapiro, Jonathan Lakey, and Edmond Ryan. The first patient was treated in 1999. As of 2006, the project is developed through the Clinical Islet Transplant Program.

Population research

  • Population Research Laboratory

Biomedical research

Biomedical researchers, headed up by Michael Ellison have initiated a project to model Eukaryotic cells in detail, called Project Cybercell.

Nanotechnology research


The National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT)

In June 2006, a new 120 million dollar building for the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) was opened on campus. The NINT complex is one of the world’s most technologically advanced research facilities, housing the quietest, and cleanest, laboratory space in Canada.NINT occupies five floors of the new building with the top two floors being reserved by the university for nanotechnology-related research. Recently some staff members have been jointly recruited by the NRC and the University of Alberta.

Other

  • The university participated in the initial development of the Mizar system
  • The asteroid 99906 Uofalberta is named in the university's honour, in part because the initials of its motto Quaecumque Vera ("Whatsoever things are true") appeared in the object's provisional designation 2002 QV

Aboriginal

The University of Alberta provides services to Aboriginal people in more remote communities. University of Alberta provides special first-year bridging programs for Aboriginal students. The University of Alberta’s Aboriginal Teacher Education Program at Blue Quills First Nations College was developed in partnership with specific Aboriginal communities to meet specific needs within Aboriginal communities. The Faculty of Native Studies at University of Alberta was designed to meet the knowledge needs of First Nations, Métis and Inuit. The University of Alberta reaches into Aboriginal communities to talk to potential students at a much younger age through its Summer Science Camps for Aboriginal high school students.

Aarhus University

Aarhus Universitet
Seal of the University of Aarhus

Latin: Universitas Aarhusiensis
Motto: Solidum petit in profundis (Latin)
Motto in English: Seek a firm footing in the depths
Established: 1928
Type: Public university
Rector: Lauritz Broder Holm-Nielsen
Staff: 8,500 (2,800 teaching staff and researchers)
Students: 35,427
Doctoral students: 740
Location: Århus, Denmark
Affiliations: EUA
Website: www.au.dk

Aarhus University (in Danish, Aarhus Universitet, located in the city of Århus, Denmark, is Denmark's second oldest and second largest university (after the University of Copenhagen).

The university was founded in 1928 and has an annual enrollment of more than 35,000 students.

Aarhus University housed Denmark's first professor of sociology (Theodor Geiger, from 1938–1952) and in 1997 professor Jens Christian Skou received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the sodium-potassium pump.

History

Aarhus University was founded on 11 September 1928 as Universitetsundervisningen i Jylland ("University Teaching in Jutland") with an enrollment of 64 students. Classrooms were rented from the Technical College and the teaching corps consisted of one professor of philosophy and four associate professors of Danish, English, German and French. Until then the University of Copenhagen was the only university in Denmark.

The use of the name Aarhus Universitet began in 1933. Even though the name of the city, Århus, has been spelled with Å since the reform of Danish orthography in 1948, the name of the university insists on the old spelling with Aa. The official English translation of the name is Aarhus University (formerly, The University of Aarhus).

The entire campus was designed by the late C.F. Møller, whose firm, C.F. Møller Architects, has remained in charge of its further development, including its most recent additions: five new auditoria, completed in 2001.

Organization

The university is organised in eight faculties:


The library (Statsbiblioteket)
  1. The Faculty of Humanities (Det Humanistiske Fakultet), which has offered courses since 1928.
  2. The Faculty of Health Sciences, consisting of the former Faculty of Medicine (which began courses in basic medical subjects in 1933) and the former Dental School (added to the Faculty of Medicine in 1992, when the name was changed to the Faculty of Health Sciences).
  3. The Faculty of Social Sciences, consisting of the former Faculty of Economics and Law (established in 1936) and of Political Science and Psychology.
  4. The Faculty of Theology, established in 1942. Courses in theology had been offered from 1932, being previously taught at the Faculty of Arts.
  5. The Faculty of Science, which was established in 1954 by moving Physics and Chemistry from the then Faculty of Medicine and Geography from the then Faculty of Arts. Mathematics was established as a new subject, followed by Biology and Geology.
  6. The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, formerly Danmarks JordbrugsForskning (DJF), which was amalgamated with the university in 2007.
  7. Aarhus School of Business, which was founded in 1939 and amalgamated with the university in 2007.
  8. The National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), which was amalgamated with the university in 2007.

Enrollment


Rear of the main building

As of 2007, the number of students is c. 35,000. Each year more than 900 international exchange students come to Aarhus University to study for one or two semesters.


Student organizations

The largest student organizations at Aarhus University are the Student Union (Studenterrådet) and Studenterlauget. The Student Union represents the main student body at Aarhus University while Studenterlauget represents the students at Aarhus School of Business. Both the Student Union and Studenterlauget are represented on The University Board. The Student Union also arranges annual concerts and seminars, and publishes the student magazine Delfinen (The Dolphin).

There are political students organizations at the university, the largest of which include the Social-Democratic Students (Frit Forum), Conservative Students (Konservative Studenter), and Liberal Students (Liberale Studerende). The Conservative Students union publishes the student magazine Critique. The Liberal Students union publishes the leaflet Minerva.

Campus


University Park

The campus master plan competition was won in 1931 by the collaborative scheme of Danish architects, Kay Fisker, C.F. Møller, and Poul Stegmann with landscape architect C. Th. Sørensen. The design hosts a wide variety of buildings over a large space, but each building is composed of the same yellow brick and roofing tile, giving the whole campus a unified look. Construction commenced in 1932 and has continued into the 21st century. It was one of the first Danish, functionalist, public buildings and has been included in the Ministry of Culture's canon of Danish architecture. C.F. Møller and his company continued alone on the campus after 1942.

Ranking

The university is ranked number 81 in the 2008 THE-QS World University Rankings and ranked number 3 of universities in nordic countries in the same list. The university is ranked 93 in the 2008 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities among 17,000 universities in the world, and 126 in the world by THES- World University Ranking 2007.

Tufts University


Motto: Pax et Lux
(Peace and Light)
Established: 1852
Type: Private
Endowment: $1.4 billion (June 30, 2008)
President: Lawrence S. Bacow
Provost: Jamshed Bharucha
Faculty: 1,210
Undergraduates: 5,016
Postgraduates: 4,773
Location: Medford/Somerville, MA, USA
Campus: Urban/Suburban
Colors: Brown and blue
Mascot: Jumbo
Affiliations: NESCAC
Website: www.tufts.edu

Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The university is home to the nation's oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

In 1852, Tufts College was founded by Universalists who had for years worked to open a non-sectarian institution of higher learning. Charles Tufts donated the land for the campus on Walnut Hill, the highest point in Medford, saying that he wanted to set a "light on the hill." The name was changed to "Tufts University" in 1954, although the corporate name remains "the Trustees of Tufts College." After over a century as a small New England liberal arts college, the French-American nutritionist Jean Mayer became president of Tufts in the late 1970s and, through a series of rapid acquisitions, transformed the school into an international research university.

Tufts is organized into 10 schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France. The university emphasizes public service in all of its disciplines and is well-known for internationalism and its study abroad programs.

History


Tufts College, 1853.

In 1852, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts chartered Tufts College. The original act of incorporation noted the college should promote "virtue and piety and learning in such of the languages and liberal and useful arts as shall be recommended." Charles Tufts was the donor of the land the university now occupies on the Medford-Somerville line. The twenty-acre plot, given to the Universalist church on the condition that it be used for a college, was valued at $20,000 and located on one of the highest hills in the Boston area, Walnut Hill. Having been one of the biggest influences in the establishment of the College, Hosea Ballou II became the first president in 1853.

P.T. Barnum was one of the earliest benefactors of Tufts College, and the Barnum Museum of Natural History was constructed in 1884 with funds donated by him. Barnum donated the building to house his collection of animal specimens and featured the stuffed hide of Jumbo the elephant. On April 14, 1975, fire gutted Barnum Hall; the collection housed in the building was completely lost, including numerous animal specimens, Barnum's desk and bust, and the stuffed hide of Jumbo.

On July 15, 1892, the Tufts Board of Trustees voted "that the College be opened to women in the undergraduate departments on the same terms and conditions as men." At the same meeting, the trustees voted to create a graduate school faculty and to offer the Ph.D. degree in biology and chemistry.


Walnut Hill as it appeared prior to the construction of Tisch Library and steps, circa 1910. The road to the right no longer exists.

The university experienced tremendous growth during the presidency of Jean Mayer (1976–1992).Mayer was, by all accounts, some combination of "charming, witty, duplicitous, ambitious, brilliant, intellectual, opportunistic, generous, vain, slippery, loyal, possessed of an inner standard of excellence, and charismatic." Mayer established Tufts' veterinary, nutrition, and biomedical schools and acquired the Grafton and Talloires campuses, at the same time lifting the university out of its dire financial situation by increasing the size of the endowment by a factor of 15.

Recent Developments

Tufts is in the midst of a capital campaign, entitled Beyond Boundaries, with the intent of raising $1.2 billion and fully implementing need-blind admission.[10] As of July 31, 2008, the campaign has raised $907.1 million.

Tufts received a gift of $136 million, the largest in the university's history, on April 9, 2008 upon the dissolution of a charitable trust set up by 1911 alumnus Frank C. Doble. As an unrestricted gift, the donation was invested entirely in the university's endowment. The investment will help finance the construction of a lab complex integrating biology and engineering, already in the planning stages, which will bear Doble's name.

Previously, the university had received the three largest donations in its history during 2005 and 2006. On 4 November 2005, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam donated $100 million to Tufts to establish the Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund.[15] On 12 May 2006, Jonathan Tisch gave $40 million to endow the University College of Citizenship and Public Service, which now bears his name. The veterinary school was named in honor of William S. Cummings after a $50 million donation to the school in 2005. On September 4, 2007, it was announced that Steve Tisch had donated $10 million to support a $35 million athletics and fitness facilities expansion planned to begin in late 2008; in addition, the Jaharis Family Foundation donated $15 million to renovate the Sackler Center for Health Communications and build a new campus center for the Boston campus and medical school.

Campuses

The University has four main campuses—three in the Boston area and one in southern France.

Greater Boston

Tufts' main campus is located on Walnut Hill in Medford, about 5 miles (8 km) from Boston. While the majority of the campus is in Medford, the Somerville line runs through the campus, placing some parts of the lower campus in Somerville, and leading to the common terms "Uphill" and "Downhill" for the two sections. The offices of the president, the provost, many of the vice presidents, and the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences are located in Ballou Hall, the oldest building on the hill. There are administrative offices in the surrounding neighborhoods and nearby Davis Square. Many points on the hill have noted views of the Boston skyline, particularly the patio on the Tisch Library roof.

The Schools of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Dental Medicine, and the Friedman School are located on a campus in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, adjacent to Tufts Medical Center, a 451-bed academic medical institution. All full-time Tufts Medical Center physicians hold clinical faculty appointments at Tufts School of Medicine.

The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is located in Grafton, Massachusetts, west of Boston, on a 634-acre (2.57 km2) campus. The school also maintains the Ambulatory Farm Clinic in Woodstock, Connecticut and the Tufts Laboratory at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole on Cape Cod.

Talloires


The Tufts European Center on the Talloires campus

Tufts has a satellite campus in Talloires, France at the Tufts European Center, a former Benedictine priory built in the 11th century. The priory was purchased in 1958 by Donald MacJannet and his wife Charlotte and used as a summer camp site for several years before the MacJannets gave the campus to Tufts in 1978. Each year the center hosts a number of summer study programs, and enrolled students live with local families. The site is frequently the host of international conferences and summits.

Organization

Tufts University comprises eight schools including:

  • The School of Arts and Sciences (1898 or 1903).
  • The School of Engineering (1898).
  • The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1933), America's oldest graduate school for international relations and foreign affairs.
  • The School of Dental Medicine (1899)
  • The School of Medicine (1893), whose primary affiliated hospitals are the Tufts Medical Center and the Baystate Medical Center.
  • The Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences (1981).
  • The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (1981), the only graduate school of nutrition in North America, with the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center.
  • The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine (1978), the only veterinary school in New England.
  • The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service (2000).

Each school has its own faculty and is lead by a dean appointed by the president and the provost with the consent of the Board of Trustees. In addition, the university is affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the New England Conservatory of Music.

The School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering are the only schools that award both undergraduate and graduate degrees. The Jackson College for Women, established in 1910 as a coordinate college adjacent to the Tufts campus, was integrated with the College of Liberal Arts in 1980, but is recognized in the formal name of the undergraduate arts and sciences division, the "College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College." Undergraduate women in arts and sciences continued to receive their diplomas from Jackson College until 2002.

The Fletcher School, the School of Medicine, the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, the School of Dental Medicine, the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine are exclusively graduate and professional schools. All of these schools, with the exception of dental medicine, award the Ph.D.

The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service was founded in 2000 "to educate for active citizenship" with the help of a $10 million gift from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam. In 2006 the school was renamed after a $40 million dollar gift from Jonathan Tisch. It has been called the "most ambitious attempt by any research university to make public service part of its core academic mission." Tisch College does not grant degrees; the college facilitates and supports a wide range of community service and civil engagement programs, research and teaching initiatives across the university.

Under the purview of the School of Arts and Sciences is the Experimental College, a non-degree granting entity created in 1964 as a proving ground for innovative, experimental, and interdisciplinary curricula and courses. By far, the most successful component of the Ex College is EPIIC, a year-long program begun in 1985 to immerse students in a global issue which culminates in an annual symposium of scholars and experts from the field.

The Crane Theological School was opened in 1869 and closed in 1968.

Academics

Rankings

Tufts' undergraduate program is ranked #28 overall on U.S. News & World Report's 2009 rankings of national universities tied with the Wake Forest University,[19], tied for #102 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2007 Academic Ranking of World Universities,[20], and #157 in the Times Higher Education 2008 World University Rankings.[21] Tufts University has also been consistently ranked as #1 for best undergraduate International Relations programs in the country, including the 1996 Gourman Report published by the Princeton Review.

In the Princeton Review's 2006 Best 361 Colleges, Tufts was named #7 in a list of the 20 schools in the country where students are happiest, and #17 in a list of the 20 schools in the country with the best food.

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy was ranked 4th in the Foreign Policy magazine's ranking of top Masters degree programs in International Relations. Only Georgetown University, Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University are ahead of Tufts in this ranking.

Admissions

In the 2008 US News & World Report college rankings, Tufts tied Cornell as the 15th most selective university in the nation. Tufts accepted 25.5% of applicants to its undergraduate Class of 2012, a 3% decrease from the previous year's admissions rate.[22] Eighty-five percent of incoming freshmen ranked in the top 10% of their high school class. The average SAT score was 2122.[23]

In selecting the Class of 2010, Dean of Arts and Sciences Robert Sternberg added experimental criteria to the application process for undergraduates to test "creativity and other non-academic factors." Calling it the "first major university to try such a departure from the norm," Inside Higher Ed also notes that Tufts continues to consider the SAT and other traditional criteria.[24][25]

Libraries

The Tufts University Library System contains over 3 million volumes. The main library, Tisch Library, holds about 2.5 million volumes, with other holdings dispersed at subject libraries which include the Hirsh Health Sciences Library on the Medical campus in Boston, the Edwin Ginn Library at the Fletcher School, the Lilly Music Library in the Granoff Music Center, and Webster Library at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine on the Grafton campus.

Culture and student life

Notable alumni and faculty

Tufts alumni hold prominent positions in government, media, and business. eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Prime Minister of Greece Kostas Karamanlis, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Today Show host Meredith Vieira, Oscar-winner William Hurt, New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., and New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. count Tufts as their alma mater. Although Tufts does not have a business school, three alumni are CEOs of Fortune 500 firms: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler, and DuPont CEO Ellen J. Kullman.

Notable Tufts faculty include philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, former American Psychological Association president Robert Sternberg, retired Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, and Nobel Prize recipient Allan M. Cormack (1924 – 1998).

Sapienza University Of Rome

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Latin: Studium Urbis
Motto: Il futuro è passato qui
Motto in English: The future is past here or The future has passed here
Established: 1303
Type: State-supported
Rector: Prof. Luigi Frati
Staff: 10,144
Students: 147,000
Location: Rome, Italy
Sports teams: CUS Roma (http://www.cusroma.org/)
Website: www.uniroma1.it/

Sapienza University of Rome (official Italian name since November 2006: Sapienza - Università di Roma; still widely known as Università di Roma "La Sapienza" for historical reasons) is a coeducational, autonomous state university in Rome, Italy. It is the largest European university and the most ancient of the city's three state-funded universities; Sapienza was founded in 1303, Tor Vergata in 1982, and Roma Tre in 1992. In Italian, sapienza means "wisdom" or "knowledge".

According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities published by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sapienza University of Rome ranks among top 30 European universities, recognized as the most prestigious Italian University, acknowledged among other elite institutes all around the world.

History


Church of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, by Borromini, originally a chapel of the Sapienza see.

Sapienza University of Rome was founded as La Sapienza in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII who issued the bull "In supremae praeminentia dignitatis" on 20 April, 1303, as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies more under his control than the universities of Bologna and Padua.[2] The pope established it in order that Rome might become the fruitful mother of science.

In 1431, Pope Eugene IV completely reorganized the studium with the bull "In supremae", in which he granted masters and students alike the broadest possible privileges and decreed that the university should include the four Faculties of Law, Medicine, Philosophy and Theology. He introduced a new tax on wine, in order to raise funds for the university; the money was used to buy a palace that later hosted the Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza church, "La Sapienza."

The university's days of splendor, however, came to an end during the sack of Rome in 1527 when the 'studium' was closed, the professors were dispersed, and some were killed. Pope Paul III restored the university shortly after his ascension to the pontificate in 1534.

In the 1650s the university became known as Sapienza, meaning wisdom, a title it retains until now. Pope Clement XI purchased some land, in 1703, with his private funds on the Janiculum, where he made a botanical garden, which soon became the most celebrated in Europe through the labours of the brothers Trionfetti.

During the 19th-century Italian revival, a new fervor animated university students. In 1870, La Sapienza stopped being the papal university and became the university of the capital of Italy. In 1935, the new university campus, planned by Marcello Piacentini, was completed. On 27 October 1935, the university became an aggregate of all the institutions of higher learning of university rank in the city of Rome. Since 1935 Sapienza University has been under the control of the Italian Government.

As of the academic year 2007-2008, Sapienza University of Rome consisted of twenty-one faculties and 140,250 students. The Alessandrina University Library founded in 1670 is the main library housing 1,500,000 volumes. Sapienza University has many locations in Rome, but is mainly situated in the Città Universitaria covering 439,000 square meter, near Termini Station. Outside of Rome the university has four campuses; Civitavecchia, Latina, Pomezia, and Rieti.

Sapienza Today

Today, Sapienza University of Rome is by far the largest university of Rome. Lately, in order to face the increasing number of students applying to the institution, the Rector has signed a plan in order to amplfy the "Città Universitaria" and, in collaboration with the administration of Rome, granted the creation of new campuses to host local and foreign students, together with the new reallocation of officies and the enlargement of faculties. In addition, in these past years, thanks to the new program, "Sapienza Innovation", the university has strongly improved research in engineering, bio-medical sciences and humanities. Lately, cooperation with major British and American universities has offered scholarships to Sapienza students in order to operate in large exchange and multicultural programs, for a large number of faculties.

Lund University


Lunds universitet

Latin: Universitas Lundensis or Universitas Gothorum Carolina. Also the older Regia Academia Carolina lundensis, or Academia Carolina conciliatrix.
Motto: Ad utrumque (Prepared for both)
Established: 1666
Type: Public
Rector magnificus and Vice Chancellor: Prof. Per Eriksson
Staff: 5,300 total (including non-scientific)
Students: 24,600 (FTE, 2008)
Doctoral students: 3,200
Location: Flag of Sweden Lund, Scania, Sweden
Campus: Urban
Affiliations: Universitas 21
LERU
EUA
ASAIHL
Website: http://www.lu.se/

Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet), located in Lund in southernmost Sweden, is one of Sweden's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities. The university was founded in 1666 and is the second oldest Swedish university, but can arguably trace its roots back to 1438, when a studium generale was founded in Lund.

Lund University has eight faculties[12], with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with a total of over 25,100 students in more than 50 different programmes and 800 separate courses. It belongs to the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network.

The university traditionally centers on the Lundagård park adjacent to the Lund Cathedral, with various departments spread in different locations in town, but mostly concentrated in a belt stretching north from the park connecting to the university hospital area and continuing out to the northeastern periphery of the town, where one finds the large campus of the Lund Institute of Technology.

History


Lund University main building, built in 1882 by Helgo Zettervall.

The city of Lund has a long history as a center for learning and was the ecclesiastical centre and seat of the archbishop of Denmark. A cathedral school (the Katedralskolan) for the training of clergy was established in 1085 and is today Scandinavia's oldest school.

A studium generale (a medieval university education) was founded in 1425, but had to close in 1536 in connection with the Danish reformation.

After the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, the Scanian lands came under the possession of the Swedish Crown, which quickly founded the Lund University in 1666 as the means of Swedification. It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University (1477), the University of Tartu (1632, now in Estonia), the Academy of Åbo (1640, now in Finland), and the University of Greifswald (founded 1456; Swedish 1648–1815, now in Germany).

The university was named Academia Carolina after Charles X Gustav of Sweden. The name was in some formal use until the late 19th century, when Lund University became the widespread denomination.


Esaias Tegnér statue near the towering Lund Cathedral.

The university was at its founding granted four faculties: law, theological, medicine and philosophy. They were the corner stones, and for more than 200 years this system was in effect. Towards the end of the 17th century, the number of students hovered around 100. Some notable professors in the early days were Samuel Pufendorf, a juridical historian; and Canutus Hahn and Kristian Papke in philosophy.

The Scanian War in 1676 led to a shut-down, which lasted until 1682. The university was re-opened largely due to regional patriots, but the university was not to enjoy a high status until well into the 19th century. Lecturing rooms were few, and lectures were held in the Lund Cathedral and its adjacent chapel. The professors were underpaid.

In 1713, Charles XII of Sweden entered Lund. He stayed in Lund for three years, in between his warlike expeditions. The town of Lund and the university attracted a temporary attention boost. The most notable lecturer during this time was Andreas Rydelius.

Peace was finally restored with the death of Charles XII in 1718, and during the first half of the 18th century the university was granted added funds. The number of students was now well around 500. Despite not being on par with Uppsala University, it had still built a solid reputation and managed to attract prominent professors.

Around 1760 the university reputation dropped as the number of students fell below 200, most of whom hailed from around the province. However, by 1780 its reputation was largely restored, and continued to rise through the 1820s. This was largely owing to popular and well-educated lecturers particularly in philology; the prominent professor Esaias Tegnér was a particularly notable character with widespread authority. He, in turn, attracted others towards Lund. One of these was the young theological student C. G. Brunius, who studied ancient languages under Tegnér and were later to become professor of Greek. With time he was to devote himself to architectures and he redesigned several of Lund's buildings, as well as churches of the province.

Women at the university


Lunds Universitetsbibliotek (LUB), the main university library.

The first woman to study in Lund was the medical student Hedda Andersson who entered the university in 1880 (two years before the next woman to do so). Hilma Borelius was the first woman who finish a doctorate in Lund, in 1910. The first woman to be appointed to a professor's chair was the historian Birgitta Odén (1965). In 1992 Boel Flodgren, Professor of Business Law, was appointed rector magnificus (or, strictly speaking, rectrix magnifica) of Lund University. As such, she was the first woman to be a head of a European university.

Academics

Lund University is internationally known as Scandinavia's largest research university.[4][5][6] The university has eight faculties and many research centres and specialized institutes. Approximately 25,000 students study within one of the 50 educational programs, the eighteen international masters programmes or the 800 free-standing courses. Almost three hundred courses are, or can be, held in English for the benefit of our international exchange students. There are several programs allowing foreign students to study abroad at the University. Notable exchangees include United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who spent time at Lund University in the 1960s conducting research.[13]

Faculties


Kungshuset, the oldest university building (completed 1584), currently houses the Department of Philosophy.
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Theology
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Natural Sciences (Fysicum)
  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Lund School of Economics and Management
  • Faculty of Engineering (Lund Institute of Technology)
  • Academies of Performing and Visual Arts (the Academies of Music, Art, and Theatre)

There are also departments located in Malmö, including Malmö Academy of Music, and Helsingborg.

Library


Liberiet

Lund University library was established in 1666 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest. Since 1698 it has received legal deposit copies of everything printed in the country. Today six Swedish libraries receive legal deposit copies, but only Lund and the Royal Library in Stockholm are required to keep everything for posterity. Swedish imprints make up half of the collections, which amount to 170,000 linear metres of shelving (2006). The library serves 620,000 loans per year, the staff is 200 full-time equivalents, and the 33 branch libraries house 2600 reading room desks.

The current main building at Helgonabacken opened in 1907. Before that, the old building was Liberiet close to the city's cathedral. Liberiet was built as a library in the 15th century, but now serves as a cafe.


Student life

Lund is known for its particularly active student life, revolving around three central structures: the student nations, Akademiska Föreningen and the student unions.

Student Nations

The nations in Lund are a central part of the university's history, initially serving as residential colleges for students, organized by geographic origin. Östgöta Nation, the oldest nation, was established in 1668, two years after the university was founded. While the nations still offer limited housing, today they are best described as student societies. It is required to enroll in a nation to receive grades at the university.

Today students may enroll in any nation, although the nations still preserve their geographic names. In most cases it does not matter what nation one enrolls in, but different nations offer different activities for interested students. The fee of around 350 Swedish krona per semester (which also includes student union membership fees), is the closest thing to a tuition requirement found in Sweden.

Each nation has student housing, but the accommodations in no way meet demand, and they are usually appointed according to a queue system. Each nation has at least one pub evening per week, with a following night club. The solemn peak event in the course of an activity year is the organization of student balls once a year. Most well known of the nation balls (as opposed to balls organized by fraternities or student unions) is the ball hosted by Göteborgs Nation - called the "Gustaf II Adolf Ball" (also known as the "GA-Ball"). Most nations also host at least one banquet per week, where a three course dinner is served. Each nation also has different activities for students interested in sports, arts, or partying. All activities within the nations are voluntary.

Akademiska Föreningen (AF)


AF-Borgen, the student-run complex at the heart of student life in Lund, May 2002.

In 1830, Professor Carl Adolph Agardh formed Akademiska Föreningen (The Academic Society), commonly referred to as AF, with the goal of "developing and cultivating the academic life" by bringing students and faculty from all departments and student nations together in one organization. Prince Oscar I, then Sweden's Chancellor of Education, donated 2000 Kronor to help found the society. In 1848, construction began on AF-Borgen (the AF Fortress), which is located opposite the Main Building in Lundagård. To this day, AF is the center of student life in Lund, featuring many theater companies, a prize-winning student radio (Radio AF), and organizing the enormous Lundakarnevalen (the Lund Carnival) every four years. "AF Bostäder", an independent foundation with close ties to Akademiska Föreningen, maintans over 5,700 student residences in Lund.

Student Unions


The Delphi residential area, located in the northern part of Lund, is one of the large student housing complexes run by AF Bostäder.

Currently each faculty has its own student union. Since 1995, a central organization known as LUS (Lund University's Student Unions ) negotiates with the university administration, while most work is done at the faculty level. The student unions that are members of LUS are:

  • The Ph.D. Student Union
  • Student Union of the Faculty of the Humanities
  • Student Union of the Faculty of Medicine
  • Student Union of Natural Sciences
  • Lunds Socialhögskolas Studentkår
  • Sjukgymnastinstitutets Studentkår
  • Student Union of Social Sciences
  • Student Union of the Faculty of Theology
  • Vårdvetenskapliga Studentkåren
  • Teaterhögskolans Studentkår
  • Malmö Konsthögskolas Studentkår
  • Studentkåren vid Musikhögskolan i Malmö

The student unions that have chosen not to belong to LUS are:

  • Student Union at Lund University, Faculty of Engineering
  • The Student Union at the Faculty of Law
  • Lund Students of Economics
  • Flygskolekåren
  • Elevkåren vid YTH-utbildningen i Markaryd
  • Studentkåren vid YTH