Universidade Estadual de Campinas
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University
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of the Brazil
Brazil
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ian state of São Paulo
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
, along both USP
University of São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian university and one of the country's most prestigious...
and UNESP.
Its main campus is located in the Barão Geraldo
Barão Geraldo
thumb|right|300px|Panoramic view of Barão Geraldo, taken from a hill overlooking [[UNICAMP]]Barão Geraldo is a district of the municipality of Campinas, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil...
district, 6 miles (10 km) away from downtown Campinas
Campinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
, with additional campuses in Limeira
Limeira
Limeira is a city in the eastern part of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The population in 2004 is 270,733 and the area is 582.48 km². The elevation is 588 m. It is 154 km far from São Paulo, the state capital, and 1011 km far from Brasilia, Brazil's capital...
and Piracicaba
Piracicaba
Piracicaba is a city located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The population in 2009 was 368,843 in an area of 1,369.511 km², at an elevation of 547 m above sea level.-Name:...
.
The Unicamp is recognized as the Brazilian most prolific research center and has 53,6% of its students at the graduate level. The Unicamp is also regarded as the university with the highest professor/student ratio at the undergraduate level in Brazil, with roughly 8 students to one professor.
History
Created in 1962 and physically installed in 1966, Unicamp's original goal was to promote science educationScience education
Science education is the field concerned with sharing science content and process with individuals not traditionally considered part of the scientific community. The target individuals may be children, college students, or adults within the general public. The field of science education comprises...
in the industrial
Industry
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pole of São Paulo's interior region. As of 2011, the university had about 17,500 undergraduate and 19,000 graduate students, as well as 2,069 faculty members.
Unicamp, which is responsible for around 15% of all Brazilian research, has courses, colleges and institutes of Medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, Nursing
Nursing
Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death....
, Speech therapy, Pharmacy
Pharmacy
Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
, Dentistry
Dentistry
Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...
, Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
, Physical Education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
, Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
(Pure, Applied and Computational), Statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
, Computer Sciences
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
(Control and Automation
Control engineering
Control engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors...
, Chemical
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
, Food
Food engineering
Food engineering is a multidisciplinary field of applied physical sciences which combines science, microbiology, and engineering education for food and related industries. Food engineering includes, but is not limited to, the application of agricultural engineering, mechanical engineering and...
, Electrical
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
, Computer
Computer engineering
Computer engineering, also called computer systems engineering, is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design, and...
, Mechanical
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
, Agricultural
Agricultural engineering
Agricultural engineering is the engineering discipline that applies engineering science and technology to agricultural production and processing...
and Civil
Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
), Architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, Geology
Geology
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, Economics
Economics
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, Arts
ARts
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, Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, Social Communication
Social communication
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, Literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
, Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, Philosophy
Philosophy
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, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
and Social Sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
. It also runs two professional vocational high schools, COTUCA (in Campinas) and COTIL
COTIL
The Technical High School of Limeira is maintained by the State University of Campinas. Its campus is located in Limeira city, São Paulo, Brazil...
(in Limeira).
Unicamp's teaching hospital
Teaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital that provides clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients...
, Hospital de Clínicas
Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas
The Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas is a teaching hospital located in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil....
, is the largest public hospital in the region. Unicamp also has a semi-independent structure of more than 20 interdisciplinary centers, labs and groups.
According to the Times Higher Education 2007 World University Rankings, Unicamp is the 177th best university in the world, and the 2nd best in Latin America (after the University of São Paulo
University of São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian university and one of the country's most prestigious...
in 176th place).
Colleges and schools
- Faculdade de Ciências MédicasFaculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Estadual de CampinasFaculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas is a college of the State University of Campinas, located in the campus of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil...
(Medical Sciences) - Faculdade de Ciências AplicadasFaculdade de Ciências Aplicadas da Universidade Estadual de CampinasFaculdade de Ciências Aplicadas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas - FCA is an academic unit of UNICAMP, one of the most respected universities in South America....
(Applied Sciences) - Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba (Dentistry)
- Faculdade de Educação (Education)
- Faculdade de Educação Física (Physical Education)
- Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e da ComputaçãoFaculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e da Computação da Universidade Estadual de CampinasThe Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e Computação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas is one of the most famous Engineering institutes in Brazil...
(Electrical and Computer Engineering) - Faculdade de Engenharia Química (Chemical Engineering)
- Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos (Food Engineering)
- Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering)
- Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola (Agricultural Engineering)
- Faculdade de Engenharia Civil (Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism)
- Faculdade de Tecnologia (Faculty of Technology)
- Instituto de QuímicaInstituto de Química da Universidade Estadual de CampinasThe Instituto de Química da Universidade Estadual de Campinas is an academic unit of the university located in Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil, at the main campus in the Barão Geraldo subdistrict....
(Chemistry) - Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (Physics)
- Instituto de BiologiaInstituto de Biologia da Universidade Estadual de CampinasThe Instituto de Biologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas is a research and higher education institution located at UNICAMP's main campus in the district of Barão Geraldo, city of Campinas, São Paulo state, Brazil.-Address:Instituto de BiologiaRua Monteiro Lobato - n° 255Unicamp - Cidade...
(Biology) - Instituto de ComputaçãoInstituto de Computação da Universidade Estadual de CampinasThe Instituto de Computação, formerly the Department of Computer Science of the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science is the main unit of education and research of the State University of Campinas , located in the campus of Barão Geraldo, city of Campinas, state of São Paulo,...
(Computer Science) - Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing)
- Instituto de EconomiaInstituto de Economia da Universidade Estadual de CampinasThe Instituto de Economia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas is an academic unit of the State University of Campinas, located in the main campus of the University, in Barão Geraldo, Campinas, State of São Paulo, Brazil....
(Economics) - Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (Philosophy and Human Sciences)
- Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (Languages)
- Instituto de Artes (Arts)
- Instituto de Geociências (Earth Sciences) IGe Home page
- Centro Superior de Educação Tecnológica de Limeira (Technical Education)
Links to specific colleges and schools can be found here (in Portuguese).
Interdisciplinary Activities
UNICAMP became extremely well known and respected in the higher educationHigher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
and research community for its pioneering work regarding policies for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work. Beginning 1982, the University established a system of interdisciplinary groups, nuclei and centers.
Sports
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, a regulation soccer field, a complete athletics
Athletics (track and field)
Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
field with running
Running
Running is a means of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground...
tracks, a competition swimming pool
Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
, a huge covered gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasium for indoor spectator sports, which houses also a convention center
Convention center
A convention center is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees...
. Spaces for many other classes of sports and physical activities are also contemplated, including for indoor climbing
Indoor climbing
Indoor Climbing is an increasingly popular form of rock climbing performed on artificial structures that attempt to mimic the experience of outdoor rock.Competetive indoor climbing is also called sport climbing....
, rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
, martial arts
Martial arts
Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
and softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, aerobic exercise
Aerobic exercise
Aerobic exercise is physical exercise of relatively low intensity that depends primarily on the aerobic energy-generating process. Aerobic literally means "living in air", and refers to the use of oxygen to adequately meet energy demands during exercise via aerobic metabolism...
, and so on.
Libraries
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
and more than 20 other thematic libraries located in its colleges and institutes. It is considered one of the best organized and most complete of university libraries in Latin America. A number of historical libraries and historical and media archives, such as the Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth
Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth
Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth is a historical and media archive that is maintained by the Brazilian State University of Campinas , located in the city of Campinas in the state of São Paulo, Brazil...
, have also been established. The library system is fully automated and its collections may be freely accessed and searched on the Internet. Its Digital Library section supports a database with more than 25,000 dissertations presented in the University, in full text, as well access to the largest electronic libraries of academic journals in the world.
Admission
The admission for undergraduate courses is based on an annual open competition called vestibularVestibular
The Vestibular is a competitive examination and is the primary and widespread system used by Brazilian universities to select their students. The Vestibular usually takes place from November to January, right before the start of school year in February or March, although certain universities hold...
. The only requirement to be filled is to have a complete high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
diploma. Vestibular comprises two stages: the first one is usually accomplished in November, with an essay and a 12-question discursive test on Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
and Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
. Those who get the minimum scores accomplish the second stage in January, taking tests with 12 questions of each subject, two subjects a day: Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
(including Brazilian and Portuguese Literature) and Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
; Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
and History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
; Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
and Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
; Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. Until 2005, the candidate had option to take a French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
test instead of English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, but it is no longer an option. Classes usually start in March.
For graduate programs, the university applies tests, interviews and analysis of CVs. Some graduate programs also requires a specific exam on the area (such as ANPEC (in Portuguese), for Economics, and PosComp (in Portuguese), for Computing).
Academic career
- Auxiliar de Ensino - MS-2 (must have a Master's degreeMaster's degreeA master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
and be enrolled in a doctoral program) - Professor Doutor - MS-3 (must have a doctoralDoctor (title)Doctor, as a title, originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre . It has been used as an honored academic title for over a millennium in Europe, where it dates back to the rise of the university. This use spread...
or equivalent degree) - Professor Associado - MS-5 (must have a Livre Docente title; equivalent to the German HabilitationHabilitationHabilitation is the highest academic qualification a scholar can achieve by his or her own pursuit in several European and Asian countries. Earned after obtaining a research doctorate, such as a PhD, habilitation requires the candidate to write a professorial thesis based on independent...
) - Professor Titular - MS-6 (top rank, only MS-6 professors are allowed to hold positions such as DeanDean (education)In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
of a Faculty/School or RectorRectorThe word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...
of the University)
Administration
As most Brazilian universities, Unicamp's administration is centralized on the figure of a rectorRector
The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...
. Unicamp rectors have a mandate
Mandate (politics)
In politics, a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative.The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of democracy...
of 4 years, and are chosen by the state governor from a list of 3 candidates. The candidate list is formed by the 3 most voted by the university community (staff, faculty and students), and the governor has always chosen the most voted candidate as rector. Zeferino Vaz
Zeferino Vaz
Zeferino Vaz led the construction, establishment and development of the Unicamp university, in the interior of the State of São Paulo, Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s...
, who drove the installation and establishment of the university, was the first rector and held the position for 12 years.
List of Unicamp Rectors
- Zeferino VazZeferino VazZeferino Vaz led the construction, establishment and development of the Unicamp university, in the interior of the State of São Paulo, Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s...
(1966–1978) - Plínio Alves de Moraes (1978–1982)
- José Aristodemo PinottiJosé Aristodemo PinottiJosé Aristodemo Pinotti was a Brazilian physician, gynecological surgeon, university professor, scientific and educational leader and politician....
(1982–1986) - Paulo Renato Costa Souza (1986–1990)
- Carlos Vogt (1990–1994)
- José Martins Filho (1994–1998)
- Hermano Tavares (1998–2002)
- Carlos Henrique de Brito CruzCarlos Henrique de Brito CruzCarlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, born in Rio de Janeiro on July 19 1956, is a Brazilian electronic engineer and physicist, and the current scientific director of FAPESP...
(2002–2005) - José Tadeu Jorge (2005–2009)
- Fernando Ferreira Costa (2009–present)
Carlos Henrique Brito Cruz left the office early in 2005 to become the scientific director
of the research funding agency FAPESP
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo is a public foundation located in São Paulo, Brazil, with the aim of providing grants, funds and programs to support research, education and innovation of private and public institutions and companies in the state of São Paulo...
, and elections were anticipated to choose the new rector.
Unicamp Honoris Causa Doctors
As of August, 2005 the University Council had granted 24 honoris causa doctorateDoctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
in recognition of valuable contribution made to society by people through their scientific or humanitarian work. This is the full list of the granted people (the date in parentheses designates when the title was delivered).
- Oscar NiemeyerOscar NiemeyerOscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture...
(18 April 2005) - Cesar LattesCésar LattesCesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes , also known as Cesar Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.-Life:Lattes was born to a family of Italian Jewish immigrants in Curitiba, Southern Brazil...
(15 October 2004) - Otto Richard Gottlieb (21 November 2000)
- Dom Pedro Maria Casaldáglia Pla (24 October 2000)
- Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns (20 October 2000)
- Peter SafarPeter SafarPeter Safar was an Austrian physician of Czech descent. He is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation.- Early life :...
(26 February 1996) - Ernesto SábatoErnesto SabatoErnesto Sabato , was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America"...
(16 August 1994) - Fernando Flávio Marques de AlmeidaFernando Flávio Marques de AlmeidaFernando Flávio Marques de Almeida is a Brazilian Geologist. Almeida did the central works to understand the South American geology: son of the first Brazilian generation of geologists did the pioners papers of the continent's geology He is considered to be one of the top Brazilians in geology and...
(31 October 1991) - Bernardo Boris Vargaftig (29 August 1991)
- Celso Monteiro FurtadoCelso FurtadoCelso Monteiro Furtado was an important Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country during the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world...
(21 August 1990) - Albert O. HirschmanAlbert O. HirschmanAlbert Otto Hirschman is an influential economist who has authored several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of development economics. Here he emphasized the need for unbalanced growth...
(14 March 1990) - Pietro Maria BardiPietro Maria BardiPietro Maria Bardi was the curator of the São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil. He was born Italian and stirred the Brazilian artistic community with his new ideas about popularizing museums by making both modern and classical art accessible to the masses...
(20 December 1989) - Mário QuintanaMario QuintanaMario de Miranda Quintana , was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time...
(20 September 1989) - Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz (25 August 1989)
- Paulo Reglus Neves FreirePaulo FreirePaulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy.-Biography:...
(27 April 1988) - Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza (17 December 1987)
- André Franco MontoroAndré Franco MontoroAndré Franco Montoro was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He was born in São Paulo as the son of André de Blois Montoro and Tomásia Alijostes. He was a senator and governor of São Paulo. He was a member of several parties, such as PDC, MDB, Party of Brazilian Democratic Movement and one of the...
(27 May 1987) - Dilson Domingos Funaro (15 August 1986)
- Adolpho Martins Penha (6 January 1978)
- José Pelúcio Ferreira (23 June 1977)
- Casimiro Montenegro FilhoCasimiro Montenegro FilhoCasimiro Montenegro Filho was a Brazilian army and air force officer. He reached the rank of Marechal-do-ar, the highest rank of the Brazilian Air Force rank system....
(20 December 1975) - Jean Roche (29 October 1975)
- Jarbas Gonçalves Passarinho (5 December 1973)
- Gleb WataghinGleb WataghinGleb Vassielievich Wataghin ; was a Ukrainian-Italian experimental physicist and a great scientific leader who gave a great impulse to the teaching and research on physics in two continents: in the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and in the University of Turin, Turin, Italy.Wataghin was...
(31 August 1971)
The honoris causa doctorate of Luiz Heitor Correa de Azevedo has been approved on 18 July 1989 but as of August, 2005 had not been delivered.
Noted Faculty
- César LattesCésar LattesCesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes , also known as Cesar Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.-Life:Lattes was born to a family of Italian Jewish immigrants in Curitiba, Southern Brazil...
, physicist, discoverer of Pi meson - José Aristodemo PinottiJosé Aristodemo PinottiJosé Aristodemo Pinotti was a Brazilian physician, gynecological surgeon, university professor, scientific and educational leader and politician....
, gynecologist and surgeon, federal representative, secretary of health and of education of the State of São Paulo - Cássio Raposo do AmaralCassio Raposo do AmaralProfessor Cassio Menezes Raposo do Amaral, Ph.D. was an internationally recognized physician and plastic and reconstructive surgeon.- Early life and education :...
, plastic and reconstructive surgeon - Marcelo Damy, nuclear physicist
- Paulo FreirePaulo FreirePaulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy.-Biography:...
, educator - José GrazianoJosé Graziano da SilvaJosé Graziano da Silva is an American-born Brazilian agronomist and writer. As a scholar, he has authored several books about the problems of agriculture in Brazil...
, agronomist, Director General of the Food and Agriculture OrganizationFood and Agriculture OrganizationThe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and...
(2012–2015) - Rubem AlvesRubem AlvesRubem Azevedo Alves, is a Brazilian theologian, philosopher, educator, writer, and psychoanalyst.Alves was born in Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais...
, philosopher and writer - José SerraJosé SerraJosé Serra is a Brazilian politician, former secretary of state, congressman, senator, minister of Planning and Minister of Health, mayor of São Paulo and Governor of São Paulo state.-Background:...
, economist, former senator and Minister of Health, two times presidential candidate, former governor of the State of São Paulo - Crodowaldo PavanCrodowaldo PavanCrodowaldo Pavan was a Brazilian biologist and geneticist, and a scientific leader in Brazil.-Early life:Pavan was born to a family of second-generation immigrants from Italy in 1919, in the city of Campinas, São Paulo state, Brazil...
, biologist and geneticist - Fritz KöberleFritz KöberleFritz Köberle was an Austrian-Brazilian physician, pathologist and scientist, discoverer of the neurogenic mechanism of the chronic phase of Chagas disease, a human parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan.-Life:Fritz Köberle was born in Eichgraben, Austria, and studied medicine...
, physician and pathologist - Mario SchenbergMário SchenbergMário Schenberg, , var. Mário Schönberg, Mario Schonberg, Mário Schoenberg), was a Jewish Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer.-The Urca process:...
, theoretical physicist
See also
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP)
- Universidade Federal do ABCUniversidade Federal do ABCUniversidade Federal do ABC is a Brazilian institution of higher learning based in Santo André, with operations scheduled for several municipalities in the ABC region, all in the state of São Paulo....
(UFABC) - Brazil University Rankings
- Universities and Higher Education in BrazilUniversities and higher education in BrazilBrazil adopts a mixed system of public and private funded universities. Usually public funded universities offer the best quality education, and they are 100% financed by the government...
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