The
University of São Paulo ( or
USP) is one of the three public universities funded by the State of
São PauloSão Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. It is named after Saint Paul. São Paulo has the largest population, industrial park and economic production of the country. It is the most populous subnational entity in the Western...
.
USP is one of the largest institutions of higher education in
BrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...
and
Latin AmericaLatin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish, Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,501 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
, with approximately 75,000 enrolled students. It has eleven campuses, four of them in the City of São Paulo
http://www.usp.br/pco/ (the main campus is called Campus Armando de Salles Oliveira, with an area of 7,443,770 m²). There are campuses in the cities of
BauruBauru is a Brazilian city and municipality in midwestern region of the state of São Paulo. It is also the capital of the micro-region of Bauru...
, Lorena,
PiracicabaPiracicaba is a city located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The population in 2004 was 355,039 in an area of 1,371.8 km², at an elevation of 547 m above sea level....
,
PirassunungaPirassununga is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 was 69,029 and the area is 728.78 km². The elevation is 627 m. This place name comes from the Tupi language....
,
Ribeirão PretoRibeirão Preto is a municipality and city in the Northeastern region of the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is nicknamed Brazilian California, because of a combination of an economy based on agrobusiness plus high technology, wealth and sunny weather all year long. With 570,000 inhabitants,...
and two in
São CarlosSão Carlos is a city of 220,000 inhabitants in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is located at - History :...
. USP is involved in teaching, research and university extension in all areas of knowledge.
According to national and internatinal rankings, USP is considered the best university in
BrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...
and share the top of the ranking in Latin America with
UNAMUNAM or UNaM may refer to:*National Autonomous University of Mexico , the large public autonomous university based in Mexico City...
in
MexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. USP was ranked by
Webometrics Ranking of World UniversitiesThe Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative to improve the presence of the academic and research institutions on the Web and to promote the open access publication of scientific results...
as the 38th best university in the world, the best ranking in the
Southern HemisphereThe Southern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is south of the equator—the word hemisphere literally means 'half ball'...
. The Times Higher Education 2008 World University Rankings ranks USP as the 196th top university in the world, with a top ranking in Latin America only second to
UNAMUNAM or UNaM may refer to:*National Autonomous University of Mexico , the large public autonomous university based in Mexico City...
in
MexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. According to the 2008
Academic Ranking of World UniversitiesThe Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The ranking compared 1200 higher education institutions worldwide according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals ,...
, published by the Shanghai Jiaotong University, USP is placed in the group of the 101-151 top world universities. . The QS World University Rankings 2009 ranks USP as the 207th top university in the world
History
During the "search for alternatives" period in the 1930s, political centralization and the first attempt to provide Brazil with modern administrative, military and educational institutions took place. The main initiatives included the University of São Paulo, which was created in 1934. Its nucleus was the creation of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters, with professors coming from
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
,
ItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
,
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
and other European countries. USP also brought together several research and higher-education institutions in the state created before, such as the Faculty of Medicine (Faculdade de Medicina), the Polytechnic School (Escola Politécnica), and the
College of LawUniversity of São Paulo School of Law is an institution of higher education and research in the field of Law located in São Paulo, Brazil...
(Faculdade de Direito). The Polytechnic School includes
civilCivil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings...
,
electricalElectrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of engineering that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after...
,
mechanicalMechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems...
,
miningMining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash...
, metallurgical, naval and
oceanicOcean Engineering is an ambiguously-defined discipline, but may refer to Oceanographic Engineering a term describing Marine Electronics Engineering applied to supporting the work of Oceanographers; or, may refer to Offshore Engineering, or Maritime Engineering, which is the branch of engineering...
, and
chemical engineeringChemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science , and life sciences with mathematics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
departments.
Admissions
Students are admitted by an entrance exam, known as the
vestibularThe Vestibular is a competitive examination and is the primary and widespread system used by Brazilian universities to select their students. The term derivates from the word "vestíbulo" that in Portuguese means entrance hall....
(
FUVESTFUVEST is a Brazilian autonomous institution connected to the University of São Paulo responsible for its "vestibular" examinations. For that reason, USP's vestibular itself is usually called "Fuvest"...
), consisting of two steps:
- Part I is composed of 90 multiple-choice questions on Portuguese
Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
, English, ChemistryChemistry is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions...
, MathematicsMathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions....
, PhysicsPhysics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...
, GeographyGeography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, HistoryHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
and BiologyBiology is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy...
.
- Part II is composed of up to 40 write-in, short-answer questions related to each candidate's intended major. Engineering candidates, for example, take Portuguese, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry exams, whereas Law-School applicants are required to take Portuguese, History and Geography tests. All candidates, irrespective of their intended course, must take the Portuguese Language and Literature exam, which includes a compulsory written essay.
Moreover, candidates who attended a public school for their entire course of high-school studies get up to 12% bonus on their Part I and Part II scores, arguably, in order to compensate for the generally low quality of Brazilian public basic education.
USP's entrance exam is prepared and administered by FUVEST (University Foundation for Vestibular), subject to regulations approved by the university's Undergraduate Studies Council. In 2006, 142,656 students signed up for Fuvest's vestibular to apply for admission to the University of São Paulo. There were 10,202 openings. One of the most competitive courses was
JournalismJournalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via a widening spectrum of media. These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and even, more recently, the mobile phone...
, with about 45 applicants per opening. In order to pass to Part II, the most difficult course (Medicine) required a grade of 83%. USP is a free university, and students do not have to pay tuition fees.
Academic career
- Teaching Assistant (Auxiliar de Ensino) - MS-2 (must have a Master's degree and be enrolled in a doctoral program). Undergraduate students can also be teaching assistant for a semester, with scholarship from each department.
- Professor Doctor(Professor Doutor) - MS-3 (must have a doctoral or equivalent degree)
- Associate Professor (Professor Associado) - MS-5 (must have a Livre Docente title; equivalent to the German Habilitation
Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a person can achieve by their own pursuit in certain European and Asian countries. Earned after obtaining a research doctorate Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a person can achieve by their own pursuit in certain European and...
)
- Full Professor(Professor Titular) - MS-6 (top rank, only MS-6 professors are allowed to hold positions such as Dean of a Faculty/School or Rector of the University)
Race and ancestries
In a survey with students of the University of São Paulo, 76.9% reported to be
WhiteWhite Brazilians make up 49.7% of Brazil's population, or around 93 million people, according to the IBGE's 2006 PNAD . Whites are present in the entire territory of Brazil, although the main concentrations are found in the South and Southeastern parts of the country...
, 12.8%
AsianAn Asian Brazilian is a Brazilian-born person of Asian ancestry. Brazil received many immigrants from Asia, both from Middle East and East Asia. The first Asian immigrants to arrive in Brazil were a small number of Chinese people during the colonial period...
, 7%
PardoIn Brazil, the Pardos are a mixture of Whites, Blacks and Amerindians, varying from light to dark complexion, as used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in censuses since 1950. The word is Portuguese for "brown" or "grey-brown"...
(brown), 1.2%
BlackAfro-Brazilian, African-Brazilian or Black Brazilian, is the term used to racially categorize Brazilian citizens who self-reported to be of black or brown skin colors to the official IBGE census...
, 0.4%
indigenousThe Indigenous peoples in Brazil comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the arrival of Europeans around 1500...
, and 1.7% did not answer the question.
98.5% of the students were Brazilian born, 0.5% naturalized Brazilians and 1% foreigners. 92.7% of the students hold only a Brazilian citizenship and 7.3% hold a dual-citizenship (56.7% Italian citizenship, 9.3% Portuguese, 8.5% Spanish, 6% German, 4.2% Japanese and 4% American).
Asked if they are "descendants of foreign immigrants", 81% of the students reported "yes", which reflects the majority of the population of the
State of São PauloSão Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. It is named after Saint Paul. São Paulo has the largest population, industrial park and economic production of the country. It is the most populous subnational entity in the Western...
, which is mostly composed of descendants of 19th and 20th centuries immigrants who went to Brazil. The main reported ancestries were:
ItalianAn Italian Brazilian is a Brazilian citizen of full or partial Italian ancestry. There are between 18 and 25 million Brazilians of Italian descent, the largest population of Italian background outside of Italy itself.-Italians in Brazil:...
(30.5%), Portuguese (23%),
SpanishSpanish-Brazilian is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Spanish ancestry, or a Spanish-born person residing in Brazil...
(14%),
JapaneseA is a Brazilian citizen of Japanese ethnic origin, or a Japanese immigrant living in Brazil.The first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil a century ago. Nowadays, Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan...
(8%), German (5.6%), "Brazilian" (4.3%),
AfricanAfro-Brazilian, African-Brazilian or Black Brazilian, is the term used to racially categorize Brazilian citizens who self-reported to be of black or brown skin colors to the official IBGE census...
(2.8%),
ArabAn Arab Brazilian is a Brazilian-born person of Arab descent. The population of Brazil identifying with either full or partial Arabic descent is estimated at between 8 to 10 million people, most of them tracing their roots back to Lebanese and Syrian immigrants who arrived in Brazil in the early...
(2.4%) and Jew (1.2%) .
One curious fact is that people reported as Asian in the Brazilian census make up only 2% of the population in Greater São Paulo, while in the University of São Paulo they are almost 13% of the students. Also, Whites make up 60.3% of the population, while in the University they are almost 77%. The census reported 30.3% of Pardos (brown) in Greater São Paulo, but they are only 7% of the students and Blacks were 7% in the census, but only 1.2% in the University.
Presidents of Brazil
- Prudente de Morais
Prudente José de Morais e Barros was the third president of Brazil . His presidency lasted from November 15, 1894 until November 15, 1898...
(1894–1898)
- Campos Sales (1898–1902)
- Rodrigues Alves (1902–1906)
- Afonso Pena
Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena was a Brazilian politician, president between 1906 and 1909. Before his political career, Pena was a lawyer, jurist and member of the Brazilian Supreme Court....
(1906–1909)
- Nilo Peçanha
Nilo Procópio Peçanha . Brazilian politician. President of Rio de Janeiro State . Elected vice-president in 1906, he assumed the presidency in 1909 following the death of President Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena and served until 1910...
(1909–1910)
- Venceslau Brás (1914–1918)
- Delfim Moreira
Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro was a Brazilian politician. He was born in Minas Gerais state, and was elected vice-president in 1918. He assumed the presidency in November 15, 1918, due to the illness and death of former and now elect president Rodrigues Alves...
(1918–1919)
- Washington Luís (1926–1930)
- Nereu Ramos (1955–1956)
- Jânio Quadros
Jânio da Silva Quadros , PC was a Brazilian politician who served briefly as President of Brazil in 1961.-Career:...
(1961)
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, PC - also known by his initials FHC - was the 34
th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2003. He is an accomplished sociologist, professor and politician...
(1995–2003)
São Paulo state governors
- José Alves de Cerqueira César
José Alves de Cerqueira César , May 23, 1835 — São Paulo , June 26, 1911) was a Brazilian politician, governor of the State of São Paulo from December 1891 to August 1892....
(1889–1892)
- Américo Brasiliense de Almeida Melo
Américo Brasiliense de Almeida Melo was the third governor of the State of São Paulo, from March to December 1891, and first president of the State of São Paulo....
(1891)
- Bernardino José de Campos Júnior
Bernardino José de Campos Júnior was a Brazilian politician, second and sixt governor of the State of São Paulo Bernardino José de Campos Júnior (Pouso Alegre, september 6, 1841 — January 18, 1915) was a Brazilian politician, second and sixt governor of the State of São Paulo Bernardino José de...
(1896–1902)
- Campos Sales (1896–1897)
- Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves,PC was a Brazilian politician who first served as President of São Paulo Province in 1887, and as Treasury minister in the 1890s...
(1912–1916)
- Altino Arantes Marques
Altino Arantes Marques was a President of São Paulo. He graduated from the Law College of the Plaza of Saint Francisco, in 1895. He was a member of the Paulist Republican Party. Before he became the President of the state of São Paulo, he was a federal deputy for two terms: and...
(1916–1920)
- Washington Luís (1920–1924)
- Carlos de Campos
Carlos de Campos was a Brazilian politician, and president of the state of São Paulo for several months in 1924....
(1924–1927)
- Júlio Prestes
Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque was a Brazilian politician. Governor of São Paulo state in 1926, he was elected president of Brazil on March 1, 1930, but never took office because the government was overthrown in a coup that brought Getulio Vargas to power, three weeks before Prestes' scheduled...
(1927–1930)
- Armando de Sales Oliveira (1935–1936)
- José Joaquim Cardoso de Melo Neto (1937–1938)
- Lucas Nogueira Garcez (1951–1955)
- Jânio Quadros
Jânio da Silva Quadros , PC was a Brazilian politician who served briefly as President of Brazil in 1961.-Career:...
(1955–1959)
- Carvalho Pinto (1959–1963)
- Abreu Sodré (1967–1971)
- Paulo Maluf
Paulo Salim Maluf is a Brazilian politician with a career spanning over four decades and many functions, including state governorship , presidential candidate and mayor of the city of São Paulo. He has been plagued throughout his political career with substantial allegations of corruption. He was...
(1979–1982)
- André Franco Montoro
André Franco Montoro was a Brazilian politician. 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 founders of...
(1983–1987)
- Mário Covas
Mário Covas Júnior was an important Brazilian politician.Covas studied engineering at the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo...
(1995–2001)
- Cláudio Lembo
Cláudio Salvador Lembo is a Brazilian lawyer, politician and university professor from Neapolitan background. He was elected Vice-governor in 2002 with Governor Geraldo Alckmin...
(2005)
- José Serra
José Serra is a Brazilian politician, former secretary of state, congressman, senator, minister of Planning and Minister of Health, mayor of São Paulo and current Governor of São Paulo state.-Background:...
(2006–present)
Politicians
- Aloizio Mercadante
Aloízio Mercadante Oliva is an economist and Brazilian politician. He was one of the founders of the Workers' Party in February, 1980, and served as vice-president of the party from 1991 to 1999....
- current Brazilian senatorThe Federal Senate of Brazil is the upper house of the National Congress of Brazil. Created by the first Constitution of the Brazilian Empire in 1824, it was inspired in United Kingdom's House of Lords, but with the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889 it became closer to the United States...
(economics degree)
- Antonio Palocci
Antonio Palocci Filho is a Brazilian physician and politician. He was the Finance minister of the Brazilian federal government from January 1, 2003 until March 27, 2006 , during the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.-Early life and career:Raised in Ribeirão Preto, in the...
- former Brazil's Finance minister (M.D. degree)
- Fernando Haddad - the current Brazil's Minister of Education
The Ministry of Education , MEC, is a Brazilian government ministry....
(law degree)
- Gilberto Kassab
Gilberto Kassab is a Bissa Brazilian politician, current mayor of São Paulo. His term ends in 2012. A civil engineer and economist, of Lebanese descent, Kassab took over from José Serra, after Serra decided to run for governor of São Paulo...
- the current mayor of São Paulo (engineering and economics degree)
- Guido Mantega
Guido Mantega is a Brazilian economist, politician and currently Brazil's Finance Minister.He graduated in Economics from the Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade of the University of São Paulo and is a professor of Economics at several leading universities of São Paulo.He has long...
- the current Brazil's Finance ministerThe finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.A minister of finance has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances...
(economics degree)
- Rodrigo Augusto da Silva
Rodrigo Augusto da Silva a brazilian senator for life, minister and a privy counsellor of Emperor Peter II of Brazil. He was a member of the Silva de Carvalho family from Sao Paulo, the son of José Manuel da Silva and nephew of financier Benedito Antonio da Silva...
- Senator, Minister and Counselor. He authored and co-signed the Golden Law in 1888.
Writers
- Alcides Nogueira
- Alphonsus de Guimarães
- Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza
- Augusto de Campos
Augusto de Campos is a Brazilian writer who was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist....
- Álvares de Azevedo
Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo was a Brazilian Romantic writer. He was distinguished by his readiness of learning languages and for his young, sentimental spirit....
- Antônio de Alcântara Machado
António Castilho de Alcântara Machado d'Oliveira . Was a Brazilian writer, journalist and politic ativist. His most known book is Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda...
- Antônio Vicente Seraphim Pietroforte
- Bernardo Guimarães
Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was a Brazilian poet and novelist, author of the famous romances A Escrava Isaura and O Seminarista. He also introduced to the Brazilian poetry the "verso bestialógico" , poems whose verses are very nonsensical, although very metrical...
- Castro Alves
Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves , more commonly known as Castro Alves , was a Brazilian poet best remembered for his abolitionist and republican poems, and is considered one of the most important Brazilian poets of the 19th century.-Life:Alves was born in the town of Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil...
- Décio Pignatari
Décio Pignatari is a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator.Since the 1950s, conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words...
- Fagundes Varela
Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela was a Brazilian Romantic poet, adept of the "Ultra-romanticism" movement. He is been considered one of the most "pictoric" of Brazilian Romantic poets, particularly for descriptions of Brazilian flora and fauna...
- Glauco Mattoso
- Haroldo de Campos
Haroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator. He and his brother Augusto de Campos, together with Décio Pignatari, formed the poetic group Noigandres that published the experimental journal of the same name, which would launch the Brazilian movement of poesia concreta .He...
- Hilda Hilst
Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst, more widely known as Hilda Hilst was a Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist, whose fiction and poetry were generally based upon delicate intimacy and often insanity and supernatural events. Particularly her late works belong to the tradition of magic realism.-Early...
- Ismail Xavier
- José de Alencar
José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian novelist. Born in Messejana, a small town near Fortaleza - Ceará, in northeast of Brazil...
- José de Mesquita
José Barnabé de Mesquita , generally known as José de Mesquita, was a Brazilian poet parnassian, romance and short story writer, historiographer, journalist, essayist, genealogist and jurist.-Biography:...
- Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers....
- Manuel Bandeira
Manuel Bandeira was a Brazilian poet. Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather...
- Monteiro Lobato
José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Yellow Woodpecker Ranch but he had been previously a prolific writer of fiction, a translator and an art critic...
- Olavo Bilac
Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac was a Brazilian poet of the Parnassian school.Considered one of the greatest poets ever to write in Portuguese, Bilac was a master at sculpting verses with carefully measured metre and rhythm while at the same time protecting them from appearing artificial...
- Oswald de Andrade
José Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
- Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
- Raduan Nassar
Raduan Nassar was born on November 27, 1935, in Pindorama, São Paulo state. He is a Brazilian writer, son of Lebanese immigrants. He moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager. He studied Law and Philosophy at one of the most important universities in Brazil, the University of São Paulo.In 1970, he...
- Raul Pompéia
Raul Pompéia was a Brazilian writer, who was born and died in Rio de Janeiro . He is considered a naturalist author, with his main literary work being O Ateneu. He committed suicide after being challenged to a duel by writer Olavo Bilac; the rationale for the duel being the accusations of said...
Scientists and physicians
- Aziz Nacib Ab`Saber - geographer, geologist and ecologist
- Adib Domingos Jatene
Adib Domingos Jatene is a noted Brazilian physician of Lebanese background, university professor, scientist and thoracic surgeon, one of the founders of the University of São Paulo Heart Institute and internationally respected as the inventor of the Jatene operation, a technique to correct...
- physician
- Abraão de Morais - physicist
- César Lattes
Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes was a Brazilian experimental physicist, co-discoverer of the pion or pi meson, one of the nuclear particles....
- physicist, co-discoverer of the pi meson
- Drauzio Varella
Drauzio Varella is a Brazilian physician, educator, scientist and noted medical science popularizer in the press and TV....
- physician, educator and medical science popularizer
- Ennio Candotti
Ennio Candotti is a Brazilian physicist and scientific leader.He studied physics at the University of São Paulo, in São Paulo, from 1960 to 1964, and also at the University of Naples, in Naples, Italy...
- physicist and scientific leader
- Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini
Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini was a noted Brazilian physician and foremost cardiac surgeon...
- physician, he did the first heart transplantationHeart transplantation, or cardiac transplantation, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. The most common procedure is to take a working heart from a recently deceased organ donor and implant it into the patient...
in Latin AmericaLatin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish, Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,501 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
- Giuseppe Occhialini
Giuseppe "Beppo" Occhialini , Italian physicist, contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell . At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H...
- physicist
- Gleb Wataghin
Gleb 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...
- physicist
- Jayme Tiomno
Jayme Tiomno , Brazilian experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit. He is the son of Russian immigrants....
- experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist
- José E. Moreira - system software architect for Blue Gene
Blue Gene is a computer architecture project designed to produce several supercomputers, designed to reach operating speeds in the PFLOPS range, and currently reaching sustained speeds of nearly 500 TFLOPS . It is a cooperative project among IBM Blue Gene is a computer architecture project...
/L, the fastest supercomputer in the world
- José Goldemberg
José Goldemberg , a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist, is a leading expert on energy end environment issues....
- scientific leader and research scientist
- José Leite Lopes
José Leite Lopes , noted Brazilian theoretical physicist in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics.-Life:...
- theoretical physicist
- Mário Schenberg
Mário Schenberg, , var. Mário Schönberg, Mario Schonberg), was a Jewish Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer.-The Urca process:...
- physicist
- Mayana Zatz
Mayana Zatz is a Brazilian molecular biologist and geneticist. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo, currently being its Research dean.-Biography:...
- molecular biologist and geneticist
- Miguel Nicolelis
Miguel Angelo Laporta Nicolelis, MD, PhD, is a Brazilian physician and scientist, best known for his pioneering work in "reading monkey thought". He and his colleagues implanted electrode arrays into a monkey's brain that were able to detect the monkey's motor intent and thus able to control...
- physician and neurobiological researcher
- Oscar Sala
Oscar Sala , Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist and important scientific leader, Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo....
- Italian nuclear physicist
- Roberto Salmeron
Roberto Salmeron , Brazilian electrical engineer and experimental nuclear physicist of international renown, Emeritus Research Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France ....
- electrical engineer and experimental nuclear physicist
- Sérgio Henrique Ferreira
Sérgio Henrique Ferreira , Brazil, Brazilian physician and pharmacologist, noted for his discovery of Bradykinin potentiating factor, which led to better anti-hypertension drugs.Ferreira received his M.D...
- physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a new drug against hypertension
- Warwick Estevam Kerr
Warwick Estevam Kerr is a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees...
- geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees
Others
- Amyr Klink
Amyr Klink is an explorer and sailor. His project "Antarctica 360" was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 79 days in 1998....
- sailor and explorer (economics degree)
- Ana Cañas - singer (dramatic arts degree)
- Chico Buarque de Holanda - singer (architecture degree)
- Dan Stulbach - actor (dramatic arts degree)
- Fernando Meirelles
Fernando Meirelles is a Brazilian film director.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films...
- film director, he did City of GodCity of God is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003. It was adapted by Bráulio Mantovani from the 1997 novel of the same name written by Paulo Lins...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0317248/, The Constant GardenerThe Constant Gardener is a 2005 drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carré novel of the same name. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a man who seeks to find the motivating forces behind his wife's murder.The film stars Ralph Fiennes,...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0387131/ and BlindnessBlindness is a 2008 dramatic thriller film that is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. The film is written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo as the main...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/ (architecture degree)
- Henrique Meirelles
Henrique de Campos Meirelles AKA "King of Boston" is the current president of the Banco Central do Brasil...
- the current president of the Central Bank of BrazilBrazilian Central Bank is Brazil's highest monetary authority in, and the country's governing body in, finance and economics. It was established on December 31, 1964....
(engineering degree)
- João Batista Vilanova Artigas
João Batista Vilanova Artigas was one of the most important Brazilian modernist architects. Born in Curitiba and much-awarded in his lifetime, Artigas is considered one of the most important names in the architectural history of São Paulo, and the founding figure of the Paulista School.- Life...
- architect (architecture degree)
- José Celso Martinez Corrêa - playwright (law degree)
- Marcelo Tas
Marcelo Tristão Athayde de Souza, better known as Marcelo Tas is a Brazilian director, writer, actor and television hoster.Since 2008 he has been presenting the Brazilian version of CQC...
- actor and writer (engineering degree)
- Matheus Nachtergaele
Matheus Nachtergaele is a Brazilian actor and director. He has starred in numerous Brazilian films and television programmes but is probably most well known for his appearance in the 2002 film Cidade De Deus , playing the part of Carrot Sandro...
- actor (dramatic arts degree)
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Nelson Pereira dos Santos is a Brazilian movie director. He directed movies such as Vidas Secas , based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos. He also directed Rio 40° which was released in 1955...
- filmmaker (law degree)
- Paulo Autran
Paulo Autran was a Brazilian film and theater actor. His accomplishments during his life earned him the nickname, "Lord of the Stage."...
- actor (law degree)
- Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist....
- photographer and photojournalist (economics degree)
Global Engineering Study
The "Global Engineering Excellence" will study the importance of technology in the competitiveness of nations.
The selected universities are:
- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...
- Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly called Georgia Tech, Tech, and GT, is a public, coeducational research university in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States...
, USA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
, USA
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University , located in Shanghai, is one of the oldest and most influential universities in China...
, ChinaChina is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
- Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University , is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name “Tsinghua Xuetang”. The school was renamed the "Tsinghua School" in 1912. The university section was founded in 1925 and the name “National Tsinghua...
, China
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- University of Tokyo
The , abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano...
, Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
Schools, Faculties and Institutes
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities
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- Courses: Fashion
Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time.It is considered to have a built in obsolescence usually of one to two seasons...
and Textiles, TourismTourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other...
and LeisureLeisure or free time, is a period of time spent out of work and essential domestic activity. It is also the period of recreational and discretionary time before or after compulsory activities such as eating and sleeping, going to work or running a business, attending school and doing homework,...
, Environmental ManagementEnvironmental management is not, as the phrase could suggest, the management of the environment as such, but rather the management of interaction by the modern human societies with, and impact upon the environment. The three main issues that affect managers are those involving politics , programs ,...
, GerontologyGerontology is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging...
, Information SystemsIn a broad sense, the term Information Systems refers to the interaction between people, processes, and technology. This interaction can occur within or across organizational boundaries...
, MarketingMarketing is an integrated communications-based process through which individuals and communities are informed or persuaded that existing and newly-identified needs and wants may be satisfied by the products and services of others....
, ObstetricsObstetrics is the surgical specialty dealing with the care of women and their children during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal. Midwifery is the non-medical equivalent...
, Physical Education, Public AdministrationPublic administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government policy. The pursuit of the public good by enhancing civil society, ensuring a well-run, fair, and effective public service are some of the goals of the field.Public administration...
, Science EducationScience 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...
School of Communications and Arts
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- Courses: "Audiovisual" Arts (Film
Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
, AnimationAnimation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways...
and TV), TheatreTheatre is a branch of the performing arts. While any performance may be considered theatre, as a performing art, it focuses almost exclusively on live performers creating a self contained drama. A performance qualifies as dramatic by creating a representational illusion...
(ActingActing is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play...
,Art EducationArt education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...
, Directing, DramaturgyDramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Some dramatists combine writing and dramaturgy when creating a drama. Others work with a specialist, called a dramaturg, to adapt a work for the stage.Dramaturgy may also be defined,...
and ScenographyScenography is the practice of making theatre including sets, costumes and texts from a theoretical and practical point of view. Scenographers work from the premise of a space that is constructed, updated, transformed and filled...
), CommunicationsCommunication studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...
(JournalismJournalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via a widening spectrum of media. These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and even, more recently, the mobile phone...
, EditingEditing is the process of selecting and preparing language, images, sound, video, or film through processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media...
and PublishingPublishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view...
, AdvertisingAdvertising is a form of communication used to influence individuals to purchase products or services or support political candidates or ideas. Frequently it communicates a message that includes the name of the product or service and how that product or service could potentially benefit the consumer...
and PublicityPublicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public's perception of a subject. The subjects of publicity include people , goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment.From a marketing perspective, publicity is one component of promotion...
, Public RelationsPublic relations is the practice of managing the communication between an organization and its publics. Public relations gains an organization or individual exposure to their audiences using topics of public interest and news items that do not require direct payment...
), Library ScienceLibrary science is an interdisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of...
, MusicMusic is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
(ConductingConducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors.-Nomenclature:...
, Composing, specific musical instrumentA musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making the sounds of music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates back to the beginnings of human culture...
, SingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...
), Plastic ArtsPlastic arts are those visual arts that involve the use of materials that can be molded or modulated in some way, often in three dimensions. Examples are clay, paint and plaster.The plastic arts may refer to:* Architecture* Ceramics* Collage...
(PrintmakingPrintmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
, PaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or concrete...
, MultimediaMultimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material...
and SculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and/or plastic material, sound, and/or text and or light, commonly stone , metal, glass, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by finding or carving; others are assembled, built together and fired, welded, molded,...
), TourismTourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other...
School of Physical Education and Sports
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- Courses: Physical Education and Sports Science
Sport science is a discipline that studies the application of scientific principles and techniques with the aim of improving sporting performance...
School of Nursing
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- Course: 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 birth to the end of life....
Ribeirão Preto School of Nursing
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- Course: Nursing
Lorena School of Engineering
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- Courses: Biochemical Engineering
Biochemical engineering is a branch of chemical engineering or biological engineering that mainly deals with the design and construction of unit processes that involve biological organisms or molecules, such as bioreactors...
, Chemical EngineeringChemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science , and life sciences with mathematics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
, Chemical Industrial EngineeringIndustrial engineer is a branch of engineering that concerns with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, material and process. It also deals with designing new prototypes to help save money and...
, Materials Engineering
São Carlos School of Engineering
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- Courses: Architecture
For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of architecture. Architecture is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures for human shelter or use....
and Urban PlanningUrban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities...
, Aeronautical Engineering, Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental engineeringis the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites.Environmental engineering involves water and air pollution control,...
, Civil EngineeringCivil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings...
, Computer EngineeringComputer Engineering is a discipline that combines both Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design and hardware-software integration instead of only software engineering or electronic engineering...
, MechanicalMechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems...
Production Engineering, Electrical EngineeringElectrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of engineering that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after...
(Electronic EngineeringElectronics engineering, also referred to as electronic engineering is an engineering discipline which uses the scientific knowledge of the behavior and effects of electrons to develop components, devices, systems, or equipment that uses electricity as part of its driving force...
or EnergyAn energy management system is a system of computer-aided tools used by operators of electric utility grids to monitor, control, and optimize the performance of the generation and/or transmission system...
and AutomationAutomation is the use of control systems , in concert with other applications of information technology , to control industrial machinery and processes, reducing the need for human intervention...
Systems), Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems...
, MechatronicsMechatronics is the combination of Mechanical engineering, Electronic engineering, Computer engineering, Control engineering, and Systems Design engineering to create useful products.-Description:...
Polytechnical School
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- Courses: Environmental Engineering
Environmental engineeringis the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites.Environmental engineering involves water and air pollution control,...
, Civil EngineeringCivil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings...
, Materials Engineering, Mining EngineeringMining engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the practice, the theory, the science, the technology, and application of extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment. Mining engineering also includes processing minerals for additional value.The need for...
, Production Engineering, Electrical EngineeringElectrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of engineering that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after...
(ControlControl engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors...
and Automation, Computer EngineeringComputer Engineering is a discipline that combines both Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design and hardware-software integration instead of only software engineering or electronic engineering...
, EnergyAn energy management system is a system of computer-aided tools used by operators of electric utility grids to monitor, control, and optimize the performance of the generation and/or transmission system...
and AutomationAutomation is the use of control systems , in concert with other applications of information technology , to control industrial machinery and processes, reducing the need for human intervention...
, Electronic SystemsElectronic systems are groupings of electronic circuits and components which are designed to accomplish one or more complex functions. Examples include telecommunication systems, computer systems, power distribution systems, radar systems, electronic music systems, and many others.Electronic...
, Telecommunications), Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems...
, MechatronicsMechatronics is the combination of Mechanical engineering, Electronic engineering, Computer engineering, Control engineering, and Systems Design engineering to create useful products.-Description:...
, Metallurgical Engineering, Naval Engineering, Chemical EngineeringChemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science , and life sciences with mathematics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
(Materials), Petroleum EngineeringPetroleum engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the subsurface activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. These activities are deemed to fall within the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, which are the activities...
Luiz de Queiroz School of Agriculture
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- Courses: Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural engineering is the engineering discipline that applies engineering science and technology to agricultural production and processing. Agricultural engineering combines the disciplines of animal biology, plant biology, and mechanical, civil and chemical engineering principles with a...
, BiologyBiology is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy...
, Food ScienceFood science is a study concerned with all technical aspects of food, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption...
, EconomicsEconomics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, ForestryForestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations, and related natural resources. The main goal of forestry is to create and implement systems that allow forests to continue a sustainable continuation of environmental supplies and services...
, Environmental ManagementEnvironmental management is not, as the phrase could suggest, the management of the environment as such, but rather the management of interaction by the modern human societies with, and impact upon the environment. The three main issues that affect managers are those involving politics , programs ,...
, Agricultural EducationAgricultural education is instruction about crop production, livestock management, soil and water conservation, and various other aspects of agriculture. Agricultural education includes instruction in food education, such as nutrition...
, Biology Education
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism
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- Courses: Architecture
For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of architecture. Architecture is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures for human shelter or use....
and Urban PlanningUrban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities...
, DesignDesign is the planning that lays the basis for the making of every object or system. It can be used both as a noun and as a verb and, in a broader way, it means applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a product,...
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Course: 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 medication....
and BiochemistryBiochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules....
Ribeirão Preto Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Course: Pharmacy and Biochemistry
- Faculdade de Direito
University of São Paulo School of Law is an institution of higher education and research in the field of Law located in São Paulo, Brazil...
Faculty of Law
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- Course: Law
Law is a system of rules, usually enforced through a set of institutions. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a primary social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus ticket to trading on derivatives markets...
Faculty of Law of Ribeirão Preto
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- Course: Law
Law is a system of rules, usually enforced through a set of institutions. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a primary social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus ticket to trading on derivatives markets...
Faculty of Economy, Management and Accounting
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- Courses: (Business Administration), Economics
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, AccountingAccounting scholarship is an academic discipline oriented towards the profession of accounting, usually taught at a business school.Since accounting is a highly technical, standards oriented profession, both practitioners and academics may claim to be experts. Accounting directly impacts many other...
, Actuarial ScienceActuarial science is the discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries. Actuaries are professionals who are qualified in this field through education and experience...
Faculty of Economy, Management and Accounting of Ribeirão Preto)
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- Courses: Management
Management in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading, directing, facilitating and controlling or manipulating an organization or effort for...
(Business Administration), Economics, Accounting
Faculty of Education
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- Course: Pedagogy
Pedagogy is the study of being a teacher. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction.Pedagogy is also sometimes referred to as the correct use of teaching strategies . For example, Paulo Freire referred to his method of teaching adults as "critical pedagogy"...
Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences
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- Courses: Geography
Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, HistoryHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
, LanguageA language is a system for encoding and decoding information. In its most common use, the term refers to so-called "natural languages" — the forms of communication considered peculiar to humankind. In linguistics the term is extended to refer to the human cognitive facility of creating and using...
s and LiteratureLiterature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" , and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters...
s (GermanGerman is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by...
, ArabArabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. In terms of speakers, the Arabic macrolanguage is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as...
, ArmenianThe Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
, ChineseChinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of languages mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
, SpanishSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
, FrenchFrench is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...
, GreekGreek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical...
, HebrewHebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Culturally, it is considered a Jewish language. Hebrew in its modern form is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel while Classical Hebrew has been used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world for over...
, English, ItalianItalian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by a total of around 70 million in the world. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City...
, Japaneseis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family. There are a number of proposed relationships with other languages, but none have gained general acceptance...
, LatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...
, PortuguesePortuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
, RussianRussian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe...
), LinguisticsLinguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of meaning...
, PhilosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned...
, Social SciencesThe social sciences are the fields of scientific knowledge and academic scholarship that study social groups and, more generally, human society. The social sciences initially were constituted of five fields: Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law; Education; Health; Economy and Trade; Art...
(AnthropologyAnthropology is the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time....
, Political SciencePolitical science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. It is often described as the pragmatic application of the art and science of politics defined as "who gets what, when and how",...
, SociologySociology is the scientific or systematic study of human societies. It is a branch of social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, often with the goal of applying such...
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Faculty of Medicine
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- Courses: Medicine
Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, Speech and Language TherapySpeech-language pathology is the study of disorders that affect a person's speech, language, cognition, voice, swallowing and the rehabilitative or corrective treatment of physical and/or cognitive deficits/disorders resulting in difficulty with communication and/or swallowing...
, Physiotherapy, Occupational TherapyOccupational therapy, often abbreviated as "OT", incorporates meaningful and purposeful occupation to enable people with limitations or impairments to participate in everyday life. Occupational therapists work with individuals, families, groups and populations to facilitate health and well-being...
Ribeirão Preto Faculty of Medicine
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- Courses: Biosciences (medicine emphasis), Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
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- Course: Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary medicine is the application of medical, diagnostic, surgical, dental, and therapeutic principles to companion, domestic, exotic, wildlife, and production animals. Veterinary science is vital to the study and protection of animal production practices, herd health and monitoring the spread...
Faculty of Odontology
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- Course: Dentistry
Dentistry is the known evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the soft and hard tissues of the jaw , the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is a part of stomatology...
Bauru Faculty of Odontology
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- Courses: Dentistry, Speech and Language Therapy
Ribeirão Preto Faculty of Odontology
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- Course: Dentistry
Faculty of Public Health
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- Courses: Nutrition
Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....
, Public HealthPublic health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." It is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based...
(graduate studies)
Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering
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- Courses: Animal Science
Animal husbandry, also called animal science, stockbreeding or simple husbandry, is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock. It has been practiced for thousands of years, since the first domestication of animals....
, Food EngineeringFood engineering is a multidisciplinary program 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 and chemical engineering principles to food materials.Food...
Institute of Oceonography
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- Course: Oceanography
Oceanography , also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean...
Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences
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- Courses: Astronomy
Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere...
, GeophysicsGeophysics, a major discipline of the Earth sciences and a subdiscipline of physics, is the study of the whole Earth by the quantitative observation of its physical properties. Geophysical data are used in academics to observe tectonic plate motions, study the internal structure of the Earth,...
, MeteorologyMeteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting . Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the eighteenth century...
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Institute of Biosciencies
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- Course: Biology
Biology is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy...
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
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- Course: Health Sciences
Institute of Mathematics Sciences and Computer Science of São Carlos
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- Courses: Mathematics
Mathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions....
, Applied MathematicsApplied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the mathematical techniques typically used in the application of mathematical knowledge to other domains.-Divisions of applied mathematics:...
and Scientific Computing, Computer ScienceComputer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe and transform...
and InformaticsInformatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...
Institute of Physics
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- Course: Physics
Physics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...
Institute of Physics of São Carlos
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- Courses: Physics
Physics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...
, Computational physicsComputational physics is the study and implementation of numerical algorithms to solve problems in physics for which a quantitative theory already exists...
, Biomolecular sciences, Exact Sciences (Teaching)
Institute of Geosciences
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- Course: Geology
Geology is the science and study of the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth. The field of geology encompasses the study of the composition, structure, physical properties, dynamics, and history of Earth materials, and the processes by which they are formed, moved, and changed...
, EnvironmentThe natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a term that encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof....
and Geosciences (Teaching)
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics
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- Courses: Applied Mathematics
Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the mathematical techniques typically used in the application of mathematical knowledge to other domains.-Divisions of applied mathematics:...
and Computer MathematicsComputer mathematics could refer to:* 'Scientific computing - constructing numerical solutions and using computers to analyse and solve scientific and engineering problems* Theoretical computer science - collection of topics of computer science that focuses on the more abstract and mathematical...
, MathematicsMathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions....
(Bachelor and Teaching), StatisticsStatistics is a branch of mathematics concerned with collecting and interpreting data. According to other definitions, it is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. Statisticians improve the quality of data with the...
and Computer ScienceComputer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe and transform...
Institute os Psychology
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- Course: Psychology
Psychology is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and sometimes scientific, study of human or animal mental functions and behavior...
Institute of Chemistry
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- Courses: Chemistry
Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions...
Institute of Chemistry of São Carlos
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- Courses: Exact Sciences (Teaching), Chemistry
Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions...
Institute of Foreign Affairs
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- Course: International Relations
International relations or International studies represents the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , non-governmental organizations , and multinational corporations...
Museums and art galleries
The University of São Paulo has endowed a rich set of
museumA museum is a building or institution which houses a collection of artifacts.Museums collect and care for objects of scientific, artistic, or historical importance and make them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary...
s and important
art galleriesAn art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museum can be public or private but what distinguishes a Museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, photographs, illustrations,...
, most of them located in the central campus in São Paulo, such as:
- Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (Museum of Contemporary Art)
- Museu Paulista
The Museu Paulista of the University of São Paulo is a Brazilian history museum located near where Emperor D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on the banks of Ipiranga River in the city of São Paulo...
(Historical Museum of São Paulo)
- Museu de Zoologia (Museum of Zoology)
- MAE-USP - Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (Museum of Archeology and Etnology)
External links
See also
- State University of Campinas - UNICAMP - WWW page
- Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP - WWW Page
- Brazil University Rankings
- Universities and Higher Education in Brazil
Brazil 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...