Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | |
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motto | A Universidade do Brasil (The University of Brazil) |
founding | December 17, 1792 (Royal Military Academy), September 7, 1920 (University) |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Rio de Janeiro , Brazil |
Rector | Denise Pires de Carvalho (since 2019) |
Students | 67,000 |
Employee | 13,200 |
including professors | 4200 |
Annual budget | R $ 374.2 million (2020) |
Website | www.ufrj.br |
The Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (abbreviated UFRJ , German: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ) is the largest federal university in Brazil and one of the Brazilian centers of excellence in teaching and research . It is one of the best institutions in Latin America .
location
The main campus is located in a university town, the Cidade Universitária da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , on the artificial island of Ilha do Fundão in Guanabara Bay .
history
As the first official institution of higher education in Brazil, it has been active since 1792, when the Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho (Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification Construction and Design) was founded. From this military engineering school, renamed Escola Polytechnica do Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century , the university emerged.
On September 7, 1920, President Epitácio Pessoa signed Decree 14.343, which merged the Escola Politécnica with the previously independent universities Faculdade Livre de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais do Rio de Janeiro , the law faculty founded in 1882, and the Faculdade de Medicina , the oldest medical school in Brazil, decided. This resulted in the establishment of the first university in the state of Rio de Janeiro as Universidade do Rio de Janeiro , renamed Universidade do Distrito Federal in 1935 . It served as a model for all other university foundations and showed the structure of the French and German higher education in the first decades.
In addition to undergraduate and graduate courses, the university has seven museums , the largest of which is the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , eight university clinics, hundreds of laboratories and more than 40 libraries .
The 28th Rector was Roberto Leher , who took office on July 3, 2015, succeeding Carlos Antônio Levi da Conceição .
Since December 29, 2019, life scientist Denise Pires de Carvalho has been the first female rector of the UFRJ.
The main outer belt asteroid (2707) Ueferji is named after the university.
Rectors of the UFRJ since 1921
Teaching and research institutions
University facilities | Other facilities |
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Block A of the Centro de Tecnologia
Well-known alumni
- Jorge Amado , writer
- Oswaldo Aranha , politician
- Artur Ávila , mathematician and professor, Fields Medalist
- Benjamin Constant Botelho , engineer
- Vital Brazil , medic
- Sérgio Buarque de Holanda , historian
- Roberto Burle Marx , landscape architect
- Bussunda , comedian
- Carlos Chagas , medical doctor
- Oswaldo Cruz , physician
- Rubem Fonseca , writer
- Maria das Graças Foster , manager at Petrobras
- Ilan Goldfajn , President of the Central Bank of Brazil
- Otto Richard Gottlieb , chemist and scientist
- Suzana Herculano-Houzel , neuroscientist
- Carlos Lacerda , politician
- Elon Lages Lima , mathematician
- Ivan Lins , composer
- Evandro Lins e Silva , lawyer
- Clarice Lispector , writer
- José Leite Lopes , physicist
- Henrique Meirelles , finance specialist
- Edson Marinho Duarte Monteiro , diplomat
- Vinícius de Moraes , writer, composer
- Leopoldo Nachbin , mathematician
- Oscar Niemeyer , architect
- Jacob Palis , mathematician and professor
- Candido Portinari , painter
- Marques Rebêlo , writer
- José A. Scheinkman , economist
- Carlos Alberto Sicupira , entrepreneur
- Anísio Teixeira , educator
- Marcel Herrmann Telles , entrepreneur
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Selos da UFRJ | Divisão de Memória Institucional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved April 18, 2017 (Portuguese).
- ^ Faculdade de Medicina da UFRJ: 200 anos. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Maria de Fátima Costa de Paula: USP e UFRJ: a influência das concepções alemã e francesa em suas fundações. In: Tempo Social , Volume 14, 2002, No. 2 ISSN 0103-2070 . Retrieved April 19, 2017 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Professor Roberto Leher é o novo eleito reitor da UFRJ. In: O Globo, May 8, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Reitora da UFRJ é eleita personalidade do ano em coluna do Globo. In: ufrj.br. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, accessed February 11, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 8, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1981 QS 3 . Discovered 1981 Aug. 28 by H. Debehogne at La Silla. ”
Coordinates: 22 ° 54 ′ 16.8 ″ S , 43 ° 13 ′ 14.8 ″ W.