University of Alberta
| University of Alberta | |
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| motto | Quaecumque Vera |
| founding | 1908 |
| Sponsorship | state |
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Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
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| president | David H. Turpin, CM, LLD, FRSC |
| Students | 38,311 (2018) |
| Employee | approx.15,000 (2018) |
| Annual budget | $ 677.7 million |
| Networks | CARL , IAU , UArktis , U15 , CWUAA |
| Website | www.ualberta.ca |
The University of Alberta ( U of A ) is a university in Alberta ( Canada ).
Founded in 1908 by the provincial government led by Alexander Cameron Rutherford , the college is located in Edmonton , the capital of Alberta, and is one of the leading universities in Canada. She is still a member of the University of the Arctic . The university campus is located in central Edmonton, on the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River . Since 2004, Augustana College in Camrose , 90 km southeast of Edmonton, has been part of it.
In 2006 370 courses were offered. The current number of students enrolled is 38,311, spread across 18 faculties. Outside research funding was over $ 415 million Canadian .
Faculties
- Agriculture, forestry, ecotrophology
- Humanities
- “Augustana” with arts, social and natural sciences
- Economics
- Educational science
- Engineering
- law Sciences
- Medicine and dentistry
- Native American Sciences
- Nursing Sciences
- Pharmacy and pharmacy
- Sports and Recreational Sciences
- Public healthcare system
- Medical rehabilitation
- Natural sciences
- Faculty of Extension
- Campus Saint-Jean (Faculty offering programs in French)
- Graduating Science & Research
Campus facilities
The university has several campus facilities that are spread over several locations.
North Campus
The North Campus (Main Campus) is the largest campus that is considered the main campus of the university. This is where the university management, lecture halls, research centers and various facilities such as libraries, sports facilities, fitness studios, restaurants and student dormitories are located. The campus is located on the southern banks of the North Saskatchewan River and has 145 buildings on an area of around 92 hectares.
Saint-Jean campus
The Saint-Jean campus is a campus located 3 miles east of the North Campus in Bonnie Doon and where French is spoken outside of Quebec. Due to the increasing number of students, the campus is being expanded significantly. New laboratories and lecture halls are being built. The students on the campus usually study a bachelor's degree, including students of the artistic and social degree programs, engineers who study for the first year at the location, then continue their studies on the main campus. There are also bilingual courses in nursing and economics.
Augustana Campus
The Augustana Campus is located in the small town of Camrose , about 100 km southwest of Edmonton. In 2004, Augustana University College merged with the University of Alberta, which then became the Augustana Campus. Mainly artistic courses such as arts, natural sciences or music courses are located on campus.
Enterprise Square
The Enterprise Square campus opened on January 15, 2008. This is located on the North Saskatchewan River in downtown Edmonton. The university facilities are located in historic buildings of an old Hudson's Bay Company building. The buildings have been completely renovated. The Faculty of Extension, Alberta Business Family Institute, Alberta School of Business and a design gallery are located on campus.
South campus
The campus is located two kilometers south of the main campus and is directly connected to the local public transport system Light Rail Transit .
research
Over 400 research laboratories are located on the campus, making the university one of the leading research universities in the country. The university is a member of the G13 Universities , an association of the 13 strongest research universities in the country, which are involved in national and international research projects. Between 1988 and 2006, the university received third-party funding of $ 3.4 billion. The research centers are:
- Sustainable Forest Management
- Network of Centers of Excellence
- Prairie Centers of Excellence
- Canadian Obesity Network
- Canadian Center for Ethnomusicology and folkwaysAlive! in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The main research areas are:
- Medical Research
- Population Research
- Biomedical Research
- Nanotechnology Research (home to the well-known National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), which opened in 2006 )
further research centers and institutes are (extract):
- Center for Enhanced Forest Management (EFM)
- Dairy Research and Technology Center (DRTC)
- Environmental Research and Studies Center
- Alberta Center for Surface Engineering and Science
- Center for Oil Sands Innovation
- Construction Research Institute for Canada (CIRC)
- Alberta Center on Aging
- Alberta Institute for Human Nutrition
- The John Dossetor Health Ethics Center
- Center for Community Pharmacy Research and Interdisciplinary Studies (c / COMPRIS)
- Drug Development and Innovation Center (DDIC)
- Canadian VIGOR Center
- Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC)
- Center for Health Evidence
- Center for Neuroscience
Well-known graduates
- Pat Binns (* 1948), former Prime Minister of Prince Edward Island
- Clarence Campbell (1905–1984), former NHL president
- Joe Clark (* 1939), former Prime Minister of Canada
- John George Diefenbaker (1895–1979), thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- Nathan Fillion (* 1971), Canadian actor
- Leona Gom (* 1946), Canadian writer and university lecturer
- Wayne Gretzky (* 1961), former NHL player
- Paul Gross (born 1959), Canadian actor
- Brian Hunter (* 1975), mathematician and hedge fund manager
- Lylian Klimek (* 1942), Canadian artist, sculptor and art teacher
- Peter Lougheed (1928–2012), former Prime Minister of Alberta
- Beverley McLachlin (* 1943), Canadian judge and professor of law, has been a member of the Supreme Court of Canada since 1989
- Jim Prentice (1956-2016), Secretary of Industry of Canada
- Derek Ryan (born 1986), ice hockey player
- Manmohan Singh (* 1932), Prime Minister of India
- Richard E. Taylor (1929–2018), physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1990)
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919–2000), former Prime Minister of Canada
- Bas van Fraassen (* 1941), Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University
- Rudy Wiebe (* 1934), Canadian writer
- David Motiuk (born 1962), Bishop of Edmonton
Well-known lecturers
- Leona Gom (* 1946), Canadian writer and university lecturer
- Royston Greenwood , British organizational researcher
- Tony Marsland , Scottish-born computer chess pioneer
- Danny Miller , Chair in Family Enterprise and Strategy
- Jacqueline Samuda , actress and author
- Jonathan Schaeffer (* 1957), computer scientist
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.ualberta.ca/about/leadership/president
- ↑ https://www.ualberta.ca/about/facts/students
- ↑ https://www.ualberta.ca/about/facts/fast
- ↑ https://www.ualberta.ca/about/facts/students
- ^ University of Alberta Research Centers and Institutes, Retrieved July 20, 2011 ( Memento of May 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '24.1 " N , 113 ° 31' 36.5" W.