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{{Infobox University|
name =University of Lisbon |
native_name =Universidade de Lisboa |
latin_name =Universitas Olisiponensis |
image = [[Image:University of Lisbon Logo.jpg|150px|University of Lisbon Logo]]|
motto =''ad lucem''<br>"To the Light"|
established =1911 |
type =[[Public University]] |
rector =[[António Sampaio da Nóvoa]] |
students = ca. 20,000 |
staff = |
city =[[Lisbon]] |
country =[[Portugal]] |
campus = |
affiliations = |
website =[http://www.ul.pt www.ul.pt] |
}}
The '''University of Lisbon''' (''Universidade de Lisboa'', [[pronunciation|pron]]. {{IPA2|univɨɾsi'dad(ɨ) dɨ liʒ'boɐ}}; [[latin]] ''Universitas Olisiponensis'') is a [[public university]] in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]]. It is composed by eight [[faculty (university)|faculties]]. It was founded in 1911 after the fall of the [[Portuguese monarchy]] regime, but the history of a university in Lisbon goes back to the 13th century.
==History==
The first Portuguese university school was founded in 1290 by [[Denis of Portugal|King Dinis]] in Lisbon, and was called [[Studium Generale]] (''Estudo Geral''). In the following 247 years, this first university school was moved several times between Lisbon and [[Coimbra]]. In 1537, during the reign of [[John III of Portugal|João III]], the university moved definitively to Coimbra. The entire university institution, including the teaching staff and all the books from its library, were moved to [[Coimbra]] where the [[University of Coimbra]] was definitively installed. Lisbon became a university city again in 1911 when the current University of Lisbon was founded, through the union of newly created and older schools, like the 19th century Polytechnic School (''Escola Politécnica''), the Royal Medical School of Lisbon (''Real Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa'') and the Letters Higher Studies (''Curso Superior de Letras'').
==Faculties==
===Faculty of Law===
The Faculty of Law (Portuguese: ''Faculdade de Direito'') [http://www.fd.ul.pt/] was officially created by a Decree of [[March 22]], [[1911]] as ''Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Políticas'', but was only installed in 1913, and was given its current designation later in 1918. It was originally located at the Valmor Building (''Edifício Valmor'') at the ''Campo dos Mártires da Pátria''. It was transferred to its current campus at the University City (''Cidade Universitária'') in 1957-1958. A new building, housing the Faculty's library, was built in the late 1990s.
The only graduation given is [[law]], and the specialized post-graduate studies available include several branches of the same area.
Among the many distinguished graduates from the Faculty of Law are the former [[President of Portugal|Presidents of Portugal]] [[Jorge Sampaio]] and [[Mário Soares]], Prime Minister [[Marcelo Caetano]], the [[President of the European Commission]] [[José Manuel Durão Barroso]], Portuguese statesman, deputy, and professor [[Adriano Moreira]], and businessman and former [[List of Prime Ministers of Portugal|Prime Minister]] [[Francisco Pinto Balsemão]]. [[Portuguese First Republic|First Republic]] political leader and several times Prime Minister [[Afonso Costa]] was a teacher at the Faculty. Television [[pundit (expert)|pundit]] and geopolitics expert [[Nuno Rogeiro]] also studied at the Faculty of Law (''Faculdade de Direito'').
===Faculty of Sciences===
[[Image:FCUL C6.JPG|thumb|200px|Faculty of Sciences, C6 building. The [[Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo|Torre do Tombo]] tower is seen in the background]]
The Faculty of Sciences (Portuguese: ''Faculdade de Ciências'', usually abbreviated ''FCUL'') [http://www.fc.ul.pt/] was created on [[April 19]], [[1911]]. From that date until 1985 (when it moved to its current grounds, at Campo Grande) it was established on the former Politechnical School (''Escola Politécnica'') building. Those former installations are now used as museum, now and then.
Its current grounds comprise a built area of 75662 square meters, corresponding to 8 buildings (labeled C1 through C8, where ''C'' stands for ''Ciências'' — Sciences) which host the classrooms, offices, cafeterias, libraries, book shop and leisure areas. The faculty population, as of the 2006–2007 school year, consisted of:
* 3597 graduation students (3775);
* 826 M.Sc. students (713);
* 577 Ph.D. students (609);
* 438 teachers, about 93% hold a Ph.D. (445, 80%);
* 224 non-teaching workers (228).
(in parentheses, the numbers as of the 2005–2006 school year).<ref>''Agenda FCUL''</ref>
The Computer Science department has been granted several honors, namely a finalist position in the [[Descartes Prize]] and two [[IBM]] Scientific Awards.
The faculty's campus also comprises the ''[http://ibeb.fc.ul.pt/ Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica (IBEB)]'', the ''[http://www.io.fc.ul.pt/ Instituto de Oceanografia]'' and the ''[http://www.icat.fc.ul.pt/ Instituto de Ciência Aplicada e Tecnologia (ICAT)]''.
There are 16 graduations available, in the following areas:
* [[Applied mathematics|Applied Mathematics]]
** ''Fundamental Applications'' branch
** ''Statistics and [[Operations Research]]'' branch
* [[Applied statistics|Applied Statistics]]
* [[Biology]]
** ''Environmental Biology'' branch ([[Marine (ocean)|Marine]] and Terrestrial profiles)
** ''[[Cell biology]] and [[Biotechnology]]'' branch
** ''[[Evolutionary biology|Evolutionary]] and [[Developmental biology]]'' branch
** ''[[Physiology|Functional and Systems]] Biology'' branch
** ''[[Molecular biology]] and [[Genetics]]'' branch
* [[Biochemistry]]
* [[Chemistry]]
* [[Energy]] and [[Environmental Engineering|Environment]] (partnership with ''[[Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação]]'')
* Geographic Engineering
* [[Geology]]
** ''Applied geology and Environment'' branch
** ''Geology and [[Natural resources]]'' branch
* [[Computer engineering|Computer Engineering]] — the ''[[Engineer]]'' title requires an additional 2-year [[Master's degree|Master]] programme, on one of the following:
** ''Computer [[Computer architecture|Architecture]], [[Computer system|Systems]] and [[Computer network|Networks]]'' ([[Distributed system|Distributed Systems]], [[Computer security|Security]], [[Embedded system|Embedded Systems]], [[Fault-tolerant system|Fault tolerance]])
** ''[[Information systems]]'' ([[Database|Database systems]], [[Human-Computer Interaction]], [[Mobile computing]])
** ''[[Interaction]] and [[Knowledge]]'' ([[Artificial Intelligence]]-driven: [[multi-agent system]], [[machine learning]], [[Natural language]] processing and interaction, [[neural networks]])
** ''[[Software Engineering]]'' ([[Software design]], [[Algorithms]], [[Computer programming|Programming]])
* [[Information Technology|Information and Communications Technology]]
* [[Maths]]
* [[Physics]]
** ''Physics'' branch
** ''[[Astronomy]] and [[Astrophysics]]'' branch
** ''[[Computational Physics]]'' branch
* [[Meteorology]], [[Oceanography]] and [[Geophysics]]
* [[Microbiology]] (partnership with Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy)
* Physics Engineering ([[Engineering Physics]])
* Technological Chemistry
[[João Magueijo]], a Portuguese cosmologist and professor, studied at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL).
===Faculty of Medicine===
The Faculty of Medicine is a leading medical school, having its origins in the 19th century when the ''Real Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa'' was founded in the city. Santa Maria's Hospital (Hospital de Santa Maria), one of the biggest Portuguese hospitals, is the teaching hospital of the faculty, and share the same installations.
[[António Damásio]] and [[Alexandre Carlos Caldas]] studied at this faculty, and [[Egas Moniz]] (a [[Nobel prize]] winner) was professor there.
Other noted personalities who studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon include:
*[[António Lobo Antunes]], (born September 1, 1942), Portuguese novelist.
*[[Joaquim Alberto Chissano]], (born 22 October 1939), second President of Mozambique. ''(dropped out)''
*[[João Lobo Antunes]], (born June 4, 1944), a prominent Portuguese Neurosurgeon.
*[[José Tomás de Sousa Martins]], 19th century physician, noted for the esoteric cult-status achieved after his death.
===Faculty of Letters===
The Faculty of Letters (Portuguese: ''Faculdade de Letras''), FLUL, [http://www.fl.ul.pt/] was created in 1911, although it's predated by the Superior Studies in Letters (''Curso Superior de Letras''), created in 1859 by King [[Pedro V of Portugal|Pedro V]], from which all students and professors were transferred.
It remained on the grounds of the Superior Studies, an annex to the Academy of Science until 1957, when it changed to the current building, in the University City (''Cidade Universitária''). In 1975, a new pavilion was built to accommodate the large influx of students who arrived after the democratization of Superior Education in Portugal, a consequence of the [[Carnation Revolution]]. The pavilion, theoretically provisional, still stands today. In 2001, two new buildings were finished: one to accommodate new classrooms and the Computer Room, and the Library Building, which is now the second biggest library in Portugal.
Although the faculty's graduation with most studies is Modern Languages and Literatures (''Línguas e Literaturas Modernas'') (which has a number of variants, including studies in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]] and [[Italian language|Italian]]), it also offers [[Geography]], [[Philosophy]], [[History]] (and [[Archeology]]), [[African Studies]], [[European Studies]], [[Cultural Studies]] and [[Classical Studies]] (the graduation itself is named Classic Languages and Literatures). It is also the former home of the graduation in [[Psychology]]. In the mid-80's a new Faculty of Psychology [http://www.fpce.ul.pt] was created to accommodate it.
Famous professors at the Faculty include the First President of the Portuguese Republic, [[Teófilo Braga]] and writers [[Vitorino Nemésio]] and [[Urbano Tavares Rodrigues]].
The most famous former student, who attended for less then a year, is the poet [[Fernando Pessoa]]. [[Fialho Gouveia]], a noted Portuguese television presenter, attended the [[Romance Languages|Romance]] [[Philology]] course at the ''Faculdade de Letras'' but dropped out in order to follow a successful career in radio and television. The writer [[Luiz Pacheco]] was a student at FLUL before dropping out. Actress [[Alexandra Lencastre]] and [[Moonspell]] frontman [[Fernando Ribeiro]] also attended the Philosophy course but dropped out. Famous musician and composer [[Fernando Lopes-Graça]] also attended FLUL but have also dropped out.
==Research==
The [[Instituto de Medicina Molecular]] of the University of Lisbon, a research institute in [[molecular medicine]], is one of the most noted biosciences research institutions in Portugal.
The Instituto Geofisico do Infante Dom Luiz exists since 1853 and is a research and operational unit that maintains the longest metereological series of Portugal. Research is organized and funded through CGUL, the leading Portuguese geophysical research unit, and Associated Laboratory (with LATTEX) of the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology.
Researchers of [[LaSIGE]], a research laboratory for large-scale information systems (integrated into the Department of Computer Science), have received several honors, namely an IBM Scientific Award, an [[Ordem dos Engenheiros|Order of Engineers]] distinction and a place among the eight finalists of the [[Descartes Prize]].
==References==
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==See also==
*[[List of universities in Portugal]]
*[[Higher education in Portugal]]
==External links==
* [http://www.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon] Home Page
* [http://www.fd.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon - Faculty of Law] Home Page of the Faculty of Law
* [http://www.fc.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon - Faculty of Sciences] Home Page of the Faculty of Sciences
* [http://www.fm.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon - Faculty of Medicine] Home Page of the Faculty of Medicine
* [http://www.fl.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon - Faculty of Letters] Home Page of the Faculty of Letters
* [http://www.ff.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon - Faculty of Pharmacy] Home Page of the Faculty of Pharmacy
* [http://www.fba.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon - Faculty of Fine-Arts] Home Page of the Faculty of Fine-Arts
* [http://www.fmd.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon - Faculty of Dental Medicine] Home Page of the Faculty of Dental Medicine
* [http://www.fpce.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon - Faculty of Psychology and Education Science] Home Page of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Science
* [http://www.confucio.ul.pt/ University of Lisbon - The Confucius Institute] Home Page of The Confucius Institute at The University of Lisbon
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