Universidade Federal do Paraná
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Federal University of Paraná is a university headquartered in Curitiba
, Paraná, Brazil.
Established on December 19, 1912 and initially named as Universidade do Paraná (University of Paraná), the Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR (Federal University of Paraná) is regarded as the oldest Brazilian university.
In 1920, the federal government split the university into separate colleges until 1946. In 1951, it became a federal public university and began to offer higher level education free of charges.
Nowadays, its facilities are scattered over the capital Curitiba
and other cities of the State of Paraná
. It offers 88 options of graduation courses, 124 "lato sensu" degrees, 52 master degrees and 35 doctoral programs. Since 2004, the University has been adopting in its vestibular
a program in which twenty percent of the places offered are destined to students coming from public schools
and another twenty percent are reserved for Afro-Brazilian
s. In both situations, documentation to confirm the situation are required, including an interview with an internal board of the University in the latter.
As of 2008, the rector Carlos Augusto Moreira Júnior resigned on June 29 to run as a candidate for Curitiba's mayorship. Because of that, the then vice-rector Márcia Helena Mendonça assumed as an interin Rector (Vice-rector in exercise of rectorship).
The election for the new rector, that was due to September 10, resulted in the victory of Zaki Akel Sobrinho, D.Sc. in Administration from Universidade de São Paulo, and now the Rector, and Rogerio Andrade Mulinari, D.Sc. in Medicine from Universidade Federal de São Paulo, and with a Post-Doc from Boston University
, now the Vice-Rector of UFPR.
Twenty years later, Paraná had a reduced number of intellectuals (nine doctors and four engineers), but it was in true development
because of the production of the yerba mate
.
Moreover, at this time, the Contestado War
appeared as an incentive to the efforts of political leaderships concerning the creation of a university. In this context, Victor Ferreira do Amaral, deputy and director of public instruction of Paraná, started the effective creation of the University.
On December 19, 1912 the University was established and, in 1913, it has initiated its activities as a private institution in an old building situated on Comendador Araújo street. The first courses offered were Juridical and Social Sciences
, Engineering, Medicine and Surgery
, Commerce, Dentistry
, Pharmacy and Obstetrics
. After the establishment of the University, Victor Ferreira do Amaral, who was also its first president, initiated the construction of a central building in a land donated by the municipal government.
Due to the economic recession caused by the World War I, difficulties started to appear. In 1920, a federal law determined the closing of all universities. In a contradictory measure, the federal government created the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, currently Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
(Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). The alternative to this law was to split the UFPR in several colleges.
Throughout several years, efforts in order to restore the university took place. Only in the beginning of the fifties the colleges were reunited once again in the University of Paraná, its federalization happening just after that, in 1951, when the university became a public and free-of-charge institution.
After its federalization, a process of expansion began with the construction of the Clinic's Hospital (Portuguese
: Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná) in 1953, the Reitoria Campus in 1958 and the Polytechnic Center in 1961.
Seven years later, in 1923, two lateral parts were added, according to the original project. The building of the right sector was ended in 1925 and was designated to the Engineering graduation course. In the following year, the left sector had been finalized and it passed to serve the Dentistry course. Other additions were made to the right side of the building and it has received in its totality new paint in 1940. The building was extended towards XV de Novembro Street and, in 1952, new works in the right section led to the demolition of part of the lateral façade built in 1940.
In 1954, the building occupied a whole block between the Santos Andrade Square, XV de Novembro Street, Presidente Faria Street and Alfredo Bufren Lane. The last modifications were made: a new façade with several columns and a wide set of staircases were projected and the covered dome was eliminated. The inauguration of the neoclassical, 17,000 square meter building, took place in 1955.
In the year on 1999, the mayor of Curitiba signed a law that made this building the official symbol of the city.
, which consists of two parts:
Over 40,000 people apply every year and sit for exactly the same exam. After two weeks time or so, 15,000 are called to take the Part II (or Phase II) written exams.
The wait for the results of Part II is much longer and the results may take something between 4 and 7 weeks. A list with all the admitted candidates comes out usually in the middle of January—on the same day as the Mud-bath Party sponsored by the Central Directory of Students (Portuguese
: Diretório Central dos Estudantes, DCE) occurs.
And many more
other cities:
Curitiba
Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...
, Paraná, Brazil.
Established on December 19, 1912 and initially named as Universidade do Paraná (University of Paraná), the Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR (Federal University of Paraná) is regarded as the oldest Brazilian university.
In 1920, the federal government split the university into separate colleges until 1946. In 1951, it became a federal public university and began to offer higher level education free of charges.
Nowadays, its facilities are scattered over the capital Curitiba
Curitiba
Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...
and other cities of the State of Paraná
Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...
. It offers 88 options of graduation courses, 124 "lato sensu" degrees, 52 master degrees and 35 doctoral programs. Since 2004, the University has been adopting in its vestibular
Vestibular
The Vestibular is a competitive examination and is the primary and widespread system used by Brazilian universities to select their students. The Vestibular usually takes place from November to January, right before the start of school year in February or March, although certain universities hold...
a program in which twenty percent of the places offered are destined to students coming from public schools
Public education
State schools, also known in the United States and Canada as public schools,In much of the Commonwealth, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, the terms 'public education', 'public school' and 'independent school' are used for private schools, that is, schools...
and another twenty percent are reserved for Afro-Brazilian
Afro-Brazilian
In Brazil, the term "preto" is one of the five categories used by the Brazilian Census, along with "branco" , "pardo" , "amarelo" and "indígena"...
s. In both situations, documentation to confirm the situation are required, including an interview with an internal board of the University in the latter.
As of 2008, the rector Carlos Augusto Moreira Júnior resigned on June 29 to run as a candidate for Curitiba's mayorship. Because of that, the then vice-rector Márcia Helena Mendonça assumed as an interin Rector (Vice-rector in exercise of rectorship).
The election for the new rector, that was due to September 10, resulted in the victory of Zaki Akel Sobrinho, D.Sc. in Administration from Universidade de São Paulo, and now the Rector, and Rogerio Andrade Mulinari, D.Sc. in Medicine from Universidade Federal de São Paulo, and with a Post-Doc from Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
, now the Vice-Rector of UFPR.
History
In 1892, José Francisco da Rocha Pombo, an intellectual of the state of Paraná would have initiated the construction of the University, but its project was frustrated by the Federalist Movement.Twenty years later, Paraná had a reduced number of intellectuals (nine doctors and four engineers), but it was in true development
because of the production of the yerba mate
Yerba mate
Maté, yerba maté or erva maté , Ilex paraguariensis, is a species of holly native to subtropical South America in northeastern Argentina, Bolivia, southern Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay...
.
Moreover, at this time, the Contestado War
Contestado War
The Contestado War , broadly speaking, was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916....
appeared as an incentive to the efforts of political leaderships concerning the creation of a university. In this context, Victor Ferreira do Amaral, deputy and director of public instruction of Paraná, started the effective creation of the University.
On December 19, 1912 the University was established and, in 1913, it has initiated its activities as a private institution in an old building situated on Comendador Araújo street. The first courses offered were Juridical and Social Sciences
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
, Engineering, Medicine and Surgery
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, Commerce, Dentistry
Dentistry
Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...
, Pharmacy and Obstetrics
Pharmacy
Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
. After the establishment of the University, Victor Ferreira do Amaral, who was also its first president, initiated the construction of a central building in a land donated by the municipal government.
Due to the economic recession caused by the World War I, difficulties started to appear. In 1920, a federal law determined the closing of all universities. In a contradictory measure, the federal government created the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, currently Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is one of the largest federal universities of Brazil, where public universities comprise the majority of the best and most qualified institutions...
(Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). The alternative to this law was to split the UFPR in several colleges.
Throughout several years, efforts in order to restore the university took place. Only in the beginning of the fifties the colleges were reunited once again in the University of Paraná, its federalization happening just after that, in 1951, when the university became a public and free-of-charge institution.
After its federalization, a process of expansion began with the construction of the Clinic's Hospital (Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
: Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná) in 1953, the Reitoria Campus in 1958 and the Polytechnic Center in 1961.
Historical Building
The construction placed in the Santos Andrade Square began to be built in 1913, being a project of the military engineer Baeta de Faria. Its inauguration occurred in 1915.Seven years later, in 1923, two lateral parts were added, according to the original project. The building of the right sector was ended in 1925 and was designated to the Engineering graduation course. In the following year, the left sector had been finalized and it passed to serve the Dentistry course. Other additions were made to the right side of the building and it has received in its totality new paint in 1940. The building was extended towards XV de Novembro Street and, in 1952, new works in the right section led to the demolition of part of the lateral façade built in 1940.
In 1954, the building occupied a whole block between the Santos Andrade Square, XV de Novembro Street, Presidente Faria Street and Alfredo Bufren Lane. The last modifications were made: a new façade with several columns and a wide set of staircases were projected and the covered dome was eliminated. The inauguration of the neoclassical, 17,000 square meter building, took place in 1955.
In the year on 1999, the mayor of Curitiba signed a law that made this building the official symbol of the city.
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Technical High School
Besides the above mentioned courses, it offers high school education through its Technical High School. http://www.et.ufpr.br/Admissions
Students are admitted by an entrance exam, known as the vestibularVestibular
The Vestibular is a competitive examination and is the primary and widespread system used by Brazilian universities to select their students. The Vestibular usually takes place from November to January, right before the start of school year in February or March, although certain universities hold...
, which consists of two parts:
- Part I is composed of 80 multiple-choice questions including nine questions of each of the following subjects: Portuguese, Literature, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Geography, History and Biology, plus eight questions of a foreign language which can be chosen from English, French, Spanish, German or Italian.
Over 40,000 people apply every year and sit for exactly the same exam. After two weeks time or so, 15,000 are called to take the Part II (or Phase II) written exams.
- Part II is composed of a Portuguese test which covers five (previously seven) compulsory writing essays. Certain courses require that the candidate take an additional one or two exams involving open-questions in Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Geography, History, Biology, Philosophy or SociologySociologySociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
, the specific exam choice being determined by correlation between the subject and each major course. Engineering candidates, for example, take Mathematics and Physics tests.
The wait for the results of Part II is much longer and the results may take something between 4 and 7 weeks. A list with all the admitted candidates comes out usually in the middle of January—on the same day as the Mud-bath Party sponsored by the Central Directory of Students (Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
: Diretório Central dos Estudantes, DCE) occurs.
Laboratories
- Centro de Documentação e Pesquisa de História dos Domínios Portugueses – CEDOPE
- Centro de Capacitação e Consultoria do Departamento de Ciência e Gestão da Informação do Setor de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas – 3CGI
- Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre – C3SL
- Centro de Estudos do Mar – CEM
- Centro de Microscopia Eletrônica – CME
- Centro de Pesquisa e Processamento de Alimentos – CEPPA
- Ciências Sociais Aplicadas – CCCGI
- Centro de Estudos de Engenharia Civil Prof. inaldo Ayres Vieira – CESEC
- Grupo IMAGO de Pesquisa em Visão Computacional, Processamento de Imagens e Computação Gráfica
- Instituto de Tecnologia para o Desenvolvimento – LACTEC
- Laboratório de Análises Clínicas veterinárias
- Laboratório de Acústica e conforto Ambiental
- Laboratório de Eletroquímica de Superfícies e Corrosão – LESC
- Laboratório de Estudos em Monitoramento e Modelagem Ambiental – LEMMA
- Laboratório de Inventário Florestal
- Laboratório de Minerais e Rochas – LAMIR
- Laboratório de Nutrição Animal do Departamento de Zootecnia
- Laboratório de Paisagismo
- Laboratório de Pesquisas Hidrogeológicas – LPH
- Laboratório de Proteção Florestal
- Laboratório de Matriz Extracelular e Biotecnologia de Venenos
- Laboratório de Neurobiologia
- Laboratório de Citogenética Humana
- Laboratório de Metabolismo Celular
- Laboratório de Imunogenética e Histocompatibilidade
- Laboratório de Óptica de Raios-X e Instrumentação – LORXI
- Laboratório de Superfícies e Interfaces – LSI
- Laboratório de Genética de Microorganismos – LabGeM
- Laboratório de Bioquimíca e Biofísica de Macromoléculas
And many more
Libraries
The university has over 400,000 books and thesis as well as thousand of periodicals that, for now, can't be accessed through its intranet, but will be in the future.Juvevê
Centro
Centro Politécnico
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Jardim Botânico
Matinhos
Paranaguá
Pontal do Paraná
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Campi Location
in Curitiba:- Campus Juvevê
- Campus Batel
- Campus Centro
- Campus Reitoria
- Campus Ciências Agrárias/Cabral
- Campus III/Centro Politécnico
- Campus III/Escola Técnica
- Campus III/Jardim Botânico
other cities:
- Campus Palotina – PalotinaPalotinaPalotina is a city and municipality in western Paraná state, located around 60 kilometers from the border with Paraguay. The population is 28,966 inhabitants, though the 2010 estimate indicates a population of around 33 thousand. Owing to highly fertile land, the city is a flourishing agricultural...
- Campus Estudos do Mar – Pontal do ParanáPontal do ParanáPontal do Paraná is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
- Campus Litoral – MatinhosMatinhosMatinhos is a town in Brazil that arose in 1920s. Considered the "Girlfriend of Paraná", by the fact that the date of its emancipation was June 12 .-History:...
Publications
- Archives of Veterinary Science
- Acta Biologica Paranaense
- Boletim Paranaense de Geociências
- Educar em Revista
- Jornal de Ciências do Exercício e do Esporte
- Jornal do Hospital das Clínicas
- Revista de Ciências Humanas
- Revista de Sociologia e Política
- Revista do Departamento e Programa de Pós-Graduação
- Revista Eletrônica de Musicologia
- Revista Floresta
- Revista Interação
- Revista Letras
- Scientia Agraria
- Revista de Engenharia Térmica
Notable alumni
- Newton da CostaNewton da CostaNewton Carneiro Affonso da Costa is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He studied engineering and mathematics at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba and the title of his 1961 Ph.D...
- Tirone David
- Jaime LernerJaime LernerJaime Lerner was governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times...
- Wilson MartinsWilson MartinsWilson Martins was a Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian who was a regular contributor for the Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S.Paulo....
- Blairo MaggiBlairo MaggiBlairo Maggi is a soy plantation farmer and former governor of the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil.Maggi also owns the André Maggi Group, a large company that harvests, processes, and exports soybeans...
- Jorge Samek
- Gabriel Bonato Riffel
- Alexandre Roginski dos Santos
- Arthur Alberto dos Santos
- Luiz Alceu Jamur Dubas
- Luiz Felipe Hofstaetter da Silva
- Paul André Alain Milcent
- Vinícius Ricieri Ferraz
- Marcelo Eduardo Barril Otero
- Thiago Fagundes Chichetti
See also
- Brazil University Rankings
- Hospital de Clínicas da UFPR
- Universities and Higher Education in BrazilUniversities and higher education in BrazilBrazil adopts a mixed system of public and private funded universities. Usually public funded universities offer the best quality education, and they are 100% financed by the government...