University of Zambia
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The University of Zambia is Zambia
's largest university, founded in 1966. It has a student population of about 10,000.
, about 7 km from Lusaka
City. It also has the Ridgeway Campus within Lusaka City located at the University Teaching Hospital (famously called UTH); this campus specifically houses students pursuing medical and pharmacological courses.
research center that was founded in 2001. The center was founded by Elijah Mwansa, who after graduating from the University of Zambia received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge
and was a professor at University of Heidelberg and Carnegie Mellon University
. The center has several researchers from other African countries and Europe and is the only one of its kind on the African continent. It is financed by the government of Zambia as part of the Zambia 2020 initiative and grants from foreign science foundations.
Zambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
's largest university, founded in 1966. It has a student population of about 10,000.
Academics
The University of Zambia is divided into the following faculties:- School of Agricultural Sciences http://www.unza.zm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=45
- School of EngineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
http://www.unza.zm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=46 - School of EducationEducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
http://www.unza.zm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=47 - School of HumanitiesHumanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
and Social SciencesSocial sciencesSocial science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
http://www.unza.zm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=48 - School of LawLawLaw 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...
http://www.unza.zm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=49 - School of MinesMiningMining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
http://www.unza.zm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=50 - School of MedicineMedicineMedicine 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....
http://www.unza.zm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=51 - School of Natural Sciences http://www.unza.zm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=52
- School of Veterinary MedicineVeterinary medicineVeterinary Medicine is the branch of science that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals...
http://www.unza.zm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=53
Campus
Its main campus—the Great East Road Campus—is on the Great East RoadGreat East Road (Zambia)
The Great East Road is a major road in Zambia and the only highway linking its Eastern Province with the rest of the country. It is also the major link between Zambia and Malawi and between Zambia and northern Mozambique...
, about 7 km from Lusaka
Lusaka
Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is located in the southern part of the central plateau, at an elevation of about 1,300 metres . It has a population of about 1.7 million . It is a commercial centre as well as the centre of government, and the four main highways of Zambia head...
City. It also has the Ridgeway Campus within Lusaka City located at the University Teaching Hospital (famously called UTH); this campus specifically houses students pursuing medical and pharmacological courses.
Other facilities
- The Institute for Social and Economic Research.
- The University of Zambia LibraryUniversity of Zambia LibraryThe University of Zambia Library is the academic library of the University of Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia. It consists of three different and specialised libraries: the UNZA Main Library, the School of Veterinary Medicine Library, and the School of Medicine Library....
.
Affiliations
UNZA is a member of the Association of African Universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the International Association of Universities.Notable alumni
- Levy MwanawasaLevy MwanawasaLevy Patrick Mwanawasa was the third President of Zambia. He ruled the country from January 2002 until his death in August 2008. He is credited for having initiated a campaign to rid the country of corruption...
, the late Zambian President studied Law at UNZA - Dr. Twange Kasoma, US-based media academician and professor of mass communications at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia, USA.
- Professor Muna Ndulo, dean of Law School at Cornell University
- Hakainde HichilemaHakainde HichilemaHakainde Hichilema is a Zambian politician and the President of the United Party for National Development . He replaced Anderson Mazoka after an interparty election, organized by functioning party president Sakwiba Sikota, which followed Mazoka's death in May 2006...
, leader of the opposition political party UPND studied Economics at UNZA. - Monica NashandiMonica NashandiMonica Nashandi is a Namibian former diplomat and politician. Nashandi was Namibia's ambassador to Scandinavian countries as well as the former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom...
, Namibian ambassador and 1983 graduate - Chitalu Chama, PhD Economics candidate at University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Huxwell Manwachi, former Students Union leader, 2004 graduate.
Notable research
The University of Zambia has a nanotechnologyNanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
research center that was founded in 2001. The center was founded by Elijah Mwansa, who after graduating from the University of Zambia received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
and was a professor at University of Heidelberg and Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
. The center has several researchers from other African countries and Europe and is the only one of its kind on the African continent. It is financed by the government of Zambia as part of the Zambia 2020 initiative and grants from foreign science foundations.