The University of Cagliari ( it, Università degli Studi di Cagliari) is a university in Cagliari,

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties.

History

The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was founded in 1606 along the lines of the old Spanish Universities of

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and Lleida, but it begins to operate only after the privilege of King Philip III in 1620. as ''Universidad y Estudio General de Caller en el Reyno de Cerdeña'' (University and Gener Study of Cagliari in the

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). It originally offered Law,

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and

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Literature, the Liberal Arts, Medicine, Surgery, Philosophy and Science. When

passed under the House of Savoy government in the 18th century, the statute of the University was significantly modified, with the expansion of the science faculties and institutes. Designed by the Piedmontese engineer Saverio Belgrano di Famolasco, the new university building was completed at the end of the 18th century. Today it hosts the Rectorate and the administrative offices. The 19th and 20th centuries saw more and more emphasis placed on research activities, with the achievement of important, internationally acclaimed results, especially in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, biology and archaeology. In the 20th century, problems arising from severe damage to University buildings during the Second World War had to be dealt with, and reconstruction is only just now approaching its final phase. At the end of the 1960s, ambitious plans were advanced for Anglo-Saxon types of residential university structures in a single body. OldUniversityLibraryCagliari

Today, the great dream has come true: a new University campus on the outskirts of town. The new campus is situated in Monserrato, on an area of 73 hectares. It hosts the science faculties, many departments with their respective faculties, and one of the University general hospitals, adequately integrated with other medical institutions.

Organization

There are the 11 faculties in which the university is divided into: * Faculty of Economical, Giuridical and Political Sciences * Faculty of Humanistic Studies * Faculty of Engineering and Architecture * Faculty of Medicine and Surgery * Faculty of

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

and Pharmacy * Faculty of Sciences The University has about 36,000 enrolled students, a teaching staff of over 1,200 and a technical-administrative staff of about 1,300 people. University students of Cagliari manage a webradio UnicaRadio.it. At the moment the University of Cagliari is one of the largest enterprises in the Region of

, thanks to its international policy, studies and its numerous agreements with prestigious universities in Europe and around the world.

Corporate placement and campus drive

University provides vide network of corporate placement opportunities for its students and recently collaborated internationally with TreeAndHumanKnot a giving first ideology of RisingIndia ThinkTank for international opportunity for its students. This became first major collaboration for the University in India

Radio

The Unica Radio project was born within the University on 8 October 2007, that is, a university radio run by students belonging to the RadUni association also transmits in DAB+

Coat of arms

The coats of arms of this University are, in the middle, the image of the Very Saint Conception, and at the foot a tiara of

Pontiff A pontiff (from Latin ''pontifex'') was, in Roman antiquity, a member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs."Pontifex". "Oxford English Dictionary", March 2007 The term "pontiff" was la ...

with letter H that means the name of Saint Hylarius Pope, and below, two

Prelate A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'pre ...

Mitre The mitre (Commonwealth English) (; Greek: μίτρα, "headband" or "turban") or miter (American English; see spelling differences), is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial headdress of bishops and certain abbots in ...

s, in the one on the right hand, a letter L which means the name of Saint Lucifer with Primatial Cross, and in the other hand, the letter E which means the name of Saint Eusebius with his

pastor A pastor (abbreviated as "Pr" or "Ptr" , or "Ps" ) is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutheranism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and ...

al insignia, and then at the right side of the Virgin, the coats of arms of this Kingdom (of Sardinia), and at left side, the one of this city of Cagliari''.

Notable faculty

Among its notable faculty were: *

Corrado Gini Corrado Gini (23 May 1884 – 13 March 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was a proponent of organicism and applied it to nati ...

, statistician, developer of the Gini Coefficient * Nicola Abbagnano, philosopher * Giulio Angioni, writer and anthropologist *

Enrico Bombieri Enrico Bombieri (born 26 November 1940, Milan) is an Italian mathematician, known for his work in analytic number theory, Diophantine geometry, complex analysis, and group theory. Bombieri is currently Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathem ...

, mathematician *

Giuseppe Brotzu Giuseppe Brotzu (Cagliari, 24 January 1895 – Cagliari, 8 April 1976) was an Italian pharmacologist and politician. Biography Giuseppe Brotzu was born in Ghilarza, a town of the Province of Oristano, Sardinia. He graduated from the Universit ...

, pharmacologist *

Aldo Capitini Aldo Capitini (23 December 1899 – 19 October 1968) was an Italian philosopher, poet, political activist, anti-Fascist and educator. He was one of the first Italians to take up and develop Mahatma Gandhi's theories of nonviolence and was kno ...

, philosopher and politician * Ernesto de Martino, anthropologist * Oliviero Diliberto, politician and jurist *

Ludovico Geymonat Ludovico Geymonat (May 11, 1908 – November 29, 1991) was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and historian of science. As a philosopher, he mainly dealt with philosophy of science, epistemology and Marxist philosophy, in which he gave an orig ...

, philosopher * Pietro Ichino, politician and jurist * , philosopher and historian *

Beppo Levi Beppo Levi (14 May 1875 – 28 August 1961) was an Italian mathematician. He published high-level academic articles and books, not only on mathematics, but also on physics, history, philosophy, and pedagogy. Levi was a member of the Bologna Aca ...

, mathematician * Doro Levi, archaeologist *

Giovanni Lilliu Giovanni Lilliu (born in Barumini, Italy on 13 March 1914 – died in Cagliari, 19 February 2012), was a renowned archeologist, academician, publicist and politician and public figure and an expert of the Nuragic civilization. Largely due to his sci ...

, archaeologist * Eva Mameli, botanist *

Antonio Pacinotti Antonio Pacinotti (17 June 1841 – 24 March 1912) was an Italian physicist, who was Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa. Biography Pacinotti was born in Pisa, where he also died. He was the son of Luigi Pacinotti and Caterina ...

, physicist * , philosopher *

Guido Tabellini Guido Enrico Tabellini (born January 26, 1956) is an Italian economist, rector of Bocconi University from November 2008 until July 2012. Tabellini received his Laurea in 1980 from the University of Turin, and his Ph.D. in 1984 from UCLA. He firs ...

, economist

Points of interest

* Orto Botanico dell'Università di Cagliari, the university's

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

References

External links

Official Website
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