Universidade Estadual de Campinas

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Main entrance of the Campinas campus. Photo: Renato M.E. Sabbatini
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Main entrance of the Campinas campus. Photo: Renato M.E. Sabbatini
Row of yellow tabebuia trees in one of Unicamp's avenues
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Row of yellow tabebuia trees in one of Unicamp's avenues

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (State University of Campinas), shortly Unicamp, is one of the public universities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Its main campus is located in the Barão Geraldo district, 6 miles (10km) far from Campinas downtown, with additional campuses in Limeira and Piracicaba.

Created in 1962 and physically installed in 1966, Unicamp's original goal was to promote science education in the industrial pole of São Paulo's interior region. As of 2004, the university had about 14,000 undergraduate and 10,000 graduate students, as well as 1,800 faculty.

Considered one of the best and most productive research (responsible for around 15% of all Brazilian research) and educational institutions in Latin America, Unicamp has courses, colleges and institutes of Medicine, Nursing, Speech therapy, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Biology, Physical Education, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics (Pure, Applied and Computational), Statistics, Computer Sciences, Engineering (Control and Automation, Chemical, Food, Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, Agricultural and Civil), Architecture, Geography, Geology, Economics, Arts, Music, Social Communication, Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, History and Social Sciences. It also runs two professional vocational high schools, COTUCA (in Campinas) and COTIL (in Limeira).

Unicamp's teaching hospital, Hospital das Clínicas, is a major provider of public health care for the state. Unicamp also has a semi-independent structure of more than 20 interdisciplinary centers, labs and groups.

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[edit] Colleges and schools

  • Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (Medical Sciences)
  • Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba (Dentistry)
  • Faculdade de Educação (Education)
  • Faculdade de Educação Física (Physical Education)
  • Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e da Computação (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • Faculdade de Engenharia Química (Chemical Engineering)
  • Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos (Food Engineering)
  • Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica (Mechanical and Control and Automation Engineering)
  • Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola (Agricultural Engineering)
  • Faculdade de Engenharia Civil (Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism)
  • Instituto de Química (Chemistry)
  • Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (Physics)
  • Instituto de Biologia (Biology)
  • Instituto de Computação (Computer Science and Computer Engineering)
  • Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing)
  • Instituto de Economia (Economy)
  • Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (Philosophy and Human Sciences)
  • Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (Languages)
  • Instituto de Artes (Arts)
  • Instituto de Geociências (Earth Sciences) IGe Home page
  • Centro Superior de Educação Tecnológica de Limeira (Technical Education)

Links to specific colleges and schools can be found here (in Portuguese).

[edit] Interdisciplinary Activities

UNICAMP became extremely well-known and respected in the higher education and research community for its pioneering work regarding policies for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work. Beginning 1982, the University established a system of interdisciplinary groups, nuclei and centers.

[edit] Libraries

The SBU ("Sistema de Bibliotecas da UNICAMP" or UNICAMP Libraries Systems) comprise a Central Library and more than 20 thematic libraries located in its colleges and institutes. It is considered one of the best organized and most complete of university libraries in Latin America. A number of historical libraries and historical and media archives, such as the Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth, have also been established. The library system is fully automated and its collections may be freely accessed and searched on the Internet.

[edit] Admission

The admission for undergraduate courses is based on an annual open concourse called vestibular. The only request to be filled is to have a complete high school course. Vestibular comprises two stages: the first one is usually accomplished in November, with a writing and a 12-question discursive test on Geography, Mathematics, Physics, History, Biology and Chemistry. Those who get the minimum scores accomplish the second stage in January, taking tests with 12 questions of each subject, two subjects a day: Portuguese (including Brazilian and Portuguese Literature) and Biology; Chemistry and History; Physics and Geography; Mathematics and English. Until 2005, the candidate had option to take a French test instead of English, but it is no longer an option. Classes usually start in March.

For graduate programs, the university applies tests, interviews and analysis of curricula. Some graduate programs also requires a specific exam on the area (such like ANPEC (in Portuguese), for Economics, and PosComp (in Portuguese), for Computing).

[edit] Administration

As most Brazilian universities, Unicamp's administration is centralized on the figure of a rector. Unicamp rectors have a mandate of 4 years, and are chosen by the state governor from a list of 3 candidates. The candidate list is formed by the 3 most voted by the university community (staff, faculty and students), and the governor has always chosen the most voted candidate as rector. Zeferino Vaz, who drove the installation and establishment of the university, was the first rector and held the position for 12 years.

[edit] List of Unicamp Rectors

Carlos Henrique Brito Cruz left the office early in 2005 to become the scientific director of the research funding agency FAPESP, and elections were anticipated to choose the new rector.

[edit] Unicamp Honoris Causa Doctors

As of August, 2005 the University Council had granted 24 honoris causa doctorate in recognition of valuable contribution made to society by people through their scientific or humanitarian work. This is the full list of the granted people (the date in parentheses designates when the title was delivered).

The honoris causa doctorate of Luiz Heitor Correa de Azevedo has been approved on 18 July 1989 but as of August, 2005 had not been delivered.

[edit] Some notable alumni and faculty

Along its history, many Unicamp students and faculty became notable in Science, Politics and Arts. This is a partial list of notable Unicamp people.


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