University of Ulm
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| Motto: | Sciendo - Docendo - Curando |
| Established: | 1967 |
| Type: | Public |
| President: | Karl Joachim Ebeling |
| Students: | 7,200 |
| Location: | Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Website: | [1] University of Ulm |
The University of Ulm (German: Universität Ulm) is a public university in the city of Ulm, in the South German state of Baden-Württemberg. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine and the engineering sciences, mathematics/ economics and computer science. With over 7,000 students, it is one of the smaller universities in Germany, however, it frequently ranks one of the top schools in natural sciences in domestic rankings.
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[edit] Concept and history
The university is the youngest university in the state of Baden-Württemberg, which boasts several old, renowned universities in Heidelberg (founded in 1386), Freiburg (1457) and Tübingen (1477). The idea was to create a university with a new approach in both research and teaching. An important concept since the foundation of the university has always been to promote interdisciplinarity. In the decades following the foundation, the spectrum of subjects has steadily been extended, and the university has grown significantly.
An important step in combining the strength of industrial and academic research was the realization of the idea of a "science city" around the main university campus. Research centers of companies like DaimlerChrysler, Nokia, and Siemens have been established at the site, in addition to institutes of the university focusing on applied research. The university features four "Special Areas of Research" (German: Sonderforschungsbereiche), which are established on a competitive basis by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). This Germany-wide average.
In 2003, the University of Ulm was involved in founding a private university in Egypt, the German University in Cairo.
[edit] Name of the university
As Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in 1879, it was suggested repeatedly that the university be named after him. In November 2006, the senate of the university finally decided to rename the university. This decision was however not confirmed by the department of science, research and culture of the state of Baden-Württemberg, the university will not be called Albert Einstein University Ulm (Germ.: Albert-Einstein-Universität Ulm) as of July 2007 but simply Ulm University. However, the street on which the main buildings of the University of Ulm are located - and thus, the physical address of the university - is called Albert-Einstein-Allee in honor of the great physicist.
[edit] Structure
The university is composed of four divisions, which in German universities traditionally are called faculties, and the corresponding institutes:
- Medical Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
- Faculty of Natural Science
- Institute of General Zoology and Endocrinology
- Institute of Experimental Ecology
- Institute of Neurobiology
- Institute of Molecular Botany
- Faculty of Mathematics and Economics
Associated with the Medical Faculty is a comprehensive University Hospital with all medical specialties.
[edit] University Library
The Library of the University of Ulm is located in a new building on the main campus and features close to 1 million volumes.
[edit] External links
- Homepage of the University of Ulm (in German)
- Partnership with the German University in Cairo (in English)
