University of the Azores

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Universidade dos Açores is a public university and the westernmost university in Portugal. It is the Azores' only university and was founded in 1976, just after the April Revolution in 1974.

The University opened on 9th January, 1976 in the aftermath of the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 and before the institutionalization of the Autonomous Region.

The university is in Ponta Delgada and has two campuses:

the departmento de Ciências Agrárias Department of Agricultural Sciences is in Angra do Heroísmo on the island of Terceira
the departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas Department of Oceanography and Icthyology is on the island of Faial. The department includes scientists which conserves the marine life in the Azorean Archipelago.

The head of the university is Prof. Doutor Avelino de Freitas de Meneses, a specialist in the insular history of the Atlantic. Other facilities includes the Departamento de Biologia, the Department of Biology

The university buildings are in three parishes including one in Ponta Delgada and one in São Pedro northeast of Ponta Delgada. The university has a university team.