University of Cádiz

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

University of Cádiz
Universidad de Cádiz

Motto	Non Plus Ultra (Latin)
Motto in English	No Further Beyond
Established	1979^[1]^[2]
Type	Public
Rector	Eduardo González Mazo
Students	20.798^[3]
Location	Cadiz, Spain
Campus	Cádiz Puerto Real Algeciras Jerez de la Frontera
Telephone	(+34) 956 01 53 50
Website	www.uca.es

The University of Cádiz (in Spanish: Universidad de Cádiz), commonly referred to as UCA, is a public university located in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, noted for its medicine and marine sciences curricula. It was founded in 1979,^[1]^[2] and has the Latin motto Non Plus Ultra ("No Further Beyond"). Its headquarters are located in Cádiz, where the Rectorate is. During the 2007/2008 academic year, there were 17,280 students,^[3] 1698 lecturers, and 680 administration and services workers associated with the university.

History

Casa de los 5 Gremios, today the University Main Building

The University's origins lie in the 15th century with the "Colegio de Pilotos de los Mares de Levante y Poniente".

Its Faculty of Medicine traces its founding to the Royal Naval College of Surgery in 1748, which was the first in Europe to combine medicine and surgery in a single school.

The modern University of Cádiz was founded on October 30, 1979, with an inaugural session "Cajal, análisis literario de un carácter" about Ramón y Cajal^[4] and the first rector election was conducted in 1984.

In March 1984, the Gold Medal was awarded to Juan Carlos I of Spain. In May 1985, Rafael Alberti and Antonio Domínguez Ortiz were invested Doctor Honoris Causa. In this year, the rectorate is relocated to the current building, Casa de los Cinco Gremios. University bylaws and statutes were approved in February 1986.

In 1992, Centro Andaluz Superior de Estudios Marinos was inaugurated in Campus of Puerto Real.

Since 2003, UCA has promoted new technologies for learning-related purposes, first with WebCT virtual campus and then Moodle (free software).

In 2009, the recently created "General Inspection of Exceptional Services" begun to make decisions which were severely reprobed by some intellectual authors, for it allows authorities the use of official means in order to arbitrarily punish teaching staff.

Campuses

In addition to the principal campus in Cádiz, the university has three satellite campuses:

Bahía de Algeciras Campus
Jerez de la Frontera Campus
Campus of Puerto Real: near to Bahía de Cádiz Natural Park. The main building is the Centro Andaluz Superior de Estudios Marinos; CASEM which offers studies in Marine Environment and Marine Resources, Seafaring, Marine Engineering, Naval Radioelectronics and Naval Engineering.

CASEM, Campus of Puerto Real
School of Engenieering, Cádiz Campus
Jerez Campus
Algeciras Campus

Schools within the university

Some schools within the university are:

University School of Modern Languages ("")
University School of Health ("Salus Infirmorum") at Cádiz
University School of Engineering at Cádiz
University School of Labor Relations at Jerez de la Frontera
University School of Legal and Economic Studies ("Tomás y Valiente") at Algeciras
University Center for Advanced Studies at Algeciras
University School of Labor Relations at Algeciras
University School of Pedagogy ("Virgen de Europa") at La Línea de la Concepción

University rectors

Diego Sales Márquez, rector from 2003 to 2011

University rectors in UCA history:

October, 1979 – February, 1984: Felipe Garrido
February, 1984 – June, 1986: Mariano Peñalver Simó
September, 1986 – January, 1995: José Luis Romero Palanco. Reelected in November, 1990.
January, 1995 – April, 2003: Guillermo Martínez Massanet. Reelected in February, 1999.
May, 2003 – July, 2011: Diego Sales Márquez. Reelected in May, 2007.
July, 2011 – Present: Eduardo González Mazo.

Free software and supercomputing

One of the first free software offices in Spain was founded at this university, Libre Software and Open Knowledge Office (OSLUCA).^[5]^[6] This office has set up some free software conferences (2004: I, 2005: II, 2006: III y 2009: IV), and the FLOSS International Conference.

UCA provides a supercomputer for research purposes since 2007. It is a cluster of 80 computers, each with 4 processing cores (finally 320 cores) and 640 GB RAM, designed for a peak performance of 3.8 TFLOPS.^[7] The supercomputer uses SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 as operating system.^[8]

Notable alumni

Some notable alumni from UCA:^[9]

Francisco de Paula Medina Gutiérrez: physician and lecturer
Pascual Hontañón Cabezas: physician
Federico Rubio y Gali: surgeon
Benito Alcina y Rancés: hygienist
Antonio Machado y Núñez: rector of University of Sevilla and mayor of Sevilla
Cayetano del Toro y Quartiellers: politician
Gabriel Matute y Valls
Guillermina Rojas y Orgis

Honoris Causa

Honorary doctoral degrees from University of Cádiz:^[10]

William W.L. Glenn (1981)
Dietrich E. Wilhelm Trincker (1982)
Andrés Segovia Torres (1982)
Rafael Alberti Merello (1985)
Antonio Domínguez Ortiz (1985)
Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (1987)
José Ignacio Barraquer Moner (1987)
Fernando Quiñones Chozas (1998)
Manuel Clavero Arévalo (2000)
Andrés Fernández Díaz (2004)

José Manuel Caballero Bonald (2004)
Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada (2004)
Margarita Salas Falgueras (2004)
Carlos Castilla del Pino (2004)
Salustiano del Campo^[11] (2006)
Paco de Lucía^[12] (2007)
Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia^[13] (2008)
Takashi Asano^[14] (2008)
Marcelino Camacho Abad^[15] (2008)
Nicolás Redondo Urbieta^[15] (2008)

Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias^[16]
Clara Eugenia Lida

Partnerships

The university participates in the ERASMUS programme, a partnership for student exchanges in Europe. It maintains relations with many universities on all continents.

Partnership Universities

Universities that have an exchange programme with the University of Cádiz include:

Germany

Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
University of Würzburg

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Creation of Universidad de Cádiz
↑ 2.0 2.1 History of Universidad de Cádiz
↑ 3.0 3.1 UCA, today - 2008 statistics
↑ Dossier 1979
↑ Declaración de apoyo al software libre (Boletín oficial de la UCA n.º 9). Creación de la Libre Software and Open Knowledge Office (OSLUCA)
↑ First free software office in Andalusia
↑ Supercomputing in UCA
↑ Documentación sobre supercomputación en la UCA
↑ Notable alumni
↑ Honoris Causa - Universidad de Cádiz
↑ Distinguidos birretes
↑ Paco de Lucía Doctor Honoris Causa
↑ Todo un honor para el pueblo gitano
↑ Takashi Asano será investido Doctor Honoris Causa el jueves
↑ 15.0 15.1 La UCA inviste Doctores Honoris Causa a dos líderes del mundo sindical
↑ La Universidad de Cádiz celebra la sesión ordinaria de Claustro en uca.es

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Universidad de Cádiz.

v t e Universities in Spain

Andalusia	Almería Cádiz Córdoba Granada Huelva Jaén Malaga Seville International University of Andalucía Pablo de Olavide Loyola Andalucía

Aragon	Zaragoza San Jorge

Asturias	Oviedo

Balearic Islands	University of the Balearic Islands

Basque Country	Deusto University of the Basque Country Mondragon

Canary Islands	La Laguna Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Cantabria	University of Cantabria

Castile–La Mancha	University of Castile–La Mancha

Castile and León	Burgos León Salamanca Valladolid Catholic University of Ávila IE University Isabel I de Castilla International University Miguel de Cervantes European University Pontifical University of Salamanca

Catalonia	Barcelona Girona Lleida Abat Oliba CEU Autonomous University of Barcelona International University of Catalonia Open University of Catalonia Polytechnic University of Catalonia Pompeu Fabra Ramon Llull Rovira i Virgili Vic

Extremadura	University of Extremadura

Galicia	A Coruña Santiago de Compostela Vigo

La Rioja	University of La Rioja International University of La Rioja

Madrid	Alcalá Autonomous University of Madrid Carlos III Complutense Menéndez Pelayo International University UNED Rey Juan Carlos Technical University of Madrid Antonio de Nebrija Camilo José Cela CEU San Pablo European University of Madrid Francisco de Vitoria Comillas San Dámaso

Murcia	University of Murcia San Antonio Technical University of Cartagena

Navarre	University of Navarre Universidad Pública de Navarra

Valencian Community	Alicante Jaume I Miguel Hernández Technical University of Valencia Valencia San Vicente Mártir CEU Cardenal Herrera Valencian International University

v t e Compostela Group of Universities

Belgium Catholic University of Brussels University of Liège Czech Republic Masaryk University Denmark University of Copenhagen Finland University of Oulu France University of Angers University of Bordeaux 1 Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3 Montesquieu University - Bordeaux IV University of Burgundy University of Limoges Université Montpellier III University of Nantes Paris-Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie University University of Rennes 1 François Rabelais University Institut supérieur de gestion de Paris Université Lille Nord de France University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis Germany University of Göttingen Greece National and Kapodistrian University of Athens University of Ioannina Hungary University of Pécs Italy University of Perugia University of Teramo Luxembourg Centre Robert Schuman Malta University of Malta Netherlands Nyenrode Business University Norway University of Bergen Poland Adam Mickiewicz University University of Łódź Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Portugal Universidade de Aveiro University of Évora University of Lisbon Universidade do Minho Universidade do Porto Universidade Portucalense, Infante Dom Enrique Universidade Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro Spain Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio Universidad Autónoma Barcelona Complutense University of Madrid University of A Coruña University of Alicante University of Burgos University of Cádiz University of Cantabria University of Castilla-La Mancha University of Deusto University of La Laguna Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University of León University of Lleida University of Málaga University of Murcia University of Oviedo University of Salamanca University of Santiago de Compostela University of Valladolid University of Vigo University of Zaragoza University of the Basque Country Jaume I University Technical University of Madrid Pompeu Fabra University Comillas Pontifical University Pontifical University of Salamanca Universidad Pública de Navarra Switzerland Graduate Institute of International Studies University of Fribourg University of Neuchâtel United Kingdom University of Manchester University of Westminster University of Ulster

European University Association Networks of European universities

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.