University of Parma

University of Parma

Università degli Studi di Parma
150px Logo of the University of Parma
Latin: Alma Universitas Studiorum Parmensis
Type	Public
Established	eleventh century
Rector	Prof. Loris Borghi
Students	30000
Location	Parma , Italy
Sports teams	CUS Parma (http://www.cusparma.it)
Affiliations	www.unipr.it

The University of Parma (Italian: Università degli Studi di Parmacode: it is deprecated , UNIPR) is one of the oldest universities in the world, founded in the 12th century. It is organised in eighteen departments. As of November 2013 the University of Parma has about 32,000 students.

History

The school was founded in 1117 A.D as a center for study of the general liberal arts curriculum of the medieval period. The faculties of law and medicine were added in the 13th century. Pope John XXII closed the school in 1322, and during the next hundred years it was often reopened and closed. It became a university in 1502, and after 1545 under the patronage of the ducal House of Farnese. The Farnese Duke Ranuccio I founded and endowed the university College of Nobles with a distinguished faculty, but between 1731 and 1748 the university was again neglected. Things improved in 1762 under Duke Ferdinand I de Bourbon, when he founded a great state university at Parma and endowed it with possessions confiscated from the Jesuits. Future Jesuit Father General Luigi Fortis was invited to head the College of Nobles. New studies were added. The university experienced a rapid growth phase and established an astronomical observatory, a botanical garden and laboratories of anatomy, chemistry and experimental physics. In 1811 the French government deemed the university an Academy of the Empire, but it lost this status a mere three years later. The university was closed to foreign students in 1831 and fell into decay. It was revived in 1854 by the duchess regent and is now a state administration with administrative autonomy.

Notable students, alumni and faculty

• Francesco Accarigi (c. 1557—1622), professor of civil law
• Flavio Delbono (born 1959), economist and politician
• Macedonio Melloni (c. 1798—1854), physicist
• Bernardino Ramazzini (c. 1633—1724), professor of medicine and father of Occupational Medicine
• Cesare Beccaria (c. 1738—1794), economist and criminologist

Organization

Department of Mathematics at the University of Parma

The university is now divided into 18 departments.

• Department of Arts and Literature, History and Social Studies
• Department of Biomedical, Biotechnological and translational Sciences
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Civil, Environmental, Land Management, Engineering and Architecture - DICATEA
• Department of Classics, Modern Languages, Education, Philosophy (A.L.E.F.)
• Department of Clinical and experimental Medicine
• Department of Economics
• Department of Food Science
• Department of Industrial Engineering
• Department of Information Engineering
• Department of Law
• Department of Life sciences
• Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
• Department of Neuroscience
• Department of Pharmacy
• Department of Physics and earth sciences “Macedonio Melloni”
• Department of Surgery

The university was formerly divided into 12 faculties:

• Faculty of Agriculture
• Faculty of Architecture
• Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
• Faculty of Economics
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Science.
• Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Political Sciences
• Faculty of Psychology
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

See also

• European College of Parma
• List of Italian universities
• List of medieval universities
• ICoN Interuniversity Consortium for Italian Studies
• Library assessment

External links

• University of Parma Website (Italian) (English)
• Itinerari medievali: risorse per lo studio del Medioevo (Italian)