The Federal University of Paraná ( pt, Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR) is a
public university
A public university or public college is a university or college that is in state ownership, owned by the state or receives significant government spending, public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private unive ...
headquartered in
Curitiba
Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná in Brazil. The city's population was 1,948,626 , making it the eighth most populous city in Brazil and the largest in Brazil's South Region. The Curitiba Metropolitan area ...
, Paraná, Brazil.
UFPR is considered to be one of the oldest universities in Brazil.
UFPR ranks as 37th best university in Latin-America and it is among the 651-700 best universities in the world, according to
QS World University Rankings
''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...
. It is placed as the eighth best university in Brazil in the latest "
Ranking Universitário Folha (RUF)", published by the nation's largest newspaper.
Nowadays, its facilities are spread over the capital
Curitiba
Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná in Brazil. The city's population was 1,948,626 , making it the eighth most populous city in Brazil and the largest in Brazil's South Region. The Curitiba Metropolitan area ...
and other cities of the State of
Paraná. It offers 124 undergraduate degree courses, 44 doctorate, 66 masters and 5 professional masters programs,
apart from a number of ''lato sensu'' programs (mostly paid one-year specializations) - see
Higher-ed degrees in Brazil.
History
In 1892, José Francisco da Rocha Pombo, an intellectual of the state of Paraná would have initiated the construction of the university, but his project was frustrated by the Federalist Movement.
Twenty years later, Paraná had a reduced number of intellectuals (nine doctors and four engineers), but it was in true development because of the production of the
yerba mate
Yerba mate or yerba-maté (''Ilex paraguariensis''; from Spanish ; pt, erva-mate, or ; gn, ka'a, ) is a plant species of the holly genus '' Ilex'' native to South America. It was named by the French botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire. The lea ...
.
Moreover, at this time, the
Contestado War
The Contestado War ( pt, Guerra do Contestado), broadly speaking, was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916 ...
appeared as an incentive to the efforts of political leaderships concerning the creation of a university. In this context,
Victor Ferreira do Amaral, deputy and director of public instruction of Paraná, started the effective creation of the university.
On December 19, 1912, the university was established and, in 1913, it has initiated its activities as a private institution in an old building situated on Comendador Araújo street. The first courses offered were
Juridical and Social Sciences, Engineering,
Medicine and Surgery, Commerce,
Dentistry,
Pharmacy and Obstetrics. After the establishment of the university, Victor Ferreira do Amaral, who was also its first president, initiated the construction of a central building in a land donated by the municipal government.
Due to the economic recession caused by the World War I, difficulties started to appear. In 1920, a federal law determined the closing of all universities. In a contradictory measure, the federal government created the ''Universidade do Rio de Janeiro'', currently ''
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro or University of Brazil (UFRJ; pt, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro or ') is a public research university located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest federal university in the ...
'' (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). The alternative to this law was to split the UFPR in several colleges.
Throughout several years, efforts in order to restore the university took place. Only in the beginning of the fifties the colleges were reunited once again in the University of Paraná, its federalization happening just after that, in 1951, when the university became a public and free-of-charge institution.
After its federalization, a process of expansion began with the construction of the Clinic's Hospital (
Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
: ''Hospital de ClÃnicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná'') in 1953, the ''Reitoria'' Campus in 1958 and the Polytechnic Center in 1961. The Polytechnic Center campus occupies .
Historical Building
The construction placed in the Santos Andrade Square began to be built in 1913, being a project of the military engineer Baeta de Faria. Its inauguration occurred in 1915.
Seven years later, in 1923, two lateral parts were added, according to the original project. The building of the right sector was ended in 1925 and was designated to the Engineering graduation course. In the following year, the left sector had been finalized and it passed to serve the Dentistry course. Other additions were made to the right side of the building and it has received in its totality new paint in 1940. The building was extended towards XV de Novembro Street and, in 1952, new works in the right section led to the demolition of part of the lateral façade built in 1940.
In 1954, the building occupied a whole block between the Santos Andrade Square, XV de Novembro Street, Presidente Faria Street and Alfredo Bufren Lane. The last modifications were made: a new façade with several columns and a wide set of staircases were projected and the covered dome was eliminated. The inauguration of the neoclassical, 17,000 square meter building, took place in 1955.
In the year on 1999, the mayor of Curitiba signed a law that made this building the official symbol of the city.
Academics
Undergraduate programs
Master Programs
* Physical Education
* Pharmacology
* Biochemistry
* Genetics
* Zoology
* Botany
* Child and Teenager Health
* Pharmaceutical Sciences
* Surgery
* Internal Medicine and Health Sciences
* Nursery
* Geodesic Sciences
* Geology
* Geography
* Coastal and Oceanic Systems
* Environmental Development
* Applied Mathematics
* Information Systems
* Chemistry
* Physics
* Education
* Anthropology
* Sociology
* History
* Philosophy
* Psychology
* Languages and Literature
* Design
* Music
* Economical Development
* Business Administration
* Accounting and Finance
* Law
* Numerical Methods for Engineering
* Water Resources and Environmental Engineering
* Biotechnological Process
* Food Engineering
* Inter-disciplinary Themes on Engineering
* Electrical Engineering
* Civil Engineering
* Mechanical Engineering
* Chemical Engineering
* Political Sciences
* Bioinformatics
Teaching of Environmental Science
Doctoral programs
Technical High School
Besides the above-mentioned courses, it offers high school education through its Technical High School
Admissions
Students are admitted by an entrance exam, known as the
vestibular
The Vestibular (from pt, vestÃbulo, "entrance hall") is a competitive examination and is the primary and widespread entrance system used by Brazilian universities to select the students admitted.
The Vestibular usually takes place from Nove ...
, which consists of two parts:
*Part I is composed of 80 multiple-choice questions including nine questions of each of the following subjects: Portuguese, Literature, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Geography, History and Biology, plus eight questions of a foreign language which can be chosen from English, French, Spanish, German or Italian.
Over 50,000 people apply every year and sit for exactly the same exam. After two weeks time or so, 15,000 are called to take the Part II (or Phase II) written exams.
*Part II is composed of a Portuguese test which covers five (previously seven) compulsory writing essays. Certain courses require that the candidate take an additional one or two exams involving open-questions in Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Geography, History, Biology, Philosophy or
Sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...
, the specific exam choice being determined by correlation between the subject and each major course. Engineering candidates, for example, take Mathematics and Physics tests.
The wait for the results of Part II is much longer and the results may take something between 4 and 7 weeks. A list with all the admitted candidates comes out usually in the middle of January—on the same day as the ''Mud-bath Party'' sponsored by the Central Directory of Students (
Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
: Diretório Central dos Estudantes, DCE) occurs.
Laboratories
* Centro de Documentação e Pesquisa de História dos DomÃnios Portugueses â€
CEDOPE* Centro de Capacitação e Consultoria do Departamento de Ciência e Gestão da Informação do Setor de Ciências Sociais Applicadas – 3CGI
* Centro de Ciência de Segurança Computacional
CCSC* Centro de Computação CientÃfica e Software Livre â€
C3SL*
Centro de Estudos do Mar - CEM
* Centro de Microscopia Eletrônica – CME
* Centro de Pesquisa e Processamento de Alimentos – CEPPA
* Ciências Sociais Applicadas – CCCGI
* Centro de Estudos de Engenharia Civil Prof. inaldo Ayres Vieira â€
CESEC* Grupo IMAGO de Pesquisa em Visão Computacional, Processamento de Imagens e Computação Gráfica
* Instituto de Tecnologia para o Desenvolvimento – LACTEC
* Laboratório de Análises ClÃnicas veterinárias
* Laboratório de Acústica e conforto Ambiental
* Laboratório de EletroquÃmica de SuperfÃcies e Corrosão – LESC
* Laboratório de Estudos em Monitoramento e Modelagem Ambiental – LEMMA
* Laboratório de Ictiologia Estuarina
Ictiologia UFPR* Laboratório de Inventário Florestal
* Laboratório de Minerais e Rochas â€
LAMIR* Laboratório de Nutrição Animal do Departamento de Zootecnia
* Laboratório de Paisagismo
* Laboratório de Parasitologia ClÃnica Veterinária - LPCV
* Laboratório de Pesquisas Hidrogeológicas â€
LPH* Laboratório de Proteção Florestal
* Laboratório de Matriz Extracelular e Biotecnologia de Venenos
* Laboratório de Neurobiologia
* Laboratório de Citogenética Humana
* Laboratório de Genética Molecular Humana – LGMH
* Laboratório de Metabolismo Celular
* Laboratório de Imunogenética e Histocompatibilidade
* Laboratório de Óptica de Raios-X e Instrumentação â€
LORXI* Laboratório de SuperfÃcies e Interfaces – LSI
* Laboratório de Genética de Microorganismos – LabGeM
* Laboratório de BioquimÃca e BiofÃsica de Macromoléculas
* Laboratório de Anestesia e Analgesia Veterinária - LABEST
* Núcleo de Fixação de Nitrogênio - NFIX
* Núcleo de Redes sem Fio e Redes Avançadas
NR2
And many more
Libraries
The university has over 400,000 books and theses as well as thousand of periodicals that, for now, can't be accessed through its intranet, but will be in the future.
Campi
;In Curitiba:
* Campus Juvevê
* Campus Batel
* Campus Centro
* Campus Reitoria
* Campus Ciências Agrárias/Cabral
* Campus III/Centro Politécnico
* Campus III/Escola Técnica
* Campus III/Jardim Botânico
;Other cities:
* Campus Palotina –
Palotina
Palotina is a Brazilian municipality in western Paraná state, located around 60 kilometers from the border with Paraguay.Foweraker, p. 120.
Location
The population is 32,121 inhabitants, as of the 2020 estimate. Owing to highly fertile land ...
* Campus Estudos do Mar –
Pontal do Paraná
* Campus Litoral –
Matinhos
* Campus Jandaia do Sul –
Jandaia do Sul
Jandaia do Sul is a municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ...
Publications
* Archives of Veterinary Science
* Acta Biologica Paranaense
* Boletim Paranaense de Geociências
* Educar em Revista
* Jornal de Ciências do ExercÃcio e do Esporte
* Jornal do Hospital das ClÃnicas
* Revista de Ciências Humanas
* Revista de Sociologia e PolÃtica
* Revista do Departamento e Programa de Pós-Graduação
* Revista Eletrônica de Musicologia
* Revista Floresta
* Revista Interação
* Revista Letras
* Scientia Agraria
* Revista de Engenharia Térmica
Notable alumni
*
Blairo Maggi — agrobusiness entrepreneur
*
Clèmerson Merlin Clève
Clèmerson Merlin Clève (born November 21, 1958) is a Brazilian jurist, Law school professor, and lawyer.
One of the most respected constitutionalists in Brazil, he is a full professor of constitutional law at the Federal University of Paraná, ...
— jurist, lawyer, and entrepreneur
*
Dalton Trevisan
Dalton Jérson Trevisan (born 14 June 1925) is a Brazilian author of short stories. He has been described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas." Trevisan won the 2012 Prémio Camões, the leading Portu ...
— writer,
Camões Prize
The Camões Prize (Portuguese, ''Prémio Camões'', ), named after LuÃs de Camões, is the most important prize for literature in the Portuguese language. It is awarded annually by the Portuguese ''Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bi ...
winner
*
Daniel Przybysz — radiation oncologist
*
Edson Fachin — jurist, lawyer
*
Edith Fanta — Antarctic researcher
*
Enedina Alves Marques — civil engineer, first Black woman to receive an engineering degree in Brazil
*
Henry Bugalho — philosopher and writer
*
Jaime Lerner
Jaime Lerner (17 December 1937 – 27 May 2021) was a Brazilian politician. He was the governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, th ...
— governor of Paraná (1995-2002)
*
Jorge Reis-Filho — scientist
*
Laurentino Gomes
Laurentino Gomes (born 1956 in Maringá, Paraná) is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He is best known as the author of the trilogy of books that cover the history of Brazil and Portugal during the 19th century. He has already released two ...
— writer and journalist,
Jabuti Prize
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winner
*
Marçal Justen Filho
Marçal Justen Filho (1955) is a Brazilian attorney and Law professor. He was tenured professor at Federal University of Paraná Law School (UFPR) from 1978 to 2006.
Marçal Justen Filho obtained his law degree from Federal University of Paraná ...
— jurist, lawyer
*
Newton da Costa
Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa (born 16 September 1929 in Curitiba, Brazil) is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He studied engineering and mathematics at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba and the title of his ...
— logician and mathematician
*
Roberto Requião — governor of Paraná (2003-2010) and senator since 2011
*
Tirone E. David — medical doctor
*
Wilson Martins
Wilson Nunes Martins (born May 17, 1953, in Santa Cruz do PiauÃ, PiauÃ) is a Brazilian politician and member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). He served as Governor of PiauÃ
Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the ...
— politician (Governor of Piauà from April 1, 2010, to April 2, 2014.)
File:Laurentinogomes tvbrasil.jpg, Laurentino Gomes, writer
File:Jaime Lerner May 2004.jpg, Jaime Lerner, former governor of Paraná
File:Roberto Requiao September 2005.jpg, Roberto Requião, senator and former governor of Paraná
File:Edson Fachin (cropped).jpg, Luiz Edson Fachin, incumbent minister of the Supreme Court of Brazil
File:Newton da Costa in 1973.JPG, Newton da Costa, logician and mathematician
File:Clemerson Cleve.jpg, Clèmerson Merlin Clève, jurist, lawyer, and entrepreneur
See also
*
Brazil University Rankings
Universities in Brazil are ranked in a number of ways, including both national and international ranks.
National Rankings
Ranking Universitário Folha
Brazil's largest newspaper Folha de S. Paulo organizes, since 2012, a national ranking of univ ...
*
Universities and Higher Education in Brazil Brazil adopts a mixed system of public and privately funded universities. Public universities can be federally funded or financed by State governments (such as USP, Unicamp and Unesp in the State of São Paulo). Private schools can be for-profit o ...
References
Further reading
Official brochure
External links
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