The Federal University of Pará ( pt, Universidade Federal do Pará, UFPA) is one of the three
public universities maintained by the
Brazilian
federal government
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in the
state of Pará. It was ranked as the 15th largest Brazilian university in a 2011 academic ranking by the number of enrollments.
List of the largest Brazilian universities by number of enrollments
Access date 27-01-2013. The university has over 40,000 students enrolled in its courses, which are offered across its many campuses in the cities of Belém, Abaetetuba
The city of Abaetetuba is located in Pará State, Brazil. The population of the municipality is 159,080 (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE figure 2020). The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Abaetetuba, and ho ...
, Altamira, Ananindeua, Bragança, Castanhal, Cametá, Capanema, Breves, Tucuruí and Soure. Among UFPA research teams, there are many nationally recognized groups, particularly in the fields of genetics, parasitology
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, tropical diseases
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and geosciences.
The Federal University of Pará is the largest university in the North region of Brazil by enrollment and is a reference in the areas of Biomedical Sciences
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and Biology research, this last one mainly because of the Amazon Rainforest
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.
Museum of the Federal University of Pará
The Museum of the Federal University of Pará
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(MUFPA) was established in 1983 to house collections of the university from both Brazil and its North Region. It is located in the Augusto Montenegro Mansion
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, the former residence of Governor Augusto Montenegro
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*Augusto Aníbal
*Augusto dos Anjos
* Augusto Arbizo
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.
Notable alumni
— Jean Hébette
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: Professor Hébbete was an economist and one of the greatest references in research involving Amazon's social conditions.
— Luiz Carlos de Lima Silveira Luiz is a Portuguese given name that is an alternative form of Luís. It's archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Notable people referred to by this name include the following:
People
*Luiz Bonfá (1922-2001), Brazilian guitarist and composer
...
: Luiz Silveira was a pioneer in the development of Neuroscience at UFPa. He is a respected neuroscientist in Brazil and had a Ph.D in Neurophysiology from Oxford University.
— Maria Paula Cruz Schneider : One of the greatest Brazilian's geneticist. Dr. Schneider was a student of the first Biology major of the University. Her research focus mainly in Polymorphism (biology).
See also
* Federal Rural University of Amazonia
The Federal Rural University of Amazonia ( pt, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, UFRA) is a Brazilian public University located in Belem, Pará, Brazil
History
The UFRA has marked its origin in the School of Agronomy of Amazon, created ...
*Pará State University
Pará State University ( pt, Universidade do Estado do Pará, UEPA) is the only public university maintained by the state government of Pará, Brazil. The university has over 14,000 students enrolled in its 57 courses, from which 23 are undergrad ...
*Federal Institute of Pará
The Federal Institute of Pará ( pt, Instituto Federal do Pará, IFPA) is an institution of higher, vocational, and middle education maintained by the Brazilian federal government in the state of Pará. The institute has students enrolled in ...
* Universities and Higher Education in Brazil
References
External links
Official website of the Federal University of Pará
1957 establishments in Brazil
Universities and colleges in Pará
Educational institutions established in 1957
Para
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Businesses and organizations
* Paramount Global, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange
* Para Group, the former name of CT Corp
* Para Rubber, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer
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