The University of Brescia ( it, Università degli Studi di Brescia) is an Italian public research university located in

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

, Italy. It was founded in 1982 and is branched in 4 Faculties. The University of Brescia was officially established in 1982 with three Schools: Medicine and Surgery, Engineering, Economics and Business. However, the creation phase lasted nearly two decades, so the first attempts to open university courses in Brescia go back to the 1960s.

History

A first initiative came from Ethan Doro, which opened negotiations in the early 1960s to set up a two-year course in Engineering as a branch of Politecnico di Milano. The excessive financial requirements caused the project to lapse. After this first attempt, the creation of the future Schools of Brescia moved along two distinct paths, one concerning the School of Economics, the other those of Engineering and Medicine. In the field of economic studies, in 1964 a School of Industrial Administration was created, offering two-year courses. The creation of the Schools of Engineering and Medicine had a different history. The idea of setting up a university pole in Brescia, following the first failed attempt in the early 1960s, regained strength in the second half of the decade with the birth of the Consorzio Universitario Bresciano (CUB), promoted by the Provincial Administration, the Municipality of Brescia and the Chamber of Commerce.

Organization

The University of Brescia is divided into four main areas and provides the following post-secondary academic degrees:

Notable people

Rectors

*Augusto Preti (7 November 1983 – 11 November 2010) *Sergio Pecorelli (11 November 2010 – 31 October 2016) *Maurizio Tira (1 November 2016 – 31 October 2022) *Franco Castelli (since 1 November 2022)

Degree honoris causa

Luigi Lucchini Luigi Lucchini (21 January 1919 – 26 August 2013) was an Italian businessman and steel executive. The son of an iron craftsman, Lucchini was born in Casto, Brescia, Italy on 21 January 1919. He studied foreign languages at the Catholic Univer ...

, Economics (18 June 1998) *

Paul Greengard Paul Greengard (December 11, 1925 – April 13, 2019) was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for ...

, Medicine (September 2007) *

Guido Calabresi Guido Calabresi (born October 18, 1932) is an Italian-born American legal scholar and Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a former Dean of Yale Law School, where he has been a pr ...

, Law (21 January 2013) *

Jeffrey Sachs Jeffrey David Sachs () (born 5 November 1954) is an American economist, academic, public policy analyst, and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor. He is known for his work ...

, Management (12 February 2018)

Alumni

Mariastella Gelmini Mariastella Gelmini (born 1 July 1973) is an Italian politician and attorney (specialised in administrative law). She served as Italian Minister of Education in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet until 16 November 2011. She served as minister of Regional ...

* Danilo Toninelli

Gallery

File:Palazzo Martinengo Palatini in Piazza Mercato Brescia 2020.jpg, Palazzo Martinengo, seat of the Rectorate File:Santa Chiara - Facoltà di Economia - Brescia (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg, Faculty of Economics File:Giuribs.jpg, Faculty of Law

Notes and references

External links

University of Brescia - Official Website (English version)
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