The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (; URCA), also known simply as the University of Reims, 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 ...

based in

Reims Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne. Founded by ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. In addition to the main campus in Reims, the university has several campuses located throughout the

Grand Est Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten; Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administra ...

region, in Châlons-en-Champagne,

Charleville-Mézières or ''Carolomacérienne'' , image flag=Flag of Charleville Mezieres.svg Charleville-Mézières () is a commune of northern France, capital of the Ardennes department, Grand Est. Charleville-Mézières is located on the banks of the river Meuse. ...

, Chaumont, and

Troyes Troyes () is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within the Champagne wine region and is near t ...

History

Original university

The University of Reims was established in 1548,Mark W. Konnert, ''Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion'', Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006, p. 52. after the Cardinal of Lorraine met with

Pope Paul III Pope Paul III ( la, Paulus III; it, Paolo III; 29 February 1468 – 10 November 1549), born Alessandro Farnese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 October 1534 to his death in November 1549. He came to ...

. The 'Collège des Bons-Enfants'

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

school thus became a university, teaching the

arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both h ...

theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing t ...

, law and

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care p ...

. The university was closed in 1793 during the

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are consider ...

, and reemerged in the

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Modern university

The Faculty of Science (1961), the Literary University College (1964), the University College of Law and Economics (1966), Reims University Technology Institute (1966), the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy (1967), the National School of Dental Surgery (1970) are the instutions from which the University of Reims was formed in 1971. The creation of an IUT in

(1973), an Institute of Higher Technical Education (1985) and an IUT department (1995) in Charleville-Mezieres, the development of a delocalized office of the Faculties of Law, Economics and Humanities of

(1991) and the opening of an IUT department in Châlons-en-Champagne (1993) all became part of the university and in 1982, it was renamed the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.

List of Presidents

* Michel Devèze (historian), ''1971-1976'' * Jean Le Men (pharmacist), ''1976-1977'' * Lucien Bernard (physicist), ''1977-1982'' * André Laberrigue (physicist), ''1982-1987'' * Jean Raymond (anglicist), ''1987-1992'' * Claude Severin (physician and dentist), ''1992-1997'' * Jacques Meyer (mathematician), ''1997-2002'' * Mary Gerard (physicist), ''2002-2007'' * Richard Vistelle (chemist), ''2007-2012'' * Gilles Baillat (director of the IUFMs), ''2012-2016'' * Guillaume Gelle, ''2016-present''

Organisation

Training and research

The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne has 8 UFR: * Law and Political Science * Letters and Human Sciences * Economics and Social Sciences * Natural Sciences * Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities * Medicine * Dentistry * Pharmacy

Schools and institutes

* 2 IUT (the IUT of Reims-Châlons-Charleville and the IUT of Troyes) * ESIEC now named ESIReims * Institute for Higher Technical Training ( IFTS ) * University Institute of Teacher Training (IUFMs) * School of Midwifery * University Center * Institute of Preparation for General Administration

Doctoral

The university has two doctoral schools: Humanities & Social Sciences, and Technology & Health Sciences.

Training and research

Training

The five major areas of training at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne are: * Arts, Humanities, Languages * Humanities and Social Sciences * Law, economics, management * Science, Technology, Health * Science and technology of physical and sporting activities

Research

Research at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne is structured around five departments: The Life Sciences & Health department whose laboratories are: * IFR 53 - Research Institute Federations interactions Cells Micro-Environment. IFR 53 * Epidemiological surveillance of vector-borne and parasitic diseases JE 2533 * Extracellular matrix and cell dynamics (MEDyC) UMR 6237 * Plasticity of the respiratory epithelium in normal and pathological processes Inserm 903 UMRS * Interfaces Biomaterials - Tissue Houses (IBTH) INSERM UMR-S 926 * Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the pre-and postconditioning myocardial EA 3801 * Cell Interactions-Parasites: Biodiversity, Pathogenesis, Resistance (ICP) EA 3800 * Health, Aging, Quality of Life and Rehabilitation Topics Fragile EA 3797 * Cellular patho-physiology and Human immune dysfunction. Therapeutic Approach EA 3798 * Inflammation and immunity of the respiratory epithelium EA 4303 The Mathematics, ICT & Nanotechnologies department, whose laboratories are: * Research Center for Science and Information Technology and Communication * Mathematics Laboratory Reims EA 4535 * Microscopy and Laboratory Study of Nanostructures (lmen) EA 3799 The Agro-Sciences & Sciences of the Universe and Environment department, whose laboratories are: * Study Group on Geomaterials and Natural Environments, Anthropogenic (GEGENAA) EA 3795 * Group of Molecular Spectrometry and Atmospheric (GSMA) CNRS UMR 6089 * Fractionation of Agricultural Resources and Environment (FARE) UMR INRA 614-A * Research Unit of the Vine and Wine Champagne - Stress and Environment EA 2069 The Chemistry & Engineering Sciences department, whose laboratories are: * Institute of Molecular Chemistry of Reims (ICMR - CNRS-UMR 6229) * Laboratory Analysis of Mechanical Constraints - Dynamic interfaces transfers to CEA-3304-EA * Research Group in Engineering Sciences (GRESPI - EA 4301) The Humanities and Society Sciences department, whose laboratories are: * CEJESCO Centre for Legal Research on the effectiveness of continental systems - I 1978 * CERHIC: Centre for Studies and Research in Cultural History - EA 2616 * CIRLEP: Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Language and Thought - EA 4299 * CLEA: Cognition, Language, Emotions, Acquisitions - I 2526 * RTDC: Centre for Research on Territorial Decentralization - EA 3312 * CRIMEL: Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aesthetic and Literary Models - EA 3311 * LIVE: Development and Political Geography - EA 2076 * Laboratory of Applied Psychology - EA 4298 * Lerp: Laboratory for study and research on the professionalization - EA 3313 * MICIG: Contemporary Institutions Governance International Movements - I 2429 * IMO commercial organizations and institutions - EA 2065

Notable faculty

Ancient

* Dermot O'Hurley (c.1530-1584) - professor of canon and civil law 1574-1588;

Archbishop of Cashel The Archbishop of Cashel ( ga, Ard-Easpag Chaiseal Mumhan) was an archiepiscopal title which took its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. Following the Reformation, there had been parallel apostolic successions to the titl ...

, Ireland; executed for treason *

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less painful method of execution tha ...

(1738-1814) - physician, politician, and freemason; proposed use of a device to carry out death penalties

Modern

* Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913-2013) - mathematician * Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (born 1923) - mathematician and physicist * Michel Sanouillet (1924-2015) - art historian; specialist of the

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris ...

movement * Roger Brunet (born 1931) - geographer * Michel Picard (writer) (born 1931) - writer and literary critic *

Alain Badiou Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucau ...

(born 1937) - philosopher *

Jean-Pierre Néraudau Jean-Pierre Néraudau (30 January 1940 – 20 December 1998) was a 20th-century French writer and professor of Latin literature. Biography The son of an officer in the French army, he studied in Dijon, where his family had settled in 1946. Ag ...

(1940-1998) - writer and professor of Latin literature *

Claude Gauvard Claude Gauvard is a French historian and Middle Ages specialist. She has been the President of Société de l'histoire de France since 2009. Life She was an assistant at the University of Rouen in 1969, then at the Sorbonne in 1971. She is ...

(born 1942) - historian and Middle Ages specialist * François Jacques (1946-1992) - historian, a specialist on

Ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 ...

* Michèle Artigue (born 1946) - expert in mathematics education, * Dominique Mulliez (born 1952) - epigrapher and Hellenist; head of the French School at Athens from 2002 to 2011 * Beatrice Heuser (born 1961) - historian and political scientist *

Alain Bui Alain Bui (born in 1969) is a French academic who's specialized in information technology, and the current president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. Biography Training Alain Bui was trained in information technology at Pa ...

(born 1969) - specialist in information technology; president of

Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ''UVSQ'') is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent university of the federal Paris-Saclay U ...

* Laure Gauthier (born 1972) - writer and poet

Notable alumni

Ancient

* Dermod O'Meara (died 1646) - Irish physician and poet, author of the first medical work printed in Dublin in 1619 * George Leyburn (1597-1677) - English Catholic priest, who became President of the

English College, Douai The English College (''College des Grands Anglais'') was a Catholic seminary in Douai, France (also previously spelled Douay, and in English Doway), associated with the University of Douai. It was established in 1568, and was suppressed in 1793 ...

* David Hamilton (1663-1721) - Scottish physician to Queen Anne; diarist * Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) - surgeon; science communicator * Louis-Guillaume Le Veillard (1733–1794) - chemist; aristocrat *

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (; 25 August 17679 Thermidor, Year II 8 July 1794, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the Fre ...

(1767-1794]) - revolutionary, political philosopher, president of the French National Convention, Jacobin club leader, major figure of

Modern

* Janine Cossy (born 1950) - organic chemist * Mustapha Mansouri (born 1953) - Moroccan politician * Filomena Embaló (born 1956) - Angolan-born Bissau-Guinean writer. * Bérengère Poletti (born 1959) - politician * Christiane Chabi-Kao (born 1963) - Beninese film director and screenwriter * Xavier Bertrand (born 1965) - politician * Hawa Ahmed Youssouf (born 1966) - Djiboutian civil servant and politician * Nicolas Kazadi (born 1966) - Congolese politician and career diplomat who has * Yann Moix (born 1968) - author, film director and television presenter * Mylène Troszczynski (born 1972) - National Front Member of the European Parliament 2014-2019 * Alexis Lemaire (born 1980) - mental calculation world record holder * Teguest Guerma - Ethiopian public health physician * Ziad el-Doulatli - Tunisian activist affiliated with the Islamist Ennahda Movement * Pauline Lhote - winemaker based in Napa, California * Ioan Horga - Romanian university professor of international relations and European studies

References

External links

Official website in English

Official website in French
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History

Original university

Modern university

List of Presidents

Organisation

Training and research

Schools and institutes

Doctoral

Training and research

Training

Research

Notable faculty

Ancient

Modern

Notable alumni

Ancient

Modern

See also

References

External links