University of Catania

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University of Catania
Università degli Studi di Catania
Studium Generale or "Siculorum Gymnasium"
TypePublic
Established19 October 1434; 589 years ago (1434-10-19)
RectorProf. Francesco Priolo
Administrative staff
1,623
Students66,235[citation needed]
Location
Catania
,
Italy
Sports teamsCUS Catania
AffiliationsUNIMED
Websitewww.unict.it/
Detail of the University of Catania, from the faculty of humanities in the Monastery of San Nicolò l'Arena

The University of Catania (Italian: Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest university in the world. With a population of over 60,000 students, it is the main university in Sicily.[citation needed]

Departments

Following the Italian higher education reform introduced by the law 240/10 and adopted by the University of Catania in its new statute, faculties have been deactivated and departments have been reorganized. The University of Catania now has 17 departments, the Faculty of Medicine, and two special didactic units established in the decentralized offices of Ragusa (Modern Languages) and Syracuse (Architecture).[1] that, additionally to the traditional assignments of scientific research, are in charge of the organization and management of educational activities. A special didactic unit is also the school of excellence "Scuola Superiore di Catania", a higher education centre of the University of Catania conceived in 1998 to select the best young minds and offer them a course of studies including analysis, research and experimentation.

Department Short name Director Field
Agriculture, Food and Environment Di3A Prof. Agatino Russo Agriculture
Economics and Business DEI Prof Roberto Cellini Economics
Law LAW Prof. Roberto Pennisi Law
Civil Engineering and Architecture DICAR Prof. Enrico Foti Engineering
Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering DIEEI Prof. Giovanni Muscato
Mathematics and Computer Science DMI Prof. Orazio Muscato
Computer Science
Physics and Astronomy "Ettore Majorana" DFA Prof. Maria Grazia Grimaldi Physics
Chemical Sciences DSC Prof. Antonino Licciardello Chemistry
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences DIPBIOGEO Prof. Pietro Pavone
Natural Sciences
Humanities DISUM Prof.ssa Marina Paino Foreign Languages, Letters and Philosophy
Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF Ingrassia” DGFI Prof. Stefano Puleo School "Faculty of Medicine" - Medicine and Surgery
General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties CHIRMED Prof. Ernesto Rapisarda
Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences BIOMETEC Prof. Filippo Drago
Clinical and Experimental Medicine MEDCLIN Prof. Francesco Purrello
Political and Social Sciences DSPS Prof. Giuseppe Vecchio Political Science
Drug Sciences DSF Prof. Rosario Pignatello Pharmacy
Educational Sciences DISFOR Prof.ssa Rosa Loredana Cardullo Education
Architecture SDSARCHITETTURA Prof. Bruno Salvatore Messina Special Didactic Units
Foreign Languages and Literatures SDSLINGUE Prof. Santo Burgio
Scuola Superiore di Catania SSC Prof. Daniele Malfitana
School of Italian Language and Culture ITALSTRA

History

Vittorio Emanuele III
of Italy, and, in 1984 the 550th one.

In the early centuries of its existence, the university was administered by the

bishop of Catania
being ex officio Great Chanchellor. With a reform operated by the Viceroy in 1679 the authority of the Bishop prevailed: he had the control over the lecturers, the freshmen and students' curriculum. This led to various conflicts between the civil and religious authorities. From 1818 to the office of Great Chancellor was assigned to the president of the Great Civil Court, instead of the bishop.

List of scholars

Humanities

  • Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida, Italian politician and journalist, was elected the first Socialist mayor of Catania in 1902.
  • Mario Rapisardi, Italian poet and translator, taught at the university in the 1870s. "Love truth more than glory, more than peace, more than life. Make it your sword and your shield."
  • Luigi Capuana, writer, journalist, literary critic and theorist. He taught literature in the early years of the 20th century.
  • Cavalleria Rusticana and I Malavoglia
    .
  • Santo Mazzarino, leading 20th-century historian of ancient Rome and Greece.
  • Vitaliano Brancati, Italian novelist and screenwriter, winner of the 1950 Bagutta Prize.
  • Elémire Zolla, Italian essayist, philosopher and historian of religion, taught linguistics in the late 1960s.
  • Vincenzo Ortoleva, Professor of Classical Philology

Sciences

  • Mario Pieri, mathematician, taught descriptive, projective and higher geometry from 1900 to 1908 and supervised 6 doctoral students with dissertations in algebraic geometry. See The Legacy of Mario Pieri in Geometry and Arithmetic, Birkhäuser (E.A. Marchisotto & J.T. Smith (2007).
  • Giuseppe Mercalli, inventor of the Mercalli Scale of earthquake intensity, was professor of geology in the late 1880s.
  • 18462 Ricco
    are named for him.
  • 22495 Fubini
    , is named in his honor.
  • Remo Ruffini, former assistant professor at Princeton University (1971–74), was professor of theoretical physics from 1976 to 1978. He was named Space Scientist of the Year in 1992.
  • 18426 Maffei
    , is also named for him.
  • Colombo Gap
    , a 150 km gap in the C ring of the planet Saturn.
  • Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
    , is a 1981 graduate of the Faculty of Medicine.

Points of interest

See also

References

  1. ^ "Scuole di specializzazione - University of Catania". www.unict.it. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  2. ^ i.e. the city council.

External links

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