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It was founded in 1960 and has since consistently been named among the top five Brazilian universities and the top fifteen universities in South America by Times Higher Education (THE).       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Created under the utopian vision of educator An\u00edsio Teixeira and anthropology professor Darcy Ribeiro in 1962, the University of Bras\u00edlia (UnB) is located in the centre of Brazil\u2019s capital city, on the banks of the Parano\u00e1 Lake.There are four campuses: the Darcy Ribeiro campus (regarded as the UnB\u2019s nucleus), the Ceil\u00e2ndia, Gama and Planaltina campuses. Oscar Niemeyer, one of Modernism\u2019s most feted architects, designed UnB\u2019s main building, the Central Institute of Sciences and was also a key player in the university\u2019s founding.Its strengths lie in its economics, international affairs and political science courses but its general teaching, research and outreach programs have made it one of Brazil\u2019s most well respected universities. Comprising 26 faculties and schools, with 18 specialised research centres, there are over 105 undergraduate programs, some of which are evening or distance learning-based. It also offers 147 graduate degree programs and 22 specialist programs.UnB also boasts a University Hospital, a veterinary hospital, a restaurant and the Fazenda \u00c1gua Limpa, a clean water farm just outside Brasil\u00eda; where forestry, agricultural and ecological research is undertaken on the university\u2019s behalf.Relying on exchange programmes and networking with international organisations and post-secondary institutions, UnB administration and the Advisory Committee for International Affairs are positing it to the world as one of the best universities in Brazil.It admits undergraduate and post-graduate students via an yearly entrance exam, known in Brazil as vestibular[citation needed] and through ENEM and is most renowned for its courses in economics, international affairs, law, anthropology, mathematics and political science. Its Central Library is home to Midwestern Brazil’s largest archive and is used by research and federal employees from all over the countryUnB offers 114 courses recognized by the Ministry of Education.[4]Table of ContentsHistory[edit]Academics[edit]Ranking[edit]Buildings[edit]Research[edit]Programa de Avalia\u00e7\u00e3o Seriada[edit]Rankings[edit]International students[edit]Notable alumni and faculty[edit]Alumni[edit]Faculty[edit]See also[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]History[edit]  University of Bras\u00edlia library  Part of the Darcy Ribeiro campus.  Central Institute of Sciences \u2013 ICC (“Minhoc\u00e3o”)The University of Brasilia Foundation was founded on December 15, 1961. Professor Darcy Ribeiro, who became its first leader, was one of the most enthusiastic supporters of its creation. Architect Oscar Niemeyer designed its main building, the 700 m long Instituto Central de Ci\u00eancias (ICC), nicknamed Minhoc\u00e3o.The institution was created on April 21, 1962 by educator An\u00edsio Teixeira and anthropologist professor Darcy Ribeiro. As of 2010, it employed 1,757 faculty and 2,391 servants, and had over 30,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Each semester, the University of Bras\u00edlia accepts nearly 2,000 incoming students for its 61 undergraduate programs. On the graduate level, the university offers 49 master’s degrees and 27 doctoral programs.Academics[edit]The university was one of the first in Brazil to admit students via Programa de Avalia\u00e7\u00e3o Seriada (PAS), an alternative evaluation which tests high school students once a year bypassing vestibular.Each semester, the University of Bras\u00edlia accepts nearly 2,000 incoming students from a pool of approximately 25,000 candidates for its 61 daytime or evening undergraduate programs. At the graduate level, the university offers 56 master’s programs and 31 doctorate programs. It also offers advanced non-degree programs, many of them conducted in other Brazilian States, such as Bahia, Amazonas, Rond\u00f4nia, Goi\u00e1s and Rio Grande do Norte. The Technological and Scientific Development National Council (CNPq) and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) support most of these courses, offering scholarships and research grants.Distance education is an expanding activity in UnB, being managed by the Center for Open, Continuous and Long Distance Education (CEAD) and the School of Education. The United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) sponsors the Long Distance Education chair at UnB.[5]Ranking[edit]Several of University of Bras\u00edlia’s graduate programs have been graded 6 and 7 (in a scale from 1 to 7) in the annual CAPES assessment, including its courses in anthropology, mathematics, geology, economics, law, among others. Its programs in economics, international relations and political science are ranked first among public universities in the country.The University of Brasilia has been ranked one of the top five public universities in Brazil by Editora Abril’s Guia do Estudante. It ranks eighth in the list of the best universities in the country.[6]UnB is located in the Bras\u00edlia administrative region of the Federal District of Brazil, on the northwestern bank of Parano\u00e1 Lake. Most of its buildings were designed in a modernist architecture style.[citation needed]UnB’s Central Library owns the largest archive in Centerwestern Brazil. It maintains a university restaurant, as well as Fazenda \u00c1gua Limpa, a farm in the outskirts of the Federal District where ecological, agricultural and forestry research is conducted.[citation needed]  One of the entrances to the ICC.Buildings[edit]The university hosts:22 institutes,50 departments,16 scientific, technological, cultural, artistic and general service centers,student and staff residences,a hospital,a sports center,a seismological observatory,physical experiment facilities, including plasma, liquid crystals, complex fluids and optical spectroscopy,an animal research laboratory,a library, the Central Librarya student restaurant,the rectory buildinga farm for ecological, agricultural and forestry research, andan ecological station.[citation needed]The university runs 115 community outreach projects, offering a total of 438 courses and events. Involving the direct participation of 240 professors and 65,132 students, these activities reach nearly 185,000 people in the Federal District and surrounding region in Goi\u00e1s and Minas Gerais.[citation needed]Outreach activities include the Future with Art, Culture and Sport (FACE) program; the Community Initiatives Advisory Program (PRATICOM); the Program for Worker and Trade Union Leadership Training (PROSINT); the Rural Development Program and the Model Office for Legal Assistance. University members also offer consulting and assistance to the Community Health Training Program (PACs).[citation needed]Research[edit]More than 260 research-groups work in more than 400 laboratories. This research is supported by the Technological and Scientific Initiation Program (PIBIC) and the Special Training Program (PET), which also offers scholarships to gifted undergraduates. Among other federal and state agencies, programs are funded by CNPq, CAPES, the Research and Projects Funding Program (FINEP), the Technological and Scientific Development Support Program (PADCT) and the Federal District Research Support Foundation (FAPDF).[citation needed]  Other organisations active in the research area are the International Center for Condensed Matter Physics (CIFMC), the cbsp.unb.br [Brazilian Center for Protein Sequencing (CBSP)], the Center for Maintenance of Equipment (CME) and the university Herbarium. The Technological Development Center (CDT) works to integrate the University to the business world, maintaining a small business start-up program and other types of consulting assistance to business.[citation needed]Programa de Avalia\u00e7\u00e3o Seriada[edit]The Continuing Evaluation Program (Portuguese: Programa de Avalia\u00e7\u00e3o Seriada) evaluates high school students interested in enrolling on a yearly basis during their three years of high school, in addition to the traditional Brazilian vestibular and the national ENEM exam. The university prefers this system to single entrance examinations.[citation needed]Rankings[edit]In 2017, Times Higher Education ranked the university within the 801\u20131000 band globally.[7]International students[edit]The university accepts international students through:Exchange programs for international students from academic institutions and organizations that have an exchange agreement with the university. The program lasts from six months to one year.[citation needed]Undergraduate Students\u2019 program (PEC-G \u2013 Programa de Estudante Conv\u00eanio de Gradua\u00e7\u00e3o) is for students from university institutions of developing countries that have developed activities in cooperation with the Brazilian government. Students from Latin America, Africa and Asia are the biggest partners of the UnB in this project.[citation needed]Post-Graduate program (PEC-PG \u2013 Programa de Estudante Conv\u00eanio de P\u00f3s-Gradua\u00e7\u00e3o) is through the Brazilian embassies abroad. The objective is to promote the qualification of senior staff of developing countries, by offering master’s and doctorate degrees.[citation needed]The Federal Constitution International Affairs program accepts diplomats who are working in Bras\u00edlia and their legal dependents.[citation needed]Notable alumni and faculty[edit]Alumni[edit]Notable alumni include:[8]Alexandre Tombini, President of the Central Bank of Brazil,Ana Paula Padr\u00e3o, journalist, former anchor of Jornal da Globo, now at Band,Gilmar Mendes, justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court, former President of the Supreme Court,\u00cdtalo Fioravanti Sabo Mendes, judge of the Regional Federal Court of the 1st Region,Helena Chagas, Secretary of Social Communication of the Presidency of Brazil,Henrique Malvar, managing director of Microsoft Research’s largest laboratory in Redmond, Washington, USA.,Izabella Teixeira, Ministry of the Environment,Joaquim Barbosa, Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court, and former President of the Supreme Court,Eliane Cantanh\u00eade, economy and political Folha de S. Paulo columnist,Maria Paula, comedian, actress, and TV personalityM\u00edriam Leit\u00e3o, TV Globo journalist.Fernando Collor de Mello, 32nd President of Brazil.Faculty[edit]Oscar Niemeyer, architect, Pritzker Prize 1988, and founderAthos Bulc\u00e3o, visual artist and founderCyro dos Anjos, writerRoberto Saturnino Braga, engineer and politician.Cristovam Buarque, mechanical engineer and politician, former governor of the Federal District, former senator, former Rector, and economics professorClaudio de Moura Castro, economist, educator, and columnist.Cesar da S\u00e1, biochemist, lecturer, Pasteur Institute, Paris, and University of California, San DiegoNelson Pereira dos Santos, film director.Teotonio Vilela Filho, politician, economist, current governor of Alagoas.Otto Richard Gottlieb, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry nominee.Darcy Ribeiro, anthropologist, one of the founders of the University of Bras\u00edlia.Roberto Aureliano Salmeron, nuclear physicist.Cl\u00e1udio Santoro, composer and violinist.An\u00edsio Teixeira, educator, founder.Ant\u00f4nio Augusto Can\u00e7ado Trindade, jurist, “full professor” at UnB, elected judge of the International Court of Justice, professor of International Relations.Francisco Rezek, former Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court, former judge of the International Court of Justice (1996\u20132006), professor of Law.Gilmar Mendes, Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court, former President of the Supreme Court, professor of Law.\u00cdtalo Fioravanti Sabo Mendes, judge of the Regional Federal Court of the 1st Region, professor of Law.Jorge Antunes, composerMarcos Bagno, linguist and translatorMarisa von B\u00fclow, political scientist and sociologistSee also[edit]References[edit]^ “UnB Portal \u2013 Academic Staff” (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on January 10, 2013.^ “UnB Portal \u2013 Technical and Administrative Staff” (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on January 10, 2013.^ a b “UnB Portal \u2013 Registered Students (in Portuguese)”. Archived from the original on January 10, 2013.^ “Faculdades reconhecidas pelo MEC, Vestibular, Apostilas, Universit\u00e1rio, Profiss\u00e3o, professor”. Retrieved July 5, 2015.^ “UnB \u2013 Universidade de Bras\u00edlia”. Retrieved July 5, 2015.^ “Guia do Estudante”. Retrieved July 5, 2015.^ a b World University Rankings 2017\u20132018^ “Projeto GigaPonto”. Archived from the original on November 28, 2018. 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