Utrecht University

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Utrecht University
Image:UULogo.png
Latin: 'Universitas Rheno-Traiectina or Universitas Ultraiectina'
Motto:	Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos (Sun of Justice, shine upon us)
Established	1636
Type:	Public, general
Rector:	Hans Stoof
Faculty:	8,224
Students:	26,787
Location	Utrecht, The Netherlands
Website:	www.uu.nl

Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. It is rated as the seventh best University in Europe[1] in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 26,787 students in 2004, and employed 8,224 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors. In 2004, 358 Ph.D. degrees were awarded and 7,010 scientific articles were published. The 2004 budget of the university was €653 million.

The university's motto is "Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos", which means "Sun of Justice, shine upon us".

Utrecht University is led by the University Board, consisting of Yvonne van Rooy (president), prof.dr. Hans Stoof (rector magnificus) and Hans Amman.

The university consists of seven faculties:

Faculty of Humanities
- Department of Arts
- Department of Theology
- Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance
Faculty of Geosciences
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Science
- Department of Biology
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Information and Computing Sciences
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Department of Physics and Astronomy

There are three interfaculty units:

University College / Roosevelt Academy
Ethics Institute
IVLOS Institute of Education

The two large faculties of Humanities and Law are situated in the inner city of Utrecht. The other five faculties, as well as most of the administrative services, are located in De Uithof, a campus area in the outskirts of the city. University College is situated in the former Kromhout Kazerne, which used to be a Dutch military base.

[edit] Notable alumni

Universiteit Utrecht counts a number of distinguished scholars among its alumni and faculty, including several Nobel Prize laureates:

C.H.D. Buys Ballot (meteorologist)
Clarence Barlow (composer)
Nicolaas Bloembergen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Arend-Jan Boekestein (Historian, Politician)
Els Borst (former Dutch minister of Health)
James Boswell (author, lawyer)
Pieter Burmann the Younger (philologist)
Michael Clyne (linguist)
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, (author, lawyer)
Peter Debye (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
René Descartes (philosopher)
Frans de Waal (zoologist and ethologist)
Christiaan Eijkman (physician, pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Willem Einthoven (physician, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Johann Georg Graevius (scholar)
Louis Grondijs (Byzantologist, war correspondent)
Gerardus 't Hooft (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
J. H. van 't Hoff (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Jacobus Kapteyn (astronomer)
Tjalling Charles Koopmans (mathematician, physicist, economist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Aristid Lindenmayer (biologist)
Jack van Lint (mathematician)
Rudolf Magnus (pharmacologist and physiologist)
Marcel Minnaert (astronomer)
Heiko Oberman (historian)
Mark Overmars (Computer Scientist)
Abraham Pais (physicist, science historian)
Ben de Pater (Leading cultural geographer)
Perizonius (scholar)
Wilhelm Röntgen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Lavoslav Ruzicka (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (physician, scientist)
Jan Hendrik Scholten (theologian)
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (statesman)
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (poet)
Jan Terlouw (politician, novelist)
Martinus J.G. Veltman (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Hugh Williamson (politician)
J. Slauerhoff (poet, novelist) worked as an assistant at the University's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases from 1929-1930.

[edit] See also

University of Professional Education Utrecht (HU - Hogeschool Utrecht)
Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU - Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)
University College Utrecht (UCU) International Honors College of Utrecht University
Roosevelt Academy (RA) International Honors College of Utrecht University located in Middelburg, Zeeland

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