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Utrecht University

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. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point A public university is a University that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government as opposed to private universities. The word rector ("ruler" from the Latin regere and Rector meaning "Teacher" In Latin has a number of different meanings but all of them indicate an academic A faculty is a division within a University. The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation Verb "studēre" Utrecht ( city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects Utrecht ( city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands 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. The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University ’s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked 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. Events 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " In 2004, 358 Ph.D. degrees were awarded and 7,010 scientific articles were published. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. 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 & Languages
- Department of Theology
- Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance
Faculty of Geosciences
- Department of Earth Sciences
- Department of Physical Geography
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Innovation Studies
- Department of Human Geography and Urban Planning
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. A faculty is a division within a University. The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had The humanities are academic disciplines which study the Human condition, using methods that are primarily Analytic, Critical, or Speculative Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including Anthropology, Communication studies Behavioural science (or Behavioral science) is a term that encompasses all the disciplines that explore the activities of and interactions among Organisms in the natural Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Governance relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences) is an all-embracing term for the Sciences related to the planet Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences) is an all-embracing term for the Sciences related to the planet Physical geography (also known as geosystems or physiography) is one of the three major subfields of Geography. Environmental science is the study of interactions among physical chemical and biological components of the environment. Human geography is a branch of Geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the environment with particular reference to Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the Veterinary medicine the application of medical, diagnostic, and therapeutic principles to companion, domestic, exotic, wildlife Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme (chem meaning "earth") is the Science concerned with the composition structure and properties Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the collection classification, manipulation storage retrieval and dissemination Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and A drug, broadly speaking is any chemical substance that when absorbed into the body Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον "star" and nomos (νόμος "law" is the scientific study University College Utrecht (UCU is the international Honors College of Utrecht University (UU Roosevelt Academy is a small Liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands. The humanities are academic disciplines which study the Human condition, using methods that are primarily Analytic, Critical, or Speculative Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society 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. De Uithof is the campus area of the Utrecht University and the University of Professional Education Utrecht. A campus is traditionally the land on which a College or University and related institutional buildings are situated University College is situated in the former Kromhout Kazerne, which used to be a Dutch military base.

1 Notable alumni and faculty
2 See also
3 Notes
4 External links

Notable alumni and faculty

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, mathematician)
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)
Boudewijn Sirks (Roman law specialist)
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. The Nobel Prize (Nobelpriset (Nobelprisen is a Swedish prize established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Peace, Literature Meteorology (from Greek grc μετέωρος metéōros, "high in the sky" and grc -λογία -logia) is the Interdisciplinary Clarence Barlow (born December 27, 1945) is a Composer of classical and electroacoustic works A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Nicolaas Bloembergen (born Dordrecht, March 11, 1920) is a Dutch -born American physicist and Nobel laureate A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning See also History An historian is an individual who studies and writes about History, and is regarded as an Authority on it A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person Profdr Else Borst-Eilers (born March 22, 1932 in Amsterdam) is a former Dutch politician she led Democrats 66 (D66 in the James Boswell 9th Laird of Auchinleck ( October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer diarist and Author born in Edinburgh An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person Pieter Burman (Petrus Burmannus often cited as Burmann October 23, 1713 &ndash June 24, 1778) called by himself the Younger ( See Comparative linguistics for the narrower field of "comparative philology" Michael George Clyne AM is an Australian linguist and academic Sir David Dalrymple 3rd Baronet Lord Hailes ( October 28 1726 &ndash November 29 1792) was a Scottish Advocate, An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person Peter Joseph William Debye ( March 24 1884 &ndash November 2 1966) was a Dutch physicist and physical chemist A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. Frans BM de Waal, PhD (born 29 October 1948, 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch Psychologist, Primatologist and Ethologist Zoology (from Greek ζῷον, zoon, "animal" + λόγος, " Logos " "knowledge" is the branch of Ethology ( from Greek ἦθος ethos, "character" and λόγος logos, "knowledge") is the scientific study of Animal Christiaan Eijkman ( August 11, 1858, Nijkerk &ndash November 5, 1930, Utrecht) was a Dutch Physician A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health Pathology (from Greek grc πάθος pathos, "fate harm" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study and Willem Einthoven ( Semarang, May 21, 1860 &ndash Leiden, September 29, 1927) was a Dutch doctor and physiologist A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning Johann Georg Graevius (properly Guava or Greffe) ( January 29, 1632 - January 11, 1703) was a German Classical Scholarly method &mdash or as it is more commonly called scholarship &mdash is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as Lodewijk Hermen Grondijs was born in 1878 in the Dutch East-Indies now known as Indonesia where he spent most of his youth and graduated in 1896 from grammar school A war correspondent is a Journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone. Gerardus 't Hooft (xeːrɑrt ət hoːft (born July 5, 1946, Den Helder) is a professor in Theoretical physics at Utrecht University A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff ( August 30, 1852 &ndash March 1, 1911) was a Dutch physical and organic chemist A chemist is a Scientist trained in the Science of Chemistry. Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, ( January 19, 1851 &ndash June 18, 1922) was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive Historically Astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky while Astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena Tjalling Charles Koopmans ( August 28, 1910 February 26, 1985) was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning An economist is an expert in the Social science of Economics. Aristid Lindenmeyer ( November 17, 1925 – October 30, 1989) was an Hungarian Biologist. A biologist is a Scientist devoted to and producing results in Biology through the study of Organisms Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack" van Lint ( 1 September 1932, Bandung &ndash 28 September 2004) was a Dutch mathematician A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. Rudolf Magnus ( Brunswick, September 2, 1873 &mdash Switzerland, 1927 was a German Pharmacologist and Physiologist Pharmacology (from Greek grc φάρμακον pharmakon, "drug" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study of how Drugs Physiology (from Greek grc φύσις physis, "nature origin" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study of the mechanical physical Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert ( 12 February 1893 &ndash 26 October 1970) was a Belgian Astronomer. Historically Astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky while Astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena Heiko Augustinus Oberman ( 15 October 1930 &ndash 22 April 2001) was a Historian and Theologian who specialized in the See also History An historian is an individual who studies and writes about History, and is regarded as an Authority on it Markus Hendrik Overmars (born 29 September 1958 in Zeist, Netherlands) is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of games programming Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Abraham (Bram Pais (May 19 1918 Amsterdam, The Netherlands &mdash July 28 2000 Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Dutch -born American A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning The history of science and technology ( HST) is a field of History which examines how humanity's understanding of the natural world ( Science Perizonius (or Accinctus) was the name of Jakob Voorbroek ( October 26, 1651 &ndash April 6, 1715) a Dutch Scholarly method &mdash or as it is more commonly called scholarship &mdash is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 1845 &ndash 10 February 1923 was a German physicist, who on 8 November 1895 produced and detected Electromagnetic A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička ( September 13, 1887 &ndash September 26, 1976) was a Croatian scientist winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize A chemist is a Scientist trained in the Science of Chemistry. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ( August 2, 1672 &ndash June 23, 1733) was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health A scientist, in the broadest sense refers to any person that engages in a systematic activity to acquire Knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices Jan Hendrik Scholten ( August 17, 1811 - April 10, 1885) Dutch Protestant theologian, was born at Vleuten near Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective Adriaan Johan Boudewijn Sirks (born 1947 known as Boudewijn Sirks and as A Roman law is the legal system of Ancient Rome. As used in the West the term commonly refers to legal developments prior to the Roman/Byzantine state's adopting Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland (c 1674&ndash 19 April 1722) was an English statesman A statesman or stateswoman or statesperson is usually a Politician or other notable figure of State who has had a long and respected career in Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate ( December 23, 1819 - December 24, 1889) Dutch divine prose writer and Poet, was born at A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Jan Cornelis Terlouw (born November 15, 1931) is a Dutch scientist, Politician, and Author. A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman (born June 27, 1931 in Waalwijk) is a Dutch theoretical physicist A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning Hugh Williamson ( December 5, 1735 &ndash May 22, 1819) was an American politician. A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J Slauerhoff, was a Dutch Poet and Novelist. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Dermatology (from Greek grc δέρμα derma, "skin" and grc -λογία -logia) is a branch of Medicine dealing with A sexually transmitted disease ( STD) or venereal disease ( VD) is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between Humans Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Notes

^ Top 100 European Universities. The Utrecht University of Applied Sciences ( Hogeschool Utrecht, HU is a Vocational University. The Utrecht School of the Arts ( HKU — Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht Dutch) is a Performing arts and Visual arts educational University College Utrecht (UCU is the international Honors College of Utrecht University (UU Roosevelt Academy is a small Liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands. The Utrecht Summer School founded in 1987 by Utrecht University, is the biggest academic summer programme in The Netherlands and belongs to the biggest Summer schools The Utrecht Network is a network of European universities. The network promotes the internationalisation of Tertiary education through Summer schools Academic Ranking of World Universities. The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University ’s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked Institute of Higher Education - Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Shanghai Jiao Tong University ( abbreviated Jiao Da (交大 or SJTU) located in Shanghai, is one of the oldest and most influential universities Retrieved on 2008-03-26. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.

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Notable alumni and faculty

See also

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External links