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University of Palermo

Public research university in Palermo, Italy

Field	Value
name	University of Palermo
native_name	Università degli Studi di Palermo
image_name	Facoltà di Ingegneria Palermo.JPG
established
type	Public
administrative_staff	2,000
rector	Massimo Midiri
students	48,338
city	Palermo
country	Italy
campus	Urban
free_label	Sports teams
free	CUS Palermo
affiliations	UNIMED
website

The University of Palermo () is a public research university in Palermo, Italy. It was founded in 1806, and is currently organized in 12 faculties.

History

The University of Palermo was officially founded in 1806, although its earliest roots date back to 1498 when medicine and law were taught there. Starting from the second half of the 16th century, from their seat at the Collegio Massimo al Cassero, the Jesuit Fathers granted degrees in Theology and Philosophy - subjects in which they had been masters for over 200 years.

In 1767 they were expelled from the kingdom by Ferdinand I, until 37 years later, when they returned to take their seat - which in the meantime had been turned into the Regia Accademia.

At this time, Ferdinand I decided to grant a good seat to the Accademia, moving its location to the Convent of the Teatini Fathers next to the Church of St. Giuseppe. In 1806, the university was officially founded.

After the unification of Italy in 1860, the University of Palermo was modernized under the impetus of the chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro, and the minister and specialist in Arab studies, Michele Amari, more or less assuming its present appearance. Since 1984 the main building of the University, housing the Rector's office, is Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri, one of the most important historical buildings in Palermo, built in 1307 and formerly the residence of the Chiaramonte. Not far from Palazzo Steri, on land formerly belonging to the Chiaramonte, the Botanical Gardens of Palermo constitute a renowned part of the university.

Today, the university has grown to be an institution of about 2000 lecturers and 50,000 students in which research in various fields of study is carried out. In the past few years, the university has actively taken part in international cooperation programmes.

Organization

File:Palermo01.jpg|Faculty of Science, University of Palermo File:Facoltà di Architettura a Palermo.jpg|Faculty of Architecture, University of Palermo File:University of Palermo - Art and Architecture building.jpg|Inside the University of Palermo's Art and Architecture building

These are the 12 faculties in which the university is divided into:

Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Architecture
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Political Sciences

Journal

University of Palermo has been publishing Mythos: Rivista di Storia delle Religioni, an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Giuseppe Sciascia Editore. It was established in 1989 by Giuseppe Martorana, with a new series started in 2007. It reviews religious narrative and mythos in Italian, French, English, German, and Spanish. The current editors-in-chief are Nicola Cusumano (University of Palermo) and Corinne Bonnet (University of Toulouse).

Notable people

Alumni

Giuseppe Alessi
Giuseppe Ayala
Ernesto Basile
Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile
Giulia Bongiorno
Paolo Borsellino
Gesualdo Bufalino
Diego Cammarata
Bruno Caruso
Rocco Chinnici
Francesco Crispi
Salvatore Cuffaro
Giovanni Falcone
Mario Fasino
Paolo Giaccone
Giovanni Gioia
Pietro Grasso
Enrico La Loggia
Giuseppe La Loggia
Pio La Torre
Salvatore Lauricella
Rosario Livatino
Filippo Mancuso
Calogero Mannino
Bernardo Mattarella
Francesca Morvillo
Gaetano Mosca
Francesco Musotto
Leoluca Orlando
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Ettore Paratore
Emanuele Paternò
Mino Pecorelli
Giovanni Pitruzzella
Valentino Picone
Elda Pucci
Franco Restivo
Antonino Saetta
Amedeo di Savoia
Pietro Scaglione
Renato Schifani
Enzo Sellerio
Antonio Starabba di Rudinì
Carlo Vizzini
Antonino Zichichi

Notable professors

Stanislao Cannizzaro, famous for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1860.
Pepi Fabbiano, astrophysicist
Gaetano Giorgio Gemmellaro
Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy
Giuseppe Piazzi, his most famous discovery was the first dwarf planet, Ceres.
Antonino Salinas
Natalino Sapegno, He came to prominence as a leading scholar of fourteenth century Italian literature.
Gioacchino Scaduto
Emilio Segrè, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959
Angelo Torricelli, architecture professor

References

Paglia, Roberto. (2003). "University of Palermo".
"Mythos". Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università di Palermo.
"Mythos - La nuova serie". Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università di Palermo.

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