University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is a public university located in the north-western quadrant of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University is composed of approximately 23,500 full time and 4,500 part time students, totalling to 28,000 students and was founded in 1966.

Academics

The University of Calgary offers over 100 programmes in post-secondary education awarding bachelors, masters, and doctorate (Ph.D.) degrees. The University campus has an area of 2.13 km² and hosts, in total, 16 faculties, 53 departments and more than 30 research institutes and centres. Several prominent faculties at the University are the Haskayne School of Business, the Schulich School of Engineering, a medical school (MD), a law school (LLB), and in 2007 a veterinary school. The full-time teaching staff at the University is made up of 1,917 people.

The university has 16 faculties (17 after the opening of the veterinary school in 2007):

Athletics

The university is represented in CanadaWest a division of Canadian Interuniversity Sport and in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference by the Calgary Dinos. The campus is the home of the Olympic Oval, a multi-purpose ice arena, site of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games acclaimed as the fastest ice in the world. It holds a 400m long track oval as well as a short track ice surface and a hockey rink. The campus also holds the Jack Simpson Gymnasium, father David Bauer Arena (2 ice hockey rinks) and McMahon Stadium home of the Dinos and the Calgary Stampeders. The dinos compete in 12 sports, Basketball, Cross-Country, Field Hockey, Football, Golf, Hockey, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Volleyball, Wrestling.

Media

Campus Newspaper - "OnCampus"
Student Newspaper - "The Gauntlet"
Campus Radio Station - CJSW
Campus Television - "NUTV"

Alumni

James Gosling, inventor of the Java programming language, holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary (1977).
Harold (Hal) Kvisle TransCanada Profile. the President & CEO of TransCanada Corporation holds an MBA from the University of Calgary (1981).
Douglas R. Hamilton, NASA flight surgeon and biomedical engineer, holds a Ph.D in cardiovascular physiology from the University of Calgary (1991).
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Conservative Party, holds an MA and a B.A in Economics from the University of Calgary (1991).
Bruce Livingstone, entrepreneur
Robert Thirsk, Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA capsule communicator for the International Space Station program. Holds a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calgary (1976).

Campus gallery

Image:Msc summer.jpg|MacEwan Student Centre Image:Ucalgary.jpg|The School motto on display Image:Olympic Oval Inside Calgary.jpg|The Olympic Oval

External links

official university site
official student newspaper
UofC wiki
weblogs.ucalgary.ca - weblogs service for students, faculty and staff