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The Faculty of Science is the second largest faculty of the University of Calgary. It is also one of the University's founding faculties, along with arts, commerce, education, engineering, graduate studies, and physical education. The Faculty of Science was officially established on 1 April 1976, following the breakup of the former Faculty of Arts and Science. Simultaneously, the Faculty of Science can trace its history under the merged Faculty all the way back to 1951 – just 15 years before the University received formal autonomy in 1966.

The Faculty of Science is composed of six academic departments and four multidisciplinary studies with more than 5,000 undergraduate students, 800 graduate students, and 260 faculty staff. Since its founding, the Faculty has produced 34 Canada Research Chairs and 21 fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2012, the Faculty had garnered $62 million external annual research funding, $12.4 million research funding from industry grants and contract. In the same year, the Faculty had awarded $4.7 million for graduate scholarship funds.

History
The Faculty of Science can trace its history to when the University of Calgary was still a satellite of the University of Alberta. Known then as University of Alberta in Calgary (UAC), the institution was primarily a vocational college for teachers, drawing back to its traditions from the Calgary School. In order to accommodate the diverse courses UAC was offering, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was created in 1951. During this time, the UAC was housed in the same grounds as the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) – then known as the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (locally referred as Tech). Then in 1959, the growing UAC moved to its present day campus in University Heights. The first two buildings erected were the Arts and Education Building (current day Administration) and the Science and Engineering Building (current day Science A), which housed the disciplines their names denoted.

In 1966, the UAC had achieved autonomy from Edmonton,. With autonomy came drastic changes. The University began embarking on massive construction projects to meet the demands of a growing student population. Shortly after the completion of the Social Science tower in 1969, plans to establish a "Science Complex" were in the works after the already strained Science and Engineering Building had reached capacity. The Science Complex project ambitiously planned for 4 new buildings to house the This plan was realised when Science B Tower opened in 1971, which currently houses the departments of chemistry and physics. The Science B hallway was opened shortly after, which added new lecture and research spaces. Earth Science Tower was completed in 1974, which would become home to the University's diverse earth and human-related sciences, including the departments of anthropology, geology, and marine biology. The Mathematical Complex (initially called Science IIIB)

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