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The Federal University of Pará (Universidade Federal do Pará, UFPA) is a public university maintained by the Brazilian federal government in the state of Pará. It was ranked 29th in Brazil by the Folha de S. Paulo University Ranking. The university has over 60,000 students enrolled in its courses, which are offered across its many campuses in the cities of Belém, Abaetetuba, Altamira, Ananindeua, Bragança, Castanhal, Cametá, Capanema, Breves, Tucuruí and Soure.

History
The University of Pará was officially created on July 2, 1957, by Decree No. 3,191, sanctioned by then-President Juscelino Kubitschek, after five years of legislative processing. It was formed by the merger of seven federal, state, and private colleges in Belém, including Medicine, Law, Pharmacy, Engineering, Dentistry, Philosophy, and Sciences and Letters, and Economic, Accounting, and Actuarial Sciences.

More than 18 months after its creation, the University of Pará was officially launched in a session chaired by President Kubitschek at the Teatro da Paz on January 31, 1959. This was merely symbolic, as the founding statute of the University had already been approved by Decree No. 42,427 on October 12, 1957, and the first rector, Mário Braga Henriques, had been in office since November 28.

In 1960, José Rodrigues da Silveira Netto took office as rector, a position he would occupy for eight and a half years. In 1968, a new restructuring of the University was attempted, with a plan presented to the Federal Council of Education. From the end of 1968 to the beginning of 1969, a series of legal diplomas established new criteria for the operation of universities. Finally, in 1985, the first plan for regional expansion was drafted, and it was eventually executed in 1986 at eight locations with only normal courses offered.

Belém
The university, owing to its origin as an amalgam of multiple formerly-independent colleges, was spread out in multiple sites across downtown Belém throughout the 50s and early 60s. In 1963, rector José da Silveira Netto ordered university officials to draw up plans for a new, integrated campus to house all colleges and institutes under a single location. A 200 hectare plot owned by the Ministry of Agriculture on the banks of the Guamá river was selected, and was soon expanded with a further addition of an adjacent plot bringing the total size of the site to nearly 450 ha.

The campus, designed by architect Alcyr Meira, started construction in 1964. Its design was heavily inspired by American university campuses, namely by using low density development and automobile centered design. At the time, Brazil had only three other university campuses, which were themselves inspired by foreign universities. In 1968, the first phase of the then called Pioneer University Campus was completed. The process of relocating the university there, however, wouldn't end until 1983, when the rectorate was moved to the Guamá campus.

Notable later additions include the construction of the main dining hall in 1993 and the UFPA Convention Center, in 2009.

Others
The university also has satellite campuses spread across Pará state in Abaetetuba, Altamira, Ananindeua, Belém, Bragança, Breves, Cametá, Capanema, Castanhal, Salinópolis, Soure and Tucuruí. Its former Santarém and Marabá campuses were spun out as the Federal University of Western Pará and the Federal University of Southern and Southeastern Pará, respectively, in 2013.

Library system


The UFPA Libraries System (SIBI/UFPA) is composed of 37 university libraries coordinated by the Central Library, founded in 1962. Most of them are departmental libraries, located on the Belém campus, while others are satellite campus libraries.

Organization and administration


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Academics
The university offers 588 bachelor's degrees spread across its 12 urban and rural campuses.

Admissions
UFPA admits new students through ENEM, the standardized national exam for university admission used by all Brazilian public universities. Qualifying foreign individuals may also apply through PEC-G, a process run by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Institutes and centers
UFPA is organised in several institutes, corresponding to various fields of studies which offer undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses. Additionally, it also has centers dedicated to specific subjects, and that only offer graduate and postgraduate courses, such as the Center for Basic Education.

Teaching hospitals
The university has two associated teaching hospitals: the Bettina Ferro University Hospital and the off-campus João Barros Barreto University Hospital.

The João Barros Barreto Hospital was, after long delays and cost overruns, inaugurated by the Brazilian Federal Government in 1957, then-named Barros Barreto Sanatorium. It was named in honor of João de Barros Barreto, an epidemiologist who led the fight against tuberculosis in the first half of the 20th century in Brazil. In 1990, the hospital was handed over to the university, which gave it its current name. The SUS has rated its tertiary care capabilities and granted it the status of a national referral hospital in AIDS treatment and of regional reference in infectology, diabetes, endocrinology, and pneumology.

Museum


The UFPA museum's building was originally the residence of former governor of Pará Augusto Montenegro, who lived there between 1903 and 1909. It was purchased by the university in the early 60s in order to house its rectorate, which it did until the Guamá campus was officially completed in 1983, and in that same year the Art Museum of the UFPA was established on the site. The building's physical state had greatly deteriorated by then, and it wouldn't be until 2004 that a comprehensive restoration would be undertaken, with the museum reopening in time for the university's 50th anniversary in 2009.

The museum houses many rare works and documents relating to regional artists, such as pianist Waldemar Henrique and Carimbó legend Pinduca in its Vicente Salles collection; it also houses an extensive collection of nearly 500 works from artist Carmem Souza.

Research
http://pctguama.org.br/?page_id=1909&lang=pt

Alumni

 * Senator Jader Barbalho, former governor of Pará.
 * Simão Jatene, former governor of Pará.
 * Edmilson Rodrigues, mayor of Belém.

Faculty and staff

 * Jean Hébbete, agricultural researcher


 * Luiz Carlos de Lima Silveira, neuroscientist


 * Benedito Nunes, philosopher.