The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (French: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne; URCA), also known simply as the University of Reims, is a public university based in Reims, France.
In addition to the main campus in Reims, the university has several campuses located throughout the Grand Est region, in Châlons-en-Champagne, Charleville-Mézières, Chaumont, and Troyes.
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History
Original university
The University of Reims was established in 1548, after the Cardinal of Lorraine met with Pope Paul III. The 'Collège des Bons-Enfants' Catholic school thus became a university, teaching the arts, theology, law and medicine. The university was closed in 1793 during the French Revolution, and reemerged in the 1960s.
Modern university
The Faculty of Science (1961), the Literary University College (1964), the University College of Law and Economics (1966), Reims University Technology Institute (1966), the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy (1967), the National School of Dental Surgery (1970) are the institutions from which the University of Reims was formed in 1971. The creation of an IUT in Troyes (1973), an Institute of Higher Technical Education (1985) and an IUT department (1995) in Charleville-Mezieres, the development of a delocalized office of the Faculties of Law, Economics and Humanities of Reims (1991) and the opening of an IUT department in Châlons-en-Champagne (1993) all became part of the university and in 1982, it was renamed the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
List of presidents
Michel Devèze (historian), 1971–1976
Jean Le Men (pharmacist), 1976–1977
Lucien Bernard (physicist), 1977–1982
André Laberrigue (physicist), 1982–1987
Jean Raymond (anglicist), 1987–1992
Claude Severin (physician and dentist), 1992–1997
Jacques Meyer (mathematician), 1997–2002
Mary Gerard (physicist), 2002–2007
Richard Vistelle (chemist), 2007–2012
Gilles Baillat (director of the IUFMs), 2012–2016
Guillaume Gelle, 2016–present
Organisation
Training and research
The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne has 8 UFR:
Law and Political Science
Letters and Human Sciences
Economics and Social Sciences
Natural Sciences
Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities
Medicine
Dentistry
Pharmacy
Schools and institutes
2 IUT (the IUT of Reims-Châlons-Charleville and the IUT of Troyes)
ESIEC now named ESIReims
Institute for Higher Technical Training ( IFTS )
University Institute of Teacher Training (IUFMs)
School of Midwifery
University Center
Institute of Preparation for General Administration
Doctoral
The university has two doctoral schools: Humanities & Social Sciences, and Technology & Health Sciences.
Training and research
Training
The five major areas of training at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne are:
Arts, Humanities, Languages
Humanities and Social Sciences
Law, economics, management
Science, Technology, Health
Science and technology of physical and sporting activities
Research
Research at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne is structured around five departments:
The Life Sciences & Health department whose laboratories are:
IFR 53 – Research Institute Federations interactions Cells Micro-Environment. IFR 53
Epidemiological surveillance of vector-borne and parasitic diseases JE 2533
Extracellular matrix and cell dynamics (MEDyC) UMR 6237
Plasticity of the respiratory epithelium in normal and pathological processes Inserm 903 UMRS
Interfaces Biomaterials – Tissue Houses (IBTH) INSERM UMR-S 926
Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the pre-and postconditioning myocardial EA 3801
Cell Interactions-Parasites: Biodiversity, Pathogenesis, Resistance (ICP) EA 3800
Health, Aging, Quality of Life and Rehabilitation Topics Fragile EA 3797
Cellular patho-physiology and Human immune dysfunction. Therapeutic Approach EA 3798
Inflammation and immunity of the respiratory epithelium EA 4303
The Mathematics, ICT & Nanotechnologies department, whose laboratories are:
Research Center for Science and Information Technology and Communication
Notable faculty
Ancient
Dermot O'Hurley (c.1530–1584) – professor of canon and civil law 1574-1588; Archbishop of Cashel, Ireland; executed outside the walls of Dublin, officially for high treason, but in reality as part of the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Ireland by Queen Elizabeth I. Beatified by Pope John Paul II as one of the Irish Catholic Martyrs in 1992.
Modern
Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013) – mathematician
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (born 1923) – mathematician and physicist
Michel Sanouillet (1924–2015) – art historian; specialist of the Dada movement
Roger Brunet (born 1931) – geographer
Michel Picard (writer) (born 1931) – writer and literary critic
Alain Badiou (born 1937) – philosopher
Jean-Pierre Néraudau (1940–1998) – writer and professor of Latin literature
Claude Gauvard (born 1942) – historian and Middle Ages specialist
François Jacques (1946–1992) – historian, a specialist on Ancient Rome
Michèle Artigue (born 1946) – expert in mathematics education
Dominique Mulliez (born 1952) – epigrapher and Hellenist; head of the French School at Athens from 2002 to 2011
Beatrice Heuser (born 1961) – historian and political scientist
Alain Bui (born 1969) – specialist in information technology; president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Laure Gauthier (born 1972) – writer and poet
Notable alumni
Ancient
Eugène-Louis Doyen (1859–1916) – French surgeon
James Douglas (1675–1742) – Scottish physician, obstetrician and anatomist
Ebenezer Gilchrist (1707–1774) – Scottish medical doctor and author
Dermod O'Meara (1610–1646) – Irish physician and poet, author of the first medical work printed in Dublin in 1619
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814) – physician and politician; proposed to use guillotine device to carry out death penalties
George Leyburn (1597–1677) – English Catholic priest, who became President of the English College, Douai
David Hamilton (1663–1721) – Scottish physician to Queen Anne; diarist
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700–1768) – surgeon; science communicator
Louis-Guillaume Le Veillard (1733–1794) – chemist; aristocrat
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) – revolutionary, political philosopher, president of the French National Convention, Jacobin club leader, major figure of French Revolution
Modern
Janine Cossy (born 1950) – organic chemist
Mustapha Mansouri (born 1953) – Moroccan politician
Filomena Embaló (born 1956) – Angolan-born Bissau-Guinean writer.
Bérengère Poletti (born 1959) – politician
Christiane Chabi-Kao (born 1963) – Beninese film director and screenwriter
Xavier Bertrand (born 1965) – politician
Hawa Ahmed Youssouf (born 1966) – Djiboutian civil servant and politician
Nicolas Kazadi (born 1966) – Congolese politician and career diplomat
Yann Moix (born 1968) – author, film director and television presenter
Mylène Troszczynski (born 1972) – National Front Member of the European Parliament 2014–2019
Alexis Lemaire (born 1980) – mental calculation world record holder
David Syed (born 1964) – Head of Sovereign Practice at Dentons Europe
Teguest Guerma – Ethiopian public health physician
Ziad el-Doulatli – Tunisian activist affiliated with the Islamist Ennahda Movement
Pauline Lhote – winemaker based in Napa, California
Ioan Horga – Romanian university professor of international relations and European studies