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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro | |
 Coat of arms of the university | |
| Motto | Alis Grave Nil (Latin) |
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Motto in English | With wings, nothing is heavy |
| Type | PrivateRoman Catholic Research Non-profitCoeducational Higher Education Institution |
| Established | 30 October 1940; 85 years ago (30 October 1940)[1] |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic(Jesuit) |
| Chancellor | Orani João Cardinal Tempesta, OCist. |
| President | Fr. Anderson Antonio Pedroso,S.J. |
| Vice rector | Fr. André Luís de Araújo,S.J. |
Academic staff | 800[2] |
| Students | 21,240 (In year 2022) |
| Undergraduates | 8,700 (In year 2022) |
| Postgraduates | 2,566 |
| Location | Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Gávea -Rio de Janeiro ,,22°58′45.48″S 43°13′56.82″W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Yellow andBlue |
| Website | www.puc-rio.br |
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ThePontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro;PUC-Rio) is aJesuit,Catholic,pontifical university inRio de Janeiro,Brazil. It is the joint responsibility of theCatholic Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro and theSociety of Jesus.
The University was created in 1941 by theSociety of Jesus to emphasize humanistic values in the pursuit of knowledge. PUC-Rio has 12,000undergraduate students, 2,500graduate students, and 4,000extension students. In 2009 it ranked first among 2,252higher educationinstitutions in Brazil on ENADE, a benchmark exercise run by theBrazilianMinistry ofEducation.[3][4]
In 2023, it was evaluated byTHETimes Higher Education World University Rankings in several areas.[5] In the area ofComputer Science, PUC-Rio reached first place overall in the country, also obtaining the Brazilian leadership in the Partnership with Industry indicator. In the area ofPhysical Sciences, the University positioned itself as the national leader in the Partnership with Industry and Internationalization indicators, occupying the third position overall in the country. In the area ofSocial Sciences, PUC-Rio achieved the leadership in Internationalization among Brazilian universities.
In 2024, PUC-Rio was considered the best private institution in the country, and the 5th best overall (among public and private) by theQS World University Rankings.[6]
PUC-Rio has highly accredited faculties inlaw,engineering,computer science,psychology,economics,business, andinternational relations.[7] It fosters cultural diversity in its student body. It has participated inexchange programs withHarvard,Notre Dame,UC Berkeley,UCLA,Brown University as well asEuropean universities, with hundreds of students participating each year.[citation needed]
PUC-Rio is located inGávea[8] in the south of Rio, at the edge ofTijuca National Forest. The campus was once a coffee farm. A creek crossed by three bridges runs through the campus. Several city bus lines pass the university, which is near the suburban neighborhoods ofLeblon,Ipanema,Jardim Botânico, andLagoa. The Botanical Gardens andLeblon beach are within walking distance to the university.
The campus was built with donations from institutions and foundations in the early 1940s. In the early '60s theUSA through itsAmerican Schools and Hospitals Abroad program donated the building now named after PresidentJohn Kennedy; the grant was received during his administration. Besides the Central Library there are three specialized libraries. Solar Grandjean de Montigny (built in 1823 by the architect of thesame name), PUC-Rio's Cultural Center, has year-round visual arts exhibitions. Pilotis (Kennedy building's ground floor) hosts cultural events such as political debates, shows, and fairs. The "Festa Junina" each June features folkloric food, costumes, and dance from old Brazil.
There is also the "Vila dos Diretórios" (Academic Directories Village), a small cobblestone alley that used to house employees from a local factory, but which since the opening of the campus, has become a place of social interaction.
Each house in the alley belongs to an academic directory, which must maintain and look after the property, and can use it for whatever it wishes. The engineering directory house, for example, is often used for studying and to heat up meals in a public microwave there located.
Parties, themed or not, are often held in the village, always on Thursdays.
On campus are three restaurants, five coffee-shops, a bookstore, an office supply store, copy centers, branches ofBanco Itaú andBanco Santander Brasil, newsstand, andATMs. The neighborhood of the university contains more shops, banks, the Rio Planetarium, specialized bookstores, restaurants, and a mall. Most students useRio de Janeiro's municipal bus system to get to the campus. Ametro station was being built on the site of the former university parking lot as part of the construction work for theRio 2016 Olympic Games.[9] However, due to accusations of overpricing, the work was halted and, to this day, has not been completed.[10]
PUC-Rio can be divided into four university centers, each center is made of dozens of units and supplementary organs responsible for education, research and extension in their respective areas of knowledge.
For undergraduate admission to PUC-Rio two exams are used:ENEM and its ownvestibular test. The results of these tests are used in determining the distribution of academic scholarships to students. PUC-RIO accepted12% of applicants for the class of 2022 making it a very selective institution.
As mentioned before, theLuaprogramming language was developed byRoberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes, members of the Computer Graphics Technology Group[15] at PUC-Rio, beginning in 1993.
The Tecgraf Institute for Technical and Scientific Software Development, founded in 1987, was created as a laboratory of the PUC-Rio Department of Information Technology, the result of a partnership between PUC-Rio andPetrobras, with the goal of developing computer graphics projects.
Over the course of its development, the Institute has consolidated its work by expanding its operations to all areas ofPetrobras, including seismic, reservoir, automation, environment and logistics. In 2013, Tecgraf became an institute of PUC-Rio.
The institute currently has over 400 collaborators, including students and professors. Many of the technologies and methodologies implemented in the systems developed are the result of theses and dissertations and various academic works from the institution itself.
Tecgraf/PUC-Rio currently develops around 40 computer systems and several core technologies such as frameworks, libraries andAPIs. The Institute's main areas of expertise are: Digital Interactivity; Modeling and Simulation; andData Analytics.
Tecgraf develops most of its projects in cooperation with several departments at PUC-Rio, especially the Department of Computer Science, encouraging the academic production of its professors and collaborators. The Institute receives master's and doctoral students who are assigned to positions that are close to their research projects. Currently, in addition to Petrobras, it has as partners theBrazilian Navy and theFederal University of Maranhão (UFMA).
The following are a partial list of professors from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
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