The university is known for its engineering faculty and its departments of archaeology and architecture.
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© University of Sheffield | |
| Motto: "Rerum Cognoscere Causas" (To Discover the Causes of Things) | |
| Vice-Chancellor | Bob Boucher |
| School type | State |
| Religious affiliation | None |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Location | Sheffield, England |
| Enrollment | 17,000 undergrad., 5,000 postgrad. |
| Faculty | 5,500 |
| Campus surroundings | Urban |
| Sports teams | BUSA league |
History
The Sheffield School of Medicine was founded in 1828. This was supplemented in 1870 by the opening of Firth College by Mark Firth, a steel manufacturer, to teach arts and science subjects. The college funded the opening of the Sheffield Technical School was founded in 1884 to teach applied science. The three institutions merged in 1897 to form the University College of Sheffield, which received a royal charter in 1905, and became the University of Sheffield. The university grew slowly until the 1950s, when new buildings were constructed and student numbers increased to their present levels.
Campus
The centre of the University of Sheffield’s campus lies one mile to the west of Sheffield city centre. This includes the students' union, the original Firth Court building, the Geography building, the Alfred Denny Building housing natural sciences and a small museum, the Dainton Building housing chemistry and the Hicks Building housing mathematics and physics. The Grade II star listed university library and the Arts Tower are also located here.
East of the central campus lies the Mappin Street campus. This includes the faculty of engineering (partly housed in the Grade II listed Mappin Building) and departments of management and computer science. The university maintains the Turner Museum of Glass here. The university has acquired the nearby former Jessop Hospital, and plans to convert this to house more departments.
West of the central campus lies parkland, the Sheffield City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery, the university's sports facilities and the faculties of law and medicine, the latter housed in the city's extensive teaching hospitals.
Further west still lie the six university halls of residence and the music department, in the Broomhill and Crookes areas of the city. Nursing is mainly taught on the Manvers campus, between Rotherham and Barnsley.
Organisation
The University of Sheffield is headed by a vice-chancellor, and an honorary chancellor. Today, it's organised in seven faculties:
The university employs 5,500 staff in its faculties, including 1,100 professors and lecturers.
The union is generally left-wing, and is run by a variety of working, representative and standing committees, presided over by the Union Assembly and eight elected full-time sabbatical officers. It is a constituent member of the National Union of Students.
A union group publishes the Steel Press newspaper fortnightly, while another runs the Sure FM radio station, which usually broadcasts city-wide for two months a year. A third group, sheffieldbase, maintains a news-based website.
Sheffield supports a large number of student societies and sports teams. Every year, some of these teams win their BUSA championships. Sheffield University Bankers play top-flight hockey in the national first division.
As part of the rag week, University of Sheffield students used to take part in the Pyjama Jump pub crawl, dressed only in their nightwear, in mid-winter. This event was banned in 1997 following the hospitalisation of several students.
Another rag week tradition is the Spiderwalk, a fifty mile trek through the city and the Peak District, the first half through the night.
Student Union, Sports and Traditions
The University of Sheffield Union of Students is the largest in the UK, with two bars, three club venues, nearly one hundred student societies and a turnover of around £8,000,000.Noted University of Sheffield Faculty
Noted University of Sheffield Alumni
See also
Sheffield Hallam University