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12 unusual facts about University of Zaragoza


ANAIS

ANAIS is the scaled conclusion of feasibility studies carried out with different prototypes by the University of Zaragoza group at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory, Spain.

Canary Islands in pre-colonial times

Excavations of a settlement at El Bebedero on Lanzarote, made by a team under Pablo Atoche Peña of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Juan Ángel Paz Peralta of the University of Zaragoza, yielded about a hundred Roman potsherds, nine pieces of metal and one piece of glass at the site, in strata dated between the 1st and 4th centuries.

Jacob L. Mey

In 1992 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zaragoza.

Jerónimo Xavierre

From 1581, he was University Professor of Theology and worked untiringly for the definitive institutionalization of the University of Zaragoza.

Joaquín Ascaso Budria

Historian Alejandro Díez Torre recovered and published in 2006 a book written by Ascaso himself, “Memorias, 1936-1938: Hacia un nuevo Aragón” (“Memoirs, 1936-1938: Towards a new Aragon”), which was edited by the University of Zaragoza.

Luis de Aliaga Martínez

He was invited to teach theology at the University of Zaragoza, but instead, in 1605, he moved to the Dominican monastery in San Ildefonso.

Luis Oro

Luis A. Oro has been professor of Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza since 1982.

Marabunta

The project was founded at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, developed and promoted by students of computing engineering although development teams and users from many different places have shown interest, perhaps attracted by the ideological aims of the project.

Miguel Pardeza

After four years of law studies and Hispanic philology at the University of Zaragoza (1994–99), Pardeza prepared a thesis on César González Ruano, a Spanish journalist/writer.

Psychological resilience

Investigators from the Ecuadorian Catholic University (Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil) (Guayaquil) and the Spanish University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza), performed a comparative study at the Enrique C. Sotomayor Obstetric and Gynecology Hospital (Guayaquil) assessing resilience differences between pregnant adolescents and adults.

Scintillating bolometer

The luminescent bolometer has since then been developed by scientists from several groups, including the CNRS Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale and University of Zaragoza collaboration in view of the proposed ROSEBUD particle detector experiment in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory.

U of Z

University of Zaragoza, alternatively known as Universidad de Zaragoza or Saragossa University, a university in Spain


Carmen Magallón

Carmen Magallón-Portolés is a PhD, a physicist, and Master in Philosophy of Science by University of Zaragoza, Spain, committed with the advancement of women through researching their contributions to two important fields: science and peace.

Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems

BIFI was founded in October 2002 by a group of lecturers from the Faculty of Science of the University of Zaragoza, belonging to the Theoretical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology departments.

The Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) (in Spanish "Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos") is a research centre of the University of Zaragoza whose main objective is to apply computation to the physics of complex systems and biological models.