Universidad de Madrás
La Universidad de Madrás, con sede en Chennai, Tamil Nadu, es una de las tres universidades más antiguas de la India.
Coat of arms
The description of the Coat of Arms of the university, designed in 1857, is:
"Argent (silver or white) on a Mount issuant from the basement a Tiger passant proper (walking and coloured naturally), on a Chief Sable (black across the top), a Pale Or (a gold or yellow vertical strip down the centre 1/3 of the top or chief), thereon, between two Elephants heads couped of the field, a lotus flower leaved and slipped of the third, together with this motto Doctrina Vim Promovet Insitam".
The coat of arms colours are: the base is light green, the tiger is yellow on a white background, the elephant is grey on a black background, the lotus is a white flower with olive green leaves, on a gold background. The motto scroll is edged red, with black lettering.
The English translation of the motto of the University of Madras is: "Learning promotes natural talent."
Campuses
The university has campuses in Chepauk, Marina, Guindy and Taramani.
Chepauk campus: School of Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, School of Political and International Studies, School of Economics, School of Philosophy and Religious Thought, School of Fine and Performance Arts, School of English and Foreign Languages, School of Business and Management, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, School of Information and Communication Studies, School of Earth and Atmospheric Science.
Marina campus: School of Tamil and other Dravidian Languages, School of Sanskrit and other Indian Languages.
Guindy campus: School of Earth and Atmospheric Science, School of Chemical Sciences, School of Physical Sciences, School of Life Sciences.
Taramani campus: School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Nanoscience and Photonics departments.
Examinations
The bulk of the revenue comes to the university by way of examination fees. The university runs Distance Education programmes which widens the scope for revenue through examinations.
Senate House
Plantilla:See Also The University of Madras has a historical monument – Senate House – which is one of the landmarks of the city of Chennai. The Senate House, the University's first building, inaugurated in the year 1879, is a masterpiece of Robert Fellowes Chisholm, an architect of the 19th century, who blended the Indo-Saracenic style with Byzantine and European architectural features. The university renovated the Senate House in 2006.
Constituent colleges
Autonomous – arts and science colleges
- Ethiraj College for Women
- Vaishnav College, Chennai
- MOP Vaishnava College, Chennai – an autonomous college for women.
- The New College, Chennai
- Bharathi Women's College
- Loyola College, Chennai
- Madras Christian College, Tambaram
- Presidency college
- Queen Mary's College,Chennai
- Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Chennai
- Stella Maris College, Chennai
Non-autonomous – arts and science colleges
- A. M. Jain College, Meenambakkam, Chennai
- Dr.Ambedkar Government Arts College
- Jaya Govind Harigopal Agarwal Agarsen College, Madhavaram, Chennai
- Government Arts College, Nandanam
- Government College of Arts and Crafts
- Government college of Architecture and Sculpture
- Loganatha Narayanasamy Government Arts College
- Quaid-e-Millath Government College for women
- Rajeswari Vedachalam Government Arts College
- Sri Subramaniaswami Government Arts College
- Sri Sankara Arts and Science College, Enathur, Kanchipuram
- SS Shasun Jain College for Women, T. Nagar, Chennai
- The Qaide Milleth College for Men, Arts and Science, Medavakkam
Notable alumni
Nobel Laureates
- C. V. Raman (B.A., M.A. 1902), Nobel Prize in Physics (1930), Bharat Ratna (1954)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar(B.Sc 1925), Nobel Prize in Physics (1983), Copley Medal(1984)
Law and politics
Governor-General
- Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Governor General of Independent India (1948–1950), Bharat Ratna (1954)
Presidents
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (1962–1967), Bharat Ratna (1954)
- V. V. Giri, fourth President of India (1969–1974), Bharat Ratna (1975)
- Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, sixth President of India (1977–1982)
- R. Venkataraman, eighth President of India (1987–1992)
- A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, eleventh President of India (2002–2007), Bharat Ratna (1997)
Chief justice
- Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India
- K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of India
Ministers
- Chidambaram Subramaniam, Minister, Bharat Ratna (1998)
- Palaniappan Chidambaram, Home Minister of India
- CN Annadurai – former chief minister of Tamilnadu
Science and technology
- A.V. Balakrishnan, applied mathematician; professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles
- G.N. Ramachandran (M.Sc. 1942), Biophysicist who described the structure of Collagen
- Sathamangalam R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize (2007)
- K. S. Krishnan, Physicist, co-discover of Raman scattering, Padma Bhushan (1954)
- Indra Nooyi, Chairman, Pepsi Co.
Literature
- Najmul Hoda, scholar, writer and poet, ex-head of the departments of Urdu, Arabic and Persian
Film
- M.G. Ramachandran, Honorary Doctorate, actor in Tamil films and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
- Mani Ratnam, Tamil Indian film director, writer and producer, Padma Shri (2002)
- Vanamali, Telugu film lyricist, Ph.D. in Telugu literature-->
Referencias
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Enlaces externos
Wikimedia Commons alberga una categoría multimedia sobre Universidad de Madrás.
- Official website
- Madras University results
- University of Madras Institute of Correspondence Education
