University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (German: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) better known as FAU is a public research university in the cities Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. University name Friedrich-Alexander came from the university's first founder Friedrich,Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and its benefactor Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
FAU is the second largest state university in the state Bavaria and largest one in the Northern Bavarian region, which is having five Schools, 312 chairs, and roughly 12,000 employees. There are roughly 35,473 students enrolled in 149 study programs in the university, of which about 2/3 are studying in Erlangen and remaining 1/3 in Nuremberg. There are also about 2,705 foreign students enrolled in the university.
In 2006 and 2007, in the line of the excellence initiative FAU was chosen by DFG as one of the winner in the German Universities Excellence Initiative. FAU is also a member of DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network.
Read more about University Of Erlangen-Nuremberg: History, Faculties, University Facilities, Notable Alumni and Professors, Gallery, Points of Interest
Famous quotes containing the words university of and/or university:
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving ones ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of ones life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into ones real life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)