Talk:Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Endowment

We should look for data on that, all leading universities on wikipedia have financial information, it's one of the few things missing on the page to make it standard quality. By the way, this page is much superior to that of UFRJ.--native_earthian 22:03, 5/14/2006 (UTC)

Famous Alumni

I added this section inspired on many wikipedia university articles. Please help by adding the information you have.--native_earthian 23:46, 5/20/2006 (UTC)

About endowment of PUC-Rio Unfortunately, like all the Brazilian Universities, we have no endowment. The brazilian legislation does not favour donations to non profit organizations. Therefore, we receive only occasionally very tiny contributions from private sector. As you may suppose, we are always struggling to survive as a leading research University. Sometimes, we lunched specific campaigns, for building some facilities. In the last years, for example, we collected donations for a new church, which was inaugureted on 1st. November 2005. Fr. Jesús Hortal Sánchez, S.J. Rector (Presidente) of PUC-Rio.

But sir, doesn't the former PUC-Rio economics alumni association donate money regularly to the institution?--native_earthian

What about the land donations?

I'm absolutely sure that much of the donations aimed at research by the university comes from Petrobras. For example nearly all the engineering teachers do at least one proect that serves petrobras.Tufts (talk) 16:36, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Proof of this is that recently Petrobras invested 34 million reais into the construction of a completely new building that will house research done by PUC. Tufts (talk) 19:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Native earthian, the Economics Department does receive some donations, but I have no information on the total ::value. This page from the department shows a list of the contributors, but I don't think it'll be of any use:

http://www.econ.puc-rio.br/doacoes.html

Gbuch (talk) 02:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Name

All other Brazilian PUCs at wikipedia are referred to as "Pontifical Catholic University" and not the not the portuguese alternative "Pontifícia Universidade Católica". Perhaps we should change it here.--El Chemaniaco 18:10, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, as that is just a translation of the real name... Just like the name of the Rio de Janeiro article is not River of January, the PUC one should remain in portuguese. Tufts (talk) 19:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

School Section

I added a section that links to all the major schools of PUC-Rio. Tufts (talk) 18:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Advertisment

Will there be any discussion here about the advertisement claim? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gbuch (talk • contribs) 02:57, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree a bit with the advertisment claim, especially in the campus section (beautiful and calm etc). But the article as a whole does not deserve speedy deletion. Tufts (talk) 14:41, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I have attempted to remove all advertisement in the article, there might be some left in some people opinions, it's a subjective matter. Nonetheless I have removed the advert warning. Tufts (talk) 10:43, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Research section, Lua (programming language)

I wanted to add a note on the Lua (programming language) created at PUC-Rio. There didn't seem to be any logical place to put this, so I created the new section Research, which appears to be appropriate based on articles on other universities.
I suspect that other items could also be added to this section.
We might also want to tweak the name of this section if appropriate. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 03:19, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

CHANGE THE OFFICIAL NAME!

THE NAME IS IN ENGLISH, THE CORRECT IS IN PORTUGUESE, THE CORRECT IS: PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO!!

HELP THIS PAGE OK!

CHANGE THE OFFICIAL NAME!

THE NAME IS IN ENGLISH, THE CORRECT IS IN PORTUGUESE, THE CORRECT IS: PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO!!

HELP THIS PAGE OK!