University of Selasia

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The University of Selasia is the premier center of learning within the Distant Fringe, founded by Willem Bright and rivalled only by the University of Tal Varisa.

Description / Specifications

Its main faculties are located on Selasia (0436 [[Halcyon Sector|Halcyon). It maintains campuses on each member world of the Bright Conclave and on a number of other worlds located within the Bright Peninsula.

The University funds the Orowani Deep Space Fuel Cache, a Calibration Point located in interstellar hex (1937 Halcyon). It provides access to the Sarunt system (1939 Halcyon), the homeworld of the Treehangers, where various departments and faculties conduct studies and research.

Colleges and Departments

The University of Selasia consists of over 100 departments, faculties, schools and institutes plus a central administration.

Arts

  • Faculty of Architecture and History of Art
    • Department of Architecture
    • Department of History of Art
  • Faculty of Cultural Studies
    • Department of Halcyonic Studies
    • Department of Far Home Studies
  • Faculty of Classics
    • Museum of Classical Archaeology
  • Faculty of Divinity
  • Faculty of Languages
    • College of Ancient Languages
    • Bright School of Modern Languages
  • Esteban Institute of Music
  • Faculty of Philosophy

Social Sciences

  • Faculty of Sophont, Social and Political Science
    • Department of Archaeology and Sophontology:
      • Archaeology
      • Biological Sophontology
      • Bright Center for Sophont Evolutionary Studies
    • Center for Politics and Interstellar Studies:
      • Institute of Post-Corolian Studies
      • Centre of Development Studies
    • College of Sociology
    • Department of Social Sophontology
    • Museum of Archaeology & Sophontology
    • Bright Institute for Archaeological Research
  • Willem Bright College of Economics
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of History
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Faculty of Law
    • Centre for Interstellar Law
    • College of Rissa Accords Studies
  • Institute of Criminology

Biological Sciences

  • Faculty of Biology
    • Biochemistry
    • Genetics
    • Pathology
    • Pharmacology
    • Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
      • Institute of Psionic Studies
    • Plant Sciences
      • Selasia Botanic Garden
    • Psychology
    • Zoology
      • Museum of Zoology
  • Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
    • Department of Veterinary Medicine

Physical Sciences

  • Faculty of Planetary Sciences & Geography
    • Planetary Sciences
    • Delphine-Kroop Museum of Planetary Sciences
  • Geography Department
    • Montrose Environmental Research Institute
  • Faculty of Mathematics
    • School of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
    • Institute of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
      • Statistical Laboratory
  • Faculty of Physics & Chemistry
    • Astronomy
      • Jumpspace Institute
    • Chemistry
    • Materials Science and Metallurgy
    • Physics
  • Hirishi Ishida Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Clinical Medicine

  • Clinical Biochemistry
    • Metabolic Research Laboratories
  • Clinical Neurosciences
    • Center for Brain Repair
    • Neurology Unit
    • Neurosurgery
    • Psionic Studies Unit
  • Medical Genetics
  • Medicine
  • Psychiatry
    • Brain mapping unit
    • Developmental psychiatry
  • School of Surgery
    • Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Institute of Public Health
    • General Practice & Primary Care Research

Technology

  • Faculty of Engineering
    • Department of Engineering:
      • High Energy Research Department
      • Electrical engineering and fluid mechanics
      • Mechanics, materials and design
      • Civil engineering
      • Manufacturing and management
      • Information engineering
  • Faculty of Business & Management
    • Bright School of Business
    • Centre for Business Research
    • The Psychometrics Centre
  • Faculty of Computer Science & Technology
    • Computer Laboratory
  • Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology

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