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The University of Navarra is a private pontifical university based at the southeast border of Pamplona, Spain. It was founded in 1952 by St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei as a corporate work of the apostolate of Opus Dei.

Through its four campuses (Pamplona, San Sebastián, Madrid and Barcelona), the University confers 27 official degrees and administers more than 300 postgraduate programs (including 33 doctoral programs and 13 master's programs) through 10 schools, 2 superior colleges, 2 university schools, its graduate business school, IESE ("Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa"; in English: "International Graduate School of Management" or "Institute of Higher Business Studies"), ISSA ("Instituto Superior de Secretariado y Administracion"; engl.: Superior Institute of Secretarial and Administrative Studies), and other centers and institutions. The university also runs a teaching hospitals called CIMA, as well as various community outreach and volunteer initiatives. In addition, the University's library system contains over 1.1 million books.

History[link]

Central building of the University of Navarra

The institution began as Estudio General de Navarra on October 17, 1952 with the inauguration of its School of Law with 48 students and eight professors under the direction of Josemaría Escrivá. The founder wished the future university "... to be a place where people acquire a high level of learning and a Christian outlook on life. We want it to be a place which encourages deep thought and reflection, so that learning is soundly rooted in true principles, and shines its light along all the paths of knowledge."

After founding its School of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1955 and its graduate business school, IESE, in 1958, the Estudio General de Navarra was established as a university by The Holy See on August 6, 1960, and received official accreditation from the State of Spain on September 8, 1962.

Since gaining university status, the university has gone by the name of Universidad de Navarra and has established several other schools and academic centers.

During all its years of functioning, it has suffered six terrorist attacks with bombs carried out by ETA being the last one on 30 October 2008,^[1] that left 17 people injured.^[2]

Government appointments of Professors[link]

• Prof. Luis Carranza, MSc in Economics and Finance program, Faculty of Economics and Business Management - Appointed Minister of Economics of the Government of Peru on July 20, 2006

Notable rankings[link]

IESE Business School of the University of Navarra: A top business school, according to Financial Times and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

The Economist Intelligence Unit of The Economist magazine, in its 2005 and 2006 rankings of MBA programs, ranks the University of Navarra's business school, IESE, as having the best MBA program in the world.

• The Times in its 2006 Times Higher Education Supplement ranked the University of Navarra as the top private university in Spain
• El Mundo, in its 2006/2007 "Spain Best Universities Annual Report", ranks the University of Navarra as the best private university in Spain, and has consistently ranked it as such in the past.

Among both public and private universities, its undergraduate journalism course ranked #1, its undergraduate audio-visual communications and humanities courses #2; its undergraduate nursing, pharmacy, medicine, nutrition, and public relations courses #3; its undergraduate architecture and industrial engineering courses #4; and undergraduate business administration and management, law, telecom engineering, and social work courses #5.

El Mundo, in its 2007/2008 "250 Master" ranking of Spanish masters programs, ranks Navarra's

• MSc in Business Law and MSc in Drug Research and Development #1 in their categories;
• MSc in Economics & Finance (#1 program in English), MSc in Architectural Design, and MSc in Media Management #2 in their categories; and
• MA in Liberal Arts (specializations available in European Studies, Spanish Golden Age Literature, Medieval Studies, Spanish History, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Spanish Literature, Cultural Management, History of Art, Journalism, Public Relations, Economics, Law, Education, and/or Political and Social Studies) #3 in its category.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica in its 1973 edition ranks it as the best university in Spain^[3]

Notable alumni[link]

• Isabel Aguilera, Executive Management Program Certificate - CEO, Google Spain and Portugal "Google Iberia"
• Antonio Arregui Yarza, Doctor of (Civil) Laws - Archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador
• Yolanda Barcina Angulo, degree in Pharmacy 1982, Doctor in Pharmacy 1984 - Pharmacy professor, Mayor of Pamplona, Spain, and President of the Government of Navarra, Spain
• Alfredo Biel Castán, MBA - CEO, Bonsai Technologies group, S.A.
• Ruben Bonet, MBA - CEO, Fractus
• Javier Cebrián Sagarriga, MBA - Chairman, Bonsai Technologies group, S.A.
• Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) - Cardinal Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru.
• John A. Corapi, SOLT, Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.), Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) 1994 - Famous Catholic evangelist

• Juan Costa Climent, B.LL. - Former Secretary of State of Commerce and Tourism (2000–2004), and former Minister of Science and Technology (2003–2004), Government of Spain under the administration of José María Aznar López
• Iñaki Gabilondo Pujol, Licentiate in Journalism c. 1963 - News director, Cuatro
• Ricardo García García, Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) 1985 - Bishop-Prelate of the Prelature of Yauyos, Peru
• Félix Guerrero Igea, degree in Industrial Engineering - President, Gestlink, S.A.
• Antonio González-Adalid García-Zozaya, MBA 1976 – Chairman, Enagás S.A.
• Jacobo González-Robatto, E-MBA 1986 – CEO, Barclays Spain
• Luis Hernández de Cabanyes, MBA – Chairman, Renta Corporación
• José Horacio Gomez, B.A. in Theology (Rome campus) 1978, Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) 1980 - Archbishop of Los Angeles, United States
• Julián Herranz Casado, Doctor of Medicine - Former Cardinal President, Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
• Miguel Ángel Liso, Licentiate in Information Science - Editorial Director, Grupo ZETA
• William MacDonald, MBA – CEO, Lazard Asesores Financieros S.A.
• C. John McCloskey III, STD - Catholic priest of Opus Dei
• Jorge “Jordi” Mercader Miró, MBA 1969 – Chairman, Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona, S.A. (Grupo Agbar)
• Rev. Prof. Domènec Melé, Ph. D. in Theology - Chair, Department of Business Ethics, IESE Business School
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  Teaching hospital of the University of Navarra
• Amparo Moraleda Martínez, MBA – President of IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel, and Turkey
• Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Doctor of Psychiatry 1960, degree in Journalism 1968, degree in Sciences of Communication 1980 - Former Director (1984–2006), Vatican Press Office, The Holy See
• Francisco Polti Santillan, Law degree (post-graduate) 1963 - Bishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
• Jaume Pujol Balcells, Doctor in Sciences of Education & Doctor in Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) - Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
• Pedro J. Ramírez, Licentiate (equivalent to US or UK bachelor) in Journalism 1973 - Founder, journalist, and editor-in-chief of El Mundo newspaper
• Javier Robles, PDG (General Management Program) 1990 – President, Danone Spain
• Juan Antonio Ugarte Perez, Doctor of Canon Law (J.C.D.) - Archbishop of Cuzco, Peru
• María del Pino Velázquez, MBA 1991 – CEO, Unisono
• Carmen Valera, MBA - CEO, Burson-Marsteller Spain
• Alberto Ortega Venzor, Doctor of Philosophy & Letters - Director of the President's Office of Public Policy and 6th ranking member on the President's Cabinet, Presidency of Vicente Fox, Government of Mexico
• Ruth Kelly, former UK Secretary of State for Transport.
• Pedro Miguel Echenique, physicist, Prince of Asturias Award
• Ramón Calderón, former president of Real Madrid
• Hector Zagal - Mexican philosopher.
• Enrique García-Máiquez - Spanish poet.
• Pablo Zalba - Spanish Politician and member of the European Parliament.

External links[link]

• Official English language Website
• El Mundo 2007/2008 Ranking of Spain's Private Universities
• Ranking of Spain's Master Programs
• Economist Intelligence Unit's 2006 MBA rankings
• U. of Navarra site at www.josemariaescriva.info
• Article of Msgr. Javier Echevarría on the University of Navarre, published in the weekly “Alfa y Omega”

References[link]

1. ^ Un coche bomba en el aparcamiento de la Universidad de Navarra causa heridas leves a 17 personas, El Pais
2. ^ Der Spiegel: Car Bomb in Spain Injures 17, october 10, 2008
3. ^ article "Opus Dei", Micropaedia

Mariano Artigas (1938–2006) was a Spanish physicist, philosopher and writer. He received the Templeton Foundation Award in 1995 for his work on science and religion. He wrote The Mind of the Universe: Understanding Science and Religion and fifteen other books on science and religion.

He was a member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Theology and the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. He was Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Dialogue with Non-believers.

In 2002, jointly with other professors, he created Science, Reason and Faith Research Group (CRYF), based in the University of Navarra where he taught. The aim of the Group is to promote interdisciplinary study of issues where science, philosophy and theology intertwine.[1]

He held Ph.D.'s in physics, philosophy and theology.

He was ordained a priest on 9 August 1964, and incardinated to the Opus Dei prelature. He was the Dean of the Ecclesiastical Faculty of Philosophy for the University of Navarre from 1988 to 1998.

Works[link]

Professor Artigas had more than 150 articles published based on the relationship of science, philosophy, and theology.

His book The Mind of the Universe, Understanding Science and Religion received good reviews, among which is that of Contemporary Physics: Artigas "has raised the level of the contemporary debate on the relations between science and religion and provided a sure guide to their complexities. He seems to have read almost every book on the subject, and gives judicious and sympathetic accounts even of views he does not share. As a scientist himself, he does full justice to the value of science and to the subtleties of the scientific method."

His other well-known works in English are:

• Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists versus God and Religion - with Karl Giberson (December 28, 2006)

• Galileo Observed: Science and the Politics of Belief - with William R. Shea (October 6, 2006)

• Knowing Things for Sure: Science and Truth - with Alan McCone (July 28, 2006)

• Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877--1902 (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context) - with Thomas F. Glick and Rafael A. Martínez (August 17, 2006)

External links[link]

• Mariano Artigas at the University of Navarre
• Mariano Artigas at Templeton Foundation Press
• Mariano Artigas and Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF) Research Group