University of L'Aquila

The University of L'Aquila (Italian: Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, UnivAQ) is a public research university in L'Aquila, the capital of the Abruzzo region in central Italy.拉奎拉大学（Università degli Studi dell'Aquila，简称 UnivAQ）是位于意大利中部阿布鲁佐大区首府拉奎拉的一所公立研究型大学。

Teaching was inaugurated on 15 December 1952 at the Istituto Universitario di Magistero, and the institution was formally established as a free university by a decree of the President of the Republic of 18 August 1964 before becoming a state university in 1982-83.该校1952年12月15日在大学师资学院正式开课，1964年8月18日经共和国总统法令正式设立为自由大学，并于1982至1983学年转为国立大学。

It is organised in seven departments and enrols about 17,000 students, and it is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 701-800 band of the Times Higher Education ranking 2027, 1246th in the U.S. News 2026-2027 list and the 901-1000 band of the Shanghai ARWU 2026.该校设7个系，注册学生约1.7万人；在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列1001-1200区间，在2027年泰晤士高等教育排名中位列701-800区间，在US News 2026-2027榜单中列第1246位，在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中位列901-1000区间。

History

• On 11 October 1458 and again on 9 May 1464 the city of L'Aquila petitioned King Ferdinand of Aragon to open a Studium with the same privileges as those of Bologna, Siena and Perugia.1458年10月11日与1464年5月9日，拉奎拉城两度向阿拉贡国王费迪南一世请愿，要求设立一所与博洛尼亚、锡耶纳和佩鲁贾享有同等权利的大学。
• The king granted the request, but no document shows that the city ever opened the Studium, and Aquilan students such as Berardino di Ludovico continued to take degrees at Perugia, as he did in 1474.国王批准了这一请求，但没有任何文献显示该城真正开办了这所大学；拉奎拉学生如贝拉尔迪诺·迪·卢多维科仍前往佩鲁贾攻读学位，他于1474年在那里毕业。
• From 1596 the Jesuits provided higher instruction at their college in L'Aquila, the Aquilanum Collegium, which became the town's only sustained experience of advanced studies.自1596年起，耶稣会士在拉奎拉的学院中提供高等教育，这所“阿奎拉学院”成为该城唯一延续下来的高等研习机构。
• When a decree of 1767 expelled the Jesuits from the Kingdom of Naples, the college passed to the state and was renamed the Collegio Reale.1767年的法令将耶稣会士逐出那不勒斯王国后，学院收归国有，并更名为“皇家学院”。
• In 1785 chairs of chemistry, anatomy and the theory and practice of medicine were added to the existing teaching of theology, philosophy, history, mathematics, literature and Greek, and surgery and midwifery followed in 1792.1785年，学院在原有的神学、哲学、历史、数学、文学与希腊语教席之外增设化学、解剖学以及医学理论与实践教席，1792年又增设外科与助产学。
• A decree of 30 May 1807 by Joseph Napoleon reorganised the Royal Colleges, suppressed the one in L'Aquila and transferred its teaching to the Abbey of the Holy Spirit of Morrone near Sulmona.1807年5月30日，约瑟夫·拿破仑下令整顿皇家学院，撤销拉奎拉的学院，并把教学迁至苏尔莫纳附近的莫罗内圣灵修道院。
• Seven years later, on 21 August 1814, Joachim Murat inaugurated in L'Aquila a school of higher instruction for the whole Abruzzi area with university-level teaching in medicine.七年后，即1814年8月21日，若阿尚·缪拉在拉奎拉创办了一所面向整个阿布鲁佐地区的高等学校，医学教学达到大学水平。
• By a decree of 14 January 1817 King Ferdinand ordered a Reale Liceo in L'Aquila, as in Bari, Salerno and Catanzaro, teaching law, anatomy and physiology, surgery, chemistry, pharmacy and forensic medicine.1817年1月14日，费迪南国王下令在拉奎拉设立皇家中学，与巴里、萨莱诺和卡坦扎罗同级，教授法律、解剖与生理学、外科、化学、药学及法医学。
• In 1861 the school became the Scuola Universitaria di Farmacia, Notariato e Chirurgia minore, and a decree of 3 December 1874 recognised its students as qualified in pharmacy, surgery and land surveying.1861年，该校改为药学、公证与小外科大学学校；1874年12月3日的法令承认其学生具备药学、外科与土地测量从业资格。
• Degrees, however, were still conferred by the University of Naples on which the licei depended, and the number of students in L'Aquila fell sharply after the decree.然而学位仍由这些皇家中学所隶属的那不勒斯大学授予，法令颁布后拉奎拉的在校生人数大幅下降。
• In 1923 the "University Schools" were abolished altogether, leaving L'Aquila without any higher education institution for more than a quarter of a century.1923年，“大学学校”建制被彻底取消，拉奎拉在此后二十多年间不再有任何高等教育机构。
• In the summer of 1949 Vincenzo Rivera, professor of agricultural science, fellow of the Italian Academy and member of the Constituent Assembly, started university-level summer courses for Abruzzi students enrolled at the University of Rome.1949年夏，农业科学教授、意大利科学院院士、制宪议会议员温琴佐·里韦拉为在罗马大学就读的阿布鲁佐学生开设了大学水平的暑期课程。
• The success of those courses laid the foundation of a free university, and on 15 December 1952 teaching was inaugurated at the Istituto Universitario di Magistero with the support of local bodies.这些课程的成功为创办一所自由大学奠定了基础；1952年12月15日，在大学师资学院举行的开课仪式标志着教学正式开始，并得到地方机构的支持。
• It was also thanks to Rivera that an astronomical observatory was established at Campo Imperatore on the Gran Sasso at 2,200 metres, together with a high-altitude botanical garden, a geodynamics observatory and a national magnetism observatory.同样在里韦拉推动下，海拔2200米的大萨索山帝王台建立了天文台，并附设高山植物园、地球动力学观测站与国家地磁观测站。
• The creation of a medical institute was the work of Paride Stefanini, a surgeon who pressed for clinical teaching in L'Aquila and gave his name to one of the buildings on the Coppito campus.医学研究所的创建归功于外科医生帕里德·斯泰法尼尼，他力主在拉奎拉开展临床教学，科皮托校区的一座建筑即以他命名。
• A decree of the President of the Republic of 18 August 1964 gave the free university its legal charter, grouping the faculties of education, medicine, engineering and sciences.1964年8月18日的共和国总统法令赋予这所自由大学法定章程，把教育、医学、工程与理学四个学院整合为一体。
• In the academic year 1982-83 those four faculties became state institutions, so that the university passed from voluntary funding to the national budget.1982至1983学年，这四个学院转为国立机构，学校由此从依靠自愿捐助转为纳入国家预算。
• In 1985 the Faculty of Medicine established the first Italian chair of paediatric otolaryngology, a specialisation that had previously been taught only abroad.1985年，医学院设立了意大利首个小儿耳鼻咽喉科教席，此前该专科只能在国外接受培训。
• The Faculty of Economics was added in 1991, the Faculty of Education became the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy in 1993, and Educational Sciences, Sport Sciences, Psychology and Biotechnologies followed between 1996 and 2005.经济学院于1991年增设，教育学院于1993年改为文学与哲学学院，教育科学、体育科学、心理学与生物技术学院则在1996至2005年间陆续成立。
• On 6 April 2009 an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck at 3.32 in the morning, killing 55 students of the university and leaving only two buildings structurally sound on its two out-of-town campuses.2009年4月6日凌晨3时32分，一场6.3级地震袭击拉奎拉，造成该校55名学生遇难，两个城外校区仅有两座建筑结构完好。
• The following academic year was run through a full reconstruction programme: buildings were rented for departments that had lost their premises, a new student residence was created and services were provided to students made homeless.此后一个学年在全面重建计划中展开：学校为失去校舍的院系租用建筑，新建学生宿舍，并为失去住所的学生提供各类服务。
• Edoardo Alesse led the university until his death on 8 October 2025, and Fabio Graziosi, a telecommunications engineer and alumnus of 1993, took office as rector on 1 October 2025 for the 2025-2031 term.爱德华多·阿莱塞执掌该校直至2025年10月8日去世；电信工程学者、1993届校友法比奥·格拉齐奥西于2025年10月1日就任校长，任期至2031年。
• On 8 October 2026 the university named the Coppito building in via Vetoio after Alesse, unveiling plaques outside and in the main hall a year after his death.2026年10月8日，即阿莱塞逝世一周年之际，学校把位于韦托约街的科皮托大楼以他命名，并在楼外与主厅揭幕纪念铭牌。

Academics

• The university is divided into seven departments: Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Human Studies, and Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics.该校设7个系：生物技术与应用临床科学系、土木建筑与环境工程系、人文研究系，以及工业与信息工程及经济学系。
• The remaining three are Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, and Physical and Chemical Sciences.其余三个为信息工程、计算机科学与数学系，生命、健康与环境科学系，以及物理与化学科学系。
• The scientific departments are concentrated at Coppito, in via Vetoio, and at Monteluco di Roio in piazzale Ernesto Pontieri 1, while Human Studies occupies viale Nizza 14 in the city centre.理工类各系集中在韦托约街的科皮托与罗约山麓蓬蒂耶里广场1号，人文研究系则位于市中心的尼扎大道14号。
• In 2024/25 it enrolled 17,010 students, of whom 636 came from abroad, and 255 were doctoral candidates.2024/25学年该校注册学生17,010人，其中636人来自国外，博士生255人。
• The teaching staff numbers about 846, and the university offers 75 degree programmes, of which 32 are bachelor's courses, 39 master's courses and four single-cycle degrees.教学人员约846人；学校开设75个学位项目，其中本科课程32个、硕士课程39个、本硕连读项目4个。
• Engineering is the largest field, covering civil, construction-architectural, environmental, industrial, information and electronic engineering, and it is where most of the university's external research contracts are won.工程是该校规模最大的领域，涵盖土木、建筑营造、环境、工业、信息与电子工程，也是学校获得外部科研合同最多的方向。
• Physics and computer science work closely with the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, run by the National Institute for Nuclear Physics, and with the Gran Sasso Science Institute, both based in the province and sharing staff with the university.物理与计算机学科与格兰萨索国家实验室（由国家核物理研究所运营）、格兰萨索科学研究所密切合作，两者均设于本省，并与该校共享师资。
• CETEMPS, the Centre of Excellence for remote sensing and numerical modelling, develops early-warning techniques for the severe weather that causes flooding and landslides in the Apennines.CETEMPS遥感与数值模拟卓越中心致力于研发预警技术，应对在亚平宁山区引发洪水和滑坡的极端天气。
• DEWS, the centre for design methodologies of embedded controllers, moved in the 2000s towards the design and management of wireless sensor and actuator networks.嵌入式控制器设计方法研究中心（DEWS）在2000年代转向无线传感器与执行器网络的设计与管理。
• The Microscopy Centre serves all departments and outside institutions, and the Language Centre teaches English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Italian for foreign students.显微镜中心为全校各系及校外机构提供服务；语言中心开设英语、法语、德语、西班牙语、葡萄牙语、俄语课程，并为外国学生开设意大利语课程。
• Two botanical gardens belong to the university, the Alpine Botanical Garden of Campo Imperatore at 2,200 metres and the Orto Botanico in the city, both used for teaching and conservation.该校拥有两座植物园——海拔2200米的帝王台高山植物园与市内的大学植物园，均用于教学与物种保育。
• Clinical teaching is carried out with the San Salvatore hospital in L'Aquila, the main reference hospital for the province and the base for the medical and nursing degrees.临床教学与拉奎拉的圣萨尔瓦托雷医院合作开展，该院是全省的主要转诊医院，也是医学与护理学位的教学基地。
• The library system is distributed across the campuses and holds collections in engineering, medicine, science and the humanities, with online journals available to all enrolled students.图书馆系统分布于各校区，收藏工程、医学、理学与人文文献，在线期刊向全部注册学生开放。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex totals 44,262 works and 2,551,636 citations, with physics, engineering, earth sciences and clinical medicine the most represented fields.OpenAlex收录该校研究成果44,262篇、引用2,551,636次，物理、工程、地球科学与临床医学是占比最高的领域。
• International mobility runs through Erasmus agreements and through bilateral cooperation with universities in the Balkans and the Mediterranean, the language centre supports incoming exchange students, and the university is a member of the European University Association.国际流动通过Erasmus协议以及与巴尔干和地中海地区大学的双边合作开展，语言中心为前来交换的学生提供支持，该校同时是欧洲大学协会成员。
• Doctoral training is organised in PhD programmes attached to the seven departments, with 255 candidates enrolled in 2024/25 in physics, engineering, medicine and the social sciences.博士培养依托七个系的博士项目组织，2024/25学年在读博士生255人，分布在物理、工程、医学与社会科学领域。
• Post-earthquake research on seismic engineering, structural monitoring and disaster resilience became a distinctive field, drawing national and European funding after 2009.震后关于抗震工程、结构监测与灾害韧性的研究成为该校的特色领域，并在2009年之后获得国家与欧洲层面的资助。
• Its rector sits in the Conference of Italian University Rectors, the body that coordinates the sector's position towards the Ministry of University and Research on funding, recruitment and degree reform.该校校长是意大利大学校长会议的成员，该会议就经费、招聘与学位改革等议题协调各校向大学与研究部表达的立场。

Campus

• The university has no campus in the historic centre apart from the Human Studies building, and its two main poles, Coppito and Monteluco di Roio, lie outside the city walls.除人文研究系所在的建筑外，该校在历史城区内没有校区，两个主要校区科皮托与罗约山麓均位于城墙之外。
• Coppito, in via Vetoio, is the larger pole and houses the departments of clinical sciences, physical and chemical sciences, information engineering and life sciences, in buildings named after De Meis, Ricamo and Stefanini.位于韦托约街的科皮托是较大的校区，设临床科学、物理与化学科学、信息工程及生命科学各系，建筑分别以德梅斯、里卡莫与斯泰法尼尼命名。
• Monteluco di Roio, at piazzale Ernesto Pontieri 1, concentrates civil, industrial and information engineering in buildings that were among those damaged in 2009.罗约山麓校区位于蓬蒂耶里广场1号，集中了土木、工业与信息工程各系，其建筑在2009年地震中受损。
• After the earthquake the university rented premises across the city and in nearby towns, and a new student residence was built to replace the housing lost in the collapse.地震后，学校在城区及附近市镇租用校舍，并新建学生宿舍以替代在地震中损毁的住宿设施。
• Student residences include the Camplus L'Aquila XX Settembre and San Carlo Borromeo halls in the city centre, which offer single and double rooms to Italian and international students.学生公寓包括市中心的Camplus拉奎拉九月二十日公寓与圣卡洛·博罗梅奥公寓，为意大利及国际学生提供单人间与双人间。
• The university sports centre has football and rugby pitches, smaller five-a-side and seven-a-side fields, tennis courts, a volleyball and basketball court and a gym for fitness, climbing and martial arts.大学体育中心设有足球与橄榄球场、五人制与七人制小场、网球场、排球与篮球场，以及用于健身、攀岩与武术的体育馆。
• It also has agreements with the municipal swimming pool and with the Campo Imperatore ski resort, about 20 kilometres from the city centre and reachable by a mountain road.该中心还与市立游泳池以及距市中心约20公里、可经山路抵达的帝王台滑雪场签有合作协议。
• L'Aquila itself lies at about 721 metres in a basin surrounded by the Apennines, and the medieval street pattern and Baroque churches of the centre were extensively restored after 2009.拉奎拉位于海拔约721米的山间盆地，四周为亚平宁山脉环抱；老城的中世纪街巷与巴洛克教堂在2009年之后得到大规模修复。
• The Campo Imperatore station, at 2,200 metres on the Gran Sasso, remains the university's most distant facility and is reached in about forty minutes by road from the city.位于大萨索山海拔2200米的帝王台观测站仍是该校位置最偏远的设施，从市区驱车约四十分钟可达。

Reputation

• The University of L'Aquila is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval in the global table.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，拉奎拉大学位列1001-1200区间，是该全球榜单中的一个并列区间。
• It stood in the 701-800 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校在2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列701-800区间。
• It was ranked 1246th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027.在US News 2026-2027年度全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第1246位。
• It was placed in the 901-1000 band of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026.在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位列901-1000区间。
• In the Times Higher Education subject rankings for 2025, engineering stood in the 301-400 band worldwide and clinical and health in the 401-500 band.在2025年泰晤士高等教育学科排名中，该校工程学位列全球301-400区间，临床与健康学科位列401-500区间。
• The Center for World University Rankings placed it 906th worldwide in 2025, in the top 4.3% of the institutions it evaluates.世界大学排名中心在2025年将其列为全球第906位，处于其评估机构的全球前4.3%之列。
• CENSIS placed it in the lower half of its 2025-2026 table of medium-sized Italian state universities, a category covering 10,000 to 20,000 students.在CENSIS 2025-2026年度中型国立大学排名中，该校处于榜单后半段，该类别涵盖注册学生1万至2万人的院校。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 44,262 works and 2,551,636 citations, the largest output of the three Abruzzo and Friuli universities covered in this group.OpenAlex收录该校44,262篇研究成果与2,551,636次引用，是本组三所大学中产出规模最大的一所。
• Its reputation rests on physics, engineering and earth sciences, fields supported by the Campo Imperatore observatory, the Gran Sasso National Laboratory and the seismic networks run after 2009 with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.该校的声誉建立在物理、工程与地球科学之上，这些领域得益于帝王台观测站、格兰萨索国家实验室，以及2009年后与国家地球物理与火山学研究所共同运行的地震监测网络。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto, and its public identity is bound up with the city and with the memory of the 2009 earthquake.该校没有正式校训，其公共形象与这座城市以及2009年地震的记忆紧密相连。
• Its founding day is 15 December, the date on which teaching was inaugurated at the Istituto Universitario di Magistero in 1952.该校的建校纪念日为12月15日，即1952年大学师资学院正式开课之日。
• With about 17,000 students in a city of some 70,000 inhabitants, the university shapes the daily life of L'Aquila and supports its shops, cafés and bus services.约1.7万名学生分布在约7万人口的城中，大学塑造了拉奎拉的日常生活，并支撑着当地的商铺、咖啡馆与公交服务。
• Every 6 April the city and the university commemorate the victims of the 2009 earthquake, and the students who died are remembered in a ceremony attended by the rector.每年4月6日，城市与大学共同纪念2009年地震的罹难者，校长出席的仪式上会特别悼念遇难学生。
• Sport runs through CUS L'Aquila, whose facilities sit near the Roio campus, and skiing and mountain sports are accessible at Campo Imperatore in winter.体育活动由拉奎拉大学体育中心组织，其设施靠近罗约校区；冬季还可在帝王台开展滑雪与山地运动。
• The Erasmus association Aquilasmus and the university's international office organise welcome weeks, language tandems and trips for exchange students.Erasmus学生组织Aquilasmus与学校国际办公室为交换生组织迎新周、语言互助与旅行活动。
• Student life is marked by the reconstruction: many courses were taught in rented buildings for years, and the reopening of repaired facilities has been reported as a series of small milestones.学生生活带有明显的重建印记：多年来许多课程在租用建筑中进行，修复设施的重新启用被视作一个个小小的里程碑。
• The centre of L'Aquila, with Piazza Duomo and the sixteenth-century Spanish fort, is within walking distance of the Human Studies building and provides the main social space for students.拉奎拉老城拥有主教座堂广场与十六世纪的西班牙城堡，距人文研究系步行可达，是学生主要的社交空间。

Notable people

• Vincenzo Rivera, professor of agricultural science, fellow of the Italian Academy and member of the Constituent Assembly, started the 1949 summer courses and is regarded as the founder of the university.农业科学教授、意大利科学院院士、制宪议会议员温琴佐·里韦拉于1949年开办暑期课程，被视为该校的创始人。
• Paride Stefanini, a surgeon, pressed for the creation of a medical institute in L'Aquila and is commemorated in the name of a building on the Coppito campus.外科医生帕里德·斯泰法尼尼力促在拉奎拉建立医学研究所，科皮托校区的一座建筑以他命名以示纪念。
• Fabio Graziosi, a telecommunications engineer and 1993 graduate of the university, became rector on 1 October 2025 for the 2025-2031 term.电信工程学者、该校1993届毕业生法比奥·格拉齐奥西于2025年10月1日出任校长，任期至2031年。
• Edoardo Alesse, rector until his death on 8 October 2025, is commemorated by the naming of the Coppito building in via Vetoio in October 2026.爱德华多·阿莱塞任校长直至2025年10月8日逝世，2026年10月韦托约街的科皮托大楼以他命名以示纪念。
• Gabriella Tarantello, who took her degree in mathematics at L'Aquila in 1982, received the 2014 Lucio and Wanda Amerio Gold Medal for her work on partial differential equations.1982年在拉奎拉获得数学学位的加布里埃拉·塔兰泰洛，因其在偏微分方程方面的研究获得2014年卢乔与万达·阿梅里奥金质奖章。
• Filippo Giorgi, a physics graduate of 1982, won the 2018 Alexander von Humboldt Medal of the European Geosciences Union and contributed to the IPCC assessments that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.1982届物理系毕业生菲利波·焦尔吉获得欧洲地球科学联盟2018年亚历山大·冯·洪堡奖章，并为共享2007年诺贝尔和平奖的政府间气候变化专门委员会评估报告作出贡献。
• Silvia Picozzi, a physics graduate of 1994, was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019 for her work on ferroelectric and magnetic materials.1994届物理系毕业生西尔维娅·皮科齐因其在铁电与磁性材料方面的研究，于2019年当选美国物理学会会士。
• Paolo Pizzo, a former student, won the individual épée title at the 2011 World Fencing Championships and a team silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics.曾在该校就读的保罗·皮佐于2011年世界击剑锦标赛夺得男子重剑个人冠军，并在2016年里约奥运会获得团体银牌。
• Paola Concia, who graduated in motor sciences, was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2008 and campaigned for LGBT rights.毕业于运动科学专业的保拉·孔恰于2008年当选意大利众议院议员，并长期为性少数群体权利发声。
• Donatella Di Pietrantonio, a writer and dentist, studied at L'Aquila and won the 2017 Campiello Prize for her novel L'Arminuta.作家兼牙医多纳泰拉·迪·彼得兰托尼奥曾在拉奎拉求学，并凭小说《阿尔米努塔》获得2017年坎皮耶洛文学奖。
• Paola Inverardi, a professor of computer science at L'Aquila, later became rector of the Gran Sasso Science Institute and a leading figure in software architecture research.曾任拉奎拉大学计算机科学教授的保拉·因韦拉尔迪，后出任格兰萨索科学研究所所长，是软件架构研究领域的代表人物。