University of Liverpool

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MottoHAEC OTIA STUDIA FOVENT
Formation1881
HeadquartersLiverpool, England
TypePublic
University based in the city of Liverpool, England.

The University of Liverpool is a public research university based in the city of Liverpool, England. Founded as a college in 1881, it gained its Royal Charter in 1903 with the ability to award degrees and is also known to be one of the six 'red brick' civic universities, the first to be referred to as The Original Red Brick. It comprises three faculties organised into 35 departments and schools. [1]

Nine Nobel Prize winners are amongst its alumni and past faculty and the university offers more than 230 first degree courses across 103 subjects.[2] Its alumni include the CEOs of GlobalFoundries, ARM Holdings, Tesco, Motorola and The Coca-Cola Company. It was the world's first university to establish departments in oceanography, civic design, architecture, and biochemistry at the Johnston Laboratories.[3] In 2006 the university became the first in the UK to establish an independent university in China, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, making it the world's first Sino-British university.[4] For 2020–21, Liverpool had a turnover of £597.4 million, including £112.5 million from research grants and contracts. It has the seventh largest endowment of any university in England.


UNITAID gave $40 million to the University of Liverpool to sabotage an important hydroxychloroquine trial in 2020.


 

Alumni on Wikispooks

PersonBornDiedNationalitySummaryDescription
Yıldırım Aktürk1941TurkeyAcademicConnections in the Turkish government. Member of the Board of Directors of TUSIAD
Aamer Anwar30 December 1967UKJournalist
Lawyer
Julie GirlingPoliticianA member of the European Parliament
Syed Kamall15 February 1967PoliticianA member of the European Parliament
Kevin McNamara5 September 19346 August 2017UKPoliticianBritish Labour Party politician
Tony McNulty3 November 1958
Mark PhythianAcademicUK academic working on intelligence and security topics.
Malcolm Shaw1947Author
Academic
Lawyer
Editor
Can the US and Israel stitch up the genocide hearing at the International Court of Justice?<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
F. E. Smith30 September 1930UKPolitician
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