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The University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield coat of arms.png
Former names
 University College of Sheffield
Motto Latin: Rerum cognoscere causas
Motto in English
 To discover the causes of things
Established 1828 (1828) – Sheffield Medical School
1897 (1897) – University College of Sheffield
1905 (1905) – University of Sheffield
Type Public
Endowment £ 36.5 million[1]
Chancellor Sir Peter Middleton
Vice-Chancellor Sir Keith Burnett
Administrative staff
 5,306
Students 26,960[2]
Undergraduates 18,005[2]
Postgraduates 8,950[2]
Location Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Coordinates: 53°22′53″N 1°29′18″W / 53.381389°N 1.488272°W / 53.381389; -1.488272
Campus Urban
Colours Black & gold
                         
Affiliations Russell Group, WUN, ACU, N8 Group, White Rose, Yorkshire Universities, EQUIS, AMBA
Website www.sheffield.ac.uk
Logo of the University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University) is a research university in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It received its royal charter in 1905 as successor to Sheffield Medical School (1828) and University College of Sheffield (1897). As one of the original red brick universities, it is also a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities.

The University of Sheffield is widely recognised as a leading research and teaching university both in the UK and in the world.[3][4][5][6] In 2014, QS World University Rankings[7] placed Sheffield as the 66th university worldwide and 12th in the UK. In 2011, Sheffield was named 'University of the Year' in the Times Higher Education awards.[8] The latest Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014 ranked the University of Sheffield 1st for student experience, social life, university facilities and accommodation, among other categories.

The university is organised into five academic faculties composed of multiple departments. It had more than 17000 undergraduate and around 9000 postgraduate students in 2012.[9] Its annual income for 2013–14 was £517.9 million, with an expenditure of £497.5 million, resulting in a surplus of £20.4 million.[1]

Sheffield is also a member of the Worldwide Universities Network,[10] the N8 Group of the eight most research intensive universities in Northern England [11] and the White Rose University Consortium.[12]

History[edit]

Portrait of Mark Firth, opened Firth College in 1879
The poster which helped raise funds for the University (1904/1905)

Origins[edit]

Sheffield School of Medicine, founded in 1828 (right)
Firth College, later became part of the University
Firth Court, opened in 1905, with the Royal Charter

The University of Sheffield was originally formed by the merger of three colleges. The Sheffield School of Medicine was founded in 1828, followed in 1879[13] by the opening of Firth College, which developed out of the Cambridge University Extension Movement scheme, by Mark Firth, a steel manufacturer, to teach arts and science subjects.[14] Firth College then helped to fund the opening of the Sheffield Technical School in 1884 to teach applied science, the only major faculty the existing colleges did not cover. The Sheffield Technical School was found to arouse local concern about the need for technical training, particularly steelmaking in Sheffield, and the school moved to St George's Square in 1886.[14] The three institutions merged in 1897 to form the University College of Sheffield by Royal Charter.[14] Sheffield was the only large city in England without a University. Steelworkers, coal miners, factory workers and the people of Sheffield donated over £50,000 in 1904 to help found the University of Sheffield.[15]

Royal Charter[edit]

It was originally envisaged that the University College would join Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds as the fourth member of the federal Victoria University. However, the Victoria University began to split up as independent universities before this could happen and so the University College of Sheffield received its own Royal Charter on 31 May 1905 and became the University of Sheffield. In July 1905, Firth Court on Western Bank was opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. St George's Square remained the centre of departments of Applied Science, and the departments of Arts, Medicine and Science moved to Western Bank.[14] Sheffield is one of the six red brick universities, the civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England.

Coat of arms[edit]

The arms of the University blazoned Azure, A gold-edged book inscribed with the Latin Disce Doce (Learn and Teach), A sheaf of eight silver arrows on either side (from the arms of the city), The Crown of Success and The White Rose of York, with a scroll carrying the motto Rerum cognoscere causas (To Discover the Causes of Things; from Virgil's Georgics II, 490), which was also the motto of Firth College.[16] The University's logo, consists of a redrawn version of the Coat of Arms and the name of the institution, is introduced in 2005, the centenary year of the University. However, the Coat of Arms remains the official heraldic symbol of the University, and should not be confused with the logo.[16]

Development[edit]

In 1905, there were 114 full-time students, and the first Hall of Residence (Stephenson Hall) and library (Edgar Allen library) had been established by then. The number of students increased to a short-lived peak of 1000 in 1919. During World War I, some of the academic subjects and courses were replaced by teaching of munitions making and medical appliances production.[14]

The University then grew slowly until the 1950s and 1960s when it began to expand rapidly. Many new buildings (including the Main Library and the Arts Tower) were built and older houses were brought into academic use. Student numbers increased to their present levels of just under 26,000. From the 1960s, many more buildings have been constructed or extended, including the Union of Students, the Octagon Centre, the Northern General Hospital and St George's Library. In 1987 the University began to collaborate with its once would-be partners of the Victoria University by co-founding the Northern Consortium; a coalition for the education and recruitment of international students.[14]

In 1995, the University took over the Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery, the St George's Hospital was extended and a new building at the Northern General Hospital has been constructed, which greatly increased the size of the medical faculty. In 2005, the South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority announced that it would split the training between Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University – however, the University decided to pull out of providing preregistration nursing and midwifery training due to "costs and operational difficulties".[17] In the 21st century, the University opened many more major buildings, such as the Jessop Building, the Soundhouse, Jessop West and the Information Commons. The Arts Tower building, the Students' Union and University House buildings, the Sheffield Bioincubator and University Health Centre were also refurbished.[14]

Location[edit]

The Arts Tower and Western Bank Library
The Information Commons

Main (Western Bank) campus[edit]

The Alfred Denny Building

The University of Sheffield is not a campus university, though most of its buildings are located in fairly close proximity to each other. The centre of the University's presence lies one mile to the west of Sheffield city centre, where there is a mile-long collection of buildings belonging almost entirely to the University. This area includes the Sheffield Students' Union (housed next door to University House), the Octagon Centre, Firth Court, the Geography and Planning building, the Alfred Denny Building (housing natural sciences, the Departments of Animal and Plant Sciences and Biology, and including a small museum), the Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings and the Hicks Building. The Grade II*-listed library and Arts Tower are also located in this cluster.[18] The Arts Tower houses one of Europe's few surviving examples of a Paternoster lift.[19] A concourse under the main road (the A57) allows students to easily move between these buildings. Amongst the more recent additions to the universities estate are The Information Commons, opened in 2007, The Soundhouse (Carey Jones Architects and Jefferson Sheard Architects 2008) and the Jessop West building (2009), the first UK project by renowned Berlin architects Sauerbruch Hutton.[20] In addition, throughout 2010 the Western Bank Library received a £3.3m restoration and refurbishment, the University of Sheffield Union of Students underwent a £5m rebuild, and work commenced on a multimillion pound refurbishment of the grade II* listed Arts Tower to extend its lifespan by 30 years.[21]

The Octagon Centre[edit]

Main article: Octagon Centre

The Octagon Centre is a multi-purpose conference centre and music venue situated at the Western Bank campus, and is joined by a skyway to University House. The Octagon Centre comprises an eight-sided auditorium with a capacity of 1600, offices, meeting rooms, and a lounge with bar and patio.[22] The Octagon Centre consists of a main auditorium known as the Convocation Hall, with offices and meeting rooms in corridors across two floors at a lower elevation on the southern side of the building, and a bar lounge. All of these areas are connected by a foyer entrance block. The building is connected to University House by a footbridge, offering access to University House's catering facilities.

Firth Court and Alfred Denny Building[edit]

Main articles: Firth Court and Alfred Denny Building

Firth Court is the main administrative centre for the University of Sheffield, stands at the heart of the University precinct on Western Bank. It originally housed the Arts, Science and Medicine departments, while it is currently home to the Department for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and Biomedical Science. The building was opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1905, and is named after Mark Firth.[14]

The Rotunda, located to the left of Firth Court, is the Registrar and Secretary's Office.[23] It was formerly the Edgar Allen Library, opened 26 April 1909 by Prince and Princess of Wales.[24]

Alfred Denny Building, a red brick building named after the first Professor of Zoology at the department, is linked to Firth Court via the Addison Building. The building houses the Biomedical Science, Animal and Plant Science Departments including its associated museum, Disability and Dyslexia Support Service, and the Perak Laboratories.[25]

Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings[edit]

Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings in 1971

The Dainton Building, houses the Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Sciences, is named after Sheffield academic chemist and university chancellor Frederick Sydney Dainton. The East Wing of Dainton Building was renamed Richard Roberts Building after Nobel Laureate and University graduate Richard Roberts.

Hicks Building[edit]

Main article: Hicks Building

The Hicks Building is a building named after William Mitchinson Hicks, a British mathematician and physicist who spent most of his career at Sheffield, contributing to the development of the university. It houses the departments of Physics and Astronomy, the Chemistry and Physics Workshop and the School of Mathematics and Statistics. The Building is in three sections, including a taller building clad in red-brick, a shorter fully linked section clad in blue tiles and glass, and a section facing the University Concourse.

Arts Tower and Western Bank Library[edit]

Main article: Arts Tower

The Arts Tower is a Grade II* listed building opened in 1966.[26] It was the tallest in Sheffield from 1965 to 2010, and is the tallest university building in the UK.[27] The building, previously housed several academic departments, is now mainly an administration block. A bridge at the mezzanine level links the tower to Western Bank Library. The two buildings are intended to be viewed together.[28] Formerly known as the University Library, the Western Bank Library was the main library of the University of Sheffield until the Information Commons was established. The Grade II*-listed library is home to 25,000 rare books and 150 special collections.[29]

St George's[edit]

To the east lies St George's Campus, named after St George's Church (now a lecture theatre and postgraduate residence). The campus is centred on Mappin Street, home to a number of University buildings, including the Faculty of Engineering (partly housed in the Grade II-listed Mappin Building) and the University of Sheffield School of Management and Department of computer science. The University also maintains the Turner Museum of Glass in this area. The University recently converted the listed old Victorian Jessop Hospital for Women buildings into the new home of the Department of Music. The adjacent Edwardian buildings and a large vacant plot of land opposite St George's Church are awaiting development as and when funding permits. The grade II listed Edwardian wing of the Jessop Hospital is being demolished to be replaced by a new £81 million building for the Faculty of Engineering.[30]

Sir Frederick Mappin Building[edit]

Main article: Sir Frederick Mappin Building

The Sir Frederick Mappin Building is a grade II-listed building in an area known as the St George's Complex. The building houses much of the Faculty of Engineering and St George's IT centre.[27] The oldest part of the building, the former Technical School, now lies in the centre of the building. The extensive Mappin Street frontage includes the main entrance, the John Carr Library and Mappin Hall, and is connected to the Technical School by a bridge.

St George's Church[edit]

Main article: St George's Church, Portobello

St George's Church is a building built in the Perpendicular style. It was the first of three commissioners' churches to be built in Sheffield under the Church Building Act 1818. The church closed in 1981 and was acquired by the University. It was converted for use as a lecture theatre in 1994.[31]

West of the main campus[edit]

Further west lies Weston Park, the Weston Park Museum, the Harold Cantor Gallery, sports facilities in the Crookesmoor area, and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health around the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (although these subjects are taught in the city's extensive teaching hospitals under the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and throughout South Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire). It is in this area that the new £12m Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in November 2010, is located.[32]

Libraries and museums[edit]

The University has currently 5 libraries, they are: the Information Commons, Western Bank Library, Health Sciences Libraries (Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Northern General Hospital) and St. George's Library.[33] The sixth library, IC in the Diamond, will open in 2015.[34] The University of Sheffield Library is a member of Research Libraries UK.[35]

The Western Bank Library has an Exhibition Gallery.[36] The Gallery space enables collections from the University Library and the National Fairground Archive to be displayed in controlled conditions.[37]

The Alfred Denny Museum is a museum operated by the University.[38] It was established in 1905, and was located in Firth Court then moved to Alfred Denny Building.[39] The Museum has specimens from all major phyla, and two letters written from Charles Darwin to Henry Denny. Many of the specimens have been collected since the 1900s, but much of the information about the collection was lost during World War II.[40]

The Turner Museum of Glass houses the University's collections of 19th and 20th century glass.[41] It contains mainly from major European and American glassworkers and examples from ancient Egypt and Rome. It is in the Hadfield Building. It was founded by Professor W E S Turner[41][42] of the University in 1943. One of the exhibits is the wedding dress of Helen Nairn (Turner's wife) which is made of glass fibre. This has been selected as one of the items in the BBC's A History of the World in 100 Objects.[43]

The Traditional Heritage Museum (THM) was part of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition opened to the public in 1985.[44] It was created by Prof Widdowson in 1964 and was run by volunteers and students.[45] The THM housed collections including a replica kitchen from the 1920s, reconstructed workshops and retail shops, such as Pollard’s tea and coffee.[44] The University decided to close the Museum in 2011 because the building could not afford continued public access.[44][46]

Manvers campus[edit]

The Manvers campus, at Wath-on-Dearne between Rotherham and Barnsley, was where the majority of nursing was taught, but this has now been mothballed.

Organisation[edit]

Faculties and departments[edit]

Sir Frederick Mappin
Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Faculty of Engineering
Bartolomé House, Sheffield Law School

The University has five faculties[47] plus an International Faculty in Thessaloniki, Greece.[47]

School of Architecture[edit]

Main article: Sheffield School of Architecture

The Architecture School is one of the longest established architecture schools in the UK, opening in 1908, and was located in the tower of Firth Court. It was soon moved to the Sunday School in Shearwood Road and is located on the top 6 floors of the Arts Tower since 1965.[48]

The School has courses accredited by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and has an active student society (SUAS). In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, Sheffield School of Architecture ranked 4th in the UK.[49]

Management School[edit]

Main article: University of Sheffield Management School

Established in 1986, Sheffield University Management School is an AMBA, AACSB and EQUIS accredited business school. It is one of 60 business schools in the world to have achieved triple accreditation.[50]

In 2013 the school moved into newly refurbished facilities close to the University of Sheffield campus and Broomhill. It now has dedicated learning and teaching space, a Courtyard, dedicated café and Employability Hub.[51]

Medical School[edit]

Main article: Sheffield Medical School

Sheffield Medical School was founded in 1828. It operated independently as the Sheffield School of Medicine until its mergers with Firth College in 1879 and with Sheffield Technical School in 1884.[52]

The Medical School is one of 32 bodies entitled by the General Medical Council (GMC) to award medical degrees in the United Kingdom. The GMC is the body responsible for registering doctors to practise medicine as well as regulating medical education and training in the United Kingdom.[53]

Governance[edit]

There are several bodies which govern the University, including the University Executive Board, the Court, the Council and the Senate.

The University Executive Board, whose members are: Vice-Chancellor, five Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellors, two Institutional Pro-Vice-Chancellors (Research and Innovation, and Learning and Teaching), Registrar and Secretary, chief financial officer (CFO), and Director of Human Resources.

The Court is a large body which fosters relations between the University and the community, and includes lay members, many of whom are University alumni. Ex-officio members of the Court include all the MPs of Sheffield, the Bishops of Sheffield and Hallam, and the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police.[54] It also includes representatives of professional bodies such as the Arts Council, Royal Society and the General Medical Council.[55] Court meets annually to receive reports from the Council, the Senate and the Students' Union. It serves many official functions including Chancellor election.

The Council manages the University's business side (finance and property).[54] Council membership comprises a majority of non-executive lay members. The Senate manages the academic side of the University. It is the highest academic authority of the University, and is chaired by the Vice-Chancellor. It is also responsible for the regulation of the students' discipline.[54]

Vice-Chancellors[edit]

The University Coat of Arms, displayed on the front of Mappin Building

Branding[edit]

Coat of arms
The University' s logo

The brand (encompassing the visual identity) is centred on the theme of "discovery", led by the Latin motto from the coat of arms "Rerum Cognoscere Causas" – "to discover the causes of things". It has been applied across print, screen and other areas such as signage, vehicle livery and merchandising. The project was key to the University's Marketing Department receiving "HEIST Marketing Team of the Year, 2005".[56]

The University's fonts are Stephenson and Blake. Both serif font Stephenson and sans serif font Blake are modified versions of a typeface designed by Sheffield company Stephenson & Blake Co.[57][58]

Reputation and rankings[edit]

Rankings
ARWU[59]
(2015, national)		 9–17
ARWU[59]
(2015, world)		 101–150
QS[60]
(2014/15, national)		 12
QS[60]
(2014/15, world)		 69
THE[61]
(2014/15, national)		 13
THE[61]
(2014/15, world)		 112
Complete[62]
(2016, national)		 27
The Guardian[63]
(2016, national)		 41
Times/Sunday Times[64]
(2015, national)		 18

The University of Sheffield has been described by The Times as one of the powerhouses of British higher education.[65] The University is a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, the Worldwide Universities Network and the White Rose University Consortium.

Firth Court Quad

In 2012, QS World University Rankings[7] placed Sheffield as the 66th university worldwide. The University has won Queen's Anniversary Prizes in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2007.[66] It was also named the Sunday Times University of the Year in 2001 and 'University of the Year' in the 2011 Times Higher Education awards. The University of Sheffield is also in the UK's top 10 for research power, according to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, as well as being in the UK's top 10 universities according to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's ranking of the top 500 universities worldwide. These results confirm the University's position among the top ten in the Russell Group, as 93% of the research submitted are classed as "internationally recognised" or "world-leading". The university's business school is one of only five Russell Group business schools to have the internationally recognised Triple Crown accreditation.

Furthermore, The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2013 ranks Sheffield as third overall in the country. It was ranked first for its social life, first for the 'university most people would recommend to a friend', second for library facilities and accommodation.

Major research partners and clients include Boeing, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Unilever, Boots, AstraZeneca, GSK, ICI, and Slazenger, as well as UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations. As an example, the Department of Architecture, under the guidance of Professor Jeremy Till, are currently involved in a research project with development and disaster relief charity Article 25 to investigate the possibilities of building sustainably in arid regions.The University also works with local small and medium enterprises through the dedicated physical spaces at the Sheffield Bioincubator and Kroto Innovation Centre.

For many years the University has been engaged in theological publishing through Sheffield Academic Press and JSOT Press.

The University of Sheffield is also a partner organisation in Higher Futures, a collaborative association of institutions set up under the government's Lifelong Learning Networks initiative, to co-ordinate vocational and work-based education.[67]

As well as the research carried out in departments, the university has 84 specialised research centres or institutes.[68] The last Teaching Quality Assessment awarded Sheffield University grades of "excellent" in 29 subject areas, a record equalled by only a few other UK universities.

Involvement with the arms trade[edit]

The University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre is run in partnership with Boeing, which conducts research projects funded by arms manufacturers such as BAE Systems.[69] In 2008, the University partnered with BAE Systems to launch a new Centre for Research in Active Control which aimed to improve the stealth of BAE Systems' submarines.[70] In 2012 the Students Union voted in favour of the University ending all links with the arms trade.[71]

Student life[edit]

Students' Union

Students' Union[edit]

Main article: University of Sheffield Students' Union

The University of Sheffield Students' Union has been rated as the best in the UK by the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey for 6 years in-a-row (2009–2014). Most recently, it was rated number 1 in the UK based on 4,986 student reviews, on review platform StudentCrowd (2015).[72] It was founded in 1906 and consists of two bars (Bar One – which has a book-able function room with its own bar, The Raynor Lounge – and The Interval); three club venues (Fusion, Foundry and Studio); and coffee shops, restaurants, shops, and the student run cinema Film Unit. There is also a student radio station called Forge Radio and a newspaper called Forge Press, which are run under the umbrella of 'Forge Media'. The Union has nearly three hundred student societies and nearly fifty sports teams. Sheffield University Football Club has been established for many decades and has previously competed in the FA Amateur Cup and FA Vase.

In November 2009 a development project began to redevelop the Students' Union building, funded by £5m by the HEFCE, which was completed and re-opened in September 2010. Works centred on improving circulation around the building by aligning previously disjointed floors, improving internal access between the Union building and neighbouring University House, and constructing a striking new entrance and lobby that incorporates the university's traditional colours of black and gold.

During 2012–13 the Students' Union went under a further redevelopment costing £20 million which led to the refurbishment of the University House. University House, which was one of the first glass curtain walled buildings in the world when it was completed in 1963, has now been integrated with the University's Students' Union – the number one in the UK – in one single building.[73]

The union has an active volunteering and charity community. The RAG (Raising and Giving society) raised over £180,000 in 2011–12, through general fundraising and several larger events; the union is host to the world's largest student organised charity hitchhike, Bummit, which runs every year.[74] Another RAG tradition is Spiderwalk, a 12.5-mile trek through the city and the Peak District through the night; other societies run fund-raising activities throughout the night, such as a 24-hour role-playing event. The Union's "SheffieldVolunteering" scheme is one of the country's most active and well-recognised student volunteering schemes, with over 26,269 hours logged in 2011–12, and has won various national acclaims over the years.[75]

Student accommodation[edit]

The University halls of residence comprise three villages known as Endcliffe, Ranmoor and City Village.[76]

Varsity sports[edit]

The annual "Varsity Challenge" takes place between teams from the University and its rival Sheffield Hallam University starting from 1996.[77] Varsity is divided into winter and summer competitions.[77] The University has 26 varsity sports (sports contested in varsity). The University sports colours are black and gold. The University of Sheffield won the Varsity competition in 2013, beating Sheffield Hallam University for the first time in ten years.[78] It extended the new found winning streak to three years in a row; winning again in 2014 and 2015.[79][80]

People associated with the university[edit]

Nobel prizes[edit]

Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist

The University's Faculty of Science may boast an association with five Nobel Prizes, two for the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology:

And three to its Department of Chemistry:

Notable alumni[edit]

See also: Category:Alumni of the University of Sheffield

Academics[edit]

Business people[edit]

Lawyers[edit]

In November 2013, for the first time in history, the Court of Appeal had an all-Sheffield alumni bench. The judges sitting were Lord Justice Maurice Kay (LLB Law, 1964; PhD Law, 1971 and Hon LLD, 2003), Lady Justice Anne Rafferty (LLB Law, 1971 and Hon LLD, 2005) and Lady Justice Julia Macur (LLB Law, 1978).[86] This event was also extremely significant because outside Oxford and Cambridge, Sheffield now has the record for the highest number of graduates appointed to the bench above any other UK University.

Authors[edit]

Lee Child, author (LLB)

Media and Artists[edit]

Pioneers[edit]

Politicians[edit]

Public servants[edit]

Clergy[edit]

Scientists[edit]

Sports people[edit]

Jessica Ennis, Olympic Gold medallist, heptathlete

Notable academics[edit]

Hans Adolf Krebs, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist
Lord Porter, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Lord Florey, Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology

See also[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

There are two official histories of the university:

  • Arthur W. Chapman (1955) The Story of a Modern University: A History of the University of Sheffield, Oxford University Press.
  • Helen Mathers (2005) Steel City Scholars: The Centenary History of the University of Sheffield, London: James & James.

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