studium he left Spain for Toulouse Studium Generale. Lax remained the high master until his death in 1560. Recent history The University of Zaragoza is the main centre of technological innovation in the Ebro Valley and enjoys great prestige among the group of Spanish, European and international universities it has relations with. Academic staff at the University of Zaragoza are highly specialised and have broad research and teaching experience. Be it Spanish as a foreign language or fields as interesting to international students as Spanish literature, geography, archaeology, cinema, history, biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI research group) or nanotechnology (among many others), the combination of teaching and research is proving very successful. The university, with a total of about 40.000 students, is composed of a teaching staff of about 3,000 in different positions and an administrative and technical staff of about 2,000. It is distributed across campuses located in Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel. Campus The University of Zaragoza campuses are located in the autonomous Community of Aragon in Spain. The community is made up of three provinces: Zaragoza, Huesca, and Teruel. The original campus resides in Zaragoza, the capital of Aragon, but additional campuses were created in both Huesca and Teruel in 1985. Zaragoza The Zaragoza campus is divided into five different locations throughout the city. Campus Plaza San Francisco is the largest of the five locations and is home to a majority of the university colleges and departments in Zaragoza. The other four locations, , , and host only one to two colleges each. , located on the San Francisco campus, is one of the most valuable and significant buildings owned by the entire university. Originally inaugurated in 1893, the building was scheduled for restoration in 2006. The project inauguration was attended by the King of Spain, the president of the Government of Aragon and other important figures. The restoration architects, Luis Franco and Mariano Pemán, made great efforts to maintain the architectural heritage of the building while adding new functionality. At the front of the building sit four large stone statues of notable scientists and doctors with connections to the university. On display are Andrés Piquer, Miguel Servet, Ignacio Jordán de Asso and Fausto Elhuyar. Today, the Paraninfo is, as the name suggests, a functional auditorium as well as the University of Zaragoza Library (main library). Huesca Huesca is located roughly northeast of Zaragoza. The Huesca