Last July 11-12, doctoral students Jovito Skupien, Françoise Van de Sande Milk and Anelise Montagnethe defended their doctoral work in the city of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Such academic accomplishment resulted from the partnership between UFPel Graduate Program in Dentistry (PPGO) and the Dentistry Department of Radboud University Medical Center, the Netherlands. This partnership began in 2010 with financial support from development agencies of the Netherlands (NUFFIC) and Brazil (CAPES), as well as with financial support from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and a CNPq […]
A study covering more than one million people reveals that doing at least one hour of physical activity a day, such as walking at a fast pace or cycling, can eliminate the increased risk of death associated with eight hours a day spending sitting. The data come from a new series of four articles published on July 28 in the journal The Lancet, under the leadership of UFPel’s graduate program researcher in Epidemiology Pedro Curi Hallal. The authors call attention to the very low forward […]
Professor Antonio de Oliveira Costa, from the Center for Genomics and Plant Breeding at UFPel’s Agrononomy School, was one of three speakers at the opening of the 7th International Crop Science Congress (http://www.7icsc.com.cn/speakers.html) held in Beijing, China last August 14-19. The professor talked about the genomics of cereals, reporting work done by students from the Agronomy and Biotechnology Programs and members of his research and international collaborations group.
UFPel was represented at the 25th International Congress of Ibero-American and Argentine Theater Festival, which took place from August 2-5 in Buenos Aires. On that occasion, the fourth semester undergraduate student in Theater Studies Samuel de Moraes Pretto presented two pieces of work in the categories Teatro y Educación and Reflexiones sobre la Actuación/la crítica, respectively: “Introducing theater students to teaching” (free translation), done in partnership with Marcos Kuszner dos Santos and advised by Professor Maria Amélia Gimmler Netto, and “Examination of an oppressed person’s […]
Last August 3 Google announced, in the company’s Engineering Center in Latin America (Belo Horizonte), the 24 winning academic projects of the Google Search Scholarships Program for Latin America. Most of the winners are from Brazil, but research projects from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru were also awarded. UFPel had an awarded work developed at the institution and another one carried out at FURG (Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande) in partnership with a UFPel’s professor. UFPel’s awarded work, led by professor Ricardo Matsumura de […]
De 21 a 23 de setembro, a Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel) realiza a Jornada Acadêmica de Nutrição. O tema central dessa edição será “Doenças Crônicas Não Transmissíveis: Diabetes, Hipertensão e Obesidade”. O evento ocorre das 18h30min às 22h, no Auditório da Faculdade de Direito da UFPel. A Jornada é organizada por comissão formada por alunos do quarto semestre do curso de Nutrição e uma professora. A Jornada contará com a participação de profissionais de diversas áreas da saúde que irão expor patologias, causas, aplicabilidade, […]
Como parte do caminho de tornar-se mais acessível e inclusiva, a UFPel trouxe outra temática importante nesse sentido para debate e deliberação: foi instituída pelo reitor, no fim do mês de julho, comissão especial para elaboração de proposta de processo seletivo específico para estudantes surdos em vagas específicas de determinados cursos. A sistemática terá inspiração na sistemática já adotada para membros de comunidades quilombolas e indígenas, que selecionou seus primeiros estudantes para a Universidade, reafirmando o compromisso em proporcionar o acesso à formação a grupos […]
O Ciclo “A Filosofia e a Pintura no Cinema” exibirá, nesta sexta-feira (26), o filme “Klimt”, de Raul Ruiz. Diretor chileno (1941), Ruiz é autor de filmes como “Genealogias de um crime” e “Mistérios de Lisboa”. O 7º Ciclo de Cinema, promovido pelo Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), sob a coordenação do professor Luís Rubira, ocorre todas as sextas-feiras, às 19h, na sala 54 da Faculdade de Odontologia (Rua Gonçalves Chaves, 457, Centro). A entrada é franca. A programação completa do […]