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Is sitting the new smoking?
Last March 4, the Graduate Program in Epidemiology at UFPel invited Professor Ulf Ekelund, from the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences and the School of Clinical Medicine of the University Cambridge, to deliver the commencement lecture entitled “Is sitting the new smoking?” With more than 200 original scientific publications, including articles in The Lancet, JAMA, PLOS Medicine and Nature Genetics, the researcher is mainly interested in the role of physical activity and sedentary behavior in the prevention of non-communicable diseases, especially obesity and metabolic diseases, […]
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UFPel Organizes International Meeting of Research in Human Sciences
From August 1 – 3, researchers, students and professionals will meet for the 1st International Meeting of Research in Human Sciences. The Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) is one of the institutions promoting the event, which will be held in Pelotas this year. The event aims to provide an open space for the debate and exchange of knowledge generated by researches focused on interdisciplinary issues in the areas of Human and Social Sciences. The call for papers is open to undergraduate and graduate professors and […]
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UFPel Conducts Activities in Educational Event in South Africa
Last March 18-21, UFPel participated in the event Creative Careers, in South Africa. Professors Rosaria Sperotto, coordinator of Teduca (Digital Educational Technologies: Transnational and Interinstitutional Cooperation in the Production of Knowledge in Education and Training of Teachers), Denise Bussoletti, Laís Volpe, Bruna Sardil and professor Cléber da Costa developed activities in the areas of Reading, Visual Arts, Cinema and Theater. UFPel also participated in the opening of the event, whose theme was Childhood, Education and Human Rights. Before that, the group of professors attended a […]
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School of Architecture and Urbanism Presents Projects in the Border Brazil-Uruguay
Last March 15, the extension team of the Urbanization Laboratory of the School of Architecture and Urbanism from UFPel presented projects in the cities of Jaguarão and Rio Branco, in an extension activity that integrates Brazil and Uruguay. The mayors and secretaries of the two cities attended the event with their technical teams. The projects deal with the integrated geographic information system for Brazil-Uruguay border cities and plans for environmental preservation, urban growth, social interest housing programs, urban mobility and land use, with works that […]
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Research Assesses Impact of Economic Inequality on Child Malnutrition
A study by the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) compared the trends of socioeconomic inequality in the occurrence of child malnutrition in Latin American and Caribbean countries, taking into account the income differences of the population classified in five and ten economic groups. The research is the result of a thesis work developed in the Graduate Program in Epidemiology of UFPel by the nutritionist María de Pilar Flores Quispe, under the supervision of professor Fernando César Wehrmeister and researcher Maria Clara Restrepo Mendez, both from […]
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UFPel Post-doctoral Student’s Paper on the Cover of International Journal
A paper written in the Graduate Program in Food Science and Technology from UFPel (PPGCTA) featured the cover of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (issue 97, n. 2) of December 2016. The work, titled “Propriedades morfológicas, mecânicas e de barreira de filmes à base de amido acetilado e celulose de cevada” (Morphological, mechanical and barrier properties of films based on acetylated starch and barley cellulose), has the post-doctoral student Shanise Lisie Mello El Halal as the lead author. The paper explores […]
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International Relations Office under New Management
Professor Pedro Rodrigues Curi Hallal, the new UFPel president who took over last January 11, has appointed Professor Maximiliano Cenci as the new chairperson of the International Relations Office (CRInter). Professor Cenci has been working in the Graduate Program in Dentistry at UFPel since 2008, which he coordinated from 2012 to 2015, and had already been cooperating to CRInter in the internationalization issues since 2013. As the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Dentistry, he was co-responsible for the institutionalization of several cooperation agreements […]
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UFPel Participates of International Event on Social Inclusion
Mauro Del Pino, UFPel’s president until December 31st, 2016, was one of the guests invited to speak at the 1st Meeting of University Presidents from Brazil and Italy, 8th International Seminar and 9th General Assembly of the Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities held in Italy (University of Parma). Del Pino participated of the roundtable “Internationalization of Universities and Social Inclusion Policies.” The purpose of this group discussion was to share knowledge and experiences, providing participants – Brazilian and Italian university presidents – with the opportunity […]
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UFPel presents in the US the Design of a Project for Programming and Robotics clubs
The design of the project was presented in the University of California, Irvine Last October 6 2016, UFPel’s research group Comunicação, Culturas e Tecnologias (Communication, Cultures and Technologies – CoCTec) presented, in the USA, the design of a project for the programming clubs operationing at public schools in the city of Pelotas, RS. The project was presented by the CoCTec collaborating researcher Carolina Rodeghiero during the Digital Media & Learning conference, which is organized and promoted by a group taking the same name, the DML […]
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Work on Costing Method developed by UFPel’s Teaching Hospital/Ebserh is Awarded in International Congress
The work “The use of the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Costing (TDABC)”, a new proposition for the Activity-Based Costing method (ABC) as a cost information tool at UFPel’s Teaching Hospital, managed by the Brazilian Company for Hospital Services (Ebserh), was awarded with the first place in the category Experimental Reports category in the 6th Chico Ribeiro Award – Accounting, Cost Information and Quality of Public Expenditure/2016. The award ceremony was held in Natal (Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) last December 21 during the 6th International Congress […]
