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UFPel and the International Congress of Ibero-American Theater Festival
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 […]
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UFPel is Awarded Google Research Grant
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 […]
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UFPel is 23rd in the National Intellectual Property Ranking
UFPel is in the 2015 national ranking of intellectual property, as published in June by INPI (National Institute of Industrial Property). The university appears in 23rd place among the largest invention patent applicants in Brazil, ahead of institutions such as UFRJ, Samsung, Braskem, among others. It also appears in 21st place in the ranking of computer program records, ahead of institutions such as UFRGS, Bematech and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation itself, which appears in 48th place.
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UFPel and Universidad Nacional de Villa Maria Sign Cooperation Agreement
In order to strengthen cooperation bonds, UFPel and Universidad Nacional de Villa Maria (UNVM), from Argentina, signed an agreement of academic cooperation that will be effective until July 4th, 2020. For more information, please contact the International Relations Office (CRInter) at (53) 3225-3943 or crinter.ufpel@gmail.com.
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UFPel in the Gramado Film Festival
The fiction film Sesmaria, directed by Gabriela Lamas from the undergraduate program in Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (UFPel), was selected for the national short film category of the 44th Gramado Film Festival. It is the first time that a film from our institutional program is chosen for a national exhibition, competing for the long-sought Kikito prize in one of the most important film festivals in Brazil. 574 projects were submitted and only 14 were selected among competitors from all over the country. The film is […]
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UFPel Participates in the Congress of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology
UFPel’s professors Renata Menasche (Graduate Program in Anthropology) and Nicole Benemann (Undergraduate Program in Gastronomy) have been to Coimbra participating in the 6th Congress of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology (APA). Nicole Benemann presented a work entitled Chef’s Table: thinking, cooking and eating. Renata presented Festivals and Daily Life, Fences and Bridges: a look upon peasants’ feeding practices in southern Brazil. This participation is a result of both professors attendance to the 3rd Seminar on Food and Traditional Cultural Expressions, held in Vila Real, also […]
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Professor of the National Research Council, Canada, Delivers Lecture at UFPel
UFPel’s Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Bioprospecting, along with its Graduate Program in Chemistry (PPGQ) promoted, last June 3, the lecture Recent Improvements in Selenium Nanoparticles in Biological Systems Evaluation, delivered by Dr. Zoltan Mester from the National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada. A summary of this presentation as well as the lecturer’s résumé are attached below: Résumé – Dr. Zoltan Mester: Résumé Lecture summary – Dr. Zoltan Mester: Lecture summary
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UFPel Participates of Mobilization Seminar for Sustainability
UFPel was one of the organizations invited to join the Mobilization Seminar organized by the Regional Center for the Development of Sustainable Goals (ODS). The meeting took place last June 7. The entire academic community was invited to attend the event, intended to implement the Pelotas ODS Center. The establishment of a local ODS is part of the actions taken by the United Nations Programme for Development (UNDP) with the participation of social and business organizations as well as civil society. According to Mauricio Pinto […]
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UFPel is Pioneer in Australian Literature in Brazil
Professors Eduardo Marks de Marques (UFPel) and Anelise Reich Corseuil (UFSC) have just released the volume New Cultural Landscapes: Australian Narratives in Literature and Film, published in the journal Ilha do Desterro. The journal, linked to the Graduate Program in English from UFSC (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), is one of the oldest and most respected academic dissemination vehicles in the field of Linguistics and Literature in English in Brazil. According to professor Marques, this is the first time in our country (and maybe in […]
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Paper Published by UFPel PhD Student Gets International Recognition
The paper entitled Maternal consumption of organic trace minerals alters calf systemic and neutrophil mRNA and microRNA indicators of inflammation and oxidative stress, part of Carolina Bespalhok Jacometo’s doctoral thesis, was chosen the best doctoral work published in the Journal of Dairy Science in 2015. Carolina was advised by professor Marcio Nunes Correa, from the Graduate Program in Biotechnology (UFPel), and co-advised by Professor Juan Loor, from the University of Illinois. This partnership between the American university and NUPEEC (Center for Research Education and Extension […]
