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Nursing student presents work on violence against GLBTs
As a Science Without Borders fellow in the United Kingdom (2014-2015), the nursing student Nayla Rodrigues Pereira started a volunteer work at the GLBT foundation in the city of Manchester, developing a scientific research work called “TRANSGENDER PEOPLE EXPERIENCE IN HEALTH CARE SERVICES: A LITERATURE REVIEW”, under the supervision of English professor Angela Cotton. “Considering that Brazil is the world champion of murders of transgender people, mostly female transvestites and transsexuals, I understand that this population needs more attention and protagonism of civil society and […]
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UFPel Hosts International Congress on Punishment and Social Control
The Law School of UFPel will host, from June 1 to 3, the International Congress on Punishment and Social Control. Running in parallel with this event the 2nd International Seminar on Penal Execution will be also held. The themes are Punishment and Social Control: criminal law, procedural criminal law, criminal enforcement and criminal policy; Social Control: institutions, practices, actors, trends and persistences; Crime, Punishment and Social Control: historical approaches; The Prison Matter: institutions, practices, policies and jailed groups. Álvaro Filipe Oxley da Rocha (PUCRS); Iñaki […]
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Teaching hospital inaugurates new multiprofessional academic facilities
UFPel’s teaching hospital (HE) took a further step in its institutional qualification process. The new multidisciplinary academic facilities of the hospital were inaugurated last March 28th to benefit Nutrition, Physical Education, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, and Psychology students. Four fully equipped new rooms will be used by about 50 undergraduate, graduate and resident students, consolidating the integration between areas, strengthening multiprofessional and interdisciplinary work and providing more welfare to students. The new facilities can be found next to the space already designed to medical students and […]
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Professor from UFPel chairs Education Committee of the Brazilian Federal Pharmacy Council
William Peres, professor from the Center for Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Food Sciences at UFPel, was elected chairman to the Education Committee of the Brazilian Federal Pharmaceutical Council (COMENSINO/CFF). Peres will lead a group of eight professors from the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Rio Grande do Norte, and Ceará in 2016. The CFF advising committees are permanent discussion forums on various aspects of Pharmacy. They are intended to develop projects and propose actions to the professional […]
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Software application developed by UFPel is presented in Argentina
Undergrad students from the School of Computer Science Glauco Roberto Munsberg and Jessica Helena Castro, from the School of Architecture and Urbanism, were in Argentina last March 30 to give a partial demonstration of a software application jointly developed by the Urbanism Laboratory of the School of Architecture and Urbanism from UFPel and the research group Geografía, Acción y Territorio, from Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco. At UFPel the project is coordinated by Professor Eduardo Rocha and at Universidad Nacional de la […]
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Student is selected to an Ambassador Program
Vitor Lima dos Santos, an eighth semester undergrad student of the School of Materials Engineering at UFPel, was selected among 370 other university students from all over Brazil to participate in the Choice Ambassadors Program. The initiative is linked to the non-profit organization Artemisia, which works to spread and promote Business of Social Impact (NIS for its spelling in Portuguese) in Brazil. The program aims to disseminate the concept of Business of Social Impact in various regions of the country through lectures and workshops given […]
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PhD Student in Biotechnology Represents UFPel in Antarctica
Bruna Pacheco, a student from the Graduate Program in Biotechnology at UFPel, spent over a month in Antarctica representing UFPel in the project “Biodiversity, monitoring, survival strategies and prospecting of extremophile algae”, which is managed by the Chemistry Institute from USP and has the participation of several Brazilian universities, including UFPel.
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Indigenous and Quilombola Students are Welcomed at UFPel
Last March 18 UFPel received indigenous and Quilombola students who entered the University through the second special selection process for these groups. The ten students and the other eight who had joined the university in 2015 were welcomed along with their families and representatives of their people. Kaingang groups living in Pelotas and representatives of Quilombola communities living in Canguçu and Piratini also attended the event. In the words of the vice-president for student affairs, the university has been working since 2013 in the implementation […]
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Research Group Brazil/Uruguay Frontier Presents a New Website and Goes on a Study Trip
The research and extension group “Para-formal na Fronteira Brasil-Uruguay” from UFPel is promoting its new website. The content can be accessed at http://www.paraformalnafronteira.com/ address. Between March 14 and 19, the group went on a study trip throughout several cities of the frontier Brazil/Uruguay (Santana do Livramento – Rivera, Quaraí – Artigas, Jaguarão – Rio Branco, Barra do Quaraí – Bella Unión, Chuí – Chuy e Aceguá – Aceguá). The trip was coordinated by UFPel professors Eduardo Rocha (School of Architecture and Urbanism/UFPel) and Claudia Brandão […]
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UFPel Promoted the 1st Brain Week (Semana do Cérebro)
Several academic department-related groups from UFPel promoted the 1st Brain Week in Pelotas. The event was aimed at students and professors and featured activities exploring the discussion and understanding on the working of this organ of key importance to life. The idea for the event came from the National Brain Week, an activity promoted in Brazil by the Brazilian Society of Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC), and the Brain Awareness Week – BAW 2016). This was a global campaign to raise public awareness about the importance […]
