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Joseph Murray Gives 2016 Commencement Lecture at PPGE
The Graduate Program in Epidemiology from UFPel (PPGE for its spelling in Portuguese) received more than one hundred people (among students and professors) for the 2016 commencement lecture held on Tuesday (March 15), at 2 pm, in the auditorium of the Center for Epidemiologic Research. Given by Professor Murray, the lecture was titled “Violence Studies: Linking Public Health with Criminology.” In addition to the official opening of the 2016 academic calendar, the talk marks a new stage of collaboration between Professor Murray, who joined the […]
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NEPPU (Center for Studies in Public Policies) Held Conference Based on Global Survey on Democracy
The first academic event of 2016 of the Center for Studies in Public Policies (NEPPU) from the Graduate Program in Political Science was a conference on the World Values Survey, a worldwide research investigating the relationship between beliefs, ideas and values of societies and democracy. The event, held on March 9, was in charge of Professor Henrique Carlos Castro (UFRGS), who coordinates the survey in Brazil. The World Values Survey has been happening regularly since 1981 and has a current database of more than 100 […]
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Professor from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, lectures at UFPel
Last Monday (March 15), the Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Bioprospecting and the Graduate Program in Chemistry from UFPel promoted a lecture given by Jörg Feldmann, from the University of Aberdeen. The Scottish professor talked about “Rice, a source of arsenic and mercury: The Need for Speciation Analysis.”
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UFPel Launches Trilingual Website
UFPel continues its efforts to increasingly improve campus internationalization. The latest example is the launch of UFPel’s new international and trilingual website. The site is available in English, the language most widely used in the world of science, and in Spanish, extending the university’s reach to bordering and nearby countries. The online information includes facts about both undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as various programs and projects related to teaching, research, and extension developed by the university.
